Training Log Archive: bl

UNO camping Sunday brown, 3.3k. Got off to a bad start, being distracted when I should have been concentrating. Forgot to put the control descriptions on my shirt front where I like them. So I had to unfold the map to check. So not feeling exactly in control half way to the first flag.

To 1, the road was tempting but I wanted ‘to get into it’. Got in the vicinity and was caught off by an unmapped knoll. Going to #3, I lost map contact. The yellow seemed hard to read yet on the map it looked straightforward enough. There was no plan B - suck it up, concentrate and figure out where I was. Lost maybe 5’. Going to #4, also managed to lose track of the yellow patches — after vowing I would not. Relocated in the open area with a high distinct knoll - I’d been there in a night O one or two years ago. To 5, the knoll was hidden under rock, so it was more painful to find than it should have been. To 6 was another partial loss of map contact and ended up using the trail tho I should have been able to go straight thru woods. 7,8,9 ok tho approach to 9 (went above the cliff) lost some 45” to a minute. All in all, maybe 9-10’ lost. Give it a B-.

Brown

Picking up controls after the meet - tired on top of tired. Seeing the yellow areas at a slow rate made me realize how awful they have become - loaded with deadfall and thick with dense new growth. Not much of an O venue in that particular area as it currently stands.

Brown - Splits

Event: UNO: Pawtuckaway 1-Day NRE
 

UNO Pawtuckaway camping weekend, brown Y, 2.2k, a NRE opportunity - started at 10am when I, as well as the woods & day, was all fresh. Good 'run' in that I had no mistakes. Some hesitation on #1 -- and on #4, I got to the knoll expecting to see the flag and reentrant, didn't looked and went left a bit and then looked right and saw it maybe 20m away. Getting to and leaving #6 lost perhaps a minute due to unexpected thick stuff (took forever to get to the bridge) - some confusion but not lost.

Left my splits on the table next to the map and think a breeze might have blown them off the table - when I was looking more than an hour later, I couldn't find them. Had my Garmin 310 time, route, splits. Tried to get the Garmin app for this new computer up and running and am not willing to play the learning curve right now. Maybe the 310XT is 'gone with the wind' as far as new software is concerned. This is a Strava file from the iphone which I had in my pocket, turned off a bit after finishing. I was around 37:40 I think.

Fun to see some old friends! Tom Jahn at 93 topped the field with the Bermans and Hans B close behind. Didn't see enough though, was on my way home by 2pm with a few essential chores waiting.

Brown Y

Tan - Splits

A very nice stretch of woods and walls between the ends of these two roads. Left the road twice for a bit - the first path disappeared in the undergrowth, the second, starting promisingly, was left for another day. This is Meadowsend Conservation easement land.

O walk at Harris Center - cool, sunny day when not under the canopy. Other than W., boulders and more boulders for company. Water back in the woods. Dry as a bone last time. After went inside the center building briefly for some education etc. A Milky Way of another stripe.

AM DP to stream & return - so overgrown these days, the view walled off with small, dense pines.

Another DP after Walgreen's.

DP while at CH for bloodwork - still raining.