Training Log Archive: Charlie

O-race at Lotti di Garbatella, very intricate apartment complex in southern part of Rome. Short legs, lots of direction changes, hard to see the little passage ways on the move. Never been anyplace quite like it. Several small errors. No big ones.

Worst ones involved going down the wrong street from a complex intersection. Got bailed out one time when I came to a control that turned out to be my #13, which was all I needed to know to then find #12, and made for an easier trip back. Then another chance to learn an old lesson again. Circle seemed to be centered on a thicket, and made a few circles around the thicket and the one next to it before reading the clue. Oh. Inside building corner. And there it was, more or less under my nose. Not that bad, no one leg more than 3 minutes, so no individually debilitating errors.

Ended up 12th out of 37, 16th out of 55 counting the relatively weaker M65 youngsters. Similar to yesterday.

Took the Metro to get there, and left when I was done, getting off the train at Colosseo on e way back and going to the Capitoline Museums. A real favorite.

C • "the relatively weaker M65 youngsters" 1

An hour or so walking around, and then an hour at the Palazzo Barberini, national gallery of art, and conveniently right next to the hotel. Then back to my room for some vigorous rolling to try to prep for the race this afternoon at Garbatella.

Dinner with my Norwegian friends at the excellent Olimpio. They didn't like it as much as I because the lights were too bright, which suited me fine. But there was general agreement that the food was top notch.