Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: Chinatown Street Scramble
 

Event: HVO: Ward Pound Ridge
 

In San Francisco area for a meet-up with online quilting friends (met each other through an online listserv re:quilting in the late 90s and have had a number of get-togethers since). I discovered that Get Lost!! was organizing a Street Scramble on the Sarurday and asked if any of the attendees would want to join me on a team to try out the urban scavenger hunt. The two ladies visiting from Perth, Australia, were quite game, and two others (one from Austin TX, one from Victoria, BC) also joined as teams could have up to 5 members. Our priority was not to collect the most points; we just wanted to have fun, and were very successful at that. We found 9 checkpoints and (I presume) answered all the multiple choice questions properly.

Preliminary Results (we were the Intrepid Magpies International team)

C • chinatown 5

GhettoTrack (as iansmith calls it), since my FR battery died before I could use it.

Our route, for the most part (clockwise from park at Powell and John Streets; we went down one or two alleys/walkways not included in the Gmap application), with a stop at the Starbucks at Clay and Battery. :-)

In Santa Clara, CA, from the Convention Center (where PIQF is > quiltfest.com) is back to the hotel, with D who's from Vancouver island in BC. :-) And is 13 years younger. Close to 2.5 miles judging by the time.

This was after about 4.5 hours on my feet at the quilt show....

Good class; hips sore and legs tired. Gotta keep stretching!

No tools.

Yay! Stuck it out for the whole 40 minutes, AND pushed it so my heart rate was above 125 most of the time (max I saw was about 138 as gauged by the machine). 1.72 mi

Adductors and pulldowns, but not a full set.

As of today, there are 13 registered for F55+ at the NAOC event.

A much smaller class than F50+ or F60+, by the way.

Event: EMPO - Dwaas Kill
 

Score O Map

QuickRoute

Mistake at 17 was finding the man-made X but not seeing that the flag was hung on the opposite side of the large downed tree mess to the west of it (15-20m away; flag not visible from the X), so I went back to double-check I was in the right reentrant/stream bed, then climbed up and around the downed tree. Dunno what he was thinking when he hung that one...

Flag at 15 was hung at the east edge of the circle, in the next-over reentrant. My errors were at 16 (checked out some unmapped reentrants), 17 (see above), and 21 (found other unmapped ditches on the way; and went through the 7' tall reeds in the marsh SE of 22 along the way rather than finding the way around to the N or going out to the road...).

Local club meet on an expanded map (it should probably have been left as it was...). Chose the score O rather than Green or Red because those *promised* you'd get wet at least up to your knees. And I suspected the relatively flat marshy area added wouldn't be much fun. The rest of the map (original part) is more fun (especially as a sprint venue) with lots of trail junctions in open woods and a stream bottom with lots of side reentrants to keep you guessing. Started with the highest point-value controls and worked my way around the outside then in towards the lower value controls in the middle (high trail density) area. Got all but three of the score O controls; a 1-pointer I had time for, and two 3-pointers in the muck by the stream. 53 of a possible 60 pts in 90 minutes.

A couple of the flags were not hung where marked but I did find them. A B. Jameson production.

1:10,000/2.5m map, temps in mid 50s and partly sunny. Pretty nice for running, actually. Added FR track. Map and QR to come.

C • woods hollow 2

Event: Hudson Highlander XVII
 

"North block" with Rob; overcast and low to mid 50s. We walked this counter-clockwise which I think has slightly gentler climbs than vice versa.

Sometimes this loop measures as 3.2+ miles...