Training Log Archive: Sandy

First round of putting out stakes for the Stumble. While I really just wanted to stay home and relax, I had to be at the park to check us out of the Camp Daddy Allen area from the weekend. Since I had to be at the park anyway and it was a beautiful day, I decided to get started on Stumble stakes. It's supposed to rain Wed-Thurs-Fri and I really don't want to be out in the rain if I don't have to, so it made sense to get started.

I must have really been tired though. At about half the controls (I did 13), I was standing within 5 feet of the streamer thinking I was sure I had navigated just fine into the control, what could I possibly have done wrong, how could I not be in the right spot, oh, there's the streamer just above my head. And then I would spend 5 minutes trying to find a spot to hammer in the stake that wasn't solid rock.

The mosquitos were out but didn't seem quite as bad as last week. And it really was a beautiful day.

Event: DVOA Hickory Run Sand Spring
 

A lot of time on my feet, but just standing around taking care of day of event stuff. Most people seemed happy with the courses. I worried that Orange was too challenging but most people did what I expected and were fine. We didn't have a lot of DNFs so that was good.

Not many people took us up on the free sprint we added at the last minute but that's okay. More note paper for me. :)

Had awesome help with control pickup so didn't have to go back out again. Yay!

Times were on the longish side; I now have a whole new set of things to worry about for the Stumble, e.g. whether a lot of people will be out longer than 5 hours.

Hooboy - my abs are sore today! Guess yesterday's ab section really was tough.

Another outing of swatting mosquitos every time I stopped to put out a control. It was okay while I was moving so hopefully it won't be too bad for people on the courses tomorrow.

I spent another hour or so putting out controls in the camp area but I was lazy and drove my car around jumping out to small loops of 2 or 3 controls and then driving to the next group so I won't log that as training. In addition to saving some time it also gave me brief respites from the bugs.

Oof. Not really psyched to do this workout and the ab section at the end was a test of willpower.

The weather looked okay today but raining all day tomorrow so I went to HR and put out about half the controls for Sunday. I'll do the rest on Saturday.

The mosquitos were swarming me every time I stopped to put out a control. It was really bad. So bad that I almost quit after this first loop but then figured I should HTFU and I got out and did a second loop after a brief respite in my car. It was brutal!

Neighborhood loop. Tried to keep up the pace. The first mile was a struggle and then the longish hill in the middle.