Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Event: QOC Rosaryville - MTBO Part Cancelled!!
 

QOC Rosaryville Blue - one silly route choice early, otherwise fine though I wasn't feeling quite as good physically as I did at Combat Village the previous weekend.

After the orienteering meet, went and walked around Fran Uhler Natural Area to see for myself what the terrain looks like now and whether it would be worth the effort to try to revive the map. Sadly, the woods have definitely evolved for the worse from an orienteering point of view since we last ran there some years ago - it was always a park with thick areas but now almost all of the previously runnable forest has become thicker and has a fair bit more deadfall than I remember. Also, a number of the trails have fallen into disuse, with no one removing blockages by deadfall. The interesting stuff is still all there underneath but no one would thank us for setting courses through vegetation that unpleasant, no matter how starved for intricately detailed areas QOC orienteers may be locally.

Blue - Splits

To work, with two rests when I got caught for long enough at lights that I stopped my watch.

Decided to vary my cycling intensity upwards a bit and time myself riding to work this morning.

Home by way of Upper Northwest to see a FilmFestDC documentary with Dan.

Commute. Aquatic center on the way home.

To work.

Silly walks and uphill sprints.

Home with some grocery shopping en route.

Home with some grocery shopping en route.

Event: QOC Combat Village
 

QOC Combat Village Blue - lovely day in excellent terrain. Turns out Don kept his courses entirely on Combat Village West, I think. Great fun in almost entirely very fast woods. Course could certainly have been more technical but it was certainly technical enough for most and probably isn't a bad thing to reintroduce the terrain to a lot of members who weren't around the last time we used it with something less than the most fiendishly hard course you could design there. I bobbled slightly a few times and no doubt did some unjustified S bends on longer legs - the GPS track will tell all - but will chalk this us as a pretty good race.

I'll have to look at RouteGadget soon - I'm a bit puzzled at how many people seem to have made very large mistakes on the second leg. Even looking at the people who didn't have disasters, I won the leg by a full minute and I have no idea how that happened - early in the course, I definitely can't run that much faster than Dave Pruden.

Picked up three controls very near the finish.

Blue - Splits