Training Log Archive: JanetT

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Friday Sprint (added track 2022-01-25)
Saturday day 1
Sunday day 2 *I was just above my #2 reentrant at 17:00 but by then my brain was navigating me (not very well) to #3.*

Saw some raptors (in cages at a nature center) including an albino turkey vulture. Neat!

Friday, based on weather reports for tonight, I switched my flight home (no extra charge) from Sunday to Tuesday. It sounds like it was a good call--a lot of others might have switched as well--in any case, tonight's flight from Atlanta to Allentown was cancelled and I wouldn't have been on it anyway.

So this afternoon I came to Birmingham with Glen who has secret World Games stuff to do here and had planned to fly home later in the week, and I have a ride to Atlanta Tuesday afternoon.

Maybe I'll take a hike tomorrow....

Conditions at FDR Park when we arrived Sunday morning; snow flurries were light and not sticking, but still....

Anyone for an adventure? Today's weather was a trial to begin with, and was cause for delayed starts. It was 40 and raining (and had been raining overnight) when we got up, and by the time we left the motel at 11 am (we'd already learned about the two-hour-delay due to some trees/branches on roads due to wind overnight) it had switched over to snow flurries, but roads were just wet, not slippery at all. It seemed like a lot of people decided not to run as the lot wasn't as full as yesterday.

It had dropped to 33F by the time we reached the park, and the snow flurries continued throughout (at some point it was graupel instead of snow).

Course as planned was longer with more claimed climb than yesterday's...4.7km with 165m climb. FDR Park, Liberty Bell Pool map at 1:10000. GA Navigator Cup day 2, another classic course.

As Kristin M. said about her run yesterday, today for me was a "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad race". I thought I was mentally (and clothing-wise) prepared for cold and light rain/snow, but my brain had a different idea.

I found #1 just fine and headed SE in the direction of #2, until I didn't and switched over to navigating to #3, being confused with why I was headed south at all when #3 was ENE, and why was it taking so darn long to reach the road. Saw some flags in reentrants (my #2 was a reentrant) along the way but only checked one of them, #102 (my #2 was 31; #3 was 32). I probably wasn't far from 32. But that was then.

When I eventually *did* reach the road, I wasn't sure where I was and thought I was much farther east than I actually was, so I headed southwest along it to try to find my small parking lot and trail (for an attackpoint for #3), but instead saw a much larger lot and figured it was off the map to the SW and I needed to turn around. From there I navigated just fine to #3. Decided (it was now 43 minutes into the race) to decide whether to continue once I dropped to the trail on the way to #4, but made my decision before reaching the trail and switched to heading west towards the start, picking up 8-9-10 on the way to finish.

When I downloaded, I told the crew I'd skipped a few (they asked, "Intentionally?" and I answered in the affirmative). That's when I discovered I'd skipped #2 as well, and then my trek to #3 made a bit more sense, but I still have no idea why my brain turned itself off partway to #2.

In the back of my mind I suppose I had the reassurance that I'd won F65 for the weekend no matter what since they were scoring best 2/3 races and I'd won Friday and Saturday. But it's always a bummer when you mp or dnf at a National event.

Kudos to Sandy for going out and finishing the course!!

Conditions at 1200' (near #3 on Brown X; #8 on Green X):

So close, and yet so far....

BrownX - Splits

Event: GAOC Georgia Navigator Cup Forest 2-Day: FDR SP
 

GA Navigator Cup classic on Lake Delano map in FD Roosevelt SP, Pine Mountain, GA. Brown X, 4.4 km, 155m climb (most of it in the 5-6 leg). We had later starts today (I was at 12:19; WRE starts were 9-10, and NRE starts began at 10). Cloudy and about 50 or so, so not bad weather, considering.

Another decent day orienteering-wise (except for my two bonehead legs, #1 and #7). I again had trouble finding the start triangle, but headed out following streamers to a trail (they were set up to lead White/ Yellow runners) which trail I then stayed on to a bend which was my attackpoint for a ditch about 100m away. I was drawn off by a flag about 30-40m along (first control on Orange course) and then when it wasn't the one I was looking for I didn't bother checking my compass much and continued on to the ditch. Saw a flag on a rootstock but it was the green X 100+m southeast of the control so I had to head back N.

I then did okay through #6 (I saw a mylar balloon on my climb to the flag and picked it up to drop at the control site; Glen said he saw it there). On the way to 7 I checked off the reentrant with the rootstocks and vertical green but then got turned around somehow and thought the cliffline was facing N instead of S and went up the wrong side of the broad spur for awhile before correcting. D'oh!

Fine to the rest. Saw another flag on my way to #8 but it wasn't far enough along (and wrong code) so didn't get drawn off. Stayed low until the reentrant before the control (actually went right by a control on a brown dot/dirt pile) and then climbed until I could see the rootstock before the control. Saw Glen exiting as I approached but I don't think he saw me. Took forever to reach the trail to the last control but was finally done.

BrownX - Splits

Event: GAOC Georgia Navigator Cup Sprint: University of West Georgia
 

Warming up a bit near the start area before the sprint.

Today's weather is as nice as it's going to get, sunny and mid to upper 50s.

GA O Fest / Navigator Cup 2022. Brown X course, 2.3 km, 75m climb, on a 1:4000 map that was still hard to read.

Pretty clean on most of the controls, reading ahead enough to know which direction to leave the control. I wasn't sure what I was looking for at #7 so I had some hesitation but recovered okay. Going 7-8, though, involved underpasses and overpasses and ways through that I just could not interpret even with my magnifier...everything looked like walls blocking the way, so I went around. The optimum route from 7-8 might have taken me ~2:00, maybe, but I took 3:20. On my way to #9 (a very short leg), however, I did notice an easy exit from the area where 8 and 9 were located, which upon review after we were done and had time to study the map appeared to be the best way into 8.

Preliminary results has me 1st of 2 (the other runner mp'ed; she never went to #1). There are two more people in the F65 class signed up for Sat-Sun.

Brown-X - Splits

Neighborhoods, with a loop around the "home" block to see how long it is (I'll probably forget, but 0.5km). Mid to upper 30s, mostly cloudy, and no significant breeze.

C • Distance 1

Too cold to walk outside! High reached 16F, I think.