Training Log Archive: mintore

Event: OCIN - New Year's Races - Camp Timberhill
 

The test family jog with the Christmas garmin. More info than I probably need :) and there goes plausible deniability when I run off the map :(

Event: OCIN Billy Pig XI / TROL #4
 

OCIN EF Billy Pig XI Billy Pig - Splits

Event: Midwest Course Setting Clinic (OCIN)
 

Event: MVOC - Night Score O
 

Event: OCIN / TROL #3 - Miami Univ. Middletown Campus
 

Orange route that was run after the red. It was good to have the extra bit of distance, to see some parts of the course approached from different angles. This time, I tried a bit harder to stay on trails, but there was still a sizable dose of honeysuckle.

Very green as many long legs ran perpendicular to the trail system. I need to come up with a better way to approach this style of course. After I start bashing green, I can't stop but it eventually gets me. Matthew set a nice course in this fairly confining venue. Many controls were only visible when you were almost standing next to them!

OCIN_MUM_TROL_3_Orange - Splits

OCIN_MUM_TROL_3_Red - Splits

Event: Possum Trot Weekend
 

Orange course. Moist at the beginning, full rain at the end. No hat, no eyesight. Botched control 2 (minor, should have pace counted to better estimate point to break from trail; 90 sec), control 8 (overshot to 2nd minor reentrant because I was still too high on the hill; 90 sec) and control 9 (wrong hill; rushed with bad visibility. This was really costly, 6 min). A pretty poor outing on tired legs.

Event: ICO Camp Belzer
 

30 min score-O at Belzer. A reasonable run given the goat the day before - 21 of 25 controls. Used a ball cap to minimize rain problems with glasses. This really helped a lot.

Event: OLOU Billy Goat
 

One of the races I have come to love. Generally, my race was not really fast. The control placements were good and it was interesting to try to figure the best approaches (e.g., #10 surrounded in a deep valley with dark green on the 3 probably approach sides). I was too tentative and was not sure how much gas I needed to keep in the tank to finish the race. Even with pacing, I was pretty burnt by the end. Took both A splits. Controls 18 and 19 this year were not a nice surprise; two controls on completely white parts of the map -- no, really white meaning no features, no contours, no ink used for anything but the control circle. Found 18 with Dave W, but I had skipped #14. This turned out to be a BIG mistake. Control 19 was at the bottom of a reentrant. Old ink imbedded in my clue sheet holder had me run to the east side of the valley (tight undergrowth), bail, and regroup. When I found the trail junction earlier missed and roughly counted distance, there were several reentrants in the area, so I ended up searching them one after the other (total time 16 minutes). A solid race to there and a fun day as long as I block 16 minutes from my mind.!

Open Goat - Splits