Training Log Archive: JanetT

To start. Some jogging at first, but the breeze and below freezing temp got the better of my uncovered face/nose, so I turned around and walked backwards for awhile. Bike path with a centerline made it easy to stay on course.

4-Brown (middle) at Voice of America Park (north of the VoA Museum)
1:10000, 2.5m contours
3.7 km, 35m climb (really?)

Easy navigation in a town park type setting, with overgrown (rough open) areas having various densities of teasel plant stems to provide some small navigation challenge, and some mowed paths.

Some of the control sites were concrete anchor blocks that provided a base for the Voice of America radio towers. Fell once over some stubble (brush hogged shrub stems) but fortunately not into the sharp stubble ends. Muddy in some places.

Temp was 28 at start, low 30s

9th overall on brown, 8 minutes behind leader, 3rd F, 1st and only F65; would have been 2nd in F60

OCIN_Sunday_Middle_VOA_Park_4 Brown - Splits

4-Brown "classic" on an abandoned golf course, Elk Creek Park in Butler Co, OH
Nominal 4.6* km / 85 m climb on a 1:10000 / 5 m contours
30F when we started, and overcast, with a dusting (1/4-1/2") of snow(!) on the grassy surfaces; 39 and sunny when we left

Easy navigation; just a slog to get around the soft surfaces of the grassy fairways, greens, and roughs. Noted at least a dozen and a half stray golf balls no one bothered to find. :-) Had to stop to re-tie a shoe on the leg to 7

Missed a bit on 10, a reentrant in honeysuckle woods that I entered too early.

*distance closer to 4.8 if you count the shortest distance around two uncrossable lakes (one fairly small early on [2-3], the other much larger and the penultimate leg to the finish [14-15, which measures 250 in actual distance but 450-550 run-around distance, depending which side of the lake you went on...I went north around]).

I heard someone swam across the ~30m lake distance on the beeline(?!). Have to check the rules but I don't think that's legal. Hmmm...I'm correct in a way...see A.17.10

C • Course 3

OCIN_Saturday_Classic_Elk_Creek_4 Brown - Splits

Event: OCIN Flying Pig XXII
 

Course 4-Brown (middle) at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, OH
Map: 1:7500, 5 m -- 2.7 km, 130m climb
Temp in mid to upper 50s (but dropping)

No problem finding any of the controls, though on my way to 2 I wasn't exactly sure where I was for the first part as I couldn't figure out the roads/trails. The route I ended up taking was a route choice I was leaning toward anyway because I didn't like the looks of the hill climb (on the straight line) coming out of 1.

Dove straight west down the hill out of the start, through the mapped "white" woods, which were full of short vegetation and and prickers that kept grabbing my leg coverings. Straight at the hill, so no difficulty. To 2 I looked at taking the road around and looping past #6 as a more-gradual-climb option. Turns out I missed that road but went on paths parallel to it, ending up near the ruined building at 6, which gave me visual info for when I returned.

Everything else was pretty straightforward. I went left of the pond to 11 and used the left approach to 12, though it appears that the option through the mapped med-green (honeysuckle) might have been just as fast (I had a short section of honeysuckle to get through N of 12 which is really hard to see on the map.

I'm the only person signed up in F65.
2nd F on Brown (almost 10 minutes behind an F-18 who was first overall)
6th(?) overall on Brown.

I even beat Sharon (F70) by 4 seconds, though she dropped from Green to Brown this weeken because she hurt her foot/ankle (tendon on the front).

The sculptures in the park were pretty neat, and I'll post photos of the one we parked near and the one where the Go control was located later (maybe just on Facebook, but I'll try to remember to add a link here). It's a smaller version of Storm King (between West Point and Newburgh) with scaled down sculptures as well. :-)

Back to the start to collect my warmup jacket, after running.

Sculpture near where we parked entitled Shhh

The Go control, SE side of boulder field

OCIN_Friday_Middle_Pyramid_Hill_Apr_2018_4 Brown - Splits

Today's focus was on shoulders, but also included a lot of hips (warrior poses)