Training Log Archive: David_Waller

Event: Sleepy Hollow Rogaine
 

Sleepy Hollow 12-hour Score-O, with mintore. Difficult and grueling series of climbs that really slowed down an initially strong pace. Well-planned route and very solid navigation.

C • How do the hill compare with Tar Hollow? 2

Finally got back out to Umstead to run my Bubbagoat course. I thought that I would be able to do this before the meet, but events back then conspired to keep me from doing a pre-run. My familiarity with the course made the navigation pretty trivial, and I spiked pretty much everything. With only two possible exceptions (11 & 23), I also felt pretty good about my route choices. Even so, my time would only have put me in 4th place. Despite a pretty crisp start physically, I was unpleasantly surprised at how tired I got about half-way through -- doesn't bode well for the rogaine this weekend.

A thought occurred to me, too, while deciding to take the trail from 7 to 8. I had known that the trail was a viable option, but it looks like a way more attractive option when the map is rotated with your direction of travel from 7 to 8 than it does when you're designing the course in Condes, with the map north-up. What about a feature in Condes that will rotate the map and course parallel to a given leg, so that a course designer can determine which route options will look most attractive in the field?

C • Rotate map in Condes---YES... 1

Red course at Umstead West. A near perfect day to be out in the woods, and I hit 11 out of the 12 controls pretty well. My bad control was a doozy, though, involving a really stupid mistake. BOK advanced events typically print all courses on the same map, and show shortcuts on the red course for the green and brown courses to take. I accidentally took one of these shortcuts, following the line out of #5, and only discovering when I got there that I had arrived at #8. I could have just gone to #9 and finished the green course in a respectable time, but decided just to eat the mistake and get back on the red course, to #6. A really dumb mistake, compounded by some fairly crappy navigation along the way.

I need to get over being continually miffed at the height at which BOK coursetters hang bags, because it's probably never going to change. All 12 control bags were literally touching the ground, and for about half of them, the top of the bag was also on the ground (i.e., it was simply lying flat on the ground).

C • The BOK Software 6

Lake Crabtree. A bit too cold and windy to be too much fun, but it was a nice finish to the morning's outing to Umstead.