Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: Buffalo Orienteering Festival
 

Hunters Creek Park - middle distance course at Buffalo A-meet. Got really confused by the map and the area, leading to lots of mistakes

Sprint at Emery Park, Buffalo A-meet. Wicked fast race, and really enjoyed it, although I felt like I was running in wet cement. Some pretty fast times were posted. Technically, this was probably the easiest sprint I have been in, but lots of fun.

Middle - Green X - Splits

Sprint - Course 2 - Splits

First golf outing of the season, 9 holes at Rockledge with some friends. Good that I didn't arrive early enough to hit practice balls, as I would have left my game there. A fair amount of discomfort in both my left shoulder and my right forearm (a pretty bad case of tennis elbow the last 6 weeks), and several sideways shots in the first two holes, but then settled down and played reasonably well. Shots were about 2 clubs shorter - not surprising. Still had a birdie and a couple of pars, so a success, and home to the ice pack.

C • SNMT 6

Art Sweeton loop (26:57) and then down the driveway to get trashcan and mail.

Event: Billygoat
 

31st annual Billygoat. Pretty good run, although not too spunky through the woods. Lost a couple of minutes at #2, where instead of just following the stream of folks I listened to someone nearby who thought we were going too low and spent some time milling around. Skipped 4 and took left fork to #5, where I got frustrated by finding a likely looking boulder with a vetting streamer on it. Then ok, and mostly by myself, until catching up with J-J and Stephen around #10, then following a distant Jim Henderson and Pete Bunschuh on the long trail route to #13, and eventually getting into a big pack, including Tony Federer, Steve Tarry, Paul Bennett, Phil Bricker and a few others. When the pack broke up after #20 I stayed with Steve T, and lost about a minute to others who seem to have gone the long way around on the trail. Pack of 7 at the penultimate control, of whom I was 7th, but had a nice finishing sprint to lead them all in.

C • vetting streamer, 5L 2

Victory for Erik today at the Billygoat, the most prestigious orienteering event in this hemisphere. Nicely done!

Billygoat - Splits