Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Long course at Bowie - extremely flat, water features (and areas that aren't usually water features) still very full though no longer in flood, thorns everywhere. The park (not precisely the same parts of it, naturally) was much more runnable covered in several inches of snow last year. No major errors bar running about a hundred meters past the ideal place to leave a trail but compass technique needs work. Though I can blame much of the trouble on the impossibility of running anything like straight through the vegetation.

Scouting control locations in College Park - Greg and I being worried that Vytenis might be short on time for course setting, we thought we'd offer him a selection of hangable sites. Very uneven effort since I speeded up enormously as I ran out of time at the end to make my rendezvous with Greg.

Last chance to do any meaningful field survey in College Park before the event.

The other half commute. Very late at night (early in the morning) with the flashing yellow lights - I'll be quite happy to have this mapping project at the University of Maryland over and done with. Until the next iteration, anyway - can't possibly be sooner than several months off.

Half commute - left bike at work and went directly to Kennedy Center by Metro to see the Batsheva Dance Company (Israeli) perform an evening length work almost as strange as what they did when they were here in 1998. The absence of a solo by a shaven-headed man in a gold lame dress dancing to the Fanfare for the Common Man left it falling just short.

Discovered after years of this commute that it's possible to make it through one series of three traffic lights on the way to work if I manage to get to the front of the line and do a lung-busting sprint out of the traffic light preceding them. Think of all the hours I've wasted - probably three or four all told.