Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

Well, good news/bad news. The good news is that I got the track data out of the GPS. The bad news is when I saved the track, it auto-massaged the points and threw out about 95% of them. So. I've got almost unusable GPS data. Luckily, I can use my drafted trails plus this data to close my loops. It'll require some work, but it won't be too bad.

I know it's lame to claim training benefit from mapping, but I was fieldchecking for 5 hours today (very low intensity). It's my first time really fieldchecking (outside of mapping clinics and tiny, tiny postage stamp areas).
It's a whole new mental challenge, especially with the crappy basemap I have (1m/pixel image off terraserver-usa.com). I did pretty well with two loops, missed one by 20m, and the other by 40m, both over about 1km. I had very minor locating features on the 20m loop, and essentially nothing on the other. I carried along a GPS, recording tracks, so I have two independent records of the trails, if I can figure out how to download the information. It's a fairly small park, and it's a complicated mish-mash primarily of rough open and ROST. My brain shut down trying to figure out the vegetation. Hopefully what I did today will give me enough basemap to make the vegetation a lot easier. It was just too much white paper today.

Felt bad all day, and almost didn't go. I had to drive my nephew to a Halloween party at the last minute, and was late for the mass start (score O w/ Vampire rules). I really dislike the vampire thing, though, so I volunteered to pull some controls. I did some really challenging legs, and had an absolute blast. Now, over two hours later, my headache is back, and I'm going to bed. (And just to be clear, Vampire O is okay, but we only do 2 Night O's a year. If we did more, I'd be more inclined to enjoy the vampire part. With our current lack of scheduled Night O's, it just ruins the whole thing.)