Training Log Archive: biggins

BAOC's first TrailCross race at Black Diamond Mines SP, running it with Carol. The course was essentially a long yellow course with tons of climb, but with a mass start and trail-race like support. The format seems like its pretty fun, it had that adventure race friendliness atmosphere to it, at least with the people we were running around. The implementation may need a little love though, it started late, one of the controls was a little questionable, and we got lost in one area because the map was missing some pretty obvious trails. Still happy we hung around for it.

10 km - Splits

Middle distance at Paso Nogal park, which is pretty tiny, so three maps and lots of short legs. Fun stuff though, lots of contour navigation and bushes on hillsides. All the non-skiing muscles in my ankles were pretty dead by the end from all the sidehilling.

Day Two: Blue - Splits

Event: Run Black Diamond
 

Night sprint at Diablo Valley College down in SF. Lots of buildings and passageways and stairways, pretty fun. Mostly just running on autopilot, not really planning ahead at all. Took the map out of the map case after a couple legs, which helped a lot with the headlamp glare, but I still couldn't read much on the run. But the legs were simple enough I could usually stop at each control and memorize the whole next leg, so it didn't matter too much.

Partly relevant tangent: has anybody from summer-o sprinty mapmaking actually tried using center dots in the control circles? Do they not work in the summer for some reason? or is it just that no one knows they exist? Because I think they'd be pretty great on urban sprint maps.

No real navigation troubles, smooth all the way through, and I started second and passed the first guy early on, so I had the course to myself the whole time. Saw many cats, or their eyes at least.

C • Agree on center dots! 9

Day One: Men/Women - Splits

The car broke a couple days ago (mices eating more delicious wires - which apparently are actually made with peanut oil), but we have a new VW shop here in town, so I sent the car there instead of all the way to Reno. They called up today and said it was all fixed up, so I rode down to pick it up, but while they were bringing it around the engine light came back on, so I got to ride back home, which is less downhill than the way there.

Wandering around the neighborhood. It started raining literally the second I walked out of the garage, so it was somewhat cold.

so many new training types this week!