Training Log Archive: Charlie

US Champs middle course, Brown Z. Another pretty good run, and fortunate enough to end up first on the course and first in M-70. Amazing. Very compact course, intricate area with lots of depressions. Only one significant mistake, when I misread the contours near 6 and nothing looked right to me. Bailed out to a pond and then tried again, but still didn't look right. But a little further and there it was, maybe lost 2:30 there. And maybe another 30 seconds drifting down the wrong spur on the way to 8, but otherwise excellent. Again I was the beneficiary of very difficult footing that slowed down the faster runners.

Late in the course I saw a large rabbit shaped hind end scooting under one of the many downed logs. I suppose a hare, but quite a meaty looking one, and quite furry.

Map and route

Rhonda and Leslie and I went to the little hot spring along the creek, 200 meters from the house. A little pool just off the side of the creek with a hot spring feeding it from the bank, and then draining into the creek on the down side. In the pool maybe 102 F, and then pleasant to wade a bit into the stream to cool off and do it over again.

Brown Z Middle - Splits