Training Log Archive: chitownclark

Event: Flying Pig XII
 

Green Course at the Pig outside Cincinnati. Drove down with Soupbone on Thursday night, stopping in Indy for a bit of enjoyable "recreation" until 3am. An hour after going to bed, I heard a banging on the door...it was Soupie! Runnning around the hallways in his underpants at 4am! What the....?

So the weekend started off on a strange note. But it was good to be back on the Green Course again after the past 3 years on Brown. I blew #12 when I came diagonally across a large field and reentered the woods way wrong...too far left. I only realized my error when I heard rushing water below me, and I realized that I was over a river instead of the dry ditch I wanted.

Lisa McNerney beat me by 4 minutes, and Valerie Meyer beat me by 13 minutes. Pretty humbling. But that's the nice thing about Green: lots of reality checks. On Brown, I've only had a couple of other old guys to compare myself with. Now I can clearly see how much my orienteering has deteriorated.

C • Sooo...what the??? 4

Green- Short Pig - Splits

Back up to meet with "Public Enemies" crew that wants to alter the alley frontage of my Newport garage....an 80-year old brick construction. They're going to have one of the actresses running through a gangway, out into the alley, and back into the hobo village they've constructed tonight. Chris doing outside work for the first time: pruning trees, unclogging yard drains at Fletcher.

Over to Newport to see the Johnny Depp set and collect rents. Maybe 25 vintage Model A's and old Chevvys lined up and down the block in front of my building. Pretty cool. Film crew shot all night, until dawn I understand.

C • Collecting rents 2

Up to the doc's for another shot...perhaps my last? Johnny Depp film crew at Newport: Depression-era hobo shack village built under the el, street paved with phony bricks, street lights replaced with 1920's styles. All the filming to be tonight and tomorrow. Pretty cool.

Stiff from yesterday; over to bank and back. Sari has the flu.

Green Course; Waterfall Glen Goat; Warm-up for next weekend. Rich Gaylord came, helped out and ran Orange course. Great to see him after, what, 3 years? He's retiring in June from supervising 15 compliance people for JP Morgan Chase. Wants to get back into the club, mapping. Hope he does it...old friends are the best!