Training Log Archive: JanetT

In the neighborhood; 51, sunny, with light breeze from SE so not as chilly as yesterday.

Earlier, I drove to Lancaster for the AQS show. One of these days I should take a class with Bethanne Nemesh, but that didn't happen today. The ribbon winners are jaw-dropping gorgeous.

(For the quilters: Janet Stone's latest alphabet quilt was best of show. I think she's trying to make 26 of them. When a Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry quilt doesn't win a ribbon you know the quilts are GOOD!!))

C • Quilt show 7

Some folks here on AP are counting states where they've orienteered. Here's the list for me (and Glen) (where rogaines [SD] count as orienteering):

30 states--
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SD, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY

4 additional countries:
Canada (AB, BC, NB, NS, ON, QC)
Denmark
Iceland
Scotland

We've visited 18 other states but not officially* orienteered there, lacking only Alaska (where we can try to orienteer one day) and Mississippi (where we probably won't).

*Unofficial orienteering involves just using/reading a map to get someplace, and we've done that many places (e.g., London) but won't count them in this list.

Sunny and 48 F, but with a breeze from the north. Came back after a trip partway up Aberdene to add my windpro gloves and a buff over my ears.

Route Gadget (my routes are uploaded from the GPS files) for the weekend's events:

Day 1, Flying Pig Middle at Camp McKee, near Mt Sterling, KY

Day 2, Masters Nationals day 1 (2018) at Raven Bridge, Carter Caves SRP

Day 3, Masters Nationals day 2 (2018) at Kiser Hollow, Carter Caves SRP

(day 3 not yet available as of Monday at 10:30 but link should be good when it's added)

Left brain-right brain "balance"

To start which was locatrd just past the Smokey Bridge. Temp about 40F.

Flying Pig XXIII, day two of *2018* Masters Nationals (two-day classic). Partly sunny, low to mid 40s, much like yesterday but into the 50s later so great for hanging around at the finish. I was one of the first starters on Brown A.

Brown A, F65, 3.3 km, 180m climb nominal; 1:7500 / 5m. Kiser Hollow map at Carter Caves Resort State Park.

Happy with all my routes except for being sloppy to #2, a pit (in a line of pits) on a broad spur, approached from the opposite side of the spur or at an angle. I did not approach the challenge properly as I didn't pace count until my second try. I guess my first thought was that I'd get to the flat part of the spur and find the first pit and work my way to the third, but it didn't happen that way. Relocated from a control on a ditch bend (first time I passed it I thought it was the ditch end/top and that I was higher on the hill than I really was), and still overshot it on my pace count but knew to stop, turn back, and head a bit higher on the hill. I found the fourth pit in the line so knew I was now at the right level, and then I saw two other Brown A runners going to the proper pit. AP says 6:30 minutes lost (it also gives me an "error" on the run-in but always does that...I don't sprint very fast), so a time in the 54-55 minute range was possible.

Good enough for first place, though, with my sister Nancy (close behind on day 2) in second! (Ruth B, who ages up for 2019, was 3rd followed by Leslie M. and someone from OLOU). I checked my log from the last Carter Caves event in 2015 and my F60 competitors included Sandy, Janet F, Sue H-T and Natalia D, none of whom attended this year.

Mary Jo, you would have loved it!

Thanks to all in OCIN for another well-organized and executed Flying Pig!

OCIN_FP2019_Kiser_Hollow_Sunday_Classic_4 Brown A - Splits

To start. Sunny and chilly...upper 30's.

Scenic route that took us under huge cliffs E of the main lodge (Glen and I had hiked some of this trail when we were here in 2015).

Flying Pig XXIII, day one of 2018 Masters Nationals (two-day classic). Sunny, and low to mid 40s, feeling colder in the shaded valleys.

Brown A, F65 (shorter course than for F55-60), 3.3 km, 175m climb nominal; 1:7500 / 5m. Raven Bridge map at Carter Caves State Park.

No issues finding the controls. A couple of route choices that could have been better and faster (stay on trail longer to 1; contour around spur to 4 instead of climbing almost to the top of the hlll), but I was happy with the rest. 7th or 8th on Brown A (M-Brown open had some faster men running down a course; and the fast folks on M70 and M75).

EDIT: I think some of the heart rate data is bogus. Maybe I'll wear a chest strap tomorrow and see if there's much difference. (Garmin 235 with wrist-HR detection)

EDIT 2: Splits show my conservative route to 7 was slower than some. I was getting tired...

OCIN_FP2019_Carter_Caves_Saturday_Classic_4_BrownA - Splits

Event: OCIN Flying Pig XXIII
 

Glen posted about terrain and weather. Great temp for running!

FP XXIII registrants

Middle Brown A at Camp McKee at the Flying Pig / 2018 Masters Champs
2.8 km, 130m climb (1:10000/5m map).

Uncertain in the circle at 1 (~1 min?) and misread control description at 8 (1:30) but otherwise found them well. Some I think were yellowish level, but I think courses were restrained by the terrain around the camp.

5th on Brown A, maybe? (behind 4 M75s and an M70).

OCIN_FP2019_Camp_McKee_Friday_Middle_4 Brown A - Splits