Training Log Archive: mikeminium

Event: ICO Yellowwood
 

Event: NTOA Texas Stampede VII
 

ICO "Red" course at Yellowwood State Forest. A mass start and a very rugged goat-like course. Navigation was not exceptionally difficult, but the course was very physical. Chasing davidwaller and sometimes seeing other people kept the motivation up and made it exciting. I gradually fell behind Dave the first 6 controls, but met a very fast runner who was returning to 6 as I was leaving it. This other runner beat me up the hill to 7, although not by much. Just after leaving 7, who should I see coming the other way but Dave! I was excited that I had caught him.

But it was short lived. I beat Dave to 8, but he was right behind me to 8 and 9, then we made different route choices to 10. I got hung up in thick brush and by the time I popped out of it, Dave was well ahead again. I kept him in sight through 10 and 11 but we chose different routes to 12. When next I saw him, he was slowly climbing the mountain to 12, almost at the top, and I was just starting the steep 45-50 meter ascent.

Little did I know that he would make a mistake going to 13, and so for the rest of the course I thought I was behind him when actually I was ahead. And we both passed the other runner at some point and stayed ahead of him.

Of course, Mattias, Mintore, and Tom S kicked our butts. But overall I was not displeased with the day. I cornered a lot of ground and navigated pretty cleanly.

Putting out 4 controls at Mitchell and checking two others. Thanks to dylpop and davidwaller for assisting.

Red - Splits

Setting controls at Mitchell.

To auto repair shop to pick up the van.

Sprint at Univ of Arizona campus.
Included a minute or so each way jogging from where we started outside parking garage to the mapped start / finish 2 blocks away.

TUS and IND airports.

Pull ups on the front porch beams at Kentucky Camp. I think TaiwanMike had the highest total with 15.

C • And you... 3

Picking up pin flags Erin had set for JST training.

window-O training course

Placed pin flags at 3 control points at KY Camp for JST training. Hilly terrain, lots of small rocks underfoot, and I spent a long time verifying one rather tricky location. Wouldn't have had any problem if a tape or flag was already there, but there were lots of potential parallel errors, and a mapped boulder that did not exist in reality caused a little consternation and a lot of double checking. Everything else matched, but I had to convince myself that the cliffs I was seeing were the mapped ones, and that the mapped boulder simply was not there.

Catalina State Park. Green course. Lower and faster terrain than yesterday.

Control pickup at Catalina. Picked up pin flags used for JST training and set by Erin and Becky. Some tricky locations!

Sprint relay (JST training) at Catalina. Paired with Matej Sebo.

Time and distance approximate.