Training Log Archive: pi

One man relay to finish the camp off. I joined the mass start, but had some trouble early in the course to control 2 and 5, and did not shake the pack until the mid-point of the second loop. Pushed the pace on the last loop in the town. Felt a bit silly making these mistakes, when I had talked about how to avoid them for the entire weekend ;)

Shadowing various people for the morning session. Some dead time standing around waiting for the next "subject". Picked up some controls at the end.

Afternoon session. Had to start by going out to place a control that was forgotten to hung the day before. Shadowed people for a long time. Several stops to wait for people to show up at various points in the woods. At the end, ran out to get some far controls and pushed the pace a bit more.

Placing controls at Coyote Canyon for the AOA training camp. Great terrain for technical navigation, but pretty rough going (deadfall in tall grass) to be completely pleasant.

WET at Cypress Falls. Did a mass start with Graeme and the Nipens. I got the 1st control first, after the others did a tiny hook. Stayed more or less in the lead until 7, but Graeme and Mathias caught up on a better route choice around on the road. After that I started to slowly fade and I lost the pack. However, I caught up to Graeme as he got stuck in the bog on the second last control. I got the last control ahead of him, but he was more aggressive on the very steep downhill to the finish and passed me there. Was just over a minute behind Thomas, who finished first.

Warm-up and cool-down, picking up flags.