Training Log Archive: CleverSky

A rare case of flying and orienteering on the same day (no exercise associated with the former in this case, though my arms got a bit of a workout). I think had happened only twice before.

RHIN-O Long. Went out after dinner, since I had been late arriving. Probably a little colder (no big deal), and also more moonlight. I have misplaced my orienteering glasses, and was at a loss as to how to proceed, but somebody (Jeff?) suggested that I just run without glasses, so that's what I did. Screwed up #6 pretty badly (drifted to the left, I think, and then wandered in circles for much too long), and #8 (which I actually spiked, but I also spiked #9 on the way to it).

RHINO-O Short. My only goof was on #11, where I went much to far to the left, and didn't correct until I saw the barn looming ahead of me.

Walking trails at Crane Beach with Nancy. Time is a guess, but the distance is pretty much spot-on, amazing how well the trail shows up in the aerial photos. Pretty interesting piece of terrain, would make for some cool orienteering, maybe at night. Great parking, too. And it was pretty awesome to be able to be at the beach in 60F+ weather in December.

Sessions Woods, Red. Lost a bit of time on each of the first two controls because I had a thorn in my sock and had to take off my shoe (thought I got it the first time, but I was wrong. On the third one I changed my mind on my route choice about 30 seconds into it and backtracked right past the control. One error due to being off on a compass leg (didn't lose too much), and my routes were probably not that great on the two legs that went past the big hill. Biggest issue was that I was just pretty tired from all the orienteering yesterday, and I wasn't moving all that fast.