Training Log Archive: JanetT

Classic Day 1 at Georgia Navigator Cup. FDR State Park in Pine Mountain, 4.7 km / 145m climb nominal. Temps in low 70s (we had later starts)!

Because I haven't been doing much O-specific training I was happy to see the climbs minimized though there was still plenty for us. Tired after about 65 minutes, so I'm not sure how much energy I'll have tomorrow. A couple of falls but the woods' surface had plenty of duff so no hard falls. I managed to find probably the only piece of barbed wire out there, still mostly attached to a tree, which tripped me up but no other damage.

First control was a pit in bland woods, and of course the flag was barely visible from the surface so you had to be right on it. Shallow ditches nearby weren't mapped at all but you could kind of judge by distance from trails and from where the hill kicked up. Contours were somewhat generalized, which I learned early on; information that was helpful through the course. My only big mistake was on the long leg, 5-6, where I read the gully/stream as uncrossable as it looked gray to me (though it was apparently a stream mapped with narrow solid brown walls). I didn't find the step down/up to be all that noticeable that it deserved this depiction (which I'm not sure is ISOM) and would have been happier if they'd chosen either the stream *or* the gully symbol. I avoided going straight because of it, and apparently didn't notice how far off I had gone until I hit the hillside with lots of rootstocks south of the control, probably a good 200m off. Once I realized that's where I was it was an easy fix. Probably lost at least five minutes, and maybe more, being so far off line.

From 6-7 (control was a rootstock) I slowed down to check the code at another flagged rootstock but figured out it was the one about halfway there and kept trudging.

Lots of fellows ahead of me (the fastest time was over 56 minutes, TomN*), but only two women*, both at about 70 minutes. That surprised me because I was going extremely slowly out there--my run-in across the field illustrates my fitness level... Guess I stayed on course okay.

*When I last looked at results. Apparently there were one or two other women finishing later.

You just can't beat sitting outside drinking a frappuccino in January (when it's snowing and 30F at home). ;-)

Day 1 - Brown - Splits

Event: GNC 2017: Georgia Navigator Cup
 

Plus 5 min walking over and back.

Went west to the end of West Hopewell, and took a short detour though the mini-McMansion development on the way back (Rolling Ridge to Curly Horse Rds). Glen says he was in the development at the same time but we never saw each other.

Upper 50s!! How could I not go out? Did some jogging on the flats and downhills until my rt knee said it had had enough.

Ditch the technology and use a mental map
(NYT article)

Huh, imagine that. :-)

First Zumba class I've taken at the clubhouse. Some experienced ladies there but also some newbies (in the back of the room with me). It can be a good workout if you can figure out the steps; the instructor is very enthusiastic but didn't always cue moves so it was just a matter of floundering as best we could. Nice set of ladies including three Pats and two Barbaras. :-)

Yoga with Deanna. Very nice class, stretching some muscles that hadn't been stretched in awhile.

While watching the first quarter of the Giants-Green Bay playoff game and listening to Ask Me Another. Glen, who's braver with cold and wind than I am, ran by the clubhouse at one point.

5:00 walking each way, bundled up, not counted.
Some strength and stretching afterwards, likewise not counted, but done.