Training Log Archive: cmpbllj

Went out and checked most of the Middle Distance controls, minus a few that I saved for Tori to do in the afternoon while I walked the White ones with the kids. There are some really open, fast woods, with a mix of technical terrain. I am really looking forward to how Neal's courses are received. I think they are right on the money. I only found one error, and it was one that I don't think anyone competing would have caught, if they were approaching from below as they should be. I think everyone set/vet it from below, and they were off by a cliff (due to a marginal, unmapped one)...I was definitely approaching controls from "other" directions that the setters/vetters hadn't because I also found an old tattered control (salvaged the punch from it) actually inside a control circle!

Ran on a glorious day, on a well set (by Bernie) course out of Lake Welch. He did a great job of setting the course without evil climb and with enough vegetation to punish you if you didn't pay attention, but it was generally very runnable. I wasn't pushing and did 9min/km. My error control was one where I came down a steep hill, went to the rock where I thought it would be and said, wow...those two other boulders should be mapped but aren't...then I bumbled for a little bit, before figuring out that those three (total) boulders ARE on the map...
We really need to get the team onto these phenomenal Harriman WOC maps more...maybe this summer as part of the IAD.

Some of yesterday's field-checks

Did the western part of Camp Buckner for the Trail O.

Such a beautiful afternoon that I decided to get up into the woods for a run. Parked at Round Pond, went through the forest E of Bog Meadow Pond, doing some half-ass intervals whenever I was not doing brutal climb. Ended up by an area that was reported as needing vegetation updates, but they were pretty minor. I was amazed over the weekend that there were two or three potential ankle turns that were non-events...I am so sold on proprioception training as ankle-injury prevention, coupled with getting into the woods and onto the trails to do training.