Training Log Archive: jtorranc

University of Maryland score-O. New map went over well, great weather, good turnout though I think some regulars who would have turned out for a meet in forest or a non-score event gave it a miss. Ran hard and familiarity with the terrain helped get all 48 points but it was close - would have had a bit more margin if I hadn't managed to misread which control number went with which circle at control 32 and therefore mispunch (wasn't checking codes) forcing me to backtrack (around one of many inconveniently situated buildings with a distressingly high ratio of perimeter to enclosed area) from the next control when I noticed the suspiciously blank space in the lower thirties section of the control card. Distance is traditional straight line between controls in the order I took them; appropriate multiplier for actual distance presumably even higher than usual given all the buildings to go around. Ted Good gives his distance as slightly over 11 km so I assume he was measuring minimum runnable distance.

Control pickup.

A Saturday without mapping - such a refreshing notion.

First T-shirted commute of the year though only for the trip in.

Normal commute - first time this year in fingerless gloves.

Commute plus second grocery shopping expedition after returning home - the cupboard was all but bare after a weekend entirely devoted to orienteering/mapping.