Training Log Archive: kissy

Event: 30 Years of Pond Mt
 

This was a great weekend! The courses and training were excellent. It was fabulous to see a lot of good friends. And my Airbnb stay was amazing. The owner knew of Peter Goodwin...her son went to Kent School with John. Also, she had a friend staying there, too. A Harvard professor of seed digitization...or something like that. Two very brilliant and interesting women. We sat at breakfast on Saturday and talked for a few hours. And then made dinner together on Saturday night...kind of like a lamb tangine.

Her house and gardens were so nice and cozy. I'm so glad I convinced myself to take on that little adventure.

Corridor-O and Line-O. I completely lost the corridor at one point and then made the decision not to follow the line at another place because it was so green.

This was my first corridor-O and it was fun...and hard.

Green - Splits

A short run this morning to shake the legs out and before taking my car in for a 30K mile check up. The time is a little slower because I had to go through the woods trail and cross the creek again. The stream construction guys were already working(!) and I couldn't run on the normal path. I was really surprised to see them out that early.

And I felt great! There was no pain in either of my knees and when I was running on a good path, I felt like I was going at a good pace. What a turnaround from just a few years ago. I'm excited to explore the trails at my new house. I should be moving at the end of October, right after the Nationals.

I'm headed to Pond Mt. for the weekend. I was ready for a road trip and the training sounded like it was going to be a lot of fun. I'm staying in a room at an Airbnb in Kent. The house is a beautiful garden cottage owned by a woman who seems to be about my age and is a gardening writer. She also loves to cook and wants to hear all about orienteering. It sounds like it's going to be a fun and interesting weekend.

I bought a house.

C • Wow! 15

Body Pump

so hot and sweaty in the gym this morning.

Event: QOC Occoquan
 

QOC's season opener at Occoquan Regional Park. I ran Brown because I didn't have much time since I wanted to go to 2 Open Houses in Arlington and because I wasn't expecting to have time to go orienteering today, so I had a biggish breakfast this morning with Mom and Don. They left earlier than I thought they would, so I ended up being able to go orienteering *and* go look at houses. However, the breakfast was not sitting well in my stomach the entire time I was in the woods.

From what I could see, the event was packed with people. The crowd around the registration and download areas was large, there were mobs of people in the woods, and the parking lot was overflowing. I know I didn't stay long, but I only saw a few familiar faces while I was there, mainly some of the volunteers.

I am happy to see so many people enjoying orienteering and I know it's good for the club to have these big local events, but it does leave me missing RMOC's events, where it was all people you knew. And you hung out and talked to your friends and it was nice. Today, I just felt like a stranger in a crowd, doing my thing and then leaving. I guess I could make more of an effort, too, but it just seemed easier in Colorado.

C • QOC meets 11

Brown - Splits