Training Log Archive: cmorse

Event: NEOC: Gay City, CT
 

Green course at Gay City. No compass. Nice course, most of the longer legs had trail options. Lost about a minute on #4, wound up one reentrant east of where I should have been - compass might have helped, maybe not. A couple other mid course controls had descriptions reading 2m boulders so as I approached circle I ran towards the larger rock features, when in fact the flags were on small 1m features. Feature in center of circle was accurate in both cases, but not as described and as I approached circle I was going more on descriptions rather than slowing down to read the fine detail in the circle on the map. Otherwise a good run, pretty much ran everything, including the uphills except when slowing to read map. Ferns & rock underfoot slowed the pace in a number of areas, but others were just a joy to fly through... Probably 'won' by a sizable margin as I expect all the 'fast kids' went to the WCOC meet instead....

Had a nice chat with Howie Breinan, whose scouts were handling start/finish for the meet.

Afternoon hike with the family at a new (to us) conservation parcel. Nice loop trail, might be nice for doing speedwork.