Training Log Archive: bl

DP, could see dog breath. Cleaned out dog bed in back of car as well in the power line sun - found $68 underneath. Haven't a clue when/how it got there - from the fall, perhaps. Didn't leave the Motel 6 chambermaid anything like that - but did leave some.

Warm up to start.

Middle distance of FP. Late start but not hot in shade. Good run, no mistakes but 2 acute confusional states. #8 said "182" - looked at my control description which said 183 (but that was next line, #9). So, ran away from it & came back maybe 25" later & 'reviewed things.' as it simply had to be it. Went off to #9, short, easy leg; came to correct place, small reentrant but saw a control, #181, to my mind, by a rootstock. What the....? Not many other places it could be but went off in search of them, came back maybe 30-40" later, this time it said 183 which is what i was looking for. Still, appeared to be by a rootstock, the rs filled the small reentrant. Too high on 10 cost 30". Glen was same time to second. Charlie back 20" or so. Bill was doing red - apparently yesterday, too.

Nice meet, lots of pretty woods to make up for green & thorns. Too bad I could not get motivated to take a walk out there - we're always concerned with wasting seconds when there is alot to take in & then with moving on.

Borders most helpful with free wifi.


Sunday finish area



Flying pig itself



Beard Bridge over the Ohio




A walk thru time



Cherry blossom arcade to rival DCs



Visit to downtown Cincinnati's Bicentennial Park on Ohio River, very lovely. Ohio river travel played a big role in opening up Midwest/West prior to railroad - a lot of settler history, frontier vitality (after decimating the Indians, of course). When C. was bypassed as an industrial center, it turned to arts etc & earned the designation "Athens of the West." Perfect Sunday pm with cherry blossoms in full flower. Continually intrigued by sedimentary layers & their meaning. IS 275 sliced thru several hundred feet of such south of Cincinnati - all once sea bottom, now folded into hills. Wonder how deep, what might have swum in the depths. Here it's clay. In the Niagara escarpment region, it's limestone. Why one in one place, another in the other? Everest originated from the bottom of the Tethys sea.

All of 20' paralysis at TSA luggage check. Sixish year old girl kisses her daddy just at exit gate & runs back into terminal, 35 feet of forbidden territory. Next 20 minutes are spent combing over mother & child, examining exit video in company of a cast of numerous including 4 cops, 2 of whom had guns on both left & right hips. Finally, the guy with the biggest gut declared 'all clear.' Fortunately it was quiet &, in my case, there was plenty of time. Rest of flight straightforward. Manhattan a linear, crisscross jewel of light, MCH as quiet as a crypt.

C • Red 1

Sunday Middle - Green - Splits

Flying Pig, Batavia. Saturday long, green. Was around 50F at start, chilly in shade. Went to all the controls & had no trouble near the circle but had 3 confusion spells - "acute confusional states" that were most disconcerting, ie, one moment in contact with map & the next...what the ....?. Managed literally 500m of nonmap contact enroute #5, missed a spur in retrospect & got in green so ran south & west where I knew I'd come upon a path - which I did - saw a woman running as one would run on path, went left like I thought I should but then saw a life-saving pond & recovered - maybe 2' loss but was lucky. Few other times, a path did not turn up or an unexpected one did, so not satisfactory from that point of view yet did not run in circles or really spend much time moving in the wrong direction - just uncertain.

Some amazing slopes to climb - learned to avoid. Put the map in my mouth a few times to have 2 hands for grabbing trees. A not-happy, not-unhappy run.

1st M60, behind Charlie & Glen by 2 minutes, ahead of Bill by 2'.
Weather-perfect day. Sharon surprised me being there, but then again she's everywhere. Went in search of some countryside after, grass much greener here than in NH, a lawn mowing pm, flowering trees in full bloom everywhere.

Springtime in the cemetary

Saturday - up early, before sun but sun's an hour later here than at home. Went to East Fork SP & made my way to practice area. Noted indistinct trails were not to be seen for most part, ditto for the one fence I encountered & vegetation had changed some since original field work. A nice 25', hands got cold - was around 40F. Could hear a rooster in the distance.

Saturday Long - Green - Splits

Event: Flying Pig XIV - U S Interscholastic Championship
 

AM DP under an umbrella.

Flight to Flying Pig, sitting in Newark waiting for the 4:30 to Cincinnati - terminal teeming with passengers. Race to MCH to get there by 1210 for 1p departure which dragged out til approx 2:20 due to rain delay. 3:20 Newark arrival & about 4:45 departure - the start of travel for 7k Sat & 4.3 Sunday. Went largely for the change of scenery, O & "adventure" surrounding. Not a very green way to go -a lot of effort/energy for less than 2 hours of orienteering.

Arrived CVG around 6p - lovely day just finishing - 55F, cloudless, green grass, flowering trees, tulips, a guy mowing the lawn in front of Motel 6. Spent 20' talking with Glen Schorr in the room next door. Didn't know who & after dark - asked if he was an orienteer as I could not get online & did not have good enough directions to get to the meet first thing in am. He had everything including a training map & 20' of visit time.

DP just about to contours, working on keeping feet dry. Pond is now a choice - this route is losing fashion.

C • circumnavigator 2

Cool, tired, felt like a sack of potatoes on shoulders. Start Luti, then
SPS XC, a bit on track and back to road. Diane on vacation thru Boston marathon day.

DP, one streamer on a 1.1m boulder. A spring essence morning, mist & sun, rain drops on branches, silver cobwebs, birdsong. Went around pond, new growth of pine hindering vision. One coyote skull.

Fisk loop, CW, temp 80+F, needed a singlet. Ran with Flying Pig map for distraction.

More time now on OCAD w/ Nottingcook, changes here & there, keeping a 'trophic' connection with the how to's of the program - see/live a bit of the forest & depict it in 'living color' on an ever-so-clever map-drawing program with capability of printing a highly legible map in a matter of hours at a place like Kinkos. 5 mylar drafting in black ink w/ stickies is a fond (?) memory.

DP, put out 2 streamers over Norwegian ridge. Mocha needed (?) help into car from porky shoulder but when it came time to get out, seeing where we were, she couldn't be contained. Another nice day in the making.

Watering Hole

Had planned on a track workout with GSR but it was raining & I really didn't need such type effort so soon after Sunday. Came home & put out streamers in forest with surprised dogs. NB 993s (newish) were unhappy with the off-trail portion, as they should have been.

Spent lunch hour on a drive in Hopkinton - Beech Hill, Patch, Rollins would make a nice run thru picture-perfect pastorality.