Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: EMPO - Schenectady Summer Series Score O
 

We were in the area so made a guest appearance at the Pilates class we used to attend at the East Greenbush Y. This stuff is harder when you don't do it for a while.

EMPO Summer Series - Score-O on the brand new* Central Park (Schenectady) map on a Tuesday evening. On our way back from Canada (sort of) so we worked it in to the schedule. Twenty six controls marked only with pin flags each with a letter on it which you wrote on the punch card to verify you were there. The area is an urban park but there are some wooded areas with trail networks, so a mixture of running across open land and some through the woods stuff. Much of the vegetation mapping is from the original field checking, so some of the "green" is more open than mapped. Got to 20 of the controls in the 1 hour time limit (tried for another which was placed somewhat off and gave up searching after a couple of minutes). 155 out of a possible 200 points. 70s and muggy.

* New, but many years in the making, with the initial field work done in 1992, drafting of that field work done in 2012, and finally finished up recently by Phil H-T incorporating LIDAR and additional field work.

Event: Canadian Championships Long
 

COC Long at Foley Mountain Conservation Area. Course 7 (5.9k, 160m). A really nice area with a variety of terrain and technical detail - and excellently mapped. Good course design, taking us through most of the areas and incorporating a 1.7k long leg. Not a lot of route choice for most of the legs but without many trails or big hills I can see the challenge. Rocky underfoot in lots of places.

I had a very good run. Lost a minute on #4 checking out a nearby knoll. Some hesitation on the long leg (#6) when things weren't making sense and I changed my plan by dropping to the stream with distinct (rock and contour) features which let me reestablish map contact and hit the control right on. Got lucky on #11 when things weren't matching but I stayed on my compass heading and a bag showed up with the right code on it. Placed 4th in M55+, 2min behind 2nd but 17min behind Ted de St, Croix in 1st. M45+ ran the same course - about 8 people faster than me in that class.

Course 7 - Splits

Event: Canadian Championships Middle
 

Walking around Perth, ON doing trivia-O. Did 29 of the 30 controls on foot then visited the last one (#14) by car after dinner. One rain shower while we walked.

7 - Splits

Event: Canadian Championships Sprint
 

COC Sprint in Perth, ON.

3 - Splits