Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: DVOA Green Lane Park
 

Yellow course at Green Lane because I had signed up for control pickup afterwards and didn't want to trash my ankles/knees with the uneven off-trail footing a Brown course would have entailed. As it was there was plenty of rock, and distance, on the yellow course. 2.9 km, 70m nominal, 1:10000 map dated 2006. About the same temp as yesterday (mid-upper 30s) but hardly any wind until a breeze picked up after I'd finished.

Plenty of green on the map, and I think there are changes to trails as bikers have developed some new twisty ones here and there, and others are overgrown.

And I managed to miss one, attacking from a trail bend that may not reflect current reality, and checking out a different control first.

Picked up a group of controls west of the start area, after Glen dropped me off up the road to save climb/time. Turned the wrong way on a trail after getting the 7th bag/stake combo, and then decided to bushwhack but missed seeing the trail (probably because it no longer exists there) before emerging into a clearing and re-attacking.

Thank you to Steve and Sharon for spending most of three days in the woods and around the start at Green Lane!

Yellow - Splits

Event: DVOA Green Lane Park
 

Two controls (4 and 9) were not synced and/or labeled properly (and not programmed properly so some data fixing was required before posting), leading to some really weird splits to controls 4 and 5, which were actually almost equidistant legs.

(My watch times, shown on my track, are about 5+ minutes each, instead of 2 and 9.)

Green course at Green Lane County Park (northern part), designed by Steve A. Map is dated 2006. There was a lot of downfall in the woods that wasn't reflected on the map which was particularly irksome when near controls. That said, he did keep us in the whiter woods for the most part. About 38 and mostly sunny but a nasty NW breeze (that was kicking up small whitecaps on the lake). Nominally 4.3 km, 110m climb.

One and 2 okay. Hit the stream/ditch area for #3 north of where the flag was and couldn't find the ditch under all the downed trees for awhile. Once I did I managed to find the small "rootstock" the flag was hung near. Good to 4 and 5, then did a loop-de-loop on the way to 6 around more downed trees with mounds of tall grass between them that could have been knolls but weren't. Relocated on the line from the two driveway pillars on the road bend at the edge of the map. Dave Urban was also wandering around here. And then there was a pair of very large trees blocking the way to the flag; Dave went between them while I climbed up part of the knoll one tree laid across and over the log.

Stayed in woods to the creekbed to 8 but should have taken the trail as the rootstock he chose to hang the flag on was almost on the trail. Trail most of the way to 9.

Then a map exchange (he *could* have just put the other map on the back and saved a map case, but there were two bins with maps at 9) so I tucked my first map into a pocket and continued. #10 was head down the hill until I could see a flag in the open woods (on a barely discernible but mapped dot knoll). Trails most of the way to 11, then dogleg back out to head to 12, where I was a bit S of the line but could see from a distance.

13 was my other non-spike. My intent was to head due east to the big trail and identify the stone wall end to attack the dot knoll among root stocks, but I must have been headed more northeast and when I crossed the trail and found rootstocks but no flag, was thinking enough to head to the trail along the lake to find the ditch east of it and in (rather than exploring the unmapped rootstocks looking for a flag that wasn't there). Then it was just a long trail run in from there with a control along the way.

Took a couple of tumbles with no damage, but my right knee is sore now from the uneven terrain. Need to get back to some knee strengthening exercises, I think.

Accidentally turned off my watch at some point so I added 50 seconds back in to match my download time. No HR strap today.

Back to GL tomorrow too, but a different section. I'm signed up for a Yellow course and then control pickup. Hope it's less brutally cold.

Green - Splits

Attempted a walk around the block with A. but needed to return to move the car. Mostly overcast and about 50; pre-turkey...

"Orchard" neighborhood and once around our community's exterior. Temp was in the upper 30s with a NW breeze which was uncomfortable at times, but I was properly dressed.

Brand new shoes. A bit underwhelming on the arch support, but otherwise a very cushy ride, and I did not catch a toe.