Training Log Archive: turbodog

Sunday AM ride with Alain. Mi Square - Van Voorhis, S on 64 to Smith to Mendon Ctr - then Bulls Sawmill - Chamberlain - Taylor - Cheese Factory & S on QMH. Across Main to Martin & S on York to 5&20 to Bragg & back up QMH.

70F, sunny, bit of a NW breeze. Orienteering today will be great.

Green course at Mendon. Followed contours a lot more than trails today, as you really need to on the E side of MPP. Got most of the controls easily except for 3:

#2 got confused between "reentrant" and "spur", when I finally realized that I was looking for the reentrant, found it quickly

#5 long leg and wandered too far R to the wrong spur. Took a few minutes to compare contours and correct that error.

#9 lucky to find this one at all. Pushed through the undergrowth to the spot the flag should have been and nothing. Did a couple loops around the control circle, still nothing. At this point was starting to get frustrated, so I relocated back to the closest identifiable point, in this case a "man-made" object just outside the control circle, in this case an old garbage dump. Lo and behold, a flag right there! Check #'s and they match - very lucky since it was not where I would have looked for it.

When I got back to the Start, I noticed that the posted course notes actually pointed out that #9 was in a different spot. Would've helped if I'd read it . . .

All in all, nice day, great course, typical Mendon O-meet.

C • #2 - see RLshadow 2

Green - Splits

Event: ROC - Mendon Ponds Park [2009 Club Series #3 (Sunday)]
 

I have come up with the following guttural sounds to describe tonights game against the Rovers:

Uuuugh
gleuh
rrrrrgrrgr
nnnneeeyeh

We start with only two substitutes, OK. First 20 minutes we're up 2-0. Cruising along. We go into the half up 3-1. Then we get hit with two fluky goals. Nothing is going in the net. And to top it off, in the 87th minute the ball deflects off a defender for an own goal. Yuuukkk. For some reason our home field doesn't give us much of an advantage.

Final score PUSC 3, Rovers 4

To Great Embankment & back.

Mechanic's to work & back

Mi Square - Smith - Mendon Ctr - Bulls Sawmill to Chamberlain - Taylor, S on QMH, E on Boughton Hill, back on 64

65F cloudy but pleasant. Enjoyed the lightning bugs in the fields off Boughton.

Lunch loop

Commute

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