Training Log Archive: maprunner

Corridor O at Rockcrusher with Mike. Beautiful day (16 and sunny). Walked almost all of it. tried to keep moving. But I stopped once or twice on the way to 8 to take some photos.

The ribs are definitely getting better: I was able to lie on my back this morning, with only a bit of discomfort (no more pain!) Knee feels fine most of the time, still hurts with deep bends or direct pressure.

Mike and I drove to Topeka to explore his latest map project: Skyline park. He drew a course for me, that included some suspected trails that were not yet on his map. My role was to walk the trails and get a GPS track for him. Fun area, lots of trails but crappy woods. Lots of birds, would be nice if I was interested in birds.

Went off the main trails once or twice to capture something interesting for MIke. Also made a guess that I could pick up an unmarked trail from 14 to the finish, but that didn't work out and I had to backtrack.

I decided to try some jogging today. Knee felt fine during the run. The real test will be to see how it feels tomorrow.

Another nice warm day. Saw some people and dogs at the very end; no one else the rest of the time.

I love the Thanksgiving weekend, because I get to spend four days in the woods. Not as much fun this year since I'm injured. Mike and I went to Rockhaven to do the mini course he set out. My quads were sore from yesterday (how quickly we get out of shape!) so going downhills was awkward.
But I tried to keep moving and cut through the woods once or twice. Unfortunately my mind wandered on the way to A, and I did a totally bogus move. Nice day, around 11, and sunny. Didn't see anyone else out there.

Left work early and went to the gym. We tried some walking lunges and squats, with just body weight. Knee seems OK now, we'll see how it feels tomorrow. Also, more heavy arm stuff.

Slowly recovering from my injuries. Knee doesn't hurt as much, ribs get better every day. I was able to roll over in bed last night, which is real progress.

Just a short test of my knee, before heading out to Sewing Guld

Took the day off work, since I'm always worn out after the Possum Trot weekend. Took yesterday's results, copied them into a new file, and changed the courses from "rogaining" to regular. The I was able to export the splits for AP and WInsplits, but anyone who had less than 31 controls was listed as "MP" instead of getting credit for the number of controls. Better than nothing. Maybe we;ll go back to Or, but it crashes every 10 minutes, which is so frustrating. I like some of the added features of MeOs, but it also is a bit more complicated (especially for score events, which we do fairly often)

Spent the rest of the day relaxing, reading, sewing, shopping for Thanksgiving (I do appetizers), returning some on-line purchases and binge watching Good Girls Revolt.

Possum Trot XVII at Longview Lake.

I was nervous about today, and really hoped that the computer would behave itself. Eric S (meet director) brought his father's RV, so we used the generator to run the equipment. WOrked out great, and would have been nice to have a warn dry spot, if we had needed it. Weather was great, sunny and upper 40s.

This park has a weird shape, so Mike Shifman set a one-direction course. Which meant we bused people to the start, for the first time ever. I went to watch the start (I love that!). I put the maps down on the ground. I had not seen the course. The meet director told people to line up on one side of the map. But when they started, it turns out that #1 was behind them. It was fascinating to watch how long it took people to figure it out and start running back down the road. Proud to say that Spike was the first to turn around :)

Also rode the bus to watch the start of the Half Possum (no turn around here, just a much slower start group). Then back to man the computer. We had a beginner course, so that helped me make sure that download and printing were working. I also used a different download station than we had used the day before. That seemed to help.

I set up the courses in MeOs as rogaining, with 1 point per control. As long as the competitor punched 31 controls, then they had done the full course. You could punch fewer controls, but then you were correctly sorted down the list, below those who had found 31. The downloads all worked well, until late in the day. Suddenly, the printer stopped working, and the download was recognizing names again. I unplugged the download station, plugged it back in and restarted MeOs. Success! Crisis averted today, with just a short period of time where split printouts weren't available. I was able to print them out later for anyone who missed them.

We had a problem with some competitors not getting a beep on the last control (but not all). We could see the last control, so we knew they had punched, and I gave them credit. Turns out we have older rental cards (SI-7?) that only hold 30 punches, and they needed to punch 31 today.

Always fun to watch the race, and see Andrei win (again!). Seem s like more women participated this year, I'll have to check. Nick and Reta did a great job with the food. Paul, Dick, Mike and Eric handled all the controls.

Came home and tried to export the splits, but could not figure out how to do that with rogaining controls. Decided to just post results, and work on splits tomorrow.

C • Possum Trot 3