Training Log Archive: bl

3 flags by Great Hill. Gorgeous morning. Sambo's woods so clean, Swiss-like.

9 controls, left work early. Used Beth's bike to get to start. Put out one unnecessary flag:( as in waste of time/energy. Gorgeous day & place to spend time tho worn out & not finished. W/Y later.

W/Y with Beth & Z&M after dinner. Changed an orange as well, better too easy than too hard. Both of us encountered the Saltmashes along our respective routes. Used Beth's bike, a bit inconsiderate on Z&M huffing & puffing along. 4 closeby flags left for am. Finally reached a rest point as the setting sun recorded that fact.

Event: CSU Park-O 1: Danehy Park
 

Put out 5 controls, chilly, perfect April am. Started thinking 'far away sooner than later' but got concerned re controls possibly disappearing fm that area so picked supposedly secure cp's. No leaves which is nice.

DP/CP, mostly the latter and the former was beyond call of duty. 2 plus hours, 17c. Walked a blue leg in reverse - had not gone that way streamering. Swath of undiscovered logging, muck, destruction. White & green on map changed for rough yellow for a bit, maybe 200m diagonal. Need to add as rough guess - running of the leg will call for some creativity. Encountered two low lifes exiting Woodhill-Hooksett. Truck was so mud-splattered, couldn't begin to tell color. Too much to do, too little time to do it.

Good visibility in this part of forest


How lovely a green, how uncabbage this cabbage

Luti loop, CCW, get in the swing of things.

What an uphill battle with computer screens, print efforts etc. Wasn't like this last October. Driven to distraction, the entire day a deliberate examination of insanity thru technology...

DP/rendezvous at BBSP. Met Ernst & Alar in lower parking lot - they were there for trng. I picked up UNO meet equip. Black flies were rampant, dogs insistent. Short walk 'admiring' the wall of white pine on either side of trail.

For so far incomprehensible reasons, OCAD application, while it is open, will not actually produce a screen - a double-clicked-on desktop file just flashes back, signaling the ap is open but...o frustration. Lucky to have an old PC w/ OCAD 10 aboard for wiggle room.

C • west point 3

Walk in Boston, undoing kinks. 3 mi guess.

Drove to Boston with Beth, mainly for the marathon but a splendid spring day it was...as good as it gets. Hot for the race but otherwise fine. Cast of thousands, runners and great spectator crowd. Made ourselves a spot about 25m from the finish line. Watched there and then behind the finish for the walking wounded portion for a white but left before the legions of runners with the more interesting 'stories' had arrived. Commons & Boston Public Garden, lunch at Faneuil Hall market area & home.



Hot dog


Finish perspective

to be aVIP...bleachers across the way in shade of BPL

Team Hoyt (power half out of sight)


Fine spring day

C • marathon spectating 2

Middle - DNF, made it to 10 cp's. problems exceeded my tolerance. Fine 1-4, 5 acceptable (tho' wondered if it really was on correct feature, 2m bldr, went by, did not see flag, came back to my flag by smaller feature, things not quite right there?). 6-7 ok. 8 mediocre, bad recovery (thrown by tiny pc of SVT that I read as two small rock faces - "why am I seeing trail?"). 9 awful, mucked for 10 by the hard-to-keep-track-of intermittent stream & 11 was my undoing. Subsequently, was on the road opposite #18 and was looking at an appreciable curve to the right which I was not appreciating on map (thinking me, the map, the credibility?). Had trouble relating various bare rock I was seeing to what was mapped. More green than mapped, lots of grabby vines. Glad I had full cover as did not need blood distraction. Fought off temptation to see all cp's, enough was enough. Went to Piedmont Park in Atlanta after for a change of pace.

No injuries to speak of. Hamstring was making noise (but never got hoarse).

C • Tiny piece of SVT 9

Green training - Splits

Long O Champs M60 as run by a chump. Was guilty of trying too hard (which is a disadvantage). Found myself in a state of disequilibrium right off the bat. Later, it was too hot, I fell too much, there were too many wait-a-minute vines, possibly too much blood, negative feedback begetting more of same. First error was running right to #5 in the belief it was the first cp, incl checking code & then waking up! (enough to proceed that is).

Was lucky with the first cp (finally) as the AP was not deliberate enough, functioned on hunch in poor visibility & it worked. #2 was about the same - st thru green, thought I'd ID'd path bend, then more or less compass in green, white woods finally, could see river, went right and went quite a ways wondering if I'd needed to go left. But cp was there, phew.

4 ok. 5 - disaster. Mostly S to road, not sure what next. Plan was to return to 5 the way I'd come, L of green. Turned R, went to jct, Set compass to hit road just S of numeral "1". Think I got into open, but for some reason thot it was the open well to the SW. So went NW toward numeral "5" but, of course, terrain did not match since i was not where I thot I was. Hit N-going path, then NE/SW (had seen cp in ditch just before )SVT. Not many possibilities, got it figured out, went fm bend just before river, crossed marsh ok where others had done, recognized other side. Big dose of neg feedback. 6 - got a bit too far L. 7 easy since I watched others before starting with Charlie & Dennis. 8 - ran to an identical cp/feature that I'd seen fm 200m away, wrong code. Wandered on with uncertainty, no plan. Wondered if I'd gone by but thot I'd have seen. Saw it w/ relief. 9 - crossed stream, wasted time climbing too early/unnecessary contours. Little uncertainty up big reent (because there was a ditch?) but looked ok at top. 10 - ok. 11 - had run right by so knew it was an easy-to-spot RS. Just tired on the leg. 12 - st & ok, run/walk. 13 - ok. Some pretty trivial legs, a very narrow section to pass thru on the way to second half. Could have picked other features to reduce "dead" running.

1203 - late start, too late, too hot for me. Two nights very poor sleep though I felt fine at starts both days but managed disconnects/lapses, possibly in part due to lack of good sleep, no proof really - no results, though, either. Dealt with some degree of self-loathing, mental flagellation. Goals were 1, no MP; 2, win M60 (seeing as PG, Coach not around); 3, have a good time. (had heard of Joe's 50 so maybe under 60'?). What cheered me up alot was facing the music at the results board. BP, tp, Glen, Clnt M, Phil, Charlie S, all slower. Misery had so much company it couldn't help but laugh:). Harder than it appeared evidently.

Staying in a motel tonight. 2 double beds, so much room I'll have a hard time sleeping.

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C • Watching before starting 3

Long - Green X - Splits