Training Log Archive: bbrooke

Runner's Roost group run -- from the store, up McCaslin to Davidson Mesa, southwest on the mesa trail out to the Hwy 36 bike path, and then back to the store. Birthday cake and beer afterwards...yum.

I didn't expect to like this as much as I did -- "Belgian-Style White Ale with Passionfruit".

C • beer 2

Insane work hours continue...no yoga on Monday night, no plyo on Tuesday night. :-\

GPHXO Two-Hour Score-O @ Saguaro Lake

Another fun day. Unlike last night, when I could run most of the time on trails, there were no trails on this map. Also, the footing was loose & rocky, especially on the steep downhill sections, and I'm ridiculously slow and tentative in that kind of terrain.

So, the loop I picked may not have been ideal, considering how slow I was ultimately moving. Also, I ran out of time to get the last 50-point control I had planned for near the end (#51), and there wasn't else anything for me to pick up along the mile+ road-run on the way back to the finish. I really had to push my pace for that last mile -- didn't want to go over the time limit again. I was SO happy to come around a bend in the road and see the finish area -- with about a minute to spare. :-P

I wish this event had had a four-hour option -- I was enjoying the course and I could have picked up a lot more controls!

Event: GPHXO December Orienteering Weekend
 

GPHXO Two-Hour Night-Score-O @ Coon Bluff in Phoenix.

The best route was pretty obvious, and the controls were all very close to trails or washes.

So I should have been able to clean the course -- but I was very much thrown off by the scale. I didn't realize it was not actually 1:10,000 (as printed on the map) until long after I had blown past #30. I thought it was too far to go back for, but in retrospect I totally should have done that.

I tried to get it at the end, sprinting a LONG way out and back from the start / finish area at a really uncomfortable pace, but I didn't find it (even though my tracks show I was right on top of it at one point) and got back 45 seconds late. DOH!

But -- VERY fun overall. (I measured later, and the scale was more like 1:8,000.)