Training Log Archive: Sandy

DVOA local event; Stuckey Pond Green course.

Went out early so I could work epunch the rest of the day. Sort of clean: I was never not where I thought I was BUT... there were lots of hesitations just to be sure I was where I wanted to be, very slow to the first control as it took a bit to adjust to the 1:15 scale, didn't read the clue sheet twice so navigated to the feature I wanted to hit but not the one the control was on, didn't look at the "big picture" to realize I could go hard as there was an obvious collecting/catching feature I could use, and so on, so not a very good result. Good thing I'm running the shortest leg at Venla!

A really fine course on a super map.

Need to spend lots of time in the woods like this if I want to start doing rogaines again. Legs were tired enough that I wasn't picking up my feet by the end and almost fell a few times.

C • I noticed you are a maybe 2

More control streamering for the AR. Today was one two + hour loop in the morning and then lots of 30 minute out and backs from parking areas and then one more longer loop at the end of the day. Took a really stupid chance trying to follow what I thought was the mapped trail but it degenerated into a 6 inch wide path half-way up a very, very steep hillside above a rocky stream. I went far enough that I really didn't want to go back the way I came but I didn't want to keep going either, so I climbed up the rocky slope by pulling myself up using the mountain laurel and rhododendron. One mistep or a branch coming loose and I'd have been done for. Like I said - really, really stupid. And when I got to the top of the hill, well, there was the trail I had intended to be on, nicely marked and maintained. The racers got the benefit - that episode at the end of a long day exhausted me enough that when the trail looped back, I didn't feel like bushwhacking too far and so instead of going to the big stream junction as planned I just picked a reentrant not too far past the trail for that last control location.

Streamering controls for the orienteering section of an upcoming 24-hour adventure race. I really hope some good orienteers show up for the race - per the race director's instructions the control locations aren't too hard (a mix of orange, yellow and white) but there are definitely route choice options - through the woods or way, way, way around along linear features.

C • Where's the race? If it fits ... 2

TNT - lagging behind Dasha and Sandy. Felt sluggish and the time shows it. But I did 5 which I haven't done in quite a while.

Walking down to the drive and back up again.

TNT - Monday version, Media
Ran on my own. Did the normal Red loop from last spring and "ran" all the hills. Sofa!

Walking to and from the trail head. It helps my knees to ease into things...

Good stretching while icing.

Multi-course feast afterwards! Excellent meal.