Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: DVOA Fair Hill Mason-Dixon
 

Brown course at Fair Hill Mason-Dixon, Mid-Atlantic Champs hosted by DVOA. 3.7K, 135m climb. Nice course set by Tom O, giving us every opportunity to avoid green scratchy stuff, even if some of us didn't always take advantage of it. Thanks Tom. Visibility was good, grass in the fields was high so they weren't as fast as they have been at past events. Temperature in the upper 40s and mostly cloudy.

A very good run with only one significant error. Lost 1.5-2 min going from 2 to 3 when I failed to see the trail to avoid the green at the field edge, even though I had used that trail on my approach to 2. Battled through green and had to cross a fence in that green, plus added some additional climb. Other than that, kept focused and tried to keep pushing the pace. First overall on Brown.

Relay at Mid-Atlantic Champs. Leg 2, which was characterized as intermediate (orange) difficulty. 2.3k, 85m climb. On a team with Janet on the 1st leg and Dim Palau as anchor. We were a 9-point team so started 14 minutes ahead of 3-point teams and 7 minutes ahead of 6-point teams. (This scheme seems to work quite well - the top three teams finished within a minute of each other and included a 3, 6 and 9 point team. In 2019, the same scheme had the top 6 teams finishing in a two-minute window.)

I had a good run, starting about a minute behind Addie Nolan. I caught glimpses of her off and on through the 4th control but then lost a bit of time going to 5 with a "shortcut" through some green stuff. I also lost a couple of seconds when one of the JROTC kids got to the first control just ahead of me and decided that the control needed to beep 5 times to record the punch (I reminded her that one beep was adequate). Fun course, again by Tom O.
I think our team was 9th overall.

Brown - Splits

Leg 2 - Splits

Around the neighborhood.

Nockamixon SP bike trails. Did 'em all. Some muddy spots. Upper 60s, sunny - another bonus November day.

Trails on the Star Village map and some paved areas around the LU Mountaintop Campus. Low-mid 50s, cloudy. Trails hard to see in places because of leaves.

DIY course at Wooster Mountain, set by Joe (Thank you!). Green course, nominally 5.3k with no climb stated, but there was plenty. Generally open woods with lots of contour and rock detail. Rocky footing. There were actual o-flags at the control sites.

Ran pretty well through about 75 minutes (10 controls), then lost focus a bit and some time. Good through #5 then stayed too low and wide going to 6 but corrected OK. Bobbled in the control circles on both 8 and 9, having trouble figuring out the fine details and determining what feature the bag was actually on. Fell apart on 11 when I assumed the bag was in an obvious reentrant rather than the cliff it was really on - spent several minutes confirming the bag was "missing" from the reentrant, then read the control description and spent a few more minutes checking every cliff and finally spotting the bag just as I was about to leave the area. Slogged from there into the finish (which I've counted as a control since it was a 580m navigation leg to an orangish level feature. I picked up 3 mylar balloons on my way to the finish.

Weather was typically November, low 40s, mostly cloudy and some breeze - incentive to keep moving.

C • 30 points 1

Green - Splits