Training Log Archive: kissy

One last hurrah at Hemlock before next weekend. Jon Torrance was kind enough to set out a training course and, I believe, had quite a few takers, which is nice. Once I saw the course was about 9 km., I knew I couldn't do the whole thing because of other commitments, so I just did 1 - 11. I had a few bobbles, but nothing too bad. I totally didn't find #5, but I knew I was in the right spot, which was some poorly mapped green areas with low visibility, and we were using the mini-controls, so I think I just didn't spot it. After 3 days of non-stop rain, the sun came out for today's session, although the woods were still soaking wet and I went very carefully over the downed trees, being careful not to step on any of them and go sliding down the trunk.

I felt good in the woods and this was an encouraging way to go in to next weekend.

A reporter and photographer were there from my local paper, The Free-Lance Star, and there will be an article in next Friday's paper. I asked the reporter to please just don't position the sport as a treasure or scavenger hunt. We'll see.

As I was driving to Basking Ridge for a meeting tomorrow, I stopped by Iron HIll in Newark, DE, for a training run. I had an old map from the Short-O Champs and copied the Red course from the most recent meet there. First let me say that when the park is not full of orienteers, it seems to be full of creepy old men.

I was also testing out running in contacts, and it seemed to go well. I popped them in right before running and took them out as soon as I was done. There was no fuzziness for the whole run, and none since, so that's good news. This weekend, I'll test doing this with my bifocal contacts. If those work, I might just be in business.

I ran today at a pretty leisurely pace and was 99% sure I was at the correct control locations. I even remembered having difficulty in one area of a bland hillside during the Short-O champs, so I went very carefully. This was definitely a nice way to break up the drive.

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A much more rewarding run. After a busy day at work, I almost didn't make it out for this run, but I opened the front door and it was so lovely out, that I couldn't resist. It was one of those evenings when the light was soft and golden, and the air was warm (but not humid), with little pockets of coolness. I did a warm-up and then 6 short hill repeats and then home again. A very satisfying workout.