Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: WCOC Sessions Woods
 

AOWN: Close call on the dog walk this morning. A rather large porcupine was on the trail and skedaddled up a tree (or maybe the operative phrase is meandered). I'm sure he was going pretty fast for a porcupine, but it wasn't all that fast. Sassy was pretty exercised, but somehow I talked her out of grabbing it. Maybe she remembers the time she did that before, somewhere around 2010. Not a pretty sight.

Sessions Woods Red course. This was a test, to see if I could jog through a course and come out none the worse for wear. Not speedy, or particularly graceful, but passed the test in that I jogged a fair amount and didn't feel any worse for it. So I consider myself eligible to sign up for the team trials races in 3 weeks.

Rhonda asked how long it would take me and I told her 1:45 if I walked, or 2:00 if I ran, so I did a fair amount better than that, and really 90 minutes was the threshold as far as considering I did ok.

A fair amount of difficulty finding 1. Seems I passed right by it in the young pine thicket, then got into the wrong gully. 2, 3 easy. Took the left route to 4. hesitated a bit before going past the big cliff to the marsh beyond. Cut off the trail too soon for 5 and went R instead of L at first.

Sucked off by an earlier cliff on the way to 6 and had to correct. No more substantial mistakes after that, just got a little off to the R on the way to 8 and again on the way to 12.

C • Route to #4? 6

More AOWN: This is quite a good year for foxes, and there was a pretty healthy, well-fed looking one in the driveway when we got home, and then he ambled across the side field.

Red - Splits