Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Hurd State Park, Red, 5.7 km, 5th. Mostly fine, a few very small errors in the circle not seeing the flag right away, a bigger miss on #11 where I overshot to the trail and had to go back in, and one clinker on #12, where I was futzing around well SE of the circle for a bit until I finally gave myself a dope slap, went off to find the cliffy hill NE of the control, and then had no trouble from there, but lost at least four minutes. Kind of hot out, which had me dragging.

Funny thing, this orienteering. I can got out for a trail run for over an hour, with substantial climb, and be running for every step. Then I go out with a map in my hand and it's a race, and quite a bit of it is walking. Fairly fast walking, to be sure, but still walking. And it feels like the effort is high enough. Is it that off-trail terrain is more taxing, or that the requisite thinking adds to the effort, or a combination, or something else?

Traveled to the event with Nancy and Stephen, the latter doing his first solo advanced course, which of course he had little trouble with (Green, and he was the first of us to finish).

splits

C • walking vs running 3

Rattlesnake Hill, bunch of twisties. Kind of warm.

WBSW, similar to the loop that I've been doing recently, except I did all of the twisties at the beginning. I had in mind to add some bonus twisties up top, but it seemed like rain might be coming (it wasn't) and I missed the arbitrary time cutoff that I had set for myself when I got to the decision point. Nice evening, slightly cool, things have pretty much dried out, and hardly any bugs.