Training Log Archive: furlong47

Event: DVOA Hickory Run Sand Spring Lake Night-O
 

Event: DVOA Hickory Run Sand Spring Lake
 

Went over to the picnic not intending to run the relay. (Not a big relay fan and truthfully, the format with three long-ish courses did not excite me. If I have to do them I prefer short, quick, and fun.) I also wanted to save my bruised ankle for Sunday. However, the parking lot was full of people looking for free agents. So, I declared that any team could have me as long as I could run the Yellow leg. And so it was done.

Decided to just tear it up. It could have been even faster. I had trouble seeing the left trail out of 2 and went down the right trail briefly, thinking the junction was further back in the woods. On the somewhat non-Yellowish middle section of the course, drawn to the side by seeing a flag near 7 (the reentrant not even halfway far enough, duh) and lost some time on 8 by getting into the depressions too close to the parking lot.

C • you ROCK 4

Hickory Run Sand Spring Lake - Intermediate Night-O

Briefly entertained an invitation from Steve and Sharon to walk the Advanced with them - decided against it as I didn't want to do that much distance. Later when I saw what the Advanced map looked like, I was glad I stuck with my original plan.

#2 was the only dumb-brained control, really. Should have just attacked it from the field to the East, but was still getting into night mode. Instead I went around on trails to the West side of it, expecting to see the reflector from the trail. Missed it and saw the road. Went back up and cut in too early. Kept seeing a reflection which turned out to be a road sign through the trees. Oops. Went more North and there it was. Also didn't really have a plan from 3 to 4. Went straight and happened to drift left, but saw and heard people on the road and realized I was too close. Looked right and saw the reflector.

Relay - Yellow - Splits

Lesson on Petie. A bad, bad night in which he clobbered my face with his neck, I just about came off in the ring, then did come off on the trail while cooling down. He refused to step over a tiny log, then proceded to basically back right out from under me. I thought I was going to smash my face into the log but somehow avoided that and took it with my elbow instead. Then he dragged me back about three feet through the mud because I was not about to let go of the reins and have to go catch a horse up in the woods in the dark.

You never fall off while doing something cool like jumping 4 feet.

Upland School Paper Chase. I rode Petie, who was all high-strung and fidgety, with Cindy & Patrick and Jamie & Mya.

I have no idea how long we were actually out. It was probably a lot longer than this. I didn't run my watch and thought they would list all our times with results, but they just listed the winning team numbers.