Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: QOC Upper Marlboro
 

Rock Creek Regional Park, MD. From Needwood Circle, I continued updating the Rock Creek, MD map. Most of the terrain that I went through today was improved from earlier. What had been green had turned back to white or just light low vegetation. By request, I did get into some areas that had been taken over by barberry. A line in the edge of the vegetation suggested that the park service had been intervening by eradicating it. They just didn't get far enough. A vast amout of it remained in the area. Course setters would do well to avoid it to keep people happy. It was passable at a walk and with good protection, which I had. The weather as warm again, and once again the rain held off. Max had dropped me off so that he could use the car and see his girlfriend. I had water to drink with me today, and I needed it. My big toe on my right foot was hurting a lot. I thought that my new Ice Bugs were a little too tight but it turned out that a hole in my Smart Wool sock (great socks!) got big enough for my toe to be sticking through it--the blood circulation in the toe was getting cut off. I did a lot of adjusting of mapped features. Some of it was changing rootstocks to dot knolls or mapping new root stocks. Sometimes I adjusted alignments of point features. In one area, a ride (for a sewage pipeline?) had disrupted mapped features pushing some boulders around. The open forest were really open! In some places the stilt grasses had started growing so it looked like golf course grass.


Next week when QOC has an event here, the stilt grass will be taller but still probably nothing to worry about. I got tired going up and down hills again today--maybe this is like Rome. These hills tend to be steep. After getting around one, I saw the darkening skies and I called Max for a ride home. He got there just in time.