Training Log Archive: wwk

Event: DVOA Hickory Run State Park
 

White course at Hickory run, fun for the whole family! The start was at the State Game lands parking lot on PA534, which I remember starting from a couple times when I was a kid. Evidently they were using up a supply of 25 year-old offset printed maps, made in 1988... which sounds about right. In a comical way, the map was 1:15000 and about 1 foot by 2 feet, and the white course took up about a postage stamp-sized area in one corner!

We took our family time. Max affirmed that many trees were broken and he wanted to fix them. Zoe affirmed her fear of grasshoppers, but not bees, worms, or frogs. No one but me liked the cicada. Everyone loved the blueberries -- so the split between 3 and 4 was a bit long...

The trail network was mostly overgrown (tall summer grass) but passable, and one mapped trail, which the coursesetters streamered between 1 and 2, was really gone. The footing there was pretty tricky, downhill over rocky ground with lots of downed branches. Note to self: don't do this to anyone on a white course I set.

White - Splits

Event: EMPO - Washington Park
 

"Park-O" at Washington Park in Albany. Fun course set by Frank and Brenan. I hadn't realized there was a good deal of topographic detail here, but so there was! Little orange flags marked each control location, and you had to write down the letter code at each one. The map was 1:5000, scaled down from normal 1:10000, but the flags were scaled down much further.

I only "missed" one, on control 4 (I think) I went to the wrong satellite circle around the big circle. 90 degree error. Also, I missed a few splits on the track.

Cicotti center; 25 mins on elliptical and 25 mins on indoor track. Saw first 15 mins of Stripes

Cicotti center; about 30 mins on elliptical then about 25 mins on the indoor track.

Note: Law and Order starts at 9AM. Either learn to do the elliptical for 60mins or never ever find out what happens to (e.g.) Daniel Lester.