Training Log Archive: L-Jackson

Event: ROC - Oatka Creek Park
 

ROC Oatka Creek - After walking the white with the kids - I planned on only doing the sprint - so I went pretty hard. I also did not have any fatigue from running another course. Navigating went well until #7, where I was using a patch of light green to gauge where I was going to leave the trail and head for the control. Apparently the green area was larger and my catching feature behind the control wasn't much of a trail - so I overshot it by 100 m and stood at another control scratching my head for a few seconds. Quickly realized I overshot it, but I did not realize it was by that much. I never did see the trail.... Only other bobble was pulling up to soon at another control on my way into #11.

ROC Oatka - Orange 'Random-O' - 15 controls. The kids and Kameron were well occupied so I decided to go back out. I tried to avoid the controls to the south that were in the heavy green and would lead to long round-about trail runs. Three controls in, I thought I would switch to the green course and go after 20 controls, which lead to a some bad planning. I went after #21 after my route was leading me to #24 so I could get 20. Fortunately the rough open w/ green slash was not grown up yet and the running was not too bad - but it led me way out of the way. Did well navigating until #15 where I circled all the way around the control and was so far off that I had to go to #17 to get the control and relocate. Then I had a 90 degree error at a corner of two stone walls and added 400m to my run. Was going well from there until I rolled my ankle going into #11 and then decided to stick with Orange (although I did 16 controls).

C • Stone walls at Oatka... 2

Sprint - Splits

The advantage to working at home is that I can start my day w/o showering than easily get in a run and a shower in at lunch time. Unfortunately we are signing a lease sometime tomorrow and I will be in a more traditional office setting in about 3 weeks. The office will be right off the Genesee Valley Trail, so riding the towpath to work is a realistic possibility.

Route -Cobbs Lane out to Linden road then back through the village.