Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Orienteering, Medicine Bow map, 10.8 kms. Finished up as the first raindrops were falling (and first lightning flashing) from an early noon storm.

Pretty windy out of the east and my legs felt de-fizzed, so I thought I might try to hitch a ride to somewhere over by Cheyenne and just run home easy with the wind for a nice boost. That's a lot of alone time with the wind (the same type of time some refer to as "quality" time), but it turns out if you listen, you might hear.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yvwcf9lk4tbe4u4/The%20Wi...

This one must have been for maprunner who was, what, all of 4 when it was written? So probably not, but you never know.

C • Yup 1

Wanted an easy day so I headed out to the crystal mines to do some digging. Amazing how easy it is to move a couple of tons of decomposing granite gravels and such, it almost feels like you are doing nothing but day dreaming at the beach. After that, it was time to stretch my legs for at least a little bit, so I ran at Happy Jack to where 2 days ago I saw the best clump of Fairy Slippers I've ever seen (they were a little past their prime today.) The whole thing was only about 6" x 8".

Intervals, 8 x 5 min, dirt road. Completely coincidentally, the amount of time i ran for was exactly the amount of time I spent not getting run over by cars on my bike.

Finally made it out to Twin Boulders for the O' I had planned for several days earlier. Flexibility is an advantage in so many ways. 11.1 kms was the dose today, and an added bonus was the course included more sage than I might have guessed. It's hard to find locations I've never run to out there before, because by now I've used up the largest majority of the nicest places, and who wants to go out of their way for the most awful of unvisited spots? But I did succeed in finding at least one boulder I've never used for a control before, so I circled it three times when I got there, just for the celebratory effect.

The best part was seeing a large rodent out there. No, not really. I didn't see a rodent of any size, and actually the best part was seeing a large cow moose. For a while, some sub-morons were shooting, but they were so far away it didn't befront me much (note: I just make the simplifying assumption they must have been sub-monic because seasonal shooting restrictions are now in place.)

The worst part was too many legs headed in the direction of a late day sun, which makes it pretty hard to see things you really need to see. In some strange way, it kind of incorporates some of the challenges of night orienteering, but in the day.