Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Navstock Ultra - major screwups on control 2 and 11, 11 being the more embarrassing since I would have been fine if I had managed not to read the control description for 13 as I hit the edge of the circle - it is very difficult to find a control hung beside a small boulder atop a spur when you've convinced yourself the circle has been drawn off center because you're supposed to be looking for the bottom of a reentrant. That aside, I bobbled some others and it felt like an okay rather than good day physically.

Navstock Classic - enormous wander on control 5. After my miss, there was an enormous new clear area that confused my relocation attempts. I actually found control 6 during this but there were no control codes and the boulder it was supposedly hung on was invisible so I ended up relocating by following a massive trail southeast until I was absolutely certain it was one of the ones on the map.

Navstock Sprint - this time my biggish error was on control 3. Totally my fault for trying to attack from the end of a rather too wide spur instead of finding the end of the rock wall slightly south of there and attacking off it. Overshot and had to come back off the corner of the now overgrown clearing on the map.

Early morning hikes to Union Station to catch the MARC train to Baltimore and then from Penn Station to Baltimore light rail system.

Nav-Stock Night score-O - third but embarassingly far behind Mark and Pam. Hard to overstate the importance of precise attack points in the dark. Myriad unmapped mountain bike trails weren't helping. Still, it was my first night-O as a competitor (hung and collected some bags for an Ottawa event once) so I'll forgive myself.

I've no idea why but my knee feels much better than it did last week. If I'm very lucky, in a week and a half I'll have to ask my doctor if she can find anything wrong with a knee that feels perfectly fine.

Normal commute - saw Ballet Frankfurt at the Kennedy Center in the evening.

Cycling commute plus heading downtown after work to finally see "The Twilight Samurai".