Training Log Archive: bgallup

Event: The 35th annual Billygoat Run
 

goat! first time. fun, happy to finish. PG puts on a good show. pretty middling-to-adequate orienteering. in a pack with tim p and two cadets for the majority. screwed up two legs i led - 16 and 19. last few legs were an exercise in ignoring everything below my waist cramping.

i take it back, skipping 22 seems best. 6 was probably better than 18 - i wasn't paying enough attention to elevation when scanning the map. sure felt it in the end, though.

QR

1 - spent my 30 second preview scanning for skips, settled on 18. mostly rode the coattails of ian and company on the low, northern road.
2 - grouped up with tim, nadim, and a few cadets. didn't establish rock-solid contact until the saddle at the western crest of the ravine. not much driving here. wore my trail runners instead of the spikes - my knees hurt like hell after the traverse. wiped out on four or so wet logs before getting the message.
3 - did a little driving on this leg, almost missed the control to the north.
4 - unremarkable
5 - unremarkable
6 - dropped off the edge a little too far north, forced further down by gnarly veg , +1:00
7 - tim was smarter into 6 and drove this one.
8 - tim drove the first half of this and i did the second
9 - on point for this one
10 - and this one
11 - behind a cadet for this one, nailed it through the saddle, shitty bearing afterwards. tim spotted it and towed us in.
12 - mostly tim with a shade of independence on this one
13 - barely on point for this one
14 - fell behind the cadets for the first half, but they drifted slightly north and we met at this one
15 - on point for this one, i habitually come in way low to cliff-foot CPs
16 - on point for the worse, here. partial redemption by seeing the water from way far away. pretty obvious, looking at the QR, that i should've realized i was on the right side of the mini-ridge. feh. +2:30
17 - group lead here
18 - skipparoni
19 - passed the cadets near the end of the main trail run. incorrectly counted a vague trail and ignored my unease about the shape of the trail junction. saw the stream, grouped up, went west. should've aimed off north, but i was still reeling/following. tim pointed out the big boulder, i wondered allowed about it being unmapped, tim chuckled and turned around. caught by a second group coming out of the pin. would've been 19th if not for that group. +2:30
20 - behind but ignoring one cadet. dan o'leary dropped into the woods behind me and i made a similar turn. a cadet spotted the flag.
21 - proud of this one. in big group of 10 or so plowing northward, mixing up near the front almost everyone drifted off too west, but i stuck east and nailed it. a more competitive ben wouldn't've yelled "got it", but you gotta give back to the group, eh?
22 - cramped up like the dickens here, feeling the downhill sprint to 21. followed a cadet flock and struggled to stay in contact. reconnected when i hit the E-W trail to the north of the control, and remembered relocating off of the spring at W5MD.
23 - barely thinking, just staying on bearing. saw nadim make a move towards the flag and followed him in
24 - chose the trail and a thin bit of fight. made some time on dan who went straight through, but not enough to be decisive.
F - and the hobble in.

six minutes of stupid, would've been just enough to break 2:00:00. bah! in retrospect, did more independent nav than i thought, which makes me happy.

many thanks to bud o'leary for the timely loaning of a thumpass, with mine in the bermans'ses hands

Billygoat - Splits

a shot from sunday's cannon shenanigans. shenanicannonigans?



i don't think that's mid-wipeout. but it certainly could be!

Event: CSU Park-O #1: Danehy
 

jog over to danehy

csu sprint-o number one good time. pretty straightforward course, almost too much so. i say almost because it was nice to have enough margin to think ahead - pretty sure i had the next leg planned by every control.

C • Finish split 7

back out on the easy. ran into alicia and took cooper from her in the middle. who was good, then bad, then good, then okay, then good again. really impatient at the controls, and finally realized we left alicia after a quarter mile, but he did better than i expected forgot to restart the watch, probably shorted myself a minute and a quarter k

Park-O - Splits

okay. bagged a couple threes, couldn't connect on a few that i did last week. i'm not above blaming the rental shoes, although they probably had nothing to do with it.

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