Training Log Archive: furlong47

The Great Pumpkin Run at Savidge Farm. My friend wanted to do this, so I signed up with her, then she felt sick this morning and bailed anyway. Oh well, used to going to races by myself.

I allotted a lot of time before the run, which friend didn't think we would need, but ended up walking into the corral 3 minutes before my assigned wave, so definitely leaving the same time if we do this next year. I was at the far end of parking which was a 10ish minute walk to packet pickup, which had a 30 minute line, then back to the car to put stuff away and get sunscreen, etc, then back to that same area, bathroom line, and then a little more walking to the start.

The course was pretty fun and fairly flat, but most of it was in the open and the day was extremely unseasonably hot. I didn't push and did a lot of walking. It went into the woods, across a little bridge (I took the less congested splash through the stream option, which for some reason always amuses people) wound back and forth among rows of corn and pumpkins, with a little more woods in between, and ended through the farm's corn maze.

My Garmin measured the course as short (4.74 km) but MapMyRun measured exactly 3.11 miles so not sure what is right. I did hear others thinking it was short. But I feel better about my crappy time if it was at least the right distance.

Still managed 602/2367 and 147/605 in division but there were a ton of recreational walkers.

C • splash through the stream 3

Lesson on Patrick. Indoors now for the winter :-(

ROC Fall Classic - Letchworth State Park West - Green Y (F35+)

Beginning of this course was shades of yesterday, but with more options to avoid climb. After a short jaunt on trails out of the start, for 1, 2, and 3 I pretty much went straight at them while picking off features.

To 4, went down to the stream, found a decent place to climb up to the trail, then went along the trail to the S until I found a less large/steep climb to the top of the hill. Then went along the top of the steep edge picking off features again until I found it.

Across a comparably semi-flat area to the trail, noted the big rootstock, followed the intermittent stream down, saw the rocky area, nailed 5.

Here I went left to avoid the large up and down, bowing around to the trail and then dropping down to the lower trail pretty close to their junction anyway. Passed the pond and building, dropped into the woods and walked along the top of the long, narrow spur to 6. Then back along the top in the opposite direction, between building and pond, and from pond corner could see 7.

A little climb out of here, but nothing compared to yesterday, across both trails and in to 8. Now came probably the worst climb of the day, after crossing the stream, getting back up to the main trail.

NW along the trail briefly, then cut in to 9 from the reentrant S of it. A bit of a bash through some slightly thorny stuff and a lot of ferns with slippery logs under them to slam my legs into. But I popped right out at the little pond, which really was pretty much a marsh.

Headed for next big trail to the E, although drifted N more than I would have liked and caught the marsh near the top of it. Went up to the trail at the top of the map and followed that along, then in as it curved away from the open OOB area, then cut through the woods using the OOB as a handrail on my left, across marsh, hit telephone line, and used the (blazed, not really very indistinct) trail to go to 10, which was basically right on the trail.

The rest of this was trails, with controls right by them, a nice flat and forgiving end to the weekend.

Day 2 - Green Y - Splits