Training Log Archive: TomN

Event: UNO Camping Weekend
 

Ultra-long Red at Pawtuckaway. 9 controls in 11 km is pretty clearly a route choice course. Given the Pawtuckaway terrain, it was also an endurance course.

I hadn't seen this map before, but I knew it by reputation. The intense detail was pretty intimidating at first look, but once out on the course, things started to fall into place. I took it pretty slow at first, and kept great contact with the map. Slow later on too, due to fatigue, with correspondingly less map contact. Still, fine navigation in difficult terrain, but slower than I would have liked. No major errors.

[Edit] Except at No. 7, where my punch didn't register. I know that I drank first, and while I was drinking I reminded myself to punch, but I can't remember anything positively after that. I sure thought I punched. Anyway, I was there, and I was pretty happy with the leg. Subjectively it was the hardest of all, but that could be due to tiredness. Swallowed a Gu passing around the lake, which is why I was thinking about water when I got to the control.

Funny that this was my first visit to Pawtuckaway having spent 20 years growing up about 10 miles away. I knew of it, of course, mainly by way of various boy scout camping trips, none of which I managed to attend.

No camping this time, and no Sunday run. Only a day trip from our place in Maine, 3 hours north, with work there to get back to.

Twice around the pond, down to Seely's, back around to Morrison's, then back home. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5648856