Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Hanging the white and most of the yellow courses at Bowie and pickup of 9 controls after the meet. Courses were mostly well-received (Eddie referring to the Blue course as a quagmire being a notable exception) though it appears the number of controls I threw at the brown and green courses may have been something of a shock.

From force of habit I neglected to mention in first logging this that this was Dan's first orienteering meet (background: take about two thirds of the films and dance performances mentioned in my log since August and add that I was going to them with a petite woman named Dan (not short for "Danielle" but for "Dan Tam" - Vietnamese for "Good Heart" apparently)). She has quite lovely running form with everything moving backwards and forwards rather than side to side (not that I'm not biased) but has greater directional challenges when it comes to whole body movements, i.e. she did the white course with a couple of moderately epic takings of the wrong path out of a junction and then about half of the yellow course with fewer of those but other difficulties before she abandoned it to make the deadline for reporting to the finish. Not a bad first outing.

Biking out to Bowie to finish vetting my courses and hang all the advanced controls.

Very slow vetting of the control locations I didn't manage to reach last Saturday plus hanging about 40 bags and putting water at the four water controls. Six hours less half an hour stationary in the meet director's car once he arrived less time for standing still at controls.

Run into work through Rock Creek Park.

C • Commute 1

Bike home loaded with controls which I sorted into the planned hanging order before heading to bed. No stretching - backsliding already.

Commute in but not home - took Metro to classical recital at University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, soon to be Heidi Onkst's employer.

Another standard commute with a stop for groceries enroute. Also a repeat of the stretching at home.

Utterly standard commute. Did some stretching during the evening - time to do something about my belief that my recent hamstring problems are likely related to a loss of flexibility as my time dancing and warming up for same has gone down and my running has increased.

C • 7

Commute and grocery shopping.