Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Vienna Metro to Great Falls, VA for orienteering meet and back. If we had an intensity 2.5 I would use it - didn't want to overdo it heading out and couldn't heading back.

Blue course at Great Falls, VA. Spur and reentrant except for control 6 in a flat area of seriously undermapped rock detail - should have been much more careful executing compass technique since I made a massive parallel error given the distance in question, not helped at all by the unmapped pond where I drifted to that I initially assumed was the mapped one just east of the control. Stopped for thirty seconds to tell someone where they were on the map between 8 and 9. Probably should have dropped down to the trail and done all the climb at the end on 13 to 14 rather than head straight through even the mountain laurel shown on the map in an attempt to spread out the climb. Irritating to lose to Vytenis by about a minute and a half but also satisfying progress - a few years ago losing one medium-sized error wouldn't have put me anywhere near Vytenis.

Blue - Splits

General errand running, including trying to renew my driver's license. It appears I need to get my prescription updated again - not a bad idea in any case since I'd hate to miss any of the lovely details in Harriman maps in May and others.

Walking part of the central area of the UMD campus - mostly mapping vegetation.

Had to run to the Metro after all that walking and standing in place.

Cycling commute once more.

Unavoidable running for getting to work purposes.

Run from the King Street Metro tending uphill towards the QOC board of directors meeting in Arlington. Made it with just over ten minutes to spare before official beginning. Left leg feeling as though shinsplints are developing - good thing the roads look clear enough to revert to cycling for transport and keep running on softer surfaces where it belongs.

Home to the south end of the Rideau Canal and back.

More relaxed early morning end to end round trip on the canal before saying goodbye to winter sports for the season. Very few people on the canal. Bizarrely, almost half of them seemed to be runners - such a waste of a good ice sheet (when not part of a race).