Training Log Archive: ndobbs

In orienteering we are privileged to get to hang out with a great bunch of cadets. They will have to deal with the likes of this. Terrifying (especially the figures towards the bottom of the article).

Bushy Effin Ridge.

Lots of veg, I can see why people complained, although I enjoyed it, even the nasty stuff that tore, scratched, bashed and bit me.

I found two streamers not at number 5. The map is a bit sketchy there, though, imho.

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The veg report:
Already a whole heap of green coming towards 1.
1 to 2 was fine
2 to 3 was nasty mountain laurel for an age, after which the blueberries were a breeze.
3 to 4 could be worse, friendly light green.
4 to 5 was rough for a while, despite trying to take a whiter route. The second half was light rocky blueberries, easy going, and then white.
5 to 6 to 7 to 8 nice.
to 9 was nice after the first 100m.
10... mostly nice, the way I went, but I got pushed a bit more off line than intended, didn't really know where I was for a bit.
10 to 11, started rough laurel, found a runnable line after that.
to 12, downhill in rocky ferns... oh the joy.
12 to path, more of the same
path the 13 to 14 to 15 to... much nicer.

4 was a crag, but seemed to be missing the hill.

Took quite a while to decide where 5 should be (I guessed correctly after collecting the second streamer - the flat area with the crag and knoll a little west were pretty obvious (relatively), and second streamer was (I think) between there and the mapped cliff. I wasn't a huge fan of the map there or further up the hill, where I went to relocate.

14 I switched off just coming into the control, and then forgot I was coming into the control, and there was no streamer, so I got confused... :)

At some point I need to learn to race again.

Beaver Pond for a swim.

Beaver Pond to fetch my towel.

Failed to move out of my apartment. Failed to get past the first hurdle in a recruitment process. Succeeded in renewing my car registration.

C • I keep checking your log to... 1

Ran the no walls, no trails, no compass training I planned for my going away weekend.
There's video of Marco running this.
http://sprintseries.org/doma/show_map.php?user=ndo...

Mostly good, got confused/lost en route to 14, and was getting dark, harder to read the map and harder to see the branches lying in ambush...

Wonderful stuff. Very fun. Beautiful. Amazing. And no streamer at 2 or 11 (11 was a terrible reentrant).

C • boulder 3

Heard on the radio: "the health and viability of seniors". Don't you love Republicans?
Apparently someone is going to ship my stuff somewhere, sometime.

C • The future 3

C • vitality? 3

Ran the uphills faster. Foot still messed up.