Training Log Archive: cmorse

Gorgeous morning for a DIY Billygoat (sunny, 68F), so hopped in the truck and headed west. Never been to Mountain Lakes before, so when I saw that the map was available in both 1:10000 and 1:7500 I printed both options. Then got to thinking - if they needed to offer it in 1:7500, then its probably over-mapped. Yup.

Not to say that it isn't an impressive work of mapping and cartography, but a lot of the mapped rock features are somewhat marginal in size and distinction in my mind. So I decided that I would try and ignore all but the largest black features (major cliffs). And did so quite successfully.

Toe on my R foot has been bugging me more than usual of late (persistent wart on end of 4th toe) and it became very clear on the first 3 control loop that today wasn't going to be a high running day with all the rock underfoot (both kicking and general foot instability). So dialed it back to an easy jog and walking where called for.

The woods were generally very nice, open and my navigation was spot on - using mostly contours and obvious linear features. Only a couple hesitations where I slowed entering the circle to make sure I was right where I thought I was and in all cases the flag appeared very shortly thereafter. Successfully ignored almost all the boulders and smaller cliffs except to occasionally glance at them in passing and wondering what the threshold must have been for inclusion - many didn't look close to 1m and at 1:10000 were hard to discern in busier areas. And didn't seem to 'stand out' in the terrain. The rocky ground symbols were mostly helpful though.

I'll put some additional notes in the splits later. I drove all that way for a DIY, so no skip - I visited all 18 controls..

Splits
RouteGadget

Don't generally log this, but it is the end of the week and my log was just a tad shy, so putting this on to push it over the limit.

Up a bit middle of night to attempt removal of bat in basement since Hayden living down there. Didn't want to leave. Trapped him when I got back up at 7, which is late for me...

• OUSA - Chase the Bunny - OLOU - FB
  

Showery on/off all day, then had some stuff to do later in the day when it stopped. So a zero for the day. Going to be tough to hit my weekly target, but to be fair I did up the ante this week. May venture down to Mountain Lakes in the AM - that ought to help. But won't get my total hours to 8.5 unless I spend a whole lot of time in the woods down there. Lets hope not...

DIY Goat - Splits

W/Amigos....

8x30 squats

Brief jaunt to the gate and back. Cloudy, humid, light rain from impending T-storm on way back.

Easy run to gate and back. Tossed in a fast 1200m with a mile to go. Nice weather for a change. Sunny, 60f

Trail run w/ new map @ 1:15000. Meshomasic, Blackledge & Gay City. A few detours around fallen trees. Not sure what happened the first half, gps seemed be accumulating distance ok and at a reasonable rate, but track just a straight line which it certainly was not. Will measure in OOM for comparison. (11.3km using straight line segments, so add about 10% fudge factor for trail twisties and the gps distance seems about right)

Hop River Trail w/ Amigos. Already hot and humid.

3.5 easy outbound for me, with 5x30 squats, 4x1min box(rock) jumps, and a couple bounding intervals on the way back. Squats and box jumps deducted from time and entered separately.

5x30 - 1 minute each set

Rock jumps 4x1min - didn't count them but probably 10-12 per set.