Training Log Archive: GlenT

Flying Pig Classic at Miami Whitewater - South. Woods more open than on the northern part of the park. An excellent course by Matt Robbins - lots of leg length variety, plenty of direction changes and good use of the very complex "badlands" areas. About 2 - 3 minutes of errors. Sloppy on 4 and 5 and drifted off to the left on 6 and had a bit of "where the heck am I" anxiety when I saw buildings which I didn't expect to see. Managed to recover fairly quickly and ended up with a decent run. Early start (9:12am) so it was even colder than the previous days - low 30's but sunny.

C • 2nd! 2

Yowsa! When we got home from the Pig, there was about 15" of snow waiting in the driveway. Shoveled our way into the house (glad we had shovels and boots in the car) and then fired up the snowblower for an hour or so to get the car in. Glad we paid extra to park in the garage at the airport so we didn't have to dig the car out there.

An outstanding weekend event put on by the OCIN folks. Great organization and lots of good orienteering.

Green - Splits

Flying Pig Sprint at French Park. Fun sprint with first half in the woods and second half across open fields. Minor error on first control (~15 sec) and a big error on #5 (~1:45 - got confused by the bridge(s) in the terrain which weren't explicitly shown on the map and got into the wrong ditch). Upper 30's and breezy.

Flying Pig Sprint at Burnet Woods. Second sprint of the day - a bit more open than the first but with plenty of climb. Clean run. Went more or less straight from 12 to 13 - road route may have been faster.

French Park Sprint 2 - Splits

Burnet Woods - Sprint 2 - Splits

Event: Flying Pig XI
 

Flying Pig Middle Distance at Miami Whiterwater - North. Nice technical course with a series of 4 sprint type controls at the end. About 3 min total of errors - stopped a spur short on the long leg (#3) and was too far downhill on the quite short eighth leg (#7 may have been farther downhill than shown on the map). Apparently others made more errors since I ended up with the fastest time on the Green course. Temps in the low 40's with some breeze.

Miami Whitewater North Green - Splits

Right calf (and hamstring to a lesser extent) still sore from the Valley Goat, so I've been resting them - hoping to be OK for the Pig. Had some cramping during the Valley Goat which apparently the muscles did not like.