Training Log Archive: davelevine

Event: QOC Patapsco McKeldin
 

Blue [16 controls, 8.8 km, 325 m]

Actual Distance Traveled: 12.4 km

My Garmin has been acting up lately so once again I had to borrow one of the club's loaners. Once again I find the climb data to be very unreliable as it seems to wildly overstate the amount of climb that I did.

I overshot 2/121 on my first couple attempts at finding it. I went too far down the hillside and was looking at the wrong elevation for it. I turned left and right but couldn't find it until it occurred to me that maybe I should try looking a bit higher on the hillside. Seeing someone else find it also helped.

When I started I was wearing both a long sleeve and a short sleeve t-shirt. A little before I arrived at 3/126, I stopped to remove the long-sleeved T. I probably lost a minute or two removing both t-shirts, putting back on the short sleeved one and then stuffing the long sleeved one in my pack.

5/116 seemed to be misplaced, although I found it faster than I otherwise might have. I came over the top of the hill it was on. I hadn't traveled as far down the other side when I spotted it. I shrugged, punched and moved on.

I stopped a second time when I arrived at 7/129 to help another person who was a little lost. He wasn't sure exactly where he was. I did my best to point him in the right direction. I probably lost a minute or two helping him.

I lost a little bit of time when I was looking for 9/123. When I got to the trail that was south and east of the control I got it in my head that I was further north and east than I was on the trail. It was a blunder on my part. I can see that now, although it took me a few minutes to figure that out at the time. What finally set me right was seeing the building that was northeast of the control.

I walked right past 10/111. It was close to the trail and if I had just turned my head I would have seen it. Instead I missed it and went further down the hillside until I knew I had gone too far and must have passed it. I doubled back and found it very easily.

After leaving 10/111 I headed to the trail along the river. I followed that for a while, actually a little too long. I turned south when I should have turned north. I realized my mistake fairly quickly. Instead of doubling back I turned west and climbed up the hillside to the road and took that back to the trail. A number of people (6) converged on 11/119 at the same time, which made finding it considerably easier than it otherwise might have been.

I overshot 13/136 by a little bit. I wasn't sure it I had overshot or not but I looked back just in case and spotted it along the hillside.

15/122 was almost too easy to find. It probably should have been hung lower so that it wasn't visible from as far away as it was. I found it without any trouble.

It was unseasonably warm for December. I might have appreciated the warm temperature if I had not been getting some exercise. I wouldn't have minded it at all if the temperature had been 10-15 degrees cooler.

C • Estimating Climb 2

Blue - Splits

No time for stretching

Home to Takoma Metro

Crystal City Metro to Office

Office to Crystal City Metro

Park Rd to Division St

Home to Takoma Metro

Crystal City Metro to Office

Office to Crystal City Metro

Kenyon St to Division St

Home to Takoma Metro

Crystal City Metro to Office

Office to Crystal City Metro

Park Rd to Westmoreland Ave

The bike share station nearest to home was full so I decided to stop in downtown Takoma Park and walk from there, even though there were closer bike stations that were not full.

Westmoreland Ave to Home

Home to Takoma Metro

Crystal City Metro to Office

Office to Crystal City Metro

Park Rd to Division St

Home to Takoma Metro

Crystal City Metro to Office

Office to Crystal City Metro

Park Rd to Division St