Training Log Archive: bgallup

Event: NEOC: Boojum Rock
 

somebody tell me if i've got the AOWN thing down:

poison ivy-wrapped greenbriar. enough said.

C • not alive 2

green at boojum. felt more like going to war. it's thick out there. just saw the results on the NEOC page and dread their arrival on AP. but i still also want to see them.

minor incidents on 4, 5, 15. major incidents on 7 and 9. sacrificed leg 11 (which i forgot to hit lap at) to science - wanted to see how bailing to the roadin and hammerin' compared to actual orienteering. now we just wait for the splits. QR-forensics for 7 and 9 to follow, as advertised

4.6k straightline. hahaha.

1) hesitation at wrong junction, and misread the contours and thought the control was on the near side of the ridge. learned how thick the white was. (0:20)
2) could see the bag from the trail, shoulda just trailed it. burst onto a trail in front of some hikers, they asked if i was lost while i ran by, said 'no, i'm an orienteer' (0:30)
3) without incident (equlibirium, anyone?)
4) roadie. coulda been a good split but i turned in too early. serious fight. (2:00)
5) seriouser fight. hands-and-knees a few times. hit the trail without realizing i'd drifted north. (incorrectly) checked off the trail junction, but then it took an unsanctioned turn south. corrected, punched. (3:30)
6) suspected an unmapped bonus trail off the rock knob, and it was there. more road, flag, punch.
7) woof. good initial route, missed the trail and perfectly paralleled it for awhile, caught a trail, wasn't sure, relocated at the major junction, reattacked. (8:00)
8) easy
9) not without incident. overshot, confused by bonus trails and similar cliffs. relocated off the wrong hilltop. should've gauged distance off the main north-south trail better. (8:00)
10) almost good. on a good heading, inexplicably veered right near the bag. i need to replace my lost moscow, these rental compasses blow. (1:00)
11) pissed at the woods. hauled ass to and up the road. curious to see how this stacks up.
12) easy, little hesitant
13) easy. finding pit controls without overrunning a few times is so satisfying. ditto for not finding the pit the hard way, with gravity.
14) started out good, crappy pacecount, a little wandery. (0:30)
15) easy
16) fooled by bonus trails with similar rock features at the end. further off the trail than i expected (2:30)
17) maybe should've gone straight - but i had learned that lesson four times already. goddamn river of poison ivy in that 'marsh'.
18) end run around the PI (2:00)
19) exit, stage southeast.

28:20 of errors. yay.

C • direction 5

C • Split to 11! 5

Green - Splits

Event: NEOC: Turtle Pond
 

Turtle Pond Sprint 1

Walking the second sprint with ma and pa

Sprint #1 - Splits

quick morning lap - didn't have time for more before i had to clock in at the nerd mines

finally decided to step up to blue middle at NAOCs after doing satisfactorily at Pawtuckaway.

and i'm going to have to skip the warrior dash this weekend, work just sauntered up to my weekend, stuck a flag in it, and claimed it for god and country. might be able to sneak out for boojum given it's proximity to the office, though. not too heartbroken about missing the dash - $40 entry instead of $90 seemed peachy, but add in four hours total drive, $35+ gas, and - just found this out - $20 for parking, i'm okay missing out

biking to and from work. got a good set of lights on the way home and really stood on it. felt grand.

another quick one, trying to up the number of days a week i run. used the facilities at the park building for the first time ever. nice.

also, stopping the watch when i've stopped makes me feel faster, looking at the numbers.

i didn't actually come sprinting out of the can at a 3:10/mi. silly satellites.

ndobbs' and my (read: ian's) gps routes from the WHNO

I'll thrown the routes on the map to make sure, but there's one ugly swamp chunk with a delightful collecting feature leading into it that I think got both of us. It's not so big that it was inevitable to cross, but still amusing that it got both teams.

some alright boldering, and some good slacklining. finally nailed some V3's (three of 'em) and a half-dozen v2's. 11 laps of slacklining. wonder how long it would take to slackline a mile.

making amends - ended up going out to dinner with The Girl and not running home yesterday. no discomfort today.. tried - and struggled - to go slow enough to hit 75% max HR - 142bpm. Didn't really succeed - doesn't take much to distract me, and i speed up. turns out i need to get down to almost 9:30/mi to hit that low. slooooow. took less than a minute to recover to 100bpm afterwards. cool weather helped

a weird run to work. had a stitch the third step out the door and it stuck with me the whole way. can't say i was sad to see red lights. also, i kept thinking i was going slow (9min/mi) and looked down to see ~8min/mi and 160+bpm. weird. finally managed to rein it in after the two-mile mark. kinda.

been feeling like crap (or more accurately, not crap) gastrointestinally since immediately after the WHNO. i definitely ate a standard ben-bbq serving (read: too much) and then went hard trying to hang on to ian/giacomo/neil's coattails. been feelin' varying levels of nonspecific gut-discomfort since. might've been neil's botulism-special hot-day-in-the-car pizza, but he and JJ were no worse for the wear. must be my fair constitution.

warning, the first sentence of that last paragraph might've been TMI.

i want to write a script that will generate an arbitrary line-o to work/home for a given distance. and spit out a map. between any two points, really. just need to rustle up some intersection/route/length data in a handy form.

C • Warnings... 2