Training Log Archive: RLShadow

Event: ROC - Genesee Country Village Nature Center Regular Meet
 

Green course at Genesee Country Village Nature Center. No big mistakes (a couple of moderately small bobbles), but just moving too slowly too much of the time. I was in 3rd place out of 4 when I left.

Split analysis on AP confirms my sense that I didn't make any major blunders or even many minor blunders (total of something like 56 seconds of lost time), it's just that I was moving slowly. Consistently slowly.

A few of the control descriptions seemed wrong or else not quite right but maybe not totally wrong. None of these caused any major lost time, just a few seconds at a number of them trying to figure out if the descriptions made any sense. And many of these are pretty picky I realize, but a few were outright wrong.

#4 (118) -- said it was a rootstock. The map showed a rootstock almost right on a boulder cluster. I found the control, and it was on a boulder or maybe a boulder cluster, but absolutely no rootstock.

#5 (132) -- Control description was puzzling -- it said, I think anyway, middle boulder but then with boulder cluster as a 2nd feature (in the 5th column). So I don't know if this was supposed to be "in between the boulder and boulder cluster" rather than the middle boulder, or what. On the map, the circle was on the NE boulder. I found it with no trouble and I didn't linger to try to unravel the control description mystery.

#6 (134) -- shallow re-entrant. If there were a control description for "extremely shallow re-entrant" or "ghost re-entrant", that might have been more appropriate.

#10 (122) -- it said eastern boulder cluster, SE side. It was actually right between the two boulder clusters (one lying east of the other). In between the boulder clusters would seem like the best clue. Or else western boulder cluster, E side; or eastern boulder cluster, W side.

#14 (139) -- description was correct in this case (eastern boulder cluster), but the boulder cluster in the center of the circle was nearly invisible because it was covered by a N-S meridian line.

#15 (124) -- terrace. Seemed more like a plain spur to me. A terrace is a level area on a slope.

That's all of the picky comments ... To put things in perspective, I thought it was a very nice course, and I had no trouble finding anything despite the issues I mentioned with a few of the descriptions.

After-dark dog walk, to Finn Park (just to the lodge) and back. Estimated distance (no GPS carried).

Green - Splits

Walk with Homer, Hanna, and trailsnail, to Finn Park, around the field, and back via Rt 104.

GPS was balky finding satellites, so first part of walk wasn't recorded. I put in the estimated distance and time.

Around the big block with the dogs.

First snowboarding of the season, and likely the last. Although Bristol is amazing, all trails are still open, and there are no bare spots. On April 3!!

Had a good time. Took one run quite easy to regain my snowboarding balancing, then went a bit faster (for me, which is to say, still not exactly fast). Very physical, compared to skiing. At least with my modest ability, I certainly tire a lot faster.

Around 40 degrees, overcast, snow definitely soft, but not too grabby or clumped up.

Urban walk with Homer only (Cheryl took Hanna for a walk at home), working on course setting for RMA.

Walk/run on the canal, with Homer, Hanna, and trailsnail.

Twilight walk with the dogs, around the big block. Mostly clear evening, so it was interesting seeing celestial objects gradually coming into view.

Skiing at Bristol! Got a later than optimum start, unfortunately. I had an 8 am appt to have my car inspected (inspection expires today). I brought my ski stuff along, hoping to be on the road from Monro Muffler by 8:20 or so. But I was told that the rear brake pads and assorted related items were shot and wouldn't pass inspection, and that putting in new brakes would be 1.5 hours. Not much choice but to wait. So I hit the slopes a bit after 11 am.

Absolutely positively gorgeous day! Upper 30's, sunny, snow everywhere. Unfortunately the skiing was quite tough. Everyone said that it was great earlier (freshly groomed overnight). When I got there, snow was somewhat pushed around in piles, and very heavy. Not terrible but a lot of work. Still I'm glad I went. Just wish I had gotten there at 9 am instead of 11 am.

Rec Center; this was the week between the previous ladder league and the next ladder league. So our side of the gym wasn't reserved which meant it was open gym. There were some basketball players who wanted to play, thus we could only have one court going. There were 8 people competing for that court, which meant playing half the time. I decided to bag it after one game, and let people who had driven a lot further than I did get more play in.