Training Log Archive: tnipen

PS park score-o


I was happy that I was able to run relatively strong for 2 hours. I did run into a bit of orienteering problems on the way though. On my way to 57 I thought I was doing something smart by following a mapped trail, that was blocked by orange fencing at the entrance. Unfortunately, this lead me to the wrong side of an unmapped 6foot fence by the school. Eventually had to scale this thing. Didn't solve the area north of Chancellor Blvd very well. Should have done 37, 40, 58, 36, 33, instead of going so far around to the north.

Had troubles finding #40, was searching all the depressions in the area with Sergio. Was pretty sure I was in the right area, due to the existance of the giant spur. Went up and down the trail to check for other potential places. Eventually gave up and headed back, but then I saw John Rance elegantly, and without hesitation, go off the trail and straight into the control. Not sure how I didn't see it earlier, since the control was right next to the control, though a bit hidden. Anyway, lost 6 minutes according to the GPS.

Lost smaller amounts of time in the south, mainly because I didn't bother reading the control description. Right at the end I made the opposite mistake of last year. Instead of heading down Swordfern, I went down Douglas Fir, for which the lack of gates should have started alarm bells, but was probably too tired to think. Eventually realized that this trail didn't quite have the usual SF characteristics, and had to bushwack over to SF. Unfortunately, this year's bushwack was considerably more painful than last year's in the other direction... a straight east bushwack didn't work, since I had already gone too far north on Douglas fir.


Thanks to Meghan and Alison for a great event. Looking forward to tomorrow's clubrun, where we get to do this all over again!

Tempo with Mike.

Mild cold