Training Log Archive: P.Stromme

Event: MNOC Terrace Oaks
 

Green course at Terrace Oaks. Not a great race for me. Foggy glasses plus the thick vegetation meant that I couldn't see anything from control 5 to 10. I wandered around 6 for awhile, missed a trail on the way to 7 and had to double back, mistakenly took an unmapped trail to 8 and overshot it, and searched the wrong hilltop at 9.

Distance is a little bit of a guess, because I didn't start my watch until partway to the first control.

Well, that sucked! Yellow course at Terrace Oaks. Even now that I can see exactly what I did, it still doesn't match with what I remember seeing in the woods. I was cutting from one trail to another (about 10m, that I had already crossed during the green course). Somehow, I changed direction within that 10m, and went on a long detour. I quickly realized that I had taken a bad turn, so I adjusted and kept going. I must have adjusted in the wrong direction. By the time I finally came out to a trail, and then finally figured out what trail it was, I got to do the trail-to-trail crossing again--no problems the second time around. Overall, I spent nearly half of my overall time on a single control.

After that, the rest went smoothly, except that my knee started hurting, and I walked the last 4 1/2 controls. I had asked a lot more of my knee than it has been accustomed to lately.

NOTE: I rated the course as "Easy" for technical intensity, because despite my massive screw up, it was pretty simple navigation.

Easy walking, although my knee was still bothering me.

Easy walking, with some knee discomfort.

Green - Splits

Yellow - Splits

Outer hiking loop at Lebanon MTB area.

Mowed, and then raked, spread compost, and seeded a couple of bare spots in the lawn.

Lap at Jensen Lake.

Event: MNOC Interstate State Park , WI
 

Score-O at Interstate State Park (WI). I barely arrived in time, and the maps had already been distributed. Not much time for route planning, but I planned my first few controls as we walked to the start, and figured the rest out on the fly.

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