Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: Susquehanna Stumble
 

Pine Grove Furnace, PA. Warm-up walk/jog to the start of the Susquehanna Stumble on the Hammond Rocks map.

Susquhanna Stumble on the Hammond Rocks (1:10,000) and Pine Grove Furnace (1:15,000)maps. It was a tough course both physically and technically with 40 controls--sunny with temperatures between 45F and 55F. I started out feeling my workout from the day before but did okay through the first window. The rocks and graby underbrush wore me down as I continued the climb up to the top of the course and into the second window. The second and third windows with 6 and 3 controls each were back to back in hilly and rocky areas which made a difficult optimization problem. I screwed things up coming over the top of the hill into the second window and lost nearly all the lost time finding the first control there. Jon Torrance eventually came along and led me and Ted Good into one control which let us relocate and find the others. My route was suboptimal through both these windows losing 523m plus the time relocating. I finished the loop cleanly to the map exchange and made up lost ground. I ran the second loop on the Pine Grove Furnace map (an older and less precise map) all but alone after 3 controls. I had worried about this map the most and studied it the week before the race. It paid off as I hardly made any errors on it. I finished 5th well behind Vadim, Wyatt, Randy and Jon T. See the Split List.

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