Training Log Archive: RJM

Oak hill on USGS map. Due north from nw corner of trails, but about 300m from major road started to realize i was off of park property and onto private. Backtracked, found several artificial ponds that weren't on the map, found park boundary, and hugged it east almost to Riverview. Back on the road. Good contact with this sketchy map the whole way (even, in retrospect, when at the new houses, open areas, and ponds). There is a lot of deep green in the mid-western portion of this area, but it will be nice once mapped.

spent most of the day in the field, not loggable, but took lots of time, and didn't feel like running that evening.

Towpath both ways. no deer. very pleasant

Aqueduct-market (30:30), return on exchange with some fartlek (2min push, 2 minutes off + some).

hudson/stow 5k
http://www.active.com/running/hudson-oh/run-for-th...

Middle at the pig. Beautiful day. I decided to try and push a bit today and see what going fast is like. A bobble on control 1, but ok, then felt really good by and large through to #6. At that point (perhaps oxygen debt, but perhaps not) i somehow headed 90degrees off (south instead of west, and spent a good long time (4minutes plus) trying to relocate. This rattled me, and i never really recovered - each of the next 5 controls had serious errors, some of which i recovered from after a little confusing, and some (like 11), which took perhaps 10 minutes of head scratching and utter bewilderment - i had no idea where i was! In retrospect many of these came from two proximal issues (both of which were partly related to oxygen debt). 1) poor compass work (sometimes from the slippery map cases, other times from magnifier in odd position). I need to take more time to more carefully orient the map and keep it in position. 2) lack of attention to details on the map near the circle - 11 was two lines below the ridge I was on, but i didn't realize that at all until finally stumbling onto the control.
Though a poor performance, this was a valuable learning experience (especially because I did better than usual in the first two events).

Sunday Middle - Green - Splits