Training Log Archive: Spike

Easy jog/walk to pick up some controls.

PTOC score event at Rock Bridge in Columbia.

The map is a bit rough. The course setter (Paul C.) kept the controls on points that were distinct, which made the rough map work pretty well.

The map includes a little bit or really interesting karst terrain (see the south end of the map):

http://www.sprintseries.org/doma/show_map.php?user...

Traveled to the meet with Pete. Mary stayed home. I'm pretty sure that having to get up at 5:30 a.m. played a big part in her decision.

Here's a snapshot of one of the controls in the karst area (17):



And here's a video of Pete heading to 19 (filmed while we picked up flags):

Jogging to warm up a bit.

Bike commuting. I made it to the office before the storm hit. It had cleared up by the time the work day was over. Nice.

Just a little something on the land boat.

Work commute and nothing more. I was feeling a bit tired all day, probably from not sleeping well last night.

Met Mary after work and we ate at La Parilla.

Work commute. Warm enough (60F) in the a.m. that I was in shirt sleeves. Warm enough in the p.m. (80+) that I was overdressed in shirt sleeves.

Putting out and picking up controls for this evenings informal O' practice at Dad Perry Park. Here's a video of Mary and MG starting:



There were two courses. Mary and MG started out on the same course, then Mary decided to do the other course. So what looks like Mary going out of the start in the wrong direction is really Mary changing her mind about which course to do first.

Another half-commute. This time it was from the office to home (into a steady headwind).

I didn't have much time to train this evening. It was my nigh to cook dinner. But more importantly, I had to get the map in shape for tomorrow's low key O' training session. We'll be using an in-progress sprint map of Dad Perry Park (recall the thorn picture for a couple of days ago). It'll be good to get some feedback from Mary and Meangene.

While I was on the land boat I decided to try to think like Tom. What would Tom think about? On the way home from work I saw a squirrel. It ran into the middle of the road, stopped, did a double take, then ran off. If it'd just stood in place, I'd have crashed into him. Tom would be interested in the squirrel, I'm guessing. He'd have probably been thinking about how he could model squirrel behavior in some sort of complicated formula that would fit on a Powerpoint slide for a presentation at a math conference.

Or maybe not.

C • Not quite 2

Half commute.

I did some field checking today. Here's a snapshot from the terrain:

C • Scariest trees ever. 7