Training Log Archive: dcady

Fireman's Park. A park sprint with only a couple of controls having route choice opportunities. Rain threatening but not an issue. Control 1, probably went too far along trail before climbing fence. Control was visible way off on the route I took. Blew 2. Got too low too soon. Kept moving in generally correct direction but slowly. Nothing matched up until finally it did. After that just hard running through open parkland. Thumb compass.

Fireman's Park. I was slow in too many places, but never made any big errors except maybe not picking fast enough routes. Map was very difficult to read at 1:10. I would have liked 1:7,5. Had a bad choice to 5 climbing in and out of the steep re-entrant but missed the trail that went around. At 10 went in too low and lost a minute. On 15 didn't go to the trail quickly enough and spent too much time in the thorns. On the way to 17 should have stayed more easterly in order to avoid the tall fence. Otherwise happy with my effort since I didn't make even one huge mistake. Baseplate compass.

Middle Course 5 - Splits

Sprint Course 3 - Splits

Was going to run in the cemetery but the gate was closed for the burial of the officer who tragically died. So decided to run in the neighborhood. It started raining pretty hard so cut it off at 30 minutes. Not too uncomfortable for that length of time.