Training Log Archive: Sandy

Walked over to the Schuylkill Center and wandered around on the trail network for a bit since I need to start thinking about my sprint courses for May 23. Wore my pack with some weight in it. A couple new trails that will make it a bit easier to set some courses that don't look just like the courses from last year.

And another super nice day. I didn't think the course was quite as good as Saturday's. A lot of it was good but there was an unnecessary drop of 6 contours down to a cliff followed by climbing right back up again when there was plenty of interesting stuff up top. I didn't have any "errors" although I was pretty sloppy to a couple controls - the first one because i was reconciling the fact that the cadet at the start told me the map was 1:10,000 when it was actually printed at 1:7,500 and a later one when I had a couple people right behind me and I didn't want to lead in to another control so I went around a bit and let them get ahead of me.

Very happy with my route choice on the long leg. Walked the whole thing again. And really enjoyed myself again.

And the best part of the day was Barb immediately saying yes when I asked her if she might be interested in doing the 2020 world rogaine champs with me as a partner.

Day 2 - Lake Welch - Brown - Splits

Event: West Point 39th National Meet
 

What a funny day. I completely botched the first control on what was a really excellent Brown course - and I mean really messed it up and I was pretty close all along just couldn't get myself in the right frame of mind to focus and figure it out until I bailed to the road, took a trail and then still flailed around for a bit. Twenty minutes later I finally started orienteering reasonably well and the rest of the course was fine - not perfect but pretty good. The long trails and road legs back to the finish were no fun but I get why they had to be there and I didn't think it took away from an otherwise really great course. Normally I would have been really disappointed and bummed out but I was just so thrilled with how good the course was and what a great day it was and how hard the cadets try that it was just a wonderful day,

Stuck to my plan to just walk everything and not take a chance of messing up my knees.

Drove up in the morning and the drive was easy so had plenty of time to sort out some paperwork issues with the cadets. It's possible that the long drive is why I had trouble concentrating on the first control but I hate to make excuses.

Had an excellent evening with Roger and Valerie and the hotel was really nice. So was just in a really good mood all day.

Day 1 - Lake Frederick - Brown - Splits

Beautiful day and I had zip motivation.

Extended statue loop with Sandy on a gorgeous day.

Session with Melissa. Some bosu ball stuff today.