Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Gay City, Advanced Long (i.e. Red). Moving okay, though not breaking any records, navigating decently except for two controls near the end (off to the left on #12, and overran #14 -- I blame the map in both cases. :-) Split analysis shows four other errors, but that seems harsh. Beautiful day, nice course, and nice to spend it with Nancy.

Why waste valuable daylight on running when you can spend it doing something productive, and then go out for exercise after it's solid dark? Nice that this no longer requires bundling up, just regular O clothes (and a headlamp). Felt great, so I modified my original plan of doing Shorter, and did the whole loop instead. Climbs seemed to top out very easily, and I had no trouble following the incredibly faint rat trails that this consists of. And the time wasn't bad at all, especially considering it was at night. Got one wet foot crossing the Mulpus.

No idea how much time I spent doing stuff today, but I was on my feet for a lot of hours (mostly standing around), and my shins are really achy now. Went in to put another couple of gallons at #13 (glad I did, as Ian said when he picked it up there was less than a gallon left), then hung the three remaining White controls, the last two Goat controls and the finish stuff, and afterwards I picked up eight controls -- thanks to Alex getting the five in the middle of the map, Ian getting the southern eight, Phil getting six up north, and Tim fetching the rest, control retrieval was pretty smooth and painless. Using a tiny map helps in that regard.

All in all it seems to have been rather successful. The hot weather took its toll, such that the winning time was about 10 minutes slower than I had been hoping, and coming in on time was a struggle for quite a few people. Looks like Valeriy tied Bob Lehman's record for closest heartbreak (3 seconds over), and we may have a new record for closest nailbiter, I'll have to look at the splits when they come out. Most people seemed to be not too angry, only one person told me that I had joined the Jeff Schapiro course setting club. But the winning time was not as long as that one, and was only a couple of minutes slower than Gay City or Huntington. I certainly am glad that I shortened it, though, and that I put out extra water.

C • Thanks for doing all the wo... 11

C • A fine piece of work 1

I think I may have gotten pretty sunburned (arms, and probably face). Oops.