Training Log Archive: JanetT

A long walk to start.
Nice sunny day, though still on the cold side today.

SL 3.3 km / 175m, sunny, upper 30s, Hemlock Overlook Park, Clifton, VA

Good routes, no errors. Caught up to Sue by 3, and saw Janet F come back toward us (she had started 6 minutes ahead of me). Had Janet in sight off and on through 8 but then she made an error and I got ahead. Diana Todd was fastest, however, so I finished 2nd F60, good enough for a beer glass with a large "2nd" on one side and the event logo on the other.

Middle - Brown - Splits

Event: QOC Long Day's Night
 

Night O champs at Oregon Ridge Park, Cockeysville, MD
4.2 km/170m
Dark and near freezing. Start was at the top of a ski slope, 14 contours up. Wide open woods that I would love to visit during the day. I made it back and found them all so that's something. :-) 2nd/3 F60

Up ski slope to start. Time estimated.

Night Championships - Brown - Splits

Worked up a sweat today, which is rare for this class. Did something different today, involving throwing and passing balls around (the small plastic ones you can buy in the grocery store), starting with overhead passes across the room, and then to the person beside you, who needed to remember to turn to you after they passed to the next person. :-) Kinda fun.

Lots of upper body. Modified anything requiring shoulders once past planking. Right hip/back still tight from the weekend, so need to keep stretching.

Followed by a few pulldowns and some more stretching.

Aerobic portion seemed hard/fast today, but maybe it was because I was tired from the weekend (though there wasn't a lot of climb which often does me in). She forgot to do spine twists in the stretching portion so I did my own, which are ALWAYS needed after any running, along with hip flexor stretches.

Troll Cup maps with my routes

Day 1

Day 2

One more note: debuted bike gloves for orienteering this past weekend (a la PG). They helped!...I didn't fall on my hands (or at all for that matter). :-)

To start, via arena to drop off clothing for later.

SL 3.2, 50m climb; temp in mid to upper 40s

Troll Cup day 2 with a chase start based on yesterday's time on the course, so I started 21 sec behind Sandy and 20 seconds ahead of Trisha, so I knew we'd be fairly close for the first few controls.

Discombobulated at the start, looking at the line from 13 to 12 and thinking I had to take the trail west, until it bent north. Huh? Oh! Not a bad route choice after all; left the trail just past the little side loop and stayed right of the big hill, punching ahead of Sandy and Trisha. Straight to 2 following the stone wall and attacking off the end of it. Popped out to the trail to 3 and left it just past the pair of boulders on either side, while Trisha, running faster, went beyond, possibly up to the bend. As I got close I saw Marty H-T leaving the area and Sandy going in; straight was apparently faster (Candice said she went that way, and she had a faster split than me too). Behind Sandy toward 4 and then she veered a bit right of where I wanted to go, so I kept on and found it (saw the water bottles before the faded flag, however).

To 5 I went up the trail a bit to use the big boulders as "stepping stones" to lead me in. No problem to 6 and 7, but then disaster, when I wasn't as high up on the hill toward 8 as I had thought and when I got to a gigantic erratic, I misidentified it as being farther up the hill than it really was. In retrospect I should have taken into account all the other boulders I saw near it. Lost ~10 minutes while I circled around (seeing Sandy go by didn't help since at that point I didn't know whether she was on her way there or had already found it) and eventually I came back to the large erratic, finally determining that it was mapped as a black oval. Oh.

Flustered, I didn't leave 8 in the right direction and went along the hillside ESE instead of SSE to 9, until I realized what I'd done; lost another 3 minutes there. Okay for the rest. Still, it was good enough for third place behind Mary Jo and Sandy. Chocolate medals were our prizes. ;-)

C • Chocolate medals 1

Back to parking.

Brown - Splits