Training Log Archive: JanetT

To start. Warm enough by the time I got there to remove my long sleeve shirt and leave it with my sweatshirt. We had late starts, near the end of the start window.

Brown Long on Turkey Mountain map. 3.3km, 135m climb

AP and I actually agree on where I made errors; the largest of those were 7 and 8. I went south around the mountain to 7 but confused the bare rock south 120m of the control for the small patch of bare rock within the circle, and I wandered to the east side of it (where I could see the large valley between 8 and 9) before correcting. Ugh. Then to 8 I arrived at the correct reentrant but no flag, and I looked around some other reentrants nearby before circling back and spotting it buried in a tiny, thick, rocky reentrant at the edge of the circle (and thus invisible on my map). Others must have looked the correct way when approaching the flag to see it because some folks had no trouble with the control. 10-11 was a similar leg to the green Y course's 10-11 and I was not being careful after crossing the road so got drawn off towards their control and took more time than I should have to relocate and find the boulder and flag. Okay from there except I hesitated at the small building along the road to finish (if you swung wide rather than climb the spur) covered up by the digit "1" of control 13 number, but the building wasn't the right shape.

Ah well. I took trails to get close to both 1 and 2 and had no trouble to 3. The hill before 4 didn't match the picture I had in my head from the map so I was hesitant there and Nadia (who started two minutes ahead after some rearrangement of starters, but who lost time at 2) caught back up to me and led the way in. Very tiring day. Ribs sore but holding my left arm against my side helps some while I try to jog.

Finished 5th again today (as at the sprint) but 4th for the weekend (combined times). First place in the class received a souvenir West Point/Army plastic canteen, with 2nd and 3rd getting rosette ribbons.

We had a wonderful visit and dinner afterwards with G, S, and grandson O, who's very much into trains, and let me read the entire The Little Engine That Could to him.

Long - Brown - Splits

Event: West Point National Meet
 

From parking to start

Brown course Middle on Deep Hollow map, 2.9 km 95m climb, 8 controls

Ribs/ left side still very sore so wasn't going very fast out there. I (along with quire a few others from what I heard) had trouble with our second control, a cliff on a hillside among many, many other cliffs. I found someone else's control but then was offline enough that I went beyond and down the wrong side of the rockiness. When I was far enough down the spur that I could see the finish and the very large cliff a couple contours below me I knew I had to climb back up. I took a different line up and saw the flag from below and others punching at it. Splits will show but I figure I lost about 8 minutes (maybe more).

Lost a little bit of time going to 4 when I decided I didn't want to wade the wide stream and deviated to the bridge/crossing point 100m away, but the flag was easy to spot from a distance. Then I went to the wrong rocks near 5, a much smaller error.

A uninspiring course (a bunch of yellow difficulty controls, an intermediate control and a couple of advanced legs), but not the silly unnecessary climb that we had last year. Thank you, LTC Campbell, for your course consulting.

4th today, not too far behind my usual competition if I had been clean to 2.
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Note: Updated time and distance of this walk based on vmeyer's log which also shows the track. :-) Time and distance estimated Rugged streamered route from finish back to the car. Chatted with Lex who finished shortly behind me, which made the time go faster.

And then the sprint at Camp Natural Bridge, in terrain and having the same general flow as previous sprints I've run here. Couldn't actually "run" and jogging was uncomfortable but I didn't walk the whole thing and found all the controls right the first time. Janet P started a minute behind and gave me the competitive spirit to jog the roads and trails. Probably last in F60 but that's okay. Janet F had a nice run and finished first.

Talked to all the other Janets in the 60-64 age range (Janet Porter was born the same year but doesn't do the Brown course), and discovered I'm the oldest of us 4 (me, Janet F and Janet Porter were all born in the same year, and Janet Peterson is a couple years younger).

Middle - Brown - Splits

Sprint - Brown - Splits

15:44/16:11/8:07/3:51

Walked on the Y track while Glen was in Pilates class. Didn't think my ribs were up to that yet.

First two miles felt fine; I took short stretching breaks between miles, but stretching my back (bending over) was maybe not a good idea because I didn't feel like doing another full mile.

Someone in Vermont should buy the remaining supply of these and sell them to orienteers (substitute for Gu).

I for one would love it.

C • Agreed!! 1