Training Log Archive: Tundra/Desert

Ran from the apartment to the end of Market St. on the Twin Peaks hill, past the sleeping homeless, rainbow flags, tiny million-dollar houses with views, on the empty street at 6 in the morning. Then back.

In the middle of the night (Saturday), woke up, got out of the apartment, ran to Caltrain and then the GG Bridge roundtrip (1/3, 2). Halfway (Ft. Point): 1:25:54; picked it up on the return. Saw very few humans. Some people were cooking crab at Fisherman's Wharf, there were about 5 park rangers by the bridge, and a really creepy 300-lb man dressed in all black was walking the waterfront, also by the bridge... two aged ultrarunners... that was it.

Note for the future: the Ft. Mason hill is 22 m high. In the past, I counted the roundtrip as 26 m... I guess sometimes, you do undercount.

Event: National Winter Training Camp
 

This was a very difficult day. Almost got arrested. Don't ask.

Walked/ran with Allison in the morning; no reason to log, HR probably under 100.

Later on, did another 3.5 hours of mapping, this time on Shockley Ranch. Contours, the few of them, are dead on. The vegetation could not have possibly been correct even in 1995.

Ran partway back to DeLand from the Woodpeckers. It was a warm, pleasant evening. No alligators spotted, nor hunters.

6 hours of mapping at Woodpecker Hill. For terrain so defined by vegetation, the mapping of such could sure punch more weight. As is, it's highly questionable in both interpretation and planimetric accuracy. The former can be discounted on normal aging, but the latter cannot. 30–40-m errors; Google says so.

It does not look like there is nearly enough time to bring the whole 20+ km² into vegetational compliance; I'll try my best near control sites, but large chunks in-between will be left with vague vertical green lines filling space that rightfully deserves some distinct veggie boundaries in all three colors. So, I decided to not place any controls on vegetation, unless mapped in exquisite detail AND relief nearby is already taken for other controls.

There were still some hunters in the woods. Plenty of dogs running around, some trucks, some ATVers. About two gunshots, and saw two unharmed deer.

The hipster party was alright I guess, as far as hipster parties go. Could have been anyplace save the palm trees. And, we were pretty late because of my delayed flight, so ethanol consumption this New Year was radically unlike last one.

I spent the rest of the day in the house of a FLO member, Mike Dempsey, entering map corrections generated during the previous, November trip to the Woodpeckers. Yeah, just like that... never got a chance (right) to do it in all of December, and wasted a full day on location on computer work.