Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: NEOC: Northfield Mountain Little Troll Cup
 

Red at Northfield Mountain. Prelude for Chase start later in the day. OK run after the first two controls. Distracted a bit by the photographer wandering along the trail with Judy on my way to 1. Headed up the stream parallelling the trail rather than the correct one leading to the control and lost ~3 min before figuring things out. Missed contol 2 on the first and second tries and finally got it on the third try, bouncing off the nearby trails. The feature was much more subtle in the terrain than it appeared on the map (it's a one contour reentrant but an index contour and is pretty broad). Probably lost ~4 min on this one. The rest went pretty well as I got real careful with following bearings and/or used very solid attack points. Ended up with the fastest time on Red as others also struggled. Had a 3 minute lead on Tim Parson for chase start.

SL 4.3km, counted climb at ~240 m. Cloudy and in the 60's. Later starters got rained on.

Chase start Red at Northfield Mountain. 3 minute head start on Tim so the strategy was to be safe and as clean as possible (and run hard). Spent a lot of time running on trails to hit solid attackpoints. Had a clean run except for hesitating and checking another bag on the way to 5. Left the trail a bit early going to 2 but didn't lose much time. Bob Lux started on Green at the same time and we shared the first three controls, which I thinked helped some. Shortly after control 6 I heard some noise from behind which was probably Tim, but he took a different route to 7 and never caught me.

SL distance 2.9 km. Woods were wet before we started and it showered early in my run. Fun event organized by Jeff and Judy - Thanks.

Picked up two controls partway up the hill (and on the far side of the large fenced area).

Qualifier: Red - Splits

Final: Red - Splits