Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Event: QOC Mason Neck State Park
 

QOC Mason Neck Blue - really enjoyed the subtle/vague contour and fairly fast running south of the park road (reminescent of Florida but with lower visibility and more rootstocks), not that north of the park road was chopped liver either but bouncing around the reentrants fringing the water on the north edge of the map was more like typical QOC orienteering. Exposed some slightly sloppy compass technique, though the trouble in some cases was having an attack area rather than an attack point due to the difficulty of making out one's precise rather than approximate location from the contours. Did a parallel error on the long leg to 9 from which I was fortunate to recover without bailing out to the bike path by the park road. Kudos to Tom Strat for the mapping - even in winter with high visibility in the woods, it has to have taken a long time to cover the terrain thoroughly enough to locate all the rootstocks, pits and depressions.

Picking up the six controls in the southeast part of the map.

Blue - Splits

Event: Rosaryville MTB-O
 

Hanging MTB-O controls in the morning. Just over two hours actual time, subtracting some for stops at control locations.

Jogging around the west half of the map picking up six controls - fortunately, Jan, Amy and Victor also picked up controls so I wasn't stuck in the park till dusk.

Round trip to work.

Cycling to work. Home by way of TPSS and the aquatic center.

Flutterkicking.

To work. Home by way of the aquatic center.

To and from work. Some grocery shopping on the way home.

Warmup/cooldown.

Silly walks, uphill sprints and bounding.

Home from the office.

Flutterkicking.