Training Log Archive: mikeminium

showed up at Joyce Park with intent to run some mile repeats with Orunner and the girls, but a thunderstorm had other ideas. We sat in the picnic shelter for 30-40 minutes waiting for it to abate, but lightning continued to strike repeatedly within 2 to 3 miles and once as close as half a mile, so there was no way we were going to run. First rain we've had in ages and we sure needed it, but what abyssmal timing.

C • Rain 1

Event: Niagara Falls Sprints
 

warm up and cool down from remote parking lot to start/finish of Niagrara Falls Sprints. Included a little light jogging.

Niagara Falls Sprint on Goat Island. Great Fun with spectacular views of the falls. Not particularly challenging navigationally. Lost a couple seconds each on 5 and 8 due to going the wrong side around the buildings, but hard to tell for sure. On 5 the description said "NE side" and the building was at a slight angle to north, so I headed around the right side to the ENE corner but had to come back since the control was placed midway along the NNE side. Description was fair, my bad.

From 2-3 I might have saved a few seconds if I had gone left of the main building thru a patio area instead of around it to the right, but the patio looked pretty crowded with pedestrians and from passing the building earlier I knew that there were tables there where people were eating, so I figured the longer distance was a safer tradeoff than dodging the tourists.

This was probably some sort of record for longest ratio of time spent travelling (15 hour round trip) to time spent orienteering (less than 14 minutes), but it was well worth it for the rare opportunity to run in this unique and spectacular venue.

Note: 920 mile driving day. Oxford-Niagara-Oxford. Gee, I think I did that once before!

about an hour or two of light yard & garden work: moving mulch and watering trees.

Event: OCIN - Camp Stonybrook
 

Camp Stonybrook green course. Quite a clean run by the Meet Director / Course Setter.

C • Nice 6

picking up controls at Stonybrook. Also had a few minutes of walking (not logged) doing control pickup, last-minute setting, & water drop-offs.

Green - Splits

setting controls for Stonybrook meet, plus a little minor trail clean-up.

yard and garden work, mainly moving mulch by wheelbarrow. More like 3 hours of actual work and distance is a very low end estimate. Generally light, low-level physical effort throughout.

Camp Stonybook.

setting out the first few stands for Stonybrook meet this Sunday.

short warm up and cool down at Harbin Park, distance estimated.

Harbin Park mountain bike trails. With Orunner and the girls. Forerunner showed mileage at 4.58, but we think it was missing some of the sharp turns on the bike trails. I still need to figure out how well and how frequently it is reading under tree cover. Pizza afterwards. Mmmm.