Training Log Archive: X8A7

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Orienteering TT at Superfly Marsh, 10.3 km straight line, red. The map was 1:15000, which caused me problems. I think my eyes are starting to go because I, quite honestly, could not see the fine features on the map. I tried holding close, but it wasn't in focus, I could hold farther away, but then things were too small. #1, I ran right past, I didn't see it, but I wasn't sure what to look for in detail. #2 was easy because I saw that looking for #1, but by then I was already down on Tyler and the other guy. #3 I was a bit timid, and I went the wrong direction to #4, I knew I had no idea what I was doing, so went N and quickly relocated off the road. Miraculously found #5 because I still couldn't make out the detail, but then quickly went 4-5-6 because I started to connect to the map and could somehow start to see features on the map. Leaving 6 I saw Tyler going down a spur to the south and he looked lost, but he could have been heading to 7 (afterwards he said he lost track of what control he was on and re-ran 4-5-6 even though he already did all that!?!). Things started to go better as I just started to ignore any detail I couldn't see on the map and just used the big features and went for the circle center. Heading to 9 I started to pick up the other guy in the distance. Leaving 9 I could see him heading more west, while I chose going for the Superfly Marsh pond, which wasn't the best as I had to do a bit of picking my way through some muck, but it worked out fine and I could see I was now ahead of the other guy because he was working his way back east towards the line I was on. From there it was just one heck of a hard run with stiff winds from the west and a fair amount of uphill. It was a good workout. Anyway, probably should get the eyes check, not sure when I'll have time to deal with that with the 9 month state penitentiary sentence starting tomorrow.
quickroute: https://www.flickr.com/photos/98725947@N05/4865602...

Running towards the finish, Tom Thumb looked like sedimentary rock to me, which would be interesting. So after watching Tyler and the other guy come in a few minutes after me, Tyler and I went to Tom Thumb, which is just granite with horizontal joints, then we ran up to the prospect on the north of the map, they mined out a pegmatite, maybe for big biotite? Running back to the cars my tendonitis in my knee started to act up, so I started to walk, which was fine and I was pretty dead by then.

Drove down to the hive in the morning, picked up the new roller skis. Tried them out, my hope is that the would be the same or better than the ones I broke, but they are much heavier, which causes a lot of clunkiness on the feet when kicking, and the vibration was noticeably worse. Kinda frustrating, but hopefully I'll get used to them. Wasn't feeling the best, even with a near full night of sleep. Parked the the end of the Sheeps Draw extension, skied to PLC and back.

commute, 2nd night of bad insomnia, so didn't have the energy to train.

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New way to Island Grove.

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Running club. It was overcast and cooler, but humid, but I'd rather have that than the upper 90sF crap. 8, 7, 6, 5min, with a short 1min rest. It was barely enough time to get back to the start (which I missed once) or even catch my breath really. I managed a good workout, paces were 6:10, 07, 00, 5:52. Hope I can get a bit faster in the coming weeks though.

C • Orienteering 2

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