Training Log Archive: jtorranc

DVOA Hickory Run Score-O - occasionally sloppy navigation on my part in rather thick woods with much deadfall and rock underfoot overlying mostly bland contours. Worst problem was with (I believe it was) control 18 - a depression in a flat area north of a stream itself north of a power line cut. Thought I could simply aim off to the east on the stream then run west along it tracking bends and nearby features to decide when to attack north to the control. Still not clear how that went wrong but it appeared from my eventual bailing out to the power line that I'd been searching and trying to make sense of the stream's meanderings much too far to the east. Might have made it in on time with what I found (all but four or five?) if it weren't for that. Would have had to be fresher and less sloppy for any chance at getting all of them. A good weekend of training. Time for some rest now as this not quite right feeling in my left hamstring is annoying me with its persistence. We'll see what leaving off running until next weekend does. Then we'll see about shifting to faster running training.

Training in Harriman - I got myself a site at Beaver Pond and went for a long, slow map run on the Rockhouse Mountain and Surebridge Mountain maps. Much of this was rather like a line-O. I walked and stood a lot in one small area of extreme rock detail just after crossing onto the Surebridge map. Visited the upper clearer areas of Rockhouse, Hogencamp, Bald Rocks and not quite Surebridge (not sure whether it has any clear area up top to speak of) - rather neat being able to see nothing but Harriman highlands (or other indistinguishable West Point or generic Hudson Valley Highlands) though it was possible to see a town to the northwest from Bald Rocks. My Surebridge map had an old red course on it so I found 6 of the controls in a slightly more realistic simulation of a race.

Bash-style, the wildlife sightings were seven or eight deer, three chipmunks, a squirrel, a few miscellaneous birds, the fleeting impression of a great many frogs jumping into the water and one red fox.

C • Wildlife 3

Back to resting the running muscles - the coming weekend will be heavy on orienteering.

Easy run in by way of Rock Creek Park. Early enough to be slightly cooler than Sunday although I was still drenched in sweat twenty minutes into the run.

The return leg at a slightly easier pace - heat index reportedly at 106 just before I left work so one more brick in the wall of acclimatisation for Japan.