Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: NEOC: Baldwin Hill
 

Green course at NEOC local event on Baldwin Hill map with stone walls removed. Good course set by Ian Smith with two sets of short legs in technical areas connected with a few longer legs (traversing technical areas). Map is quite good. Woods are a bit slow, mostly due to damage from an ice storm a few years ago but also because of lower visibility with leaves still on the trees.

A fine day for orienteering, although our first exposure to cold (low 50's) and rainy conditions in quite some time. Time to adapt. We were orienteering on a fine map with a fun course, so all was good.

A mostly clean run through the first eight controls then two major errors in the later part of the course. Attacked too early on control 9 (a longer leg into a technical area I had passed through on the leg from 2 - 3) and investigated three reentrant systems until I got the right one. Lost 6 or 7 minutes. Went brain dead and failed to follow the compass well from 11 - 12 then didn't know where I was when I came out on a trail. Was headed in the general direction of the finish to relocate when a bag appeared which had the code I was looking for. The error on this leg could have been much longer than the 6 or so minutes it was.

Straight line distance 5.2 km. Glad I chose to do Green.

Green - Splits

Event: WCOC - Sessions Woods
 

Red course at WCOC local event at Sessions Woods. Nice course by Bill Duncan and Charlie Deweese on a fine day for orienteering (60's and overcast while running, sun breaking through after finishing). The course had a fun control pick section set in a recently logged area with very good visibility which required careful micro-route selection while staying on-line to hit the features. There were also several controls in the "rocks and mountain laurel" section of the map presented in both 1:10000 and 1:5000 map versions to help us navigate in that area.

I had a pretty good run with only some hesitations in the circle for several of the more technical controls. Lost some time between 13 and 14 when I got on the wrong trail for a bit. Pretty much knew where I was almost the whole time. Could've maybe been 2 min faster. SL distance 6.3 km.

Red - Splits

Slogging about.

Running on the road with some faster stuff thrown in. 3 x ~90 sec + 2 x ~45 sec. Ankle not a problem.

Another fine early Fall day. Ankle OK running on paved roads. Not ready for trails yet.