Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Half the time I spent mapping vegetation at Occoquan. Think I got everything that ought to be mapped on the east side of the road that splits the map. Still a few places on the west side with some vegetation to add.

Annoyingly, having got through Greenbelt with no damage, I twisted my right ankle just walking around the terrain fairly early in the day. Leaves are more dangerous than is easy to keep in mind.

Jogging back to the car once I stopped surveying vegetation. Turns out I timed this just about right to return the car safely before they closed at 6pm. Then the weird thing of the day. Having last week done what one fears and dropped my keys through a crack into the elevator shaft of my apartment building, they were returned to me Friday evening, after I had picked up the rental car. It wasn't until I returned the car and went to unlock my bike that I noticed the bunch of keys had been returned minus the key for my Kryptonite lock. Really no way it and only it could have disappeared without human agency being involved. I wish the presumed aspiring bike thief good luck managing to find my bike locked up somewhere. If they can get into my apartment, then it's easy but that would have been true without possessing that key since I don't lock my bike up inside the apartment.

Of course, I have spare keys, one of which I used to lock the bike up on Friday afternoon, so retrieving the bike tomorrow will be easy enough. Annoyed about having to take Metro home tonight though.

Event: QOC Greenbelt
 

QOC Greenbelt Blue - fairly good race, memorable problems all related to new deadfall not being on the map while being in the terrain in places that impacted route choice.

Blue - Splits

Half the time I spent vetting control locations at Occoquan. Moved a number of white and yellow course control for various reasons and one advanced course control because the location I had in mind was a sea of thorny vegetation but the courses are mostly okay, or will be once I finish mapping the vegetation or rather that part of the vegetation in and near the area covered by the courses.

Hope we get a day like today on February 10th - it was lovely in the woods. Saw a small herd/bunch/mob/leash/parcel/rangale of deer on a couple of occasions and presumably the same gang/rafter of turkeys hanging out on the east edge of the park that I saw on a previous visit (I thought we had more agreement on collective nouns than seems to be the case - apparently murmuration is only one of at least five possibilities for starlings).

To work in the morning then onwards to Wheaton to get a rental car late in the afternoon.

To work. Since the forecast precipitation didn't materialise, as rain or snow - the biggest wrong call I can remember in the DC forecast in a long time, though apparently things didn't miss us by all that much as they passed by to the south of DC - home by way of PCRM.

To work. Home by way of the aquatic center.

To work. Home by way of TPSS. Significant rain falling once I left TPSS to head home.