Training Log Archive: GlenT

DVOA local event at Governor Dick Park near Mt Gretna, PA. Red course. A new map with wide open woods on one side of a ridge and green with lots of rock on the other side of the ridge. Fortunately we were in the open part so it was fast and quite fun. Fine through #9 except for a small overshoot at #5. Then the course went into a more detailed area (much more rock) with reduced visibility (much more undergrowth) and I didn't adjust, resulting in about 6 minutes lost on three controls. OK the rest of the way in, but 4 minutes faster would've moved me up about 5 places. Overcast and about 50 with wet woods but little, if any, rain. Straight line distance was 6.1km.

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Event: HVO local meet - Harriman State park
 

HVO local event on Baileytown map, starting from Silvermine parking lot (actually ~700m west of the parking). Blue course - advertised as 7 km. Lots of unmapped and undermapped blueberry and barberry. Nice day - sunny and mid 60's. Sloppy orienteering. Not reading detail very well on the 1:15000 map (a color copy I believe). Spent more time than I cared to crawling through a green marsh mapped as white woods. Course was odd, starting with two yellowish and an orange control (at the end of a 15 contour climb), a "finish" control which was a map exchange for an additional control to set up a leg to the real finish which was a crapshoot as to how much blueberry would be on the route you chose. It's always interesting to orienteer in Harriman. Straightline distance (with the bonus control) was about 8.1 km.

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66S, Richmond, Reed and back. 55 and breezy - cooler than I expected.

Road intervals. 4 x 400m + 4 x 200m. 90 sec recovery for the 400's, 60 sec for the 200's. Splits: 138, 138, 136, 137, 46, 44, 47, 45. Mid 60's so was a bit warm by the end. 66N and back - the longest nearby stretch of relatively flat road, conveniently located about a mile away for warm-up and cool-down.