Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Gay City "Expert" MBO. Lost time on #5 because I initially went to the trail leading out of the NW corner of the clearing instead of the SW, and when I corrected, I still didn't see the control at first. There were quite a few places on the course where the trail looked like something I'm capable of riding, but not as fast as I can push the bike through that section, so that's what I did. Pushed the bike through the woods to cut corners on #7, #8, and #9, although overall my route on #8 was an inefficient mess, and #9 could have been better. (But at least I went to that one.)

Gay City "Expert" course. Kind of tired after the mountain bike course, and kind of brain dead. Not having had much to eat yesterday may have been a contributing factor (cereal for breakfast, frito pie for lunch, six Oreos for dinner). Screwed up #1 and #2 pretty seriously (considering how easy they were), got to #5 easily enough but didn't see the flag right away, no problem on #6 except that I looked at every rock that I went by, #7 I was basically right on but walking, on #8 I didn't go right down to the trail like I should have and got stuck in the marshy area that was slower than I expected, blew #9 badly, too far left all the way to the trail (which is pretty distinct), flailed around on #10 and finally went to the cliff that I think it shoudl have been on and found nothing, then after some head-scratching tried the big cliff to the SW and found it, and then the rest was fine. Bleah.

No exercise, but I made it through the work week. Thought about going out for a run in the dark, but didn't.

Nada.

50 situps, 25 squats. Days at work like the ones I've had this week make it hard for me to imagine remaining at thi particular job beyond the initial six-month contract, which runs out in early November.

50 situps, 25 squats.

50 situps, 25 squats.

Pawtuckaway canoe-O with Aims in the C2 Cruiser. Same course as 2002, though we did it in the opposite direction this time, and finished just under a minute slower. First place, as far as I know. Not too bad for a couple of old guys, and clever of us to avoid the howling winds on Saturday.

Pawtuckaway -- Blue Middle. Biggest mistake by far was on the first control. Well, sort of. I definitely blew that control, but maybe the biggest mistake was before the start when I grabbed the wrong cluesheet, which I didn't realize until I got to #4. So from then on, I had to be certain I was in teh right place, and there a couple of minor time losses when I didn't know what feature I was looking for. I did check the codes, and detected a pattern, so that helped a little. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that there was only a splits printer, and I used my SI6*, so my splits were gibberish and there's no actual confirmation that I was at the right controls, though when I got back and looked at the right cluesheet, it agreed with what I remembered.

Picking up 7-8-9 from the WHN-O, plus the two westernmost water stop controls from the Ultra. The distance quoted is straight-line, my route with the bike was quite a bit longer. It occurred to me near the end of this that all this mountain bike riding wasn't doing my broken wrist any good.

C • Broken wrist? 6