Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

Friday night I had little muscle spasms in my thighs, and Saturday night the skin was on fire. (I was going to joke about hot flashes, but I don't think I should.)

I got the water out in time, and Mike and Gerald pulled together the rest of the course and set up, so we were ready for the early starters.

A long day, lots of positive comments and some very constructive criticism (which I really, really appreciate).

Gerald, Mike,and I pulled controls with help from Vickie Huseman and Tundra/Desert. Gerald and I were both dragging after a few hours pulling controls.

I felt my legs just shutting down. I noticed I was hungry, so I drove to Harrison and got some food. I didn't notice anything right away, but not 20 minutes later, the legs started to feel better.

We had everything out of the park just as the sun touched the horizon. Beautiful golden hour light for the drive home.

More food and liquid.

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Much deserved.

Attackpoint. Bedtime.

Carrying water to the 6 eastern waterstops. In the woods at 7:35am and out a little after 9am.

This is out of order. Should be first for the day.

Put out about 26 SI units. Gerald did about 20, I think. We didn't get out the white course (probably a 45 minute effort tomorrow---at the most).

We can't put out the 34 gallons of water until tomorrow because it's a little below freezing tonight. I've got to do 21 gallons into 6 control locations. No real hikes. One is over 500m, one about 400m, and the rest about 300m.

The courses are basically ready. {big relief}

I was about ready to keel over this morning. I had 58 controls plus 8 others, plus 4 backup stations to program. I had two SI master stations, one serial, the other USB. I've never used a USB one, and there has been a lot of internet traffic about some difficulties getting them to work. The serial one was dead, presumably dead batteries, so the first task was to open it up and change the batteries. When I cracked it open, I got a big whiff of fried electronics. I was hoping it was the battery, but the battery smelled okay. New battery in---nothing.

Crap. Gotta get the USB one to work.

Plug it it. It wants to go to Windows Update to find the driver. Nothing. I downloaded SI Manager from Sport Software last night---Try there. Nothing. No USB driver. Tried just plugging it in and seeing if SI Manager will find it. No luck. Search through USOF boxes for a driver disk. Nothing. Flash of inspiration---SI Manager is from Sport Software, but the hardware is made by SportIdent. Google SportIdent. Look for the real deal, not some distributor. There it is. Click downloads. Long list---nothing looks right. This is a BS7 (according to some copper on the PCB), but the only USB driver is for a BSM7. Try it---hope it doesn't screw something up.

Hey! It recognized it. click click click. Open SI Manager. Station not found.

Crap. Desperation setting in---SportIdent Yahoo Group had some discussion about this. Type "sportident usb" into my gmail search bar. I love love love gmail. About 12 messages. Third message I opened had a clue. 10 minutes later, I had adjusted settings to port 5, tried it, port 1, tried it, port 2...port 3...port 4, Bingo!. (There were 16 ports, and I was going to try them all.)

This was probably only 40 minutes or so---but I was really worried. Got everything programmed by 10:40am or so. If this hadn't worked, I'd have been in the woods right now (after midnight) with a headlamp on.

Much needed.

The tactical mistake of the day was a miscommunication regarding me picking up stands from the first sprint park. If I hadn't screwed up the communication, I'd have had maybe 5 hours in the park instead of 3.

As it was, with only the white course to put out, it was 8pm, dark, and I was tired and hungry. The dinner at Perkin's was at 7:30, and we were missing it. So we changed and drove to eat. It was awesome food and great conversation.

Craving something watery, so I'm downing a bottle of San Pellegrino. 750mL. Man that was good. Bedtime. Up in 4.5hrs.

Event: Flying Pig XI
 

Putting out stands for Sunday's classic/IOF long courses.

Really nice day---a little cold, though. Lots of people did the middle---Over 100, I think.

I've got the jitters over the Sunday courses. Tomorrow is a big day. Gerald and I have to put out all 58 of the SI units, 18 more stands (16 of which we get about 2pm tomorrow). And then Sunday morning between 6am and 9am, we have to carry out about 34 gallons of water (total) to 9 controls. And I found out a few hours before dark tonight that the programming party Thursday (which I missed) didn't program my units, so I had to get them after they got pulled from the middle and I have to reprogram them tonight. And since I lost my hard drive in January, and I lost all my SI software, I have to download the free SI Manager to do it. (Here's hoping that goes well...)

I've been so busy that I have been neglecting my AP logging. I hope my notes are good enough to backfill some of it. It's good to know how much time to plan for things. I've completely lost track of my Condes time at the computer.

C • are the ribs ok now? 5

Planting control stands at MWW.