Training Log Archive: RLShadow

Indoors at the Rec Center.

Ultra run going on outside the Rec Center, on the paved 1-mile path.

C • Webster Rec Center 1

Urban walk with Homer, mainly to check out the last day of Spiderman filming, and also to check out Control 42 (Monroe HS; # of pillars) as one person answered 6 instead of the intended answer of 8 (which everyone else who answered the question got). He's communicated with me by e-mail about how he couldn't understand how he got it wrong (not that he was upset about it though), so I decided to see if there was anything tricky about it, as it had been a while since I had come up with it and I couldn't picture what it looked like. Conclusion -- nothing tricky whatsoever, very clearly 8 pillars. I took a picture and will send it to him, to find out if he was looking at what I (and apparently everyone else) was looking at, or if he was somehow in a different location.

Saw lots of the set of Spiderman, including actors dressed like NYC policemen and policewomen hanging around waiting. I bet there are at least 30 NYC police cars. I was places where I almost felt like I shouldn't be, as there were so many crew people around and all kinds of equipment, vehicles for the scenes, etc. But once again, I failed to see any action ...

Some pictures from the Spiderman set:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200096...

C • pillars 4

Indoors at the Rec Center. Warm and steamy inside.

Late morning walk with Homer around the big block -- end of Woodland through the woods to Heathland, then to Maple, Rt. 104 path, Bay Rd, and back to Woodland. No GPS carried -- distance from previous big block walks.

Did the 5-hour Rochester Map Adventure course. Obviously I'm familiar with the course, but I think this offers fairly little advantage in terms of finding controls or navigating to them, and only very modest advantage in terms of route planning. Especially since I really didn't have a solid idea of what my strategy would be when I set out. But once at the control circle, I obviously knew what to look for, so that is an advantage over someone doing it without being familiar with it.

I see that the GPS deleted the tracks at the beginning of the walk, because it must have been "full". But it still counted the distance. Basically, in the section that was deleted, I had done the cemetery and the U of R.

I made it to 55 controls.

My route: Cemetery controls (5), then U of R controls (4), then:
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C • Send us a hard copy please ... 2

Track from the Forerunner 10 which I carried in my Camelbak. The battery ran out at the 4:14 mark (after 14.14 miles). One of my frustrations with the FR 10 is the short battery life.

But at least this has the track at the beginning of my walk unlike the FR205 ...