Training Log Archive: Work4justice

Event: Race of Hope AR or Rogaine
 

Took a boy scout and his mom on yellow for a few controls. Yay they didn't get lost! :)

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Woo what a course to choose for my first Red! Carpe Diem! Did this with JustMe. As a note the first few did not go well. The last bit went much better as we found how our strengths worked together. Woo for finding our groove after the first bit! Also, I didn't have my thumb compass...felt a little lost without it!

#1 Followed the trail on the west and dumped in from the road. Wonder about the other trail?

#2 Ugh. Classic moment. I stopped to look at the map. JM was running. We were separated for a bit there...and then when I got onto the control...we were off...

#3 Wobbly over there...and after my several hour lesson with Mark Voit yesterday, I see things SO DIFFERENTLY! I can see how we got a little pushed by the contours, and look forward to my next orienteering. But back to this, we landed on 3 after a bobble. We seemed to get close, but not spot on with our orienteering.

#4 Got a little stuck in terrain, but found a way to align the map with the terrain and followed a reentrant around and there it was. :)

#5 Dropped a little too far south.

#6 Decided to attack from the known feature on the trail. Worked out, with s little wobble.

#7 The QR doesn't show this, but we were on the trail, crossed over to the other trail then attacked keeping an eye on the marsh.

#8 Executed well up the hill, and then wobbled around. Another one went right past it. Bugger.

#9 Meant to attack with marsh in sight, but I don't remember why we abandoned that plan. Then was too far south, used the trail to get back on track...yay!

#10 Wow! Yay!

#11 Pretty good there, except for the wobble over...wonder what happened there. Can't remember

#12 I remember this leg, and feeling mentally tired, and used the trail then up the spur around the depression. Should have stayed on the line. Next time I'm like this and there is a tempting trail I need to remember to NOT take the trail.

#13 Good.

#14 Good.

#15 After looking at the contours we said NO WAY. But, Mark V pointed out that 15 is unmissable on 2 trails...and I understand that bobbling through the contours may have worked out.

Finish...we ran!!! :)

Clean up a little here and a little there.

(After the meet I remembered about a year and a half ago wandering around Bishop on Mr. W's flagged course and found ONE control out of 10 in four hours.)

BTW those are NOT our split times! :) had to bum the map off of Mr. W.

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C • trail around spur is fine to 12 8

Mark Voit is such a great teacher. Next week, he and I are MDing the Chilson meet. After an armchair lesson, we went into the field to streamer and I see things very differently now. Very kind of him to follow me around the woods.

Here are the biggest things I learned:

1. Look at the terrain with almost blurred eyes. Therein are the "pops" of terrain that can help guide your decision making heading from control to control.

2. Think about elevation change and how that can help you. If you are high and it's good route choice to stay high, that can help in what you see.

3. Sometimes it's better to start with the control you are heading to, and to work backward to where you are. I love this.

4. I learned alot more about how courses are developed and how course designers should think. I think that will help as well.

He also affirmed my style of naming off terrain features with *some* measure of soft compassing. Of course, he is ten times better than I am, so I am sure there is a lot for me to still learn about this. I am so luck to have had this opportunity, it was awesome. Shout out to Mr. Wonderful for some great coaching...Mark thought I improved alot in a very short period of time.

Did a ton of cleaning of flower beds and weeding. Had some unintended consequences at Saturday's meet. Oooo I was sore!

155 floors

Lotsa arm work.

Met up for a paddling session with JustMe. Got out of the water just before a thunderstorm!

C • Route looks familiar 2

Put in just moving time to see how I am at the end of the summer.

Hiked around the badlands.

Had fun remembering the race Saturday on the yellow loop. Still feeling some soreness in left upper leg area. Went to IFFAC for advice.

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I need a new photosharing option. Flickr is complicated...

Here is the write up
#1--bugger...when I wasn't able to precisely determine where I was, I realized I should have attacked off the mouth of the creek. And, of course, on the QR, I went right past it. But I told myself to shake it off. This spring I am focusing on terrain features so I can nav faster...so have at it.

#2--Got bumped by the green and overcorrected a tad...but then made my way through. Slow, but intentional.

#3--Wobbly! Saw the impending contours, and was worried for that, but decided to locate the taller hill I saw in the distance and tried to plan my route on that. Got further south than I wanted...but got there and understand what happened.

#4--Well, what I QRd wasn't the plan. I know I was on the longer bike trail and attacked from the northern end. O well, need to check better before sharing! :)

#5--Ridiculously off line. I remember trying to stay a bit away from the green, but this was ridiculous!

#6--Trail to the junction and white. Maybe the green wasn't as bad...but this route seemed clear.

#7--Was slow on this one 1) because I went straight into green and 2) I had on my fuel belt (water--gotta get rid of those training wheels!) and it came off. As I was about 50% along my route, I saw the reentrant but it was steeper than the one I thought I was looking at, so my line stayed way too far north.

#8 Bumped over to it, strayed north...I see a theme here.

#9--Aimed to go through the water bodies and kept the power lines in sight.

F--Road, terrain, road, terrain....road won. Stopped to make sure I was going in right direction. :)
Here's the QR:
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-...

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