Training Log Archive: jjcote

Team Trials middle distance, Peach Mountain. Not a particularly distinguished effort. No huge blow-ups, but several moderate errors close to the controls. A couple of these were not what I consider my fault, being due to either not being able to distinguish between yellow and green on the map, or due to passing within a few meters of the control, but not seeing the faded flag close to the ground. But others were just my own sloppiness.

So I was hanging out at the finish area, chatting with Ratlaf, and the subject of pull-ups came up, and we looked around at the nearby trees. A couple of them had limbs that looked like they might be workable, and I decided to head over and investigate, but he decided not to, saying that he didn't want to embarrass himself. How wise he is! I went up to a cottonwood, and it had a branch that looked okay, so I started doing pull-ups. The branch was kind of springy, so they were on the easy side, and then after a half-dozen, it broke off at the trunk with a loud crack. And people in the finish area started calling me a tree-killer, and yelling that I wasn't AOWN, and telling me to get some ductape and repair it...

Found a bar under an awning at the back door of the hotel that was ideal.

Day 2: Blue/Green - Splits