Training Log Archive: Swampfox

O' pass at Superfly Marsh, 7.4 kms, quite a few controls (but can't remember the exact number offhand; guess my memory isn't near as good as Trump's, who perfectly remembers every detail about everything and way better than anyone else), one stream crossing but kept my feet dry anyway.

Beautiful out, and quite warm for late October--I think the high in Laramie was 69F, which was amazingly nice for biking in a t-shirt and shorts. Won't be many more days like this this year. Probably there won't be *anymore*.

Maybe I should have made it bike day only, because the wind was really revved up by mid-afternoon. I would say the wind distance ratio was about 5:1. That is, if you were pedaling due west straight into the wind, and it took you 2 1/2 hours to get to the airport, then you get back to your starting point in 1/2 hour. It was pretty windy.

It was fun getting back out on Superfly; I hadn't run there in a while. On one control, a small rocky dot knoll, as I was leaving I noted the dot knoll was the high point of a much larger knoll in an area of open prairie, and when I glanced at the map, I realized the larger knoll was entirely missing. Ooops! I figured it was something that got missed in the the drafting. But, nope, when I checked both the base and also the field survey, the missing contour line was missing there as well. There will never be a perfect map--though this miss will be easy to fix.

C • Trump 4

As an additional note, during the day I could feel my upper left leg a little bit while just moving around, walking, etc, so I was wondering if I could actually do a quality O' session, but enough, while running I never felt it once. Weird, but I will take it.

Mix of biking and running to take full advantage of some nice wind. It looks like the wind is already in good form as we inch/lurch towards winter.

Something is strained in my upper left leg, so it was strictly easy running. I think it is just one of those annoying things that sometimes happens when you're running along just like always, nothing special, and all of a sudden a guitar string breaks, interrupting the show. Except here there was no show, and no guitar string, but some bit of muscle instead.

After testing myself on the bike in the winds for a while (never got blown over, but I will concede the wind was more than holding its own), I switched plans for running and took the "easy way" and ran trails at Happy Jack, where the trees afford some protection from the wind. Of course, the trees offer no protection from the trees, and I noted several freshly downed trees across trails. It's that time of year!

Finished up the running week with some trail running at Happy Jack; some newly fallen trees had been chainsawed and moved out of the way, replaced by several newly fallen (today or yesterday) trees. Plenty of wind this weekend, so no surprise there.

Interesting to see how the trails varied from fine and dry, to fine and good and muddy, to fine and covered in snow. I think it's freezing every night up top, or just about, so the next good snowstorm should cover up all but the most sun exposed spots in the forest for good (for the season.)

O' at Pelican Bay, 9 kms, several moose. Successfully did enough damage to the t-shirt I was wearing so that I can remove it from circulation and feel good about it, too.

Another very nice fall day, in advance of a "change in climate" forewarned for tomorrow.