Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Commute.

Event: Hudson Highlander XVII
 

Event: QOC Lake Accotink
 

QOC Lake Accotink Red - no compass again and this time I paid for it at least once, not being confident where I was when I hit a stream and didn't see the stream bend control on what appeared to me to be the correct bend. Went rather far upstream to achieve certainty before sweeping back downstream until I hit the control. May have been clearly one bend off; may have been okay; hard to be sure without taking a lot of time to carefully compare the mostly okay but could use an update on a higher quality basemap without significant spatial distortions. That was control 7. Felt control 8 was clearly mishung in the next reentrant to the south but that was also the direction of attack so no time lost. There may also have been some map funkiness involved in this one. Will be back to compass-aided navigation for the next several outings - Stumble, Hamilton and New Hampshire.

Red - Splits

Commute.

Commute, usw.

CCT time trial - don't know where this improvement on best previous time came from since I didn't feel better than average at the beginning. Lost some time to traffic jams making it unsafe to pass in the early going, then maybe gained some or at least got a bit of a rest for a final sprint - a roadie who had drafted off me for a couple of kilometers passed me and then I slowly caught back up, then stayed behind him for another kilometer or so since I only felt barely able to exceed his speed and passing him would have been a grindingly slow affair and arguably unsafe in the face of occasional oncoming traffic on the path. Only passed him again with about a kilometer to go.

Commute plus shopping.

CCT time trial in dusky conditions.