Training Log Archive: GlenT

Blue course on French Creek Central map as part of the MASOC (although none of the scouts did the Blue course). 8.8km, 300m. French Creek terrain - big broad hillsides with subtle contour detail, lots of zero height features (charcoal platforms, circle ditches, rocky ground). More (low) vegetation in the terrain than shown on the map and it is leafed out, so you need to be right at the zero height features to see them.

I hung five of the controls on my course yesterday, but that didn’t help much. Two of the three controls I had errors on were ones I had placed, although the course approached them differently than how I did hanging them (and there were streamers hung high which I removed after placing the bag). Smallish errors on 5 and 13, a huge error on 8. According to my GPS track, I passed within about 50 meters of 8 on the first pass (19 minutes into the 1.9km leg) and then got within about 30m on the next try. Finally got it after relocating at the next control about 300m away. Lost nearly 30 minutes.

Woods were wet from earlier rain but temperature got to the low 70s, so it was muggy and buggy (black flies, which were biting if you stood still).

C • MASOC 1

C8-RED - Splits

C9-BLUE - Splits

Hanging bags at French Creek for MASOC this weekend. Included a water stop but with only 2 gallons. Overcast, 50s and wet woods.

Another short loop of four closely spaced controls.

Stroll around the neighborhood.

Trails at Trexler Preserve. Did about 80% of the Quadzilla race course (last year’s version), including all the hills except the last big one. Trails are mostly dry and in good shape. Good running weather, upper 50s and overcast. Spotted a heron, three deer, and about a dozen bison, but no elk.

Long - Brown - Splits