Training Log Archive: TomN

Georgia Navigator Cup, Day 1 Brown. Hey, it's the first color change in my orienteering lifetime, and also the last one. The woods were fast and open, and there was not much climb on this course -- mainly in the long uphill to the top of the ridge before #4.

I had a little bit of trouble finding #1 in the pit, a bingo control. Fast on the long leg to #3, went just high enough on the hill to count the reentrants, and spiked the control coming down. But an amazing screw-up on the next long leg to #6. Something went wrong after I left #5, and I lost track of where I was. Pushed on towards the west and came to a big creek, but which one was it? Oh, they all join just to the north, so I'll find that and everything will be great. Well, I must have already been north of the junction, because I got nearly up to the lake (which was off the map). I angled back to the SW and finally got to the dirt road, which was actually my original plan of attack.

Day 1 - Brown - Splits

Event: GNC 2017: Georgia Navigator Cup
 

Hey, finally, a bike to work day! Getting out on that route today was really fine. There was sun in places, but the trails and roads were kind of wet, and I picked up a lot of road splatter. Most of it stuck on my hydration pack, which now boasts a great looking black dotted pattern.

Neighborhood run in the morning. It was just above freezing, and the roads were slippery in places, but the potential for warmth was in the air. By 10 a.m. it was mid 40s.

A modified Daily Challenge. Lost the ling plank and wall-sit, added figure-8s.

Event: QOC Little Bennett Day-O
 

QOC Little Bennett Green. Yikes, I ran off without my brain. I was confused and error-prone the whole way through. The conditions were somewhat difficult -- 22 degrees with some wind, a drift of light snow on frozen ground -- but after the first few controls I felt comfortable enough. But for whatever reason I couldn't focus on the map and couldn't keep a plan in my head. Let's hope for better performance in Georgia next week.

Back out again to pick up controls. I cleaned up the water stop near the trail and left the trash bag and extra water at the trail junction, to grab and run back in after I had picked up the 8 controls on the other side of the trail. Came back out with the 8 controls, but there was no trash bag. Did I really leave it here? Is there another trail junction? WTF? It turned out Vido had come through a few minutes before me, seen it there, and carried it back in.

Green - Splits