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Golden Gate Park training, Thursday, July 22,
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Register in person (Registration form, waiver) | return to terraloco home
Brrr... gotta keep moving in the fog with a significant wind chill. Participants participated vigorously. Since there were 4 loops, I could see them come and go on each loop. Each had a different adventure, and most had tricky navigation, some of which had to do with the map needing updating. Afterwards, we gathered at a gastropub in the Haight, but moved on when learning of the one hour waitlist down the street to a crepes joint.
Course Statistics
Loop A: 6 checkpoints, 1.5 km
distance
Loop B: 8 checkpoints, 1.4 km distance
Loop C: 6 checkpoints, 1.7 km distance
Loop D: 4 checkpoints, 1.5 km distance
Reported Results (most chose to do it "incognito;" those that did report, weren't necessarily going "full speed")
Mikkel Conradi: 12:51 Loop A, 11:24
Loop B, 12:29 Loop C, 11:06 Loop D
Steve Harrison: 15:52 Loop C
Mark Prior: 11:57 Loop A, 7:29 Loop B, 9:43 Loop C,
8:37 Loop D
Original Announcement
What's the Deal?
Aren't we fortunate to have a BAOC map of one of the world's premier urban parks?
Come enjoy a fun romp in Golden Gate Park with lots of people - last year we had about 25 on a summer evening. And this time we're using the easier-to-get-to east end of the park.
This will be a different style of event than the BAOC meet held in June.
It will be a motala course (several loops, various orders of doing them) with optional mini mass starts and possibly forking. Meaning, you could be starting together with people, but not able to follow them the whole way. You may do the course self-starting or wait a few minutes for a group to gather to go with. Going with the group provides the added training benefit of what I'll call "distraction" on your course.
There will be lots of decision making to entertain you on the course, using combinations of obstacles in the terrain to make the routing interesting.
I'm aiming to make 4 loops, about 1.5 km each, and you can do as many as you want.
Details:
- Cost is $5 per person.
- Registration and starts open at 6:00, mass start option is 6:45, courses close 8:00, or earlier, if people are finished.
- Gear: shorts and regular running shoes are okay, but bring pants if you can't stand any vegetation brushing your legs, there might be a little bit of that.
- Checkpoints are small colored flags staked in the ground about 1 foot high.
- Map from BAOC is 1:7500 scale and has some mild hills.
- Social option afterwards around 9th and Irving or in the Lower Haight.
Directions:
We're convening at the Dahlia Dell picnic site. It is located near the Conservatory of Flowers on the eastern side of the park, not very far from the eastern end of JFK Drive.
From Northbound Highway 101: Take the 101 North/Golden Gate Bridge exit in San Francisco, which becomes Octavia St at Market St. Stay on Octavia for a few blocks, and turn left onto Fell St. Follow Fell St west for 1.5 miles into Golden Gate Park. After it enters the park, bear right / turn right to get on John F. Kennedy Drive. It will come up very soon! Look for a terraloco sign and/or a orange and white control bag; park nearby, then follow the streamers to the picnic site called Dahlia Dell.
Public Transit: Take the 5 Fulton SF Muni bus to Stanyan; walk south on Stanyan, turn right onto Fell, then turn right onto John F. Kennedy Drive. Look for a terraloco sign and/or a orange and white control bag; park nearby, then follow the streamers to the picnic site called Dahlia Dell. You can also take the N Judah SF Muni rail line from any of the downtown BART stations; get off at Cole, which is the first stop after exiting the tunnel. (Not the tunnel shared with BART, the train goes above the surface and goes through another tunnel.) Walk down Cole past Haight St. to Fell, turn left, and then follow the directions as above when you get into Golden Gate Park.
Event Contact: Rex, 5 1 0 - 6 8 1 - 6 1 8 1, rex@terraloco.com