Training Log Archive: Nadim

Blockhouse Conservation Park, Potomac, MD. Peggy whipped together 4 training courses on the old Blockhouse map that I first started field checking in 2006. I'd made some updates to the map over the years, but none of it was a comprehensive update. Much of the map held up okay, and the woods are generally nice for meteorological summer in this area. The old root stocks didn't hold up of course, and since this map was my first, there were many smaller things not quite right. There were too many dot knolls and some point features were not placed well, including some ditches and gullies. The GPS I use today is better than my watch, that I used to use for field checking; so some trails were not good. Though the base map was made with 5m contours, I never had finer detail so even some smaller reentrants and reentrant tops had an uncertain feel.

Though my right knee was feeling better today, I didn't run the training. I could still feel it enough to know better than to try. About 8 others came and ran. We went out to dinner in Potomac Village later. That was the first time eating out in a mixed group in a restaurant since March 2020. While people ran, I used the time to update the map. Peggy had told me of finding some new trails and it took almost all of this time to get GPS tracks on them. I did update a few point features, etc... I may come back some more over the summer since the woods are pretty open.