Training Log Archive: Spike

A strange race. I was running and then reading. I should have been reading and then running. I had a couple of sloppy legs.

I also went into the deep mud - well over my waste. That mud was strange. My map got coated and I had trouble getting it clean enough to read throughout the rest of the course. Cutting through the stream also was on the straight line and that was the wrong choice because of the big fence that was on the straight line. I hadn't seen the fence until I got out of the stream.

I saw Frank Skorina on the course. That was fun. I haven't seen him in a few years.

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I jogged around on West Campus for a bit. I felt ok. On the way home Mary passed me in her car. That was kind of fun.

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Trail run at Rockhaven. I carried the map and read it quite a bit - actually getting some O' practice. But, I also spent about half of the run on the trails that are west of the map. That stuff is all on a basemap, but not on the Rockhaven map I was carrying.

I fell down after about half an hour and did something to my left shoulder. It was uncomfortable for the first few minutes after falling, then felt fine. But then when I stopped at the end, the should was uncomfortable again.

The weather was nice and it has been getting colder and wetter since we finished. When we ran the temp was about 52F Right now it is about 40F and a bit windy and a bit wet. Perfect conditions for baking bullar. So I'm baking bullar. When that's done I'll go get ingredients for dinner and might go over to the Baker Wetlands for a bit of a walk.

Running felt good. I was expecting to feel a bit tired from yesterday and actually felt better than yesterday. I guess that means I was going even easier than I thought.

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I jogged around on the trails at Slough Creek. Nice day. I saw a tortoise on the trail.

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Slough Creek update: I jogged the trails I hadn't been on and got GPS tracks. The tracks combined with the vegetation made it pretty easy to add the trail. The trail that heads east-west across the map doesn't get much use. I mapped it as an indistinct trail. My basic rule of thumb was if I was looking for the blazes to figure out where the trail went, rather than looking at the trail itself, then it was an indistinct trail. Where the trail crossed fields, I didn't draw it on the map.

I saw a few other features, like some ditches and a couple of hunter stands. I added those based on my memory and the lidar ground slope image.

Overall, the lidar-based vegetation is really good. It isn't perfect, but it is quite good.

And some non-Slough Creek notes....I figured out how to get the Microsoft building footprint data for Missouri. The geojson file is big. It didn't work through mapshaper.org. I tried using ogr2ogr in QGIS. That worked fine for small files (like Washington DC). I set the Missouri data to run overnight. When I woke up this morning QGIS had crashed at 4:22 a.m. and I got no results. I think it must be memory on my PC. So I read a bit online and decided to try mapshaper.org but using Firefox as my browser. And that worked!

I'm not really sure what I'll do with the building footprint data. It would be good for something like a big street O' map. It looks like the data is pretty good within Yellowstone, so I might make a couple of Yellowstone skiing maps.