Training Log Archive: ernst

NEOC meet at Upton State Forest. Nicely situated on the way to the BG. Came with Jim down from NH. Still intermittent showers - that front was supposed to be out by early morning. Fun course. The area is a bit limited for advanced courses due to the many linear features (stone walls and streams), and yet it was confusing. The rather bland contours made it difficult to keep the line especially since I was too casual in the compass use, so I drifted off the map out of 2 in the NE corner, bumping into a trail, but everything seem to be off by about 90 degrees.
Eventually relocated. Another slight mistake to 5 (ran over hill on the westerly trail, but knew exactly what I did. Then going into 6, I ran N along stream to find a good crossing, but then ignored that I had corrected by 20 m, so mistakenly took the 2 boulders to be the S pair. All in all lost about 8 minutes. Light and steady jogging otherwise on the day before the BG.

Around Littlejohn woods. Parked at Wiswall as usual. I took the Pound Ridge map from the BG 1992 with me. It was very difficult to get into this 1:15k map while running. Eventually just had to stop for long moments to read the details and memorize segments of the course. I try to simulate what I considered sustainable BG pace - mostly on trails, some off-trail running as well. Several hill repeats, but did not push hard, just tried to settle into a comfortable level of effort. 6 miles was enough. Needed to get back to work.

Run to work via Beech Hill. Nancy dropped me off at B-H road on our way home from dropping off the car. A couple of hill work outs thrown in.

Various errands. 1. Jog from bus stop (Shaws) to garage to pick up
car. 2) A light jog (trail) to get the dog out of the house 3). Ran over to Foggs to submit monthly payment (trail).

Event: UNO College Woods
 

O Event related activities. minimal orienteering, light jogging: Hanging wite/yellow controls, hauling water in the morning . Then doing the reverse in the afternoon incl. collecting the majority of controls of the advanced courses. Try to do these in reverse order from when I hanged them, just for a bit of variety. It started to chill down from 60 degrees to near 40 degrees, and the last 45 minutes was in light rain. By the end I was glad to get out of the woods