Training Log Archive: jfredrickson

Local meet Red course at Moneyhole Mtn. in Fahnestock State Park. The weather was beautiful and just warm enough to make running comfortable. There was about 4 inches of snow in most places and all the water features were really wet. I even noticed some depressions that were filled with melted snow that looked like unmapped ponds.

The course was very good although some of the control descriptions didn't match the actual location of the control. There were quite a few good route choice options, and lots of intricate navigation.

Since the snow slowed me down considerably and my wet feet made my legs quite tired early on, I was able to concentrate on the map well and didn't have any real big errors. I had four small errors.

On number 4 I hit the swamp just north of the swamp I wanted. I noticed the cliffs across the swamp didn't match and was able to relocate off of them. I lost between 45-60 seconds.

On number 7 I went straight which proved to be the best route choice by quite a bit as I was able to blast through the mountain laurel very fast. I did however hit the control 150m too high along the ridge. I still had the best split by a minute.

My biggest error was on number 8. I had decided it was an easy control since I just had to hit a swamp and follow a reentrant up to a knoll. As I was climbing the hill up to the swamp I followed a different reentrant to a swamp higher up. I quickly noticed that I was at the wrong knoll and realized my mistake. I still lost 2 minutes on the control even though I relocated quickly. The extra 15m of climb really hurt.

I also had a small error on number 11 as I ran just by the control before turning around a seeing it. I didn't lose more than 30 seconds though.

Overall it was a solid run even though it was slow. I only made one serious error. The snow and my wet shoes made it a good workout even though it was fairly short.

Red - Splits

Another fairly easy game. We played the faculty of our school and they were pretty bad. I again didn't work too hard.

An easy basketball game. The other team was pretty bad so I didn't get much exercise.

School ended early due to ice so there was no basketball game. I went to the gym instead and worked on the machines and did lots of stretching.

Another fairly easy practice. We have a game tomorrow, so we didn't work too hard physically. We did a lot of rough playing though to toughen up in the post. We had to end 15 minutes early so that we could get to our school Orchestra and Chorus concert.