Training Log Archive: bgallup

Event: NEOC: Estabrook
 

course setting. reduced time on account o' mostly walkin'. stole dan's garmin for the day.

west side of the course didn't show much storm damage, but the far east side was a war zone. giant-sized jungle gym of downed trees. one partially fallen one had the bark blown out in continous strips - like a finger trap toy. or like the way trees blew up in Return of the Jedi. yep. that's the thing it made me think of.

magnus's sprint 2 - decent, certainly a few errors. almost got TP. some day. compass exploded after 7. educational to learn how much more i could pay attention to bearing when i had to. the little retaining wire holding the capsule in the Moscompass popped out, but i was lucky enough to find the tiny brown wire in the leaves. better break than the SI stick last month, for sure.

5) missed a leafy turn (1:30).
6) slow through rough terrain. tried to fix compass (1:00)
10) way conservative on route choice. worried about shooting across a leafy trail. (1:20)

walking sprint1 with the folks. they're catching on, i didn't point out a single flag. plenty of leading the witnesses on route choice, though. actually a lot of fun for me too - quite a bit to learn orienteering at a walk, and i wouldn't have the self restraint to walk myself. still, even at said walk, i bungled the dense clumpy trail network at 3, though. allegedly there was a run near it, but the leaf covering made for the braille equivalent of orienteering.

Sprint 2 - Splits

to work

and home. much worse luck with the lights

quick lap around fresh pond in the pre-apocalypse bluster. not many people out.

man, that's motivation to organize a meet

Event: NEOC: Townsend
 

I was prowling the NAOC Blue Sprint on Winsplits (link, didn't see one on the NAOC site). Winsplits randomly unlocks two of eight spiffy bonus features to tease the Pro version (tempting, but not $75 tempting), and one of them is called Head-to-head. It shows how many splits you won/tied/lost to each individual runner. Thought that'd be cool to mangle into the AP split page. So here's that, for me, and one for my go-to guinea pig, ian. red boxes are splits the runner in question lost, yellows are ties, and greens are wins.