Training Log Archive: JanetT

Downhill from the ski lift drop-off to start area.

COC Long, nominal 3.0km, 60m climb. Black Magic map. Sunny and temps in 70s, but we were in the woods quite a bit.

The course started 410 meters above where we finished on the ski slopes of Blackcomb Mtn, below the Wizard chair.

Control 1 was 85 m (adding:) *of descent* mostly straight downhill through the woods, which were not easy to run or even walk through at that point. I knew it was going to be tricky but I kept on a pretty good compass bearing and watched for the two flatter areas, one just before the control. I think I was just right of the reentrant as I got to the flat and looked around in the wrong direction before returning and finding the flag, so several minutes lost there.

Good on 2, following compass. On 3 got in the general area but thought I was looking for a cliff and not a reentrant, so a couple minutes lost. Straight to 4. Careful down the hill toward 5 looking for the bike trail, but around to the right. Figured out where I was from the v. large cliff on the map and spiked it from there. Then 6 contours practically straight down to a trail. The course had descended about half of the 410m by that point, a third of the way through...all relatively short legs, none longer than 250m or so.

The rest of the course was still tricky but less steep, more across the ski slope than tumbling down the steep woods. Made an error on number 9 misreading woods blobs and finding 10 first, requiring a 20 m climb back up to 9. So likely around 10 or more minutes of error, on 1, 3, and 9.

14th of some higher number, 1st was 47 minutes with 2nd one second behind!

NOTE: added FR

Long W55 - Splits

Jogged from our lodging to the start of the sprint (later jogged/walked back from the finish/arena to lodging to change, before heading back to see the results).

Took it slow and easy to see how the knee would do. I'm under the influence of NSAIDs mostly to keep the swelling down, and it's helping with the soreness, at least, though the knee still looks like a goose egg.

This afternoon we'll ride the gondola up Whistler; I'll pick up my HPP fund raiser map but not run it (it's a predict-your-time format, about 2 km course). Then we can take the Peak to Peak gondola to Blackcomb and see the sights.

Fun sprint in Whistler Village before there were a lot of other folks around. Glen and I had early starts (first was 8:03 am; Glen was 8:04 and I was 8:08) so we avoided having to weave around very many people unlike later starters.

Map 1:4000, 2.5 m ... SL 1.7km

Fun, had to keep looking for passageways and dead ends (but only had one tricky leg). I count the depression in a wooded spot (#4) as a non-spike because I could have entered the woods from the side I approached, but I looped around instead.

9th of 23, about where I should be, given that I wasn't pushing harder because of my knee. Did speed up a bit on the leg downhill to the Olympic rings that I could see. :-) 4:23 behind first W55.

Took the Whistler Gondola up to the Roundhouse lodge, where the HPP fund raiser was supposed to start. I decided not to run it, but took my map anyway since it was paid for. While Glen ran the course my brother Ed and I took the next lift up to the summit for the fabulous views!!! almost 360 degrees... and then hiked down the road from the top to the lodge. That was also one terminus of the Peak 2 Peak Gondola that goes across the valley to Blackcomb Mtn, which we all took when Ed and I finally reached the lodge.

AOWN: one marmot and one ferret/weasel like creature, maybe a mountain weasel.

Later, walking in Whistler Village after dinner, we saw a dark-eyed junco, very distinctive with a dark colored head compared to its brown body.

Sprint W55 - Splits

Event: 2014 Canadian Champs
 

COC Middle at One Duck Lake, Whistler, BC. Nominal 1.3k/80m; 1:7500

Not a good day on a format I normally enjoy and do well in. I was fine to the first control, and I navigated well to the second but a few meters away caught a toe and landed such that the middle of my knee impacted a rock under moss. Ouch! Took several dozen seconds to get up. I knew it was going to swell up (tissues under/around the kneecap are not happy) and got a bag of ice at the finish. And I'm icing it now, before we head over to the banquet/BBQ.

A bit rattled after the fall, I took a less than optimum route around on a trail instead of mostly straight to 3, which was a formline reentrant that was mapped half open/half green, and I likely proceeded right by it. 15 minutes later, after spending time down the steep hillside, I got to a control that Ardis was punching (she started 12 minutes behind, and she said she'd messed it up too but not as bad).... Grrrrr.

I was sloppy on the next 3 too, trying not to follow her, then I finally got ahead of Ardis on the way to 7 and did the last two okay, though I stopped to check the code on a box I passed on the way to 7. A slow grind uphill to the finish, passing one woman on the way in.

Well behind where I should have been; 30-31 minutes would have put me in about 9th or 10th of 30 [not 35], instead of 17th.

mbo didn't start today (don't know why); Debbie N was third after Kitty Jones and Barbara Scheck of Canada, all between 23 and 24 minutes.

Edit: only 30 listed in results, including two dns. Turns out Marion sprained her ankle early this morning.

C • mossy rock 4

Middle W55 - Splits

Walked to a few controls on the Middle training map while Glen changed into actual O clothes. It was hot but not too humid, and fairly reasonable in the woods. Found 5 streamers, one of them with a little delay/confusion as I had no compass and the wrong glasses on. Good to see how the white woods vs light and medium green were depicted.

Woods will be slow; F55-64 Middle course tomorrow is 1.26 km.

At UBC Botanical Garden. Nice shade and big trees. So many rhododendrons and magnolias! Not as many smaller plants as I expected (flowers and such) but it was neat to see the different ways trees bloom and grow.

3 hours total, distance estimated and may be less.

Stanley Park, Vancouver. Will download FR later.

Missed a section (where the track shows a straight line) after we stopped for a restroom break. Parked in the second available large parking lot (paid the full day price), and wandered around the east end of the seawall and into the central portion with rose garden, Aquarium (we didn't go there), etc.

Stanley Park, west side from Third Beach around Prospect Point to the first trail jct, and back. [Glen was more adventurous and ran up and down hills.]

Jogging was 4.92 km, 38:30 min; cool down walking was .46 km, 5:35.

Then we stuck our feet in the Pacific (actually, English Bay off the Strait of Georgia).