Training Log Archive: ernst

O-event organized by Deb. Green Course. At Urban Forestry Center in Portsmouth. Good turnout, given that the season's first snowstorm just started around noon. Fun event, a "long sprint" - the area is easy for navigation with lots of trails, fields, salt marshes etc. About an 80 s mistake at 1 - simply started out too fast, got startled by the wood staging area , went around on road instead of using the direct route through the strip of forest - I did not expect the map to be accurate around here. The remainder was fine, a couple places where I thought the controls were inaccurate, but it turned out the map was not quite accurate.
Fun event with quite some competition on Green. I won it but 4 others following within 5 minutes behind. (Alar, runner fr Portsmouth, Mason, J.J.)

Run to work, usual route. Barely made it before the last class of the semester.

Biking home and picking up fish.

Run to work - left around (over myhill) Spruce Hole

Running home, just before dark. Via CW- Spruce Hole.

Run to work. Nice and cold out, makes me run fast. Usual route.

Running home late via W Foss farm. On the fast side.

C • Commuting 2

Bike to work - via dam down.

Running home in the dark and in light rain. Just took it easy, trying not to slip out in places. Not bad bud I was overdressed - near 50 F !

Run to work, usual way.

Running home late. Via W Foss Farm. Pleasantly cold but no wind. Moon rising shining from behind.

Beaver Brook UNO event. 5.3 km straight line distance. After several years of not mastering this map and terrain, I decided to from the get go, to read the contours very carefully even if it meant to slow down more than I am used to. And it worked.
Lost at 1 (misplaced a bit, required stomping through slash), 3 (dropped down early all the way too the trail - would have been too steep otherwise);
lost 1 minute to Alar on 8, due to hesitation and locating the linear reentrants to have a firm attackpoint; bad route choice going N around the trail all the way to stonewall and not seeing a shortcut through rough open area (lost at least 1 minute). The only real bobble was 16, did not see the control from below at the stream, and did not know where I was - I should have seen the water channel, stream junction, but it was the last control which often correlates with sloppiness.

Fun event! J.J, Alar and I finished within 1 minute of each other. Good rivalry and detailed post race analysis of course, over yummy chili and baked goodies. Thanks to the organizers (Fay, Bundschuhs, Ruutopolds, ...)

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