Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Aside from one bogey (6.5 min.), I had a pretty good run. I think I even won the most splits. According to my GPS, I didn't miss any worse than the mapper/course-setter did on either of my first two attacks (control was actually at the blue circle). When I eventually came across the faded bag in the bushes I still didn't see the clearing... I knew this would be hard and used compass/pace on both attacks, yet still missed. In part, I think I wasn't quite precise enough with the compass/pace, but my inability to read the vegetation wasn't helpful either. I'm really not sure how the mapper was interpreting all that, and when they decided that the detail should just become medium green (east of the control) when it reality it was also pretty patchy...



Frustrating, but at least the competitive level is quite high, s.t. slacking in any way is not allowed. I do need to practice my vegetation reading skills. Probably a few veg. only map trainings (in a recently mapped park) would be good for me...

C • Control #8 2

Pretty hot & muggy (near 70) for early March... Remote start enforced the warmup on a busy day, but also didn't permit enough time for AJ to walk to the start, and then do White...

C • At the start 3

Same workout, different day. It was a bit hotter...

4-5 times up the hill nearest the resort, only up until it the road began to wind into a fancy suburban area

Negril, Jamaica, from near the south end of the beach, to the north end of the public/semi-public portion, and back. Beautiful sand, beach and water, with a few nice resorts mixed with a variety of mid/down-scale places, and lots of tourist shops. Seemed pretty safe and the variety was nice, so this would probably be my preferred location if I were to come back to Jamaica.

Of the run, the most novel portion was the North end of the beach, which was the Hedonism II nudist resort. As seems to be the case with such places (in my quite limited experience with them) there were few people worth looking at. In this case, there were about a hundred people who got less than a 1 second glance each, a few who I had to look at far longer than desired, to avoid a collision, and only one I was (discretely) trying to get a better look at.

Out to the west and back. Apparently the Google imagery is a few years old, as the highway has moved and widened, and a large resort has been built, since the image was made.

Cruising out to the east and back with Angelica, who started well (4:53 2nd km), but then got hot/tired down to 5:20's or more on the way back.

Two little hill intervals in an otherwise easy, hot run toward Ocho Rios