Training Log Archive: Spike

Some orienteering training at Rockcrusher. I set a series of short courses (mostly about 600 meters) with short jog/walk sections between each course.

It turned out to be pretty rough, with a mix of junky woods, deep grass and slippery hills. There was enough ice on rocks and trees to be a bit slick. For a few minutes some freezing ran fell.

I cut things a bit short when I realized I'd be late getting back to the car if I did the last bit.

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Jogging/walking between courses and then running back to meet Mary at the car.

A bit of warm up and jogging back to the house.

I figured it was a good idea to avoid driving today. We had some freezing rain. The streets look ok, but it also seemed like a good day to avoid driving.

I set a control picking course on West Campus. It was fun. With that many controls you need to read the map a lot even if the map reading isn't complicated.

I printed the map at 1:6000 so it'd fit on a single sheet of paper. That meant I needed a magnifier to read any detail.

I started in some sleet changing to mist and a little rain. But, it stopped about half way through the run.

Fun.

My right leg feels a bit strange. That started about half way through the Possum Trot. It is better, but still not normal.

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Running with a map at the riverfront area. It was cool (43F) and a steady rain fell. It was nice.

I was out on a sand bar and spotted a fossil/bone. That slowed me down and I started jogging along looking for more. I found 5: https://www.instagram.com/p/-j_-E4w05-/?taken-by=o...

I don't know what they are, but I know the river has everything from bison/horses that are just a few hundred years old, to various Pleistocene mamals (like bison, sloth and mastadons). A couple of the things I found seemed old, but I know there's no way to really know unless you really know something about fossils. I don't.

I'm updating the map a bit. I didn't take any notes, but I observed a few things that I will do to bring the map up to date.

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Work commute.

With the next four days away from work, I figure I'll do plenty of running on those days. So, I didn't go to the Trailhawks hill run.

On the way to work, I stopped to watch:

Boom. Time to update the map.

A video posted by @okansas on Nov 25, 2015 at 7:31am PST

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Row, row.

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Possum Trot course (note that the routegadget server seems to be unavailable fairly frequently).

http://routegadget.net/kartta/?mapurl=https://dl.d...

Follow the link and you should get the course map. If you ran the event and have a GPX track, just drag the file over to the little yellow box labelled "drop GPX here."

Work commute. My legs felt tired in the morning.

Here are routes from me, pinksocks and Bob Billings at yesterday's Possum Trot:

http://routegadget.net/kartta/?&zipurl=https://dl....

I started my watch about 10-15 seconds before the actual start. So my track lags a little.

The Possum Trot is back. Eric S. got it going again!

I had a mostly fun run. It wasn't entirely satisfying, but it was fun.

I don't have a good scan of the map because the map is too big to fit in our scanner and I'm too lazy to stitch two images together. So, here is a low resolution QuickRoute (I'll update it when I get a better map image).

http://sprintseries.org/doma/show_map.php?user=spi...

Here's the GPS track via the new Routegadget3: http://routegadget.net/kartta/??&step=4&ll=38.9869...

Hmmm....exceeds the capacity length. So I guess that the track is too long.

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C • Good find 1

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