Training Log Archive: JanetT

Focus: hips and hip flexors :-) (how timely)

Savasana was lying on folded blankets...made my shoulder ache.

Event: Susquehanna Stumble XX - Pine Grove Furnace State Park
 

Susquehanna Stumble XX at Pine Grove Furnace. Temp about 46-48F with rare sun and rare sprinkles.

I did the Short version, nominally 7.1 km, 185m climb, on a 1:10000/5m map. We had a different first control, and then the second half of the full Stumble (whose controls 15-26 were our 2-13).

On the first leg, across the parking lot and up a trail, I was one of the last people climbing the hill so didn't have much advantage from seeing people head into the woods; in fact I checked the other platform first (it was on the Long Stumble) even though I knew I hadn't gone far enough yet...d'oh! In fact I overran it and had to run back. Time lost.

2) 32- Headed straight down the hill through the logged area which wasn't too bad to get through, just slow, through the edge of the clearing and kept on going until I hit the road. Was going to cut in after logged area ended but found the trail and attacked from there.

3) 33- Considered dropping to the trail below and running it 2/3 of the way to 3, but woods didn't look too bad and there were features half way that I thought I could use. I *thought* I identified the partial trail but evidently didn't, as I wandered quite a bit with not much definite to relocate off of. When I hit the top of a reentrant I thought it was the one E of the control but it was most likely the extension of it, almost due north of the boulder! When I attempted a bearing from the reentrant, my distance didn't get me anywhere close, so I turned uphill to check out a big boulder (not it), and climbed a bit more to be sure it was the one near the top of the ridge...which it was. Then I took a bearing and headed downhill, and finally spotted the flag. There was a QOC fellow with me through most of this (I don't know if it's the one who finished just before or just after me), who wasn't navigating any better than I was. Lots of time lost.

4) 34- Contoured above the worst of the rocky ground along the stream, and hit the trails and boulder clusters. Bearing from there and hit it.

Down to the window / control pick area. ;-)

5) Platform 36 in the window... Due south to the trail which I hit near the subtle bend. More wetness than mapped so wasn't sure exactly where I was but corrected off another platform that didn't have a flag. Time lost.

6) Boulder 35 in the window... Back to trail and attacked from junk pile and trail bend.

7) Platform 38... S along wetness and around green, then west; spotted the flag from a distance

8) Spur 37... point and shoot

9) 39- point and shoot

10) 40- L o n g leg to reentrant. Headed west, hit stream, then another, then another...guess I was a bit farther north than I thought though I tried to head SW. Eventually made it to the N-S trail which I crossed, and climbed a bit to the one headed NW. Ken Jr passed me crossing the first stream, the first Long Stumble-r I'd seen. On the trail Sam Kolins passed me, and then a minute or so later, Jon Torrance, just before the trail turnoff I wanted. Made it down to the stream and crossed it---farther SE than I intended, but I figured it out.

11) 41- For some reason I thought staying near the line above the steep hillside would be a good idea, but I lost track of where I was near the end because there were more streams than mapped. If the hunter's blind I found was on the map I would have found it faster. Time lost.

12) 42- Another tricky leg, but my bearing got me to the S end of the trickle before the control, and I attacked from the charcoal platform. Punched just behind a QOC fellow, and Florence and Mary who were navigating together. Set my bearing to the last control.

13) 43- Hit the twisty bike trail where I wanted, and headed up the steep hillside on the line...I thought. But when the hill leveled out some, I didn't see a flag, and kept looking around until suddenly I was at the trail to the west. Darn! Another hunter's stand/blind in the vicinity might have helped if it had been on the map. By the time I got back to 13, the other three were headed to the finish...I dropped three places. Time lost.

Finish. No problems there. I was 14 of 15 in the last results posted, with 4 mp...Lena finished just before we left but she never found 12 (and may have punched the wrong #1).

Done, and no falls! Got a towel (in fact, everyone got a towel because they had plenty). Thanks, Mike B, Brad, Julie, Amy, and anyone else who volunteered!

Short Stumble - Splits

Around and about again, in the cool overcast with faint drizzle, about 45F.

I feel the lower and middle abs. Called it. (Not uncomfortably, just noticeable that I don't do this often enough.)

Core. Might feel the lower abs tomorrow.

Around the community, checking out preparations to replace high tension pylons that have a right of way through here ... they're changing the supports from the multi-piece frame structure to single heavy duty poles.

PT earlier today. Not a good night's sleep because of pain, and some showed up during this session too. Tried the TENS plus heat afterwards. Interesting sensation, but relief didn't really last too long.

Running with a trail map at Jacobsburg. Some walking, usually up any kind of hill/upslope.

Right knee, for whatever reason, has acted up occasionally since the weekend, when I'm taking normal steps. Felt okay during this run when I curled my toes and ran on the forefoot (as the Lone Peak/zero-drop shoe encourages anyway) but not when I slowed to a walk. What's with that?? Once it warmed up (1/2 hour in) I wasn't noticing it.

Lost my Timex Ironman triathlon watch at Jacobsburg...likely when I was changing my clothes in the restroom.... Time to shop again. First time I've had to replace one *before* the band broke.

Balance and legs and not much shoulder.

PT appt earlier in the day