Training Log Archive: Sandy

Several hours of yard work. I've got too much stuff that grows like crazy in my yard.l

C • I know 5

meadow loop with Sandy

session with trainer

class at gym - she worked us hard but more importantly she started and ended on time

Picking up more flags from the Rootstock race. Once more I did not have a proper adventure racing mindset. Doing fine until a little after mile 5. The control (which I never got) was in the saddle between the mile 6 and mile 7 marker. But that whole area was enclosed with a 10 or 12 foot high wire fence. There was a gate with a lovely looking road going where I wanted to go but the gate had a chain around the opening so I assumed it was locked and that the control wasn't in there. So I searched around the edge of the fence looking for another way in. But the fenced area was huge and I could not find another way in. Finally gave up and headed over to pick up a control to the SE (which I went right to but didn't see and hunted up and down the trail a bit before deciding I was definitely at the correct stream/trail junction and it had to be somewhere and then saw it. I swear I must have been two feet from it initially and just didn't see it. On the way back from that decided to give the saddle control one more shot and the line NE from the 8 mile marker shows where that side of the fence was. Realized I was one reentrant two far to the east and followed the fence around to where I had been before and gave up. Texted Abby who I think said it was inside the fencing (the texts were a little garbled). Makes no sense to me but maybe the gate was open during the race. The rest of the controls were fine.

Another beautiful day in some beautiful woods. Would be fun to hike around there with an accurate trail map. Was surprised to cross the Loyalsock Trail a couple times when I wasn't expecting it.

6 hours was tough. Not sure I can do a 24 hour rogaine. Will have to really think about that some.

C • Text 3

Picking up some flags from last weekend's Rootstock race. Got too high right away and had to backtrack down to the first control, then climbed to the top of the ridge using the trail for the last bit. At first it was beautiful up there but then ran into mountain laurel (checked out the ridge to see if there was maybe a trail along there but there wasn't) and just bashed my way through occasionally finding an old road to follow for a bit. Got the control and then lots more mountain laurel bashing until I got to the swamp where the next control was. REALLY had trouble finding the control on the swamp even though I knew I was at the right swamp - circled it several times thinking I must have missed it. I didn't believe I had to actually go in the swamp to get the flag but I did.

Was able to take trails most of the way to the next one and then opted for the trail option back down.

The weather report was for thunderstorms in the late afternoon so I decided I wasn't going to be able to get all the others in that section so just went and got an easy one down a spur off a road.