Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: QOC Patapsco Avalon
 

Red course at Patapsco Avalon. 7.6k, 305m. Nice course by Boris Granovskiy and Joe Barrett in spur and reentrant terrain with a moderate trail network. Excellent visibility and variable runnability, depending on the nature of the undergrowth (vegetation mapping is aging a bit but that wasn’t a big factor). And quite a fine day weather-wise for mid-December, partly sunny and about 50F.

Had a very good run with only one 3 minute error when I failed to check my compass on the leg to #11 and went to the wrong rocky knoll on the ridge top (figured things out fairly quickly but was probably 100m off from where I should have been). Some hesitations on 9 and 12 to get back on line, but not large enough to show as errors on AP. Spotted a few bags from almost 100m away, but others were tucked away so you needed to be right on top of them to see them.

Red - Splits

Around the neighborhood. Did some speedier stuff, 4x~350m with about 5m of climb on each (350m because that’s how long the blocks are). Lots of recovery in between getting back to the low end of the next block over. Pace a bit quicker than I expected. Temp in the low 30s.

Trexler Preserve from the southern covered bridge. Up some hills and down some hills. About an inch of snow overnight but it was all gone from the trails. Upper 30s with some breeze. Saw a few elk, but no bison.