Training Log Archive: CleverSky

I can both stand up from a sitting position, and walk. Neither is especially comfortable or painless, however. Sheesh, it wasn't that rough of a weekend.

Yesterday's meet was at Breakheart, which was also the site of my first race on a color map, on November 6, 1983. That was also the start of my "real" orienteering career (I had done three other courses on B&W maps in 78-79). Many things were different back then, but a few were the same: I finished 5th both times (in '83 I was on "course #4", which was billed a "long intermediate" but showed up as Green in the published results. And control #12 yesterday may have been on the same cliff as #4 back in '83. #15 yesterday was also very close to #7 way back when. 13.2 min/km isn't great, but it's a lot better than 32 min/km. Probably helps that I know what a reentrant is now.

C • Groin pull? 3

Breakheart Reservation, Bob Dangel Appreciation Meet, Red, 6.0 km, 215 m, 5th. One of the last starters because Nancy and I were hoping that the rain would eventually abate. I assume it was raining the whole time, though I didn't really notice other than the fact that I was very wet. Generally okay, several places where I could have been more efficient, and no big snafus other than on the long leg to #22 when I turned one junction too early and didn't immediately realize that I wasn't hitting a paved road (the paved roads are really hard to see on this map). That meant that I was on the wrong side of a large marsh and by that point it made more sense to go around the other end.

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Westmoreland, Raid the Sanctuary, Visigoths division (with Nancy), 5.5 km, 2nd. Three sections: normal orienteering, corridor-O with trails deleted, and get any 6 out of 9. Pretty casual pace*, Andreas was gone in a flash from the start and we never saw him, and the two people who we saw some of early on seemed to have dropped back after the first section. Pretty much spiked everything, other then being off a smidge to the right (high) on the second control, a brief bit of disagreement/confusion on the way to the first corridor control, and a slight fishhook on the second control on the last map, courtesy of a confusing control description. We also spent a few moments conferring when we got to a control that had the wrong code, but the location was unambiguous (this was confirmed to be a map error when we got to the finish).

*Nancy informs me that our pace was not casual. I stand corrected.

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WBSW, same loop as the last couple of times, basically the same time as last time. This was with the 405CX, and the switchbacks do show up better than they did with the 10. Feeling not very enthusiastic for the first part of this, but by the end it felt a lot more smooth and pleasant (I was warmed up, and it was more downhill). I could feel the groin pull a little, but I think it's pretty much cleared up. The second toenail on my right foot is in a bad way, though.