Training Log Archive: JanetT

Day 2 at Boggs Mtn. Did fine on # 1, then managed to leave the control 45 degrees off to the south and made things match up until they didn't, when I finally decided to relocate, ~7:30 lost. On the slog up to # 3 (9 contour climb) Glen passed me--he had started 12 minutes behind. I missed it and went a contour or two too high and relocated off another boulder with a flag at a trail bend, ~2 min lost. And # 4 was another miss, as there were more unmapped thickets in the area besides the one my control was near; relocated off a control along the road, ~1:30 lost.

Did better after that with clean route choices, and was glad I had help into the Go control which was barely a 1/2 m boulder off the trail, with the flag hidden in a hole behind it (the clues DID say "N side", which was where the hole was).

Overall, finished 1st F50 (out of 2 official finishers; 3 others DNF'd or DNS'd or MP'd). Ardis Dull was Western States Champ, about 10 minutes behind.

C • Congratulations! 1

Green Day 2 - Splits

Event: 2007 Western States Orienteering Championships
 

Day 1 at Western States Champs in Cobb, CA, Boggs Mtn Demonstration Forest. "Not too steep" by Calif. standards, but still pretty steep in a few areas (including one where I messed up, near control 4). Otherwise I was pretty successful at reading the terrain, the vegetation, and my compass, for the most part. 1st F50 (of 5--two of whom I'd never heard of; one of whom I met at the start who said she's a runner but hasn't orienteered for very long).

C • Empire Quilters 1

Green Day 1 - Splits

Will add distance later when I get home; we hiked at the Corte de Maderos Creek Open Space area west of Palo Alto, CA. The redwoods there were impressive, as were the sandstone formations; the "vista point" needs some pruning or it will soon no longer have a vista. :-)

Later that day we drove down to Santa Cruz and walked out the municipal wharf (and watched sea lions at rest lying on the crosspieces under the wharf at low tide) and back, and then to the nearby lighthouse off whose point surfers were having preliminary heats for a competition this past weekend.

[Note: added distance]

Green course at local Columbus Day event at Grafton. FR measured 7.71 km covered distance, but that includes 3 controls where I either overshot or had to look around (one was mis-labeled on the description sheet). Still, I managed to finish 1st on the course. (Can anyone say "lack of competition"?)

It was a cloudy day with threat of showers, which hit when I was at just about the farthest point away from the start (at the far end of Long Pond); I debated whether to dnf and jog back to start via the park road, or keep on going. It looked like there were several trail route choices in the second half, so I kept on going. I predicted my time, too.

Phil/Gabor's SI crew used e-punch on the advanced courses (yay!), so I have splits.

C • Duo-O 1

Since I was already wet and they didn't have a lot of volunteers, I collected most of the white and yellow controls that were around Shaver Pond. I predicted it would take me about an hour, and it did. More trails available, but I was tired and slowed down on root-y/rocky areas.