Training Log Archive: David_Waller

Started visiting control sites for this weekend's Score-O in Umstead. It went well, although the amount of work in front of me this week still seems daunting. With a 4-hour event, we'll be able to get to some parts of the park that rarely (if ever) have been orienteered.

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Event: DVOA Mount Penn - Antietam
 

DVOA, Antietam Lake, green course. I really like DVOA. They're super friendly, set good courses, and have good maps -- one of those clubs whose local meets really approach the feel of an A-meet. This map was a Zuev offprint. It was a very thoughtful green course, with a wonderful variety of leg-types and decisions. Impressive course design, in an interesting and rugged park. I was slowed by my bad calf, by difficult snow-covered rocky patches, and by fogged glasses. At such a slow pace, I navigated well, with the exception of a really really terrible mistake on one of the shorter legs -- one of those legs which afterwards you still can't even figure out where you were or what went wrong. Otherwise, a really great event in central PA. (And although James Carville might think otherwise, I still can't claim Alabama as a new state to have orienteered in.)

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Green - Splits

Easy jog on the Delaware-Raritan trail. Pulled my calf fairly badly in the last 5 minutes.

Phillips Preserve, Old Bridge Township, NJ. Nice run, and a nice park. Same terrain as the other day: pretty overgrown Atlantic Coastal Plain. Looking forward to going into PA on the weekend and getting back to some (hopefully) awesome Piedmont terrain in Berks.