Training Log Archive: Lori

Jogging from the shuttle dropoff to the start.

After a morning spent running around taking care of parking, the shuttles, and registration, I headed off on my course. I love these woods! Running through them is super fast, and I decided I would rather be cautious and avoid large blowups, so I headed out to have a good time. In general this worked quite well for me, although I tended to have trouble on legs where I had to compass bear up a bland-ish ridge (4, 16, and another one that I forget right now), but I was having such an awesome time out there that even losing 5 minutes on the third to last control didn't really upset me. And anyway, when will I ever get a chance to check out such an awesome field of knolls again :-). Fun day!

Model event in the Birkhead Wilderness! After an insane week in lab (I think I did close to 70 hours of work in 5 days), I arrived in NC exhausted, dehydrated, hungry, and super happy to be there :-). My sister picked me up from the airport and we headed out to the model map. I jogged around, checking out what different features looked like in the terrain and generally attempting to get used to 1:15000. Somehow the entire model event seemed to be uphill. It was an Escher orienteering course :-). The woods were beautiful, the day was beautiful, and I got lunch and liquid as soon as I finished, so all in all, it was an awesome day!