Training Log Archive: Work4justice

Run felt crummy. Ate too much sugar yesterday.

Went to Planet Rock with Sara and Tizoc for ascending practice. Finally figured out my best technique. Wish I could practice more, but with my new setup I feel better. Rappelling was fun.

50% of Team Wreckers paddling. Fun culverts and checking out lots of turtles, cranes, egrets, and the fish were jumpy.

I gotta go get some berries and cherries. I hope my bike doesn't beckon.

Cooper streamered a course for Michelle and I out at Kensington. Holy green covered glacial goodness. We have been working on how we work together with her map reading and setting up our traverse with me holding bearings, observing features and pace counting.

Overall, we did well. The first point was fine, second point had a flat land o cover on a correct bearing and boom spiked it, the third gave us trouble. We were on the reentrant, and then got pushed off by the brush, and wanted to use a small water feature, which did not work out (that's off the list of things to use for sure) and then we located ourselves as on one spurrish hill and we realized when we reattacked from the road that we were on the wrong one. Then we followed the contour line and at the pace counted point we wanted to go east we didn't see the point, we just kept going and 200m later there it was. ?!?!?!?

Off to the next, and we paused too long at one point that we thought was the highest (and greenest) and decided to reconfirm location and went around and boom there it was just beyond the green on a lovely spur.

Then, off to the last point, and I suggested that we experiment with following trails and knowing where we are on the map to see if we can do that, and it worked out pretty well.

We do have some tweaking, like I need to sort out when to use pace counting and when to ditch it, how contours are part of the pace counting mix, what are best attacks for us at 1:25 with green glacial goodness, and whatever else we can be doing. And to remember what we learn. I think we will work well together.

Pace count (100m) notes (faster pace eg beyond 13 min mile subtract 10%)
Pavement 60
Dirt Road 62
Grassy field walk 65-70 (depends on grass height)
Trail walk 65
Bushwhack whitish woods 70ish
Bushwhack thick 80-90

I am reading an article about the application of contours, and I think I need to have for 1:25 a round up for each contour line. If I can see the top of the hill, no biggie, just reset there if pace counting is even necessary. We wanted to go off the top of the hill, but some of the stuff we went through was bad and couldn't see edges-so that's why we even started pace counting.

Supposing 3m contours would mean that when we were attempting to following the contours and going up and down the side hill on the point we seemingly stumbled on, we were covering 15-18m at each up/down attempt and I did keep track of a work around.

Spinny, Spinny. Moved a large turtle out of the road. Also saw three sandhill cranes.

It's a wrap! Finished 100 on foot over 10 days. Fought off deer flies for most of the run.

1st 6 this American Life, last 2 AC/DC and Lenny Kravitz.

So glad, worked out a lot of kinks!

With Team Wreckers.

Fiddled with trying a boat tow and different configurations of who is with who.

C • Tow 3