Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Rockhouse Mountain (West Point A-meet), 8.1 km, 265 m, 18th (1st M35). Largely a quite good race, but ultimately a minor disaster. I navigated well with the exception of #4, where I went off in totally the wrong direction (thinking I just needed to go "up the hill"), and lost about four minutes fiiguring out where I had gone. I did a nice job on the long route choice leg to #5, and even better on the route choice to #12 (aided by local knowledge from 25 years ago that the edge of the marsh is runnable). But I was almost totally undone by #9. Short leg that should have taken about 3-5 minutes, and I got to the circle in that time, but failed to find the right boulder and couldn't figure out what was what. I went up the hill to relocate twice, tried coming in on careful bearings, and checked a lot of boulders, but I was too high all this time, and the boulder was in what is now a pretty solid patch of laurel (although it doesn't really look that way from the map. So I lost a lot of time, but I did eventually find it and finished the course. Wrenched my ankle yesterday, and managed to re-tweak it several times today, so it probably deserves a bit of rest.

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