Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Last day of fieldchecking at Occoquan. Contra my writeup of the last session, I hadn't quite surveyed everything east of the road for mappable vegetation and the area I hadn't covered contains four controls. Did all of that plus the areas west of the road that were still outstanding. The result won't be the best I could do given unlimited time (though perhaps it's just as well I don't have unlimited time to obsess over trying to get the vegetation mapping perfect - there'd definitely be severely diminishing returns) but it will at least be a first draft of the vegetation throughout the areas the courses will take people through and I'm confident no large areas of green are omitted.

Event: QOC Wheaton Regional Park
 

Wheaton Superbowl Saturday Stumbling Goat - Blue, though the Goat part didn't really apply to the blue course, which involved doing all of the windows. Started off not too madly and took to the end of the first window to move up into contact with Johan, Dan, Ryan and a couple of other people, some of whom may have skipped the first window. Johan and dropped Dan partway through the second window. I pulled away from a tiring Johan leaving the third window. Ran much of the fourth window with Ryan, who was doing red - don't know for sure which window he skipped. Pulled away from him on the way to the fifth window. Finished a minute or two behind Amber, who was doing the green/female version of the course and passed us all in one window or another, presumably, without my ever seeing her. If David's assessments area on the money, I apparently only took one of the five windows in the optimal order (maybe two, he rated one window basically a tossup between two orders).

C • Windows 2

Control pickup - shuffled around 7 of 8 controls before noticing that in fact the outline of my area of responsibility included a 9th control. Jogged maybe 600m extra on that account.

Cycling to work. Home in rental car since I have a last day of fieldwork to do at Occoquan on Sunday and need to bring some of the epunch equipment to Wheaton on Saturday.

Work commute. Week would have been less boring exercise-wise if I hadn't been spending the evenings largely on OCAD cartography. Should be worth it though, come Sunday.

Work commute.

Work commute.

Home from work in the evening.