Training Log Archive: jjcote

Drove to Chicago. Charlie actually did all of the driving to St. Louis, where he got on a plane, and that left just the drive across Illinois for me. Car still making a little noise, but not getting worse.

US Champs, Day 2, The Big Sandy. Navigation generally not too bad, except for one control where I stopped one reentrant short, and one nice long leg where I kept telling myself not to lose track of my location at the end, but then did exactly that. Had some trouble due to the very pale colors on the map -- had a lot of diffculty seeing the contours, and that hurt me in a few places. Physically pretty slow, but that's not surprising given the circumstances.

Drove with Charlie to Colby, KS - change of plans because he got a phone message saying that his meeting was cancelled. Car has been making an odd sound, I think, but it's a little hard to tell. Bad gas? Altitude? Malpractice on the part of the Wal-Mart oil change guys?

Blue Day 2 - Splits

Event: US Classic Champs
 

US Champs, Day 1, Buena Vista, Blue. Ran early, stomach wasn't feeling very good. Navigated fine except for one wobbly route, and one leg where I dropped through the wrong saddle and wound up off to one side, which left me puzzled when I found myself amid a lot of rock. Corrected reasonably quickly.

Blue day1 - Splits

Checking out a couple of controls on the model event map. Started out as distinctly laid-back level 1 (in sandals), but when the thunderstorm made its approach known, there was some vigorous high-tailing to get back to the car before the hail hit -- made it just in time.

First With The Most, Red, about 12th place. Pretty clean, just tiny hiccups on two controls (went to the right place but didn't see the flags at first), and one bad route due to poor planning that probably cost 3-4 minutes. Ran late, and it was getting fairly warm

Red Day 3 - Splits

Crystal Relay, Antenna Hill, leg 1. Yeah, spiked all but one, but it was the first one, and it was a big blunder. Started out with the lead pack, but when we dropped off the edge, I went further to the right than they did. If I had really committed and gone way right, I would have been okay, but I didn't stop to read the map long enough, and I went into the worst of the nasty green. When I finally extricated myself, I overcorrected too far to the left, then wasn't quite certain where I was, and I wound up overshooting, going too far downhill, and had to loop back. Finally arrived right behind Gale Teschendorf, and I may have been the last person to arrive at the first control; lost at least six minutes, I think. Spent the rest of the course reeling people in and worked my way back up to 17th place. Not a very auspicious start for my team.

Turned in a value of 1.06 G at the official G Weigh-In.

Crystal Relay Leg 1 - Splits

Did not do the Sprint. Was not feeling up to it, and just hung around instead. Did play 9 holes of prairie golf afterwards, though, and shot a 62.

Event: US Night Champs
 

US Night-O Champs, The Lights of Cheyenne, Red course. 7th overall, 2nd US M45. Not too bad a run, just uncertainty going to the first control, and difficulty reading the vegetation on the way into #3. Somewhat ill (digestive problems), so it's certainly not a disappointing result. Managed to keep up more of a decent running pace than I had on the weekend, due in part to favorable temperatures.

Night-O - Red - Splits

Superfly Marsh. Wasn't sure whether I was going to go out today, since I didn't have much to eat yesterday (and have been under some stress), and when I ultimately did it was getting fairly hot in the middle of the day. Felt pretty sloppy a lot of the time, and ranout of gas after about an hour and was mostly walking from then on.

Red 2 - Splits

Twin Boulders East, Red course. 21st place, but 3rd M40. Not too bad navigationally, about three smallish errors near the controls. But evidentally not moving very fast. But it's my first exercise since arriving here at altitude.

Red 1 - Splits

Drove from Iowa to Laramie. 2500 miles behind the wheel since Saturday.

Event: US Canoe-O Championships
 

Event: Rocky Mountain 1000 Day
 

US Canoe-O Champs, and I didn't have to do anything athletic beyod climbing a tree to watch people paddling around at various places in the delta. The guy who won volunteered to pick up all the controls!

Then I drove to Iowa.

C • Control pickup 1

Peshtigo Harbor Wildlife Area (WI), this was actually course setting, so it was fairly vigorous paddling interspersed with stopping to pound in control stakes, hang control markers, make last-minute map adjustments, etc. And there was a little bit of travel on foot as well, to check out one land route that I suspected that a lot of teams would use (and they did!).