Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Home to Onkst's to catch a lift to Broad Creek, then back. A roadie annoyingly blew by me on Beach Drive near the end of my ride in the morning but it emerged that he was on a breakaway from his club ride in order to build up enough of a gap to duck into a washroom without losing them. Which I can live with.

QOC Broad Creek Blue - nothing like enough care in the vague area of large countour features at the end of the first leg. Overshot to the trail beyond it and had to come back. Also did a bit of a wander on the long leg to 9, though without losing major time. Lost three splits to Nadim late in the course, two by 20 seconds mostly down to being insufficiently careful and then a bit tentative in recovering, one by almost 2 minutes due to not concentrating enough to maintain map contact crossing the center of the scout camp and ending up going through an awful area of deadfall in the last few hundred meters before the control. An okay though not great race but an absolutely lovely day.

Picked up 12 controls in the western part of the map.

Blue - Splits

To Metro at an ungodly hour then out to Fountainhead and back.

Scouted the trails on the Fountainhead West map before the map raising started at 11am - didn't want to give someone inaccurate instructions on what new trails to try and map. Just as well I did - one small trail I had encountered in the past has been neglected to the point of disappearing. At least, it was undetectable under the leaf cover.

A first for me - I surprised a large day hunting owl that had just caught a squirrel. It flew off to a nearby tree to eat in peace, taking off when I was about 20 meters away.

The map raising fell somewhat short of my wildest dreams of productivity but I'll declare it a success nonetheless. I may try to get out and do some more work on the map Thanksgiving weekend and some of the participants expressed an interest in doing some more work on the map as well.

Near sprint from Foggy Bottom Metro to Kennedy Center since I was very near to being late for Bangarra Dance Theater.

A's, bum kicks and a little bit of a one-legged squatting/skating technique simulation exercise my university nordic ski team used to do occasionally - probably good for ankle strength as well as balance. No strides since it is very difficult to watch election returns and do them at the same time.

A bit more continuously active than some recent classes. Nejla added an opening section of follow-the-leaderish structured improv to the piece.