Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: EMPO - Cole Hill
 

Red course at Cole Hill SF. New map based on lidar and the magic of Eddie B. Nice course by Phil H-T with several longish route choice legs. Some really fine open woods in places. Wet woods from earlier rain but it was partly sunny and near 60F while I was running. Off line a bit on #1 and #3 and lost about 30 seconds on each. Wasn't careful in the vegetation at #10 and lost a minute or so. Took pretty straight routes on most legs, just deviating enough to miss vegetation or marshes. Straightline distance 6.4 k.

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Event: HVO: Ward Pound Ridge
 

Event: North American Open Training Camp
 

At Wakpominee. Checking out the sprint terrain. A crisp, clear Fall day. Actually spent ~3.5 hrs checking points, etc. plus an additional couple of hours with Mark and Barb Dominie coordinating locations for the two days.

At Shaupeneak Ridge, a Scenic Hudson property located south of Kingston, NY. (Had work stuff to do in northern NJ and stopped on the way back home.) A nice area with several miles of trails, mostly on the top of a ridge, with a pond in the middle. Ran the orange, green and yellow trails plus those parts of the blue trail required to get to them. None of the trails fall into the "easy" category, even the one around the pond which looks pretty tame on the map. Lots of rocks with smaller ones on the trails and some significantly larger ones in the surrounding terrain (boulders and cliffs mostly). Trails covered with leaves which were wet from rain earlier in the day, so footing was generally tricky. Upper 50's, so nice for running.

Event: EMPO - Dwaas Kill
 

EMPO local event on the expanded Kinns Road map (now known as Dwaas Kill/Kinns Road). The newly mapped portion is mostly marsh or wet ground, with the criteria for being mapped as marsh somewhat unclear to me. Lots of subtle contour detail, very little of it mapped. Many mapped rootstocks, some where they should be relative to the contours, many not. I have no need to go on this map again.

I found all the controls except for one. I was in the circle but had no interest in searching among deadfall to figure out which rootstock might be mapped and have a bag on it. Finished the rest of the course which was on the older part of the map. And to top things off, the maps were printed with odd colors (no yellow, so all the green was bluish).

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