Training Log Archive: JanetT

To start from car park.

Scottish 6 day, day 1 at Achagour, W60L

I sursvived my first day orienteering in Scotland!

Achagour course 23, 4.9km 100m, 77:55 (ahead of Sandy's 79:10)
Spongy wet terrain in areas but I didn't get stuck anywhere. Unsure of location for a couple and found a larger depression before locating my smaller one but was pretty sure where I was. A bit of trouble with trails on the archery area but others I was spot on and very happy about that. Physical course.

44/82 not quite in the top half, but close.

S6D - Day 1 Achagour - C23 - Splits

Event: Scottish 6 Days
 

Got the rental car at a downtown E'burgh Hertz location not too far away from hotel, then drove it back to hotel to load up bags, then drove up to Inverness. Ran into Phil B and Adam, Ron Bortz, and Phil and Sue at check in. Had dinner with P&S at same restaurant in Inverness as Phil and Adam. Then on to our lodgings in Nairn....

Event: WOC 2015 & Scottish 6 days
 

Holyroodhouse Palace and the Scottish Museum (at least the Kings of Scotland exhibit and maybe one other), then Kenilworth's on Rose St for not-great fish and chips. Kenilworth's is a Nicholson's Pub restaurant and we didn't find the best food at any others but this was the least good for fish and chips anyway (cod and not haddock, for one thing; undercooked and mushy for another).

Walking around for most of the day has to count for something, right? My knees are achy and stiff, anyway. Only putting down two hours; walked three to four miles but at a slow pace, looking around and taking breaks. Hotel to Edinburgh Castle to Holyroodhouse to Calton Hill and back to the hotel 10 hours later. A couple of meals and a cup of coffee along the way.

The folks runnng up the path to Salisbury Craigs were working harder. I don't think we'll get up there.

Ed'burgh Castle, lunch at the castle, dinner (good fish and chips...best of the trip in my opinion) at World's End on the Royal Mile, then hiked back to hotel by way of Holyroodhouse Palace and Calton Hill.

Scotland! Good flight. Partly sunny as we landed in Edinburgh, so we could see some of the surrounding landscape. As lovely as I imagined. Got an hour of sleep on the plane, an achievement as I generally can't sleep sitting up, and I've only achieved about 30 minutes on previous red eyes.

I need to get used to the "accent" as I had to have the Starbucks barista at the airport repeat herself twice. (I realize that we're the ones with the accent now.)

General scoping of the layout; walked over toward the Castle then down Royal Mile partway before heading back toward hotel; dinner (salmon) on Rose St at a pub.

As for the flight, Economy (paying for extra legroom) seating meant free hot dinner (at 11pm) and free wine...Chardonnay in a plastic bottle was a bit tart. The red was Merlot which from experience I know gives me a headache so I avoided it, and the Pinot noir (extra cost) was 2.5 servings, more than I could drink. Vanilla bean gelato made up for the tart wine (even tho' vanilla is my least favorite flavoring).

Oops

A quick walk to mail some things at the P.O. (and beyond to my turnaround point for two miles). Temp already in the upper 70s and somewhat humid but not too oppressive, considering.

The dips in the track (for those who can see it) are when I stopped my watch: to clear some large branches off the road, to go into the P.O., and to get the mail at our mailbox on the way back.