Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: Billygoat 2016
 

To the start of the 2016 Billygoat/Pygmy Goat.

Temp around 55 or so, and scattered showers/drizzle but no downpours.

Good to see all the regulars there, including others going out despite injuries. :-)

Nice day for a long stroll in the woods. I started off conservatively because I didn't want to use up my energy too early, and was confident 3.5 hours was plenty of time to complete the 7 km Pygmy. (If I'd been healthy I might have considered the full 'goat once I heard it was around 11.5 km.) Townsend was a good place for this because there's plenty of detail but the hills aren't too horrendous (as evidenced by the mapping with 2.5m contours). The Pygmy was an abbreviated version of the BG visiting about 2/3rds of the BG controls. Temps stayed reasonable and there were only a few showers or drizzle so conditions held up.

There were several long trail runs near the end that I trotted most of the way rather than walked, spurred on by feeling competitive with Judy K and Nadia P, and Nancy K who I later learned had sprained her ankle on the course. I managed to finish a few seconds ahead of Nadia but couldn't catch Judy.

We were even allowed to skip a control, a la Billygoat rules; I skipped #2 (first 8 were same as BG), and 2 and 8 were the ones skipped by most on the Pygmy course (though #1 had potential too but I was halfway to it before I noticed that).

Pia Webb won the Pygmy with a time of about 61 minutes. The BG course turned out to be on the short side with a winning time of 77 minutes by Swedish exchange student Isak Prellner (followed by some in the 80-82 minute range). I got a shirt! ;-) (BG shirts were teal and the Pygmy shirts were light blue...BG-lite, so a lighter colored shirt. Third BG-lite, and first time shirts were awarded in the shorter version.) Nice design by Alex, too.

Thanks, Alex and Ed, for all your work setting and taking down, and the post-race pizza was an inspired choice!!!

C • Glad you enjoyed it! 5

Pygmy Goat - Splits

Event: EMPO - Thacher State Park
 

What with my incapacities and the fact that I'm about to cover 9+ km tomorrow, I opted for the 3.3km Yellow course rather than a 4.8km Orange or Green at Thacher (courses designed by EMPO member Bruce Beesley).

The trails were lovely (only a little mud in places, not surprising with this past week's rain) and the controls hung high, but near the end I started going down a hill I should instead have gone up, and had to retrace my steps. The weather cooperated too, bringing partly sunny skies and a temp in the upper 50s.

Maybe our luck will hold up for tomorrow and the rain will hold off until later in the afternoon?

Yellow - Splits

I'm perusing some of the Orienteering USA magazines that Dave Cady had given me a year or so ago. They precede ONA, and he had issues from June 1979 to October 1985 (which issue has Peggy D on the cover). Fascinating reading, and I found some results from 1980 and 1984 NAOCs held in Ohio and New York and added them to the NAOC champions listing on the OUSA site.

I'm chuckling as I read the Nov 1982 issue ("Special Issue: the Birth of U.S. Orienteering 1967-1971") before I had over the entire set to Donna Fluegel for use at the special anniversary program to be held at NAOCs in Hanover. Here's the quote that amused me today: "Bud Fish reports that he was told to write a book [about orienteering] by his Ft. Belvoir superiors during the 1969 to 1971 period he was there, but he refused to. Instead he 'wrote a four-page hand-out which was basically all you needed.'" Then I think about Chuck and Bob's Discovering Orienteering book published recently....

C • Article 2

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I even threw in a couple of jogging laps in the third mile, but it was slower than the first two. Pygmy Goat this weekend should be interesting.

Hard time getting comfortable trying to fall asleep last night but managed to get 6 hours.

Decided to give my exercise class a try again, and managed most of the aerobic moves but kept arm movements on the gentle side. Still got a bit sore so left before the abs/stretching segments. Legs feel like they got a workout, so that's good. :-) (using different muscles than just pure walking)

While Glen was in Pilates (and explaining my absence). Ribs aren't ready to try some of those moves yet. As it was, my knee started getting sore as my laps went on, but not so bad I needed to stop. Good first lap time.

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