Training Log Archive: David_Waller

Formed an ad hoc team with Greg Ehrensing (BAOC) and Greg Porter (ROC) for a really fun Extreme-O short course. Some legs (e.g., strip maps) were really fun; some legs (e.g., out-of-order ground-level photos) were really hard; and some legs (e.g., the human hamster ball) were pretty dorky. But it was all quite a bit of fun, and we worked surprisingly well together as a team. I didn't know what to expect, but would definitely do it again in the future. All around great weekend from GAOC.

GNC, day 2. Not quite as solid navigationally as yesterday, with a really long mistake at 16. I must have mistaken the northerly (small) boulder cluster with the more southerly cluster as I neared the circle. Ended up way too far north, getting lured by one rootstock after another, and got seriously confused with what I thought were some unmapped rootstocks. I should have known when I saw mintore in the vicinity that he was on his way to 19 -- that would have helped me relocate a little better. But I really foolishly assumed that he was looking for the same control that I was. I lost my flow on that leg, and the way to 17 was almost as bad, when I seriously over-ran it. I cleared my head and finished okay, but lost a ton of time on those two mistakes.

Red - Splits

Event: Georgia Navigator Cup / Southeast Interscholastics Championships
 

Event: POCAR 48hr Rogaine
 

GNC day 1. Fairly clean run, with a couple of route choice errors (4/5 and 6/7) that probably cost me a couple of minutes, and an execution error at 10 that probably cost me another 45 seconds. Otherwise, pretty slow and steady. Clearly the single best thing that I could do to improve my time would be to get in better shape.

C • for the longest time 6

Red - Splits

Checking out the model area at Red Top Mtn. Looks like quite a bit more climb than I have become accustomed to, but the map looks good, and the woods look very open.

Very easy mile jog, again trying to be extra gentle on the calf.

Two miles, very slowly so as not to upset the fragile calf.