Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: Southwest Spring Week 2020
 

Javelina Hustle at Box Canyon (Coronado Nat'l Forest in Santa Rita Mtns). Temps in 50s; 60 when we finished. (Time per my watch was a minute shorter.)

Mass start race (short--5.68km; or long--close to 10km) with a window (controls 3-4-5, which I visited 5-3-4), a skip (8-10-11; vs 8-9-11), and a Line O section near the end where we needed to find three controls to punch before finishing. Fun format!

I either navigated well or had people to help on most controls. Missed 8 slightly to the left and looked around on the wrong part of the spur before correcting. If I'd turned right instead of left when I hit the first batch of trees I'd have been there.

Wanted to get away from a group on the leg from 4-6 so I left 4 going farther east along the spur before dropping down the hillside, but they dropped me instead. First plan for the second 2/3 of the leg was to contour around the hill and use a trail, but since on the trail you still climbed over the hill I took the more direct route closer to the beeline. The other way would have saved 4 contours but added a bit of distance (maybe 400-500m? ... I measured it--It was about a 1275m leg near the beeline; 1650 the other way.). Both had good attackpoints.

SHORT - Splits

Organ Pipe Cactus NM trail toward he Double Arch. We went partway up the scramble but it seemed much farther than advertised (and a lot of loose rock on the trail) so we turned back. Forgot to turn watch on at parking to start.

Stopped not too far down the trail to watch (and try to photograph) a phainopepla. On the way back saw a thrasher sitting atop a saguaro. Heard more birds than we saw.

Partly sunny, high 60s

Papago Park, Phoenix. With some stops for bird watching; also looked at giraffes, ostriches, and a few other animals we could observe in the zoo, from Hunt's tomb.

Sunny and 70...nice. ;-)

Nature trail

Cold was only a problem in inversions (forward folds, down dogs) and "deep" breathing (impossible). Otherwise, my nose behaved.

Skipped today's yoga due to drippy nose from a new cold

Sourh from Station Rd parking on Saucon Rail Trail, w/some skipping intervals (mostly to see if i could do them). About 44 and partly cloudy.