Training Log Archive: Charlie

NAOC Brown M 65 Sprint at PEEC. Straight line distance 1.9K. This was a very good race for me. Beautiful weather, reading the map well. Mostly going around to stay on trails where possible, except for #10 where I went more or less straight through the woods. Now that I look at the GPS track, not so straight. Going from 7 to 8 I thought about crossing the narrow marsh, and saw a couple of guys going ahead of me. One of them might have been Carl Underwood. They zipped right across, didn't even get wet shoelaces. I followed with enthusiasm and my first step went in all the way to mid-thigh, stumbled and went all the way in. Spent a bit of time trying to clear the mud off my map after that. In good contact all the way. That's just as fast as I can go and read the map, so a ways back from PG. 6th on Brown, I think, which is a pretty good result for me in this fast company.

Map

I think I lost time a few places. I was slow on the first two controls, just getting into the map. I think that was a good investment. Lost about 10 seconds with my tumble into the marsh between 7 and 8, with maybe a little holdover on the way to 9 cleaning my map. Lost probably 20 seconds with my wobbly route through the woods to 10. Then maybe another 10 on the way to 14 when I stopped at the top of the cliff, then climbed down, instead of jumping, as I heard PG and Rick W had done.

C • Another good race! 7

BrownM - Sprint - Splits

Long Brown B course at Egypt Mills. Good running weather, and a better day than yesterday, but surprised at how long a 4.9 K course seemed! I was definitely dragging by the end, particularly along the road between 12 and 13. Had some trouble getting to #1, getting stuck in thorns left of where I had imagined I was going to be. Eventually got there, running into Gail who had started with me, fallen in the stream, and managed to walk there ahead of my wandering running. Then 2 was fine, I was high for 3, which meant I saw it just fine, and hit 4 right on after the long contouring leg. 5 was fine, but I went right by 6 too high and to the right, and ended up finding 7 first, which made 7 an easy leg when I had to do it for real. 8 easy, 9 easy, running behind Soupbone up the hill, then 10, 11 was fine. on 12 I got too far R and couldn't figure it out sweeping the hillside, so I dropped down below and had to climb up. Then 13 I had a hard time fighting my way back out to the road, and then the road seemed to last forever. Jon Torrance went by reasonably quickly. Eventually I cut off because I couldn't stand it anymore, but that was not a good plan. Lost some time searching too high and to the left. Rest was fine.

I think 6th in M65, not bad.

map. Click on it to hide the route.

C • Nice results! 4

BrownB Long - Splits

Middle distance Brown course at NAOC. Drizzly, and Rhonda elected not to go, but the rain mostly held off the whole time I was out there and for another hour after I finished. Hard for me to run through the underbrush and visibility a bit limited. I wore a contact because of the rain, and that seemed ok. Lots of little mistakes, and one bigger one at #7 where I thought I saw the line of cliffs that were supposed to be off to my left and drifted way right, relocating off a rootstock 100 M away. Otherwise ok, just plodding, particularly slow in the detailed area right around the finish. Very cool course design, especially the use of the mining area at the end.

Map with route. Click on map to hide route. Difficult running and visibility made it hard for me to execute even the short legs. Off a bit on 1, 2 and 3, then a major screw-up on 7 worth about 3 minutes. 4,5,6,8 and 9 were all fine, then 10-14 were ok but slow going as I was trying to be more careful in the more detailed area. 2 was particularly bad, because first I did a 180 out of 1 (after getting to 1 from the wrong direction). Then I drifted a bit right and had to stop and go rather a long way before I hit it. Surprising how far I got off line when I was trying to follow my compass. The controls I did well on had much better visibility.

C • Full results? 4

Middle - BrownB - Splits

Event: 2012 North American Orienteering Championships
 

George after the finish of his first complete mile run. Very well done.



And George and Leslie with training partner.

C • Excellent news 1

Strolling around the model map with Rhonda.

Strained my R shoulder again dealing with the garbage. Tried to lift a heavy bag into the container and this is about the worst it's been. Can't lift my arm up. Hope it resolves.

C • Hope that won't impede you this weekend! 3

Late night and feeling lethargic, but George and Leslie were having a good time, so I took a spin around one of the sprint courses from this summer. Stopped to drag a dead hemlock away in one spot.

Achy today. Busy at the conference anyway, but seems like a rest day is necessary.

Short, slow jog around National Harbor. Tender in many places after running hard yesterday.