Training Log Archive: JanetT

Much sunnier today, though slightly colder when we started (low 40s). Temp rose to mid 50s by the time we left the park.

This is an estimate of my time and climb to the start, the first part of which was up a ski slope. After that climb we went on a trail through some woods but had to climb over a high downed log, and then I fell going through a honeysuckle arch. Picked up some stick-tight (or whatever) burrs. Ugh. Eventually made it the start area.

Flying Pig XXVI Masters Champs day 1, Brown A Classic course 2.6km, 45m climb, 1:7500 map (like yesterday). Hueston Woods North, NW of Oxford OH. Not too hilly with some stream networks, but a lot of mountain bike twists and turns around and through the varying shades of green vegetation.

Livelox for Brown A Saturday Classic day 1

Managed to not get lost going to the first control (which was a problem for some others on the course) in the maze of mountain bike trails and reentrants in the only open-woods section of the map. I did make a route correction to #1 after having started on the trails near the beeline, but then decided I didn't like the looks of the stream valley, and took trails around.

Saw PeggyD coming out of my #2, so I just needed to get over to and into it, which I did. I did go a bit north on trails for an easier stream crossing, but I wasn't lost.

Found the correct trails to #3 but would have saved a bit of time if I'd popped directly over to the trail after crossing the road rather than running the road and then cutting in...where I cut in there was more honeysuckle-forest distance.

Managed to navigate the right trails to #4, hesitating at the end when I wasn't sure what part of the small square of white woods it was on (it wasn't; description was western trail bend [which touches the clearing]).

To #5, where I lost some time (per AP), I went S to the powerline after seeing the vertical green in the section I needed weren't too close together, and I did manage to find a "track" where either other orienteers or wildlife had gone. Turned back into the forest at the W-most trail which looked like it was closest to the circled stream end (just off a trail with white woods in between), but I didn't see it from there so went through the honeysuckle again to the next trail over and relocated...it was visible from and much closer to that one.

Straightforward route to 6; I saw trilliums, trout lily leaves and other ephemerals above the stream, along the way.

NW through lighter green woods to the road then over to the trail that parallels it; confused at a junction and went 15-20m the wrong way before correcting to #7.

Then more confusing trails and a powerline crossing on the way to 8 (GO); thought I found the trail that looped down the hill to exit the woods just north of the control, but ended up crashing through more honeysuckle before exiting S of the control. I ran the chute as fast as I could; had to catch my breath before downloading.

Keg and I seem to be fairly closely matched but she had larger mistakes (the most important was the one to #1 where she picked up Allmuth who stuck with her like the burrs that got me when I fell on the way to start. ;-/ ) She said she kept trying to shake Allmuth but was unsuccessful until near the end. She has my sympathies. :-P Anyway, Keg was 48 sec ahead of me yesterday and I'm 45 seconds ahead today.

My one competitor in F70 (a Canadian) beat me yesterday but had trouble today.

At least one fall on the course (in the clearer woods on the way to #1!) which turned my watch off for a minute or so; I adjusted my time to match official but didn't change the distance.

OCIN_FP2024_Saturday_Classic_4 Brown A - Splits

Event: Flying Pig XXVI - Total Eclipse of the Pig - 2024 Masters Nationals
 

To the start of the "middle" at Camp Friedlander.

Mid 40s and overcast, but no rainshowers.

Middle, Brown A course designed by Shin Shimuzu. It also happens to be the longest course of the weekend for our category (F65 and up, M75 and up). 2.9km, 60m climb

Livelox for BrownA Middle

The map is a combination of open fields, buildings, and some white and medium green woods with some patches of lighter green. The med green is mostly honeysuckles which always seem to find their way into Pig terrains. ;-)

#1 was easy, just off the trail and visible from it if you ran the trail far enough. For the rest, I suppose I could have added more climb taking straight lines, but I went up to the road for #1-2 to avoid some gully-crossing. Angelica passed me on the road and was headed to the same control, apparently, so I was able to see where she left the ditch as I was approaching.

#10 was my biggest error but AP shows me with an error on #8 as well (I think relative to Keg Good whose speed was very close to mine today; I did hesitate a one point to double-check where I was). For 10, I ran the road to about halfway across the dam, then angled down to the road bend that I could see, ran to the next road bend, then planned to cut the corner through the short bit of honeysuckle (<50m) to the control, but missed and ended up too far right. I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking for, and had to double back once I cleared the green and reached the road.

Flattish areas or mostly flat so I could jog in places; not that my jogging pace is much faster than a brisk walk. But it turned out to be a fine day for O.

My US age-group competition didn't make it (travel issues) so it's just me and a Canadian woman who had originally been listed as a mispunch but is listed in the splits so there likely a control issue. Finished ahead of Rich Parker but not Chuck Spalding; a good 10 minutes behind Sharon and 20 behind Walter S!

We found a brewpub 15 minutes from the Camp for dinner, Montgomery Public House. Decent beer and food. Like many places in OH they have many choices of ciders, lagers, and pilsners, and not so many IPAs or hazys.

OCIN_FP2024_Friday_Middle_4 Brown A - Splits

Deanna's class...lower lung breathing and core strengthening

A loop in S Whitehall from Covered Bridge Park, including two covered bridges! For City Strides, it counts 3 roads and the 2 bridges. About 50 and overcast (nicer today than tomorrow and Wednesfay, however).

Roads in S Whitehall including getting safely across a tricky* intersection that I figured would be much less busy on Easter Sunday midday than any other time. Upper 50s and partly sunny.

* tricky in that it's a busy intersection any time of the day, and it's posted with "no pedestrian crossing" signs

More roads, after a break to take photos of covered bridges over Jordan Creek