Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: West Point A-Meet
 

I counted 205m climb (if I counted correctly) on the route I took on the course today. We'll see what the Garmin/AP interface comes up with tomorrow (or the next day) when I download the watch.

Quick Route Day 1

From Track jpg files

West Point Classic day 1. Took bus from registration back to the drop off along the road to cut some distance. This is from the road to the Brown start (collocated with White and Yellow).

Black Rock Forest map, starting from NE of Round Pond. Long for a Brown course, nominally 5km and supposedly 105m of climb.

"White" woods were really almost entirely covered in blueberry bushes, ranging from shin to knee high (or higher) and so it was slow going all around. AP shows me with mistakes on more than #7 which I overshot, but I think the others are smaller and likely due to slowness on climbs.

EDIT: (added) Went north of the swamp to #4 but then misidentified the mapped long rock face in the terrain causing me to be too low on the hill and having to loop around a bit. Probably lost a couple minutes vs doing it correctly.

Number 7 was a silly error because I was relying on the green to be mapped correctly and it wasn't. From 6 I headed out to the road and took it and then the trails. Saw a control on the large boulder S of the trail just ESE of 7, and should have just attacked from there, but I figured "just take the trail through the green and then use the white corridor." Green was mtn laurel and there was no white corridor, so went too far and was S of the next large cliff (SSW of 7) before turning back.

Yes, Eagle's Nest (#8) was a nice viewpoint, but getting up on top of it to punch was more arduous (for us Brown competitors, anyway) than necessary. Unless that was the course designer up top offering water, I hereby apologize to the cadet to whom I made a comment about "did they really need to make Brown course climb up here?"

Brown X Day 1 - Splits

Runaway greenhouse effect

South on 66. Temp about 60F and very comfortable.

Adductors and pulldowns after class.

Left bicep sore from yesterday's curls so didn't do as many on that side when we did bicep curls today. She's been adding more balance stuff in too (mostly lifting weights while standing on one foot) so that's good.

Another good class, though we did that really hard move again that's almost impossible to describe. Easier on one side than the other; my right hip doesn't work the same as my left. Adductor work with weights, so no machine afterwards.

12 pulldowns

Investigative walk, looking for more old cemeteries. Didn't find one where I went looking first, but discovered one I'd never noticed before despite living here almost 35 years. Wonder if I'll get a chance to explore it (behind private property).

Nice class, no stepping. Good thing because I was having a mystery pain on bottom of right foot (ahead of heel at back of arch) but muddled through.

Event: WCOC Fairfield University
 

(Subtracted the 43 minutes of standing around in the middle.)

Walked south on 66 to see if I could photograph any gravestones in the family cemetery on a hill (in the middle of a field) near us. I discovered the Find A Grave site while looking for one of my own ancestors (grave not found...yet), and discovered there are requests for photos of gravestones nearby. I can do that (if I can find the proper headstone and it's not too 'gravely' damaged).

Also drove to the North Chatham cemetery but could not find any of the three headstones requested there. There are several broken / unreadable / face-down gravestones in that cemetery. I don't anyone vandalized them, but frost heaving and acid rain over the years do enough damage.

Recorded this and the next to get coordinates to add to the Find A Grave site.