Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Vienna Metro to Fountainhead carrying three gallons of water part of the way - not going to feel guilty over orange and up running out of water on course this year.

Course setting white and yellow with a mercifully MUCH lighter backpack than the previous day. Had hoped to use the area south and southeast of the parking lot for white but most of the trails there have been coopted by the mountain biking community and I eventually recognised that I barely had time to take a stab at revising the map enough for the new trails not to be a problem plus I would then be responsible for any mountain biker/clueless pedestrian accidents and fallout with the park management generated thereby. Returned to the same general area on the west side of the parking that I used last year, though I did take yellow a bit further south and I changed the direction of flow - anyone coming back and doing yellow again after last year shouldn't experience much deja vu. On the way out past the eastern part of the map I put the three gallons of water out at just about the farthest red control, also shared with blue and I believe green.

Headed over to the Franconia-Springfield Metro instead of Vienna in hopes that it would be a good time to pick up 45 or so of the Virginia controls from Sid Sachs. It was but this time, it having been a sunny day, I was exhausted and severely dehydrated by the time I made it into the Metro system. Had trouble sitting up on the trains and in the stations. I could strangle someone - I missed the Red Line train that would have got me home and ended my suffering 15 minutes earlier because the elevator doors at Metro Center wouldn't open the first time I summoned it. Stupid recalcitrant technology just sat there with the doors open about an inch and a half before heading up again. Where they worked just fine. Though it still felt like a gamble getting into the damned thing when it came down again - all I needed was to be trapped in an elevator for a few hours while Metro called in maintenance people late on a Sunday evening.

From Vienna Metro to Fountainhead Regional Park. Last time I would see level 3 all weekend. Eerily, all but two of the homes in the neighbourhood just north of the Metro station have been demolished. There's just these overgrown lawns with absences of houses in the middle of them. Posted notice of master plan suggests they're going to put in a mix of denser housing and commercial/office space.

Streamering advanced control locations on the Fountainhead East map. I get the distinct impression most of the gullies, ditches and reentrants have eroded their way further uphill in the 23 years since the original map was made. Though it's hard to be sure - you can hide a fair bit of fudge in a 5m contour interval.

Back to Vienna Metro. Slowly. Should have drunk more before leaving but I was mostly okay this time. Did I mention it was raining during about 4.5 of the 7.5 hours of course setting? In any case, I wasn't too dehydrated.

Anticipating the morrow, bagged the idea of doing any running and just watched the Olympics for a couple of hours before going to bed.

Cycled back to near our old office location after work since it was the only place nearby where I knew I could buy marker tape to use while course setting this weekend.

Jogging warmup and cooldown then form exercises and 12x~100m strides.

Feeling some delayed onset muscle complaints from the weekend, especially in my left hamstring. Stretched while watching Olympics.

Various abdominal exercises, also while watching Olympics.