Training Log Archive: abiperk

Primers

Third weekend in a row of family geocaching/letter boxing adventures. Recording this one here because it involved a lot of bushwhacking and sidehilling with Simon in the ergo. Definitely good stability training!

Metcon - 10x40sec hard/20sec recovery

Run/hike with Laurie, followed by bimbimbap at the Chestnut Hill Farmers Market. 20 degree real feel. Hip still a little bit stiff, but not sore and hitching like Saturday.

Clearing the XC orienteering course with broots - about 30 degrees colder than yesterday. Didn't have to guess where the bonus map was this time around.

To GA. Lots of red lights.

Broots designed a mini-rogaine on GA's campus for the XC team - 20 paired CPs (IE - have to get F1 and B1 to get one point), plus 5 unmapped bonus CPs unlocked at random controls along the course. I joined forced with two of the captains. We cleared the course but missed one of the bonus maps. We weren't sure which one had that bonus so revisited B4, at the far western end of the creek, then circled back to the finish empty handed. We had 6 minutes left on the clock, and it occurred to me that the missing map may have been at our first point of the day, F2 at the top of the soccer field. We booked it over, and it was, indeed, there, but the bonus point was on the other side of campus. We didn't have time to get it, so we headed back to the finish. Turned out almost everyone missed that map in the chaotic cluster at that CP. We won the women's division and came in second overall to the two boys' coaches, who missed two of the bonus points and got lucky in their retracing to find them, then dashed around to retrieve the mapped points, coming in with 23 seconds to spare. They ran an extra 1.5 miles to get them - impressive. A super fun afternoon. We gave leftover Rootstock medals to all participants.