Training Log Archive: furlong47

Event: DVOA Tyler State Park
 

DVOA Tyler State Park - Green

I am definitely out of shape and I may need to start working in some PT exercises again - my left hip was really tight and had some pain for the first half of the course. I did very little running.

Most of my issues were in scrubbier areas. At 2 I worked my way through to end up next to the open area to the SE of the control, but thought I was too far to the other side and wandered near the swamp for a moment before realizing the error.

Going from 7 to 8 I went up and bounced off the parking lot, but then missed seeing the trailhead behind some cars. Wandered back and forth to the south of the parking lot for a moment, where there was a just a wall of thorns with swamp behind it. Dumb mistake. I was also trying to get out of the disc golf area because I've had enough encounters with nasty/entitled/impatient disc golfers in the past including at this park.

Screwed up 11 next, going up after the boulders but ending up too high and weaving through some nasty stuff. As I was headed back down to regroup I saw it, just barely, because a big fallen log was in my way. So I probably walked right by it on the way up.

I knew from already being up there that I was unlikely to make it through to the field, so I dropped back down to the trail to go to 12. The woods around 12 were much nicer. And all the rest of it was fine.

Stopped on the way home at a little park called Bondsville Mill Park, to see the ruins there. Did a small loop hike up to the old water tower. There are other trails but my legs were pretty dead already.

green - Splits

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