Training Log Archive: JanetT

Results from the Bumble yesterday

Hip muscles are tight this morning.

I find it amusing that two years ago here I tripped over something on the leg from N to K (which I should have done yesterday) resulting in a bruised left knee and sore right quad. Fell yesterday and banged the same places on the (corrected) way to K... it's cursed, I tell you!

C • Puzzle from 2020 - answered! 4

Around the community to shake out the legs. Low 30s.

Event: QOC Smokey Glen
 

(Credit to peggyd for this first part of the description)

Tenth annual Bumble, a mass-start event with lots of twists. There are five windows, each with 5 controls, and how many windows you have to do depends on your course. I ran Brown, so I had to do 2 windows. Within each window, you can go to the controls in any order, but you have to go to all 5.

We returned to Smokey Glen today, where we were 2 years ago. I figured out that it would be quite similar to that race based on the meet notes. It turned out to be *very* similar; most of the controls were not the same but were within the circle of the previous control.

Temp was in the upper 20s with a NW breeze. I started out a bit overdressed with a light windbreaker layer over two LS and a SS shirt; took the windbreaker off after the 4th control and tied it around my waist. Comfortable the rest of the way.

I chose the same two windows, closest in to start/finish, as last time here, to try to minimize distance and time since I'm not a fast runner.

Not my best orienteering (again) in that in the first window I had my map folded such that I didn't notice one of the five controls in the window until after I reached the third and only saw one other...added almost an extra kilometer of distance to head out to the one I missed then backtracked to the fifth control.

In the second window I'd gone clockwise last time so I went counter-clockwise this time...no issues. Finished in exactly 100 minutes; last time here I took 83 minutes and figure I would have been around 85 if I hadn't missed that one....
Control order: #1-[O-N-L-K-M]-[P-S-T-R-Q]-#27-Finish

Dug out the ArcticClaw shoes because they keep my feet warmer in wintry weather, even though they're falling apart. Put enough Gorilla Tape on them to hold them together. ;-)

"Grow with Jo" exercise video with DiL and g'son. Fun. :-)

Neighborhood. Not all walkways cleared so used the road shoulder. In the community road is "softer" than sidewalks. Mid to upper 30s, sunny, slight SE breeze.

Deanna's be fierce class