Training Log Archive: ConnorF

Event: 2013 Georgia Navigator Cup & Extreme-O
 

12 Controls, no major issues, but choices could have been better:

1. Started off a little disoriented and ended up running up and over a hill I probably should have avoided, went smoothly after that, though.

2. Moved straight north from 1, and started to shift east after I crested a small ridge, ended up hitting the creek 2 was on a bit early.

3. Straightforward, ran down the creek and counted off gulleys, hit it right when I thought I would.

4. Stayed north of the creek until i merged with a river, hopped a few reentrants and ended up on the main road. Ran north a bit to a cleared out area and then moved west. Found and followed a ravine that led me southwest toward a creek. Moved down along the creek until i found a triangular patch of thick vegetation with a gulley running through it. Followed the gulley to 4.

5. Moved north from 4 until i hit a trail, followed it north until it hit a smal creek, followed the creek to 5.

6. Very close by, so i just shot as straight an azimuth as I could.

7. Moved straight south from 6, passed to trails and hit a third. Followed the third for a bit as it went around the hill 7 was on. When I was north of 7, I left the trail, and kept track of a large, flat section of the hill to keep track of where I was until I hit 7.

8. Left 7 heading south aiming for a raving to take me close to 8, but changed my mind midway through. Ended up moving southwest through thick vegetation toward a trail instead. Ran along the trail until it hit 8's ravine, then took the ravine to 8.

9. Ran downhill to a marshy flatland, then turned north. Ran north until i found some small watercourses and followed those northeast until they ceased to exist. I started counting off specific ravines, eventually found 9's.

10. Moved east from 9, across a swampy area and through some thick vegetation I probably should have avoided. The reentrants near 10 messed me up and I ended up making a minor parallel error before quickly readjusting. Realized later that I could have just a taken a trail to the point and felt stupid.

11. Followed a trail east until it u-turned, then followed a ravine to the main road. Turned off at a trail head and went south. A ravine that led to 11 paralleled the trail for a while and I planned on only leaving the trail when the ravine turned away from it, but the ravine was barely visible even at its closest point, so I moved into the woods early and the thick vegetation slowed me down. Followed the ravine as best I could and caught 11.

12. From 11, I moved south along a creek until it hit a trail, then followed the trail east until i hit a segment that was closed for erosion control. I left the trail and headed into some dense forest, which slowed me down. I counted off one reentrant, but the low visibility meant that by the time I hit the bottom of 12's ravine, I was unsure of were exactly I was. I moved north up the ravine anyways and found the point.

Red-Day1 - Splits

Have had some abnormal pain in my calves for about a week now that tends to hit mid-to-late run.

I think its from my sudden move back to UGA, but I'm not sure.

Orienteering training at Alexander Lake's permanent course.

C • JST 2

Really slow follow-up run after orienteering.