Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: WCOC Sessions Woods
 

Red course at Sessions Woods. Big errors on 3 and 4, two relatively short legs with plenty of mountain laurel around. Tried to read the green (mistake) and got pushed off course. Also missed 9 by a bit but relocated off the orange control on the nearby rocks/dot knoll. Total errors 11 or 12 minutes. Nice course by Rich and Jim, sending us into the greener area first and then letting us run through the open woods in the second half. A sunny day, but temps in the low 40's with a breeze.

Red - Splits

EMPO Club Champs at Pinnacle/Thacher

EMPO Club Champs at Pinnacle/Thacher. Temps in the 30's and about an inch of snow on the ground! Could've been under an hour. The two controls I missed were by about a minute each. One of those was actually in an area I had never been in before (I've set 3 A-meet days and a Billygoat on this map).

Lots of climb - it was advertised at 235m of climb but I think that would have required a perfect contour across about 10 reentrants (in Thacher "light green"). I chose a road run over that and added 5 or so contours. One of the controls was a classic West Point placement - top of a hill with a 9 contour climb. Nice view, but a pointless slog, and there wasn't even much route choice on the leg.

Was second fastest on Red and first in M45 (10 year age groups).

South on 66 and back in the dark. Cooler than earlier in the week, about 35F. In February 35 will feel pretty good, but for now it's cold. At least it hasn't snowed yet (here). Felt pretty good running.

Easy run. 66N, Shaker Museum Rd to the T'way bridge and back. Cool - 39F.