Training Log Archive: AliC

A warm up, which just happened to take me to a kame (glaically-deposited hill) on the West side of Lake Genevieve (a kettle lake). Steep little hill with a nice view of the lake from the top.

And I finished my taxes, so I was allowed to go orienteering! =)

Training at Lyndon Park with some other members of the keen SMOC crowd. It's a new map Igor is working on. Parts are a bit thick, ok, really quite thick, but it's fair and not truly impenertrable. A question- will leaves out on the raspberries make them better or worse for getting through? Maybe the leaves will deflect some of the thorns from grabbing in? But the leaves also make it all just a bunch less visible, harder to aim to step right on the suckers to avoid getting caught... hm.

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Felt rusty to 1 and 2, which shows, didn't read the contours sensibly to #1 and then didn't compass right to #2, no reason to not go straight on the line to it. The rest went pretty well, some hesitations that I should work on working out...

C • Raspberries are fine, it's ... 2

Rested for a bit and grabbed some water and contemplated whether I wanted to battle the brambles again and decided that yeah, I getter get my butt back out there and rack up a smidge more training before the Pig! So did the closer set of controls backwards.

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And puttered around on the trails a bit, just exploring the park. Up another little hill with another good view. Then to a dock out into the lake. A park sign explained that a peat bog is forming on the W side of the lake, acid-loving plants and all that. A cool well-documented little park!