Training Log Archive: bbrooke

TSN Southwest Spring B-Meet -- Day 3 (Classic).

#1 -- Went well.

#2 -- I got off my bearing but relocated quickly using the large boulder next to the trail.

#3 -- I went a long way down the wrong reentrant.

#4-5-6-7 -- OK, except for deviating way off my bearing on the way to #7.

#8 -- Sigh...I made a 180-degree error here. Then I got totally lost and lost contact with the map once I turned around and headed back in the right direction.

#9-10-11 -- Easy, and these went OK.

Not a great day for me performance-wise, but still fun. We spent the afternoon at the Desert Museum.

TSN Southwest Spring B-Meet -- Day 2 (Middle).

I decided to do the Blue course, since it was as short as yesterday's Green course.

I got way off my bearing on the way to #2, and I didn't realize it 'til I saw the trail and embankment just beyond the road.

#3-4-5-6-7 were OK, but not perfect. I'm going to blame all my deviations on cactus-dodging... :-P

I clearly wasn't thinking or planning on the way to #8. Obviously, I should have just followed the wash along the embankment that feeds directly into the control.

Another fun day. We spent the afternoon browsing at bike shops and playing Scrabble.

Event: Southwest Spring B-Meet in the Sun
 

TSN Southwest Spring B-Meet -- Day 1 (Long).

I took the trail from #2 to #3. Even though it was longer, I assumed it would be faster than having to pick my way through all the rocks, cacti, and reentrants.

I overshot #8 by a little bit (I saw Isabel running back the other direction, but it didn't dawn on me that I should do the same until I had gone another 25 meters or so...).

I lost contact with the map about halfway in between #9 and #10, so I wasted lots of time there wandering and relocating.

Overall -- very fun! This was probably my best day of the three-day meet.

Afterwards, we went to see "Zero Dark Thirty", which I really liked...