Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: DVOA Springton Manor
 

Score-O at Springton Manor Park. Mid 40s with occasional light rain. Wide open woods (but still some scratchy stuff) with muddy trails and soft fields. There was also a Poker-O option which only required visiting 5 controls to make a poker hand (control descriptions indicated the "card" at each control. Lots of open fields an trauls, so quite fast.l

Picking up two controls.

Pennsylvania Snowshoe Champs at Spring Mountain. Defended my title in M60+! Same course as last year, all on groomed ski slopes (about an inch of loose granular stuff on a pretty solid base). Two loops of climbing to the top, dropping to the bottom, climb about halfway back up and then back to the start/finish. Course measured a bit shorter and a little less climb this year than what I measured last year - some minor variations but not enough to account for 200+ meters of distance. And I know we did the same climb. No big deal, everyone had the same course for today's race. Temperature at the race start was upper 20s but probably climbed 5-10 degrees by the time we finished (since the sun rose above the mountain shortly after the start).

Finished 9th of 44 overall and 1st of 6 or 7 in M60+. Pretty surprised at the number of 60+s running (Go old guys!). Also a couple of 60+ women, one of whom beat all the guys. My time was faster than last year, as was the per k time, even with the shorter recorded distance.

Runnin'. Mid 30s, overcast.