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Saturday Jun 14 | ||
| Event: 2008 US Rogaining Championships | ||
| Orienteering (Rogaine) 21:43:00 [2]*** 38 km (34:17 / km) | |
| ahr:118 max:224 spiked:14/20c slept:0.0 shoes: Saloman Comp II Green | ||
| In general, planned to move way faster than the foliage would allow. Which turned out fine, but we could have had a better plan if I'd had a more realistic idea of the amount of time we would spend finding controls. What was different than in OR and AZ was the number of smaller parallel features that didn't make the map, and it took us awhile to calibrate ourselves to that.
Planned: 3k/hr day, 2k/hr night, 1 hour rest, total of 64 km 2350 points Actual: 2k/hr Day1, 1.2 km/hr night, 1.5 km/hr Day 2, total of 36 km. 1050 points Felt good at the start - well rested, ready for rain. Had my gear ziplocked, carrying 1 bagel/cream cheese, cheesy pretzels, cashews and dried apricots, mint oreos, 2 peanut sweet/salty bars, 1 choc powerbar, 4 slim jims, triscuits, Jolly Ranchers. Wore shorts w/legs zipped off, short sleeve wicking shirt (long in reserve for night), HR monitor, short smartwool socks w/one in reserve, black hat. Carried Camelbak with weak Gook (70 oz), flashlight, headlamp, extra batteries, first aid kit, whistle etc. 25:47 (154/173) to 604, just behind Lyons brothers and ahead of another team. Ran the trails, hiked the hill aggressively. Good route, crosstalk. 56:11 (140/165) to 414. Good route to spur, knew we were low and spread out 50m apart to walk up the broad spur. Started to rain, got separated because I had a faster pace and Michelle got tangled up in some brush and we lost visual contact. With the rain, we could occasionally hear each other, but I had to relocate high and low to eventually find her at the control. I don't know how I missed her at the control (which she went right to while I wandered for 16 mins) - I could have sworn I'd been through there at least once in my scouring of the hillside. Scared us both into keeping much closer together, and I had to tone down my stride - the woods intervals have had quite an impact on the way I move. 2:17:44 (136/166) to 806, missed 703 on the way. Not sure how - we came to a junction that looked exactly as described on the map, went down the reentrant all the way to the trail so we were in the right one. Later found out there was another such junction a bit higher - we must have just missed it. Realized we were well behind our time and dropped 310. Went around on the trail to 806 with the intent of following the water up to the trail...never found that reentrant, not sure that it was all that deep, and we looked down around the roads and trail junction that should have been mapped pretty accurately. Finally just rough compassed up to the trail, hit the trail well south. Misread the contours and bend in the trail (micro level, not macro enough) and did a loop early. Finally found THE bend and got the control. We were starting to figure out what our APs needed to be, the value of aiming off, and the true lack of utility of hydrology or reentrants. 1:45:33 (126/165) to 404. Great trail run, but went high (50 paces was not reflective of 100m) and in the subtlety of the terrain never saw the saddle, got sucked down a reentrant early. Pace count was short cross-country. Finally found the road after the LONGEST time, and its direction made NO sense. Realized my bagel had fallen out of my pack. ;-( sadness. M shared some of hers, and it was good. Got on the road and figured out after a few hundred meters which way it was going and where we were. Found 404. Stopped for water. 27:35 (124/155) 608, No issues, but I forget how we got there. 1:10:01 (506) Came down by swamp, took faint trail up the right side, eventually crossed over and counted the first big reentrant. Thought the next one would be ours, had trouble identifying it, but adjusted pace (80/100)had been closer and we thought we had it. M felt it was higher, so mid-way up the spur we adjusted higher...no such luck. I thought we were in the vague hill/saddle area, so we circled a bit, and were headed down (having passed a few possible junctions) to the trail to give up and move on to 802 when voila - it was 50m away from where we were standing. 1:03:11 (122/159) 802 bailed to the trail...on the way, I saw Baby Bear 75m in front of me run to his Mama (right on my heading) and tell her all about the pink people in the woods. She harrumphed a bunch about him getting too far away from her, and M and I stopped and adjusted further E/SE. That apparently wasn't far enough for Mama Bear, who ran off N/NW with Baby Bear. My internal compass was completely shut down by this point in time, and we ended up with a MUCH longer trail run than anticipated to our AP. In spite of our poor record with hydrology, we were able to find this one fairly quickly. 46:14 (132/153) 705 We ran the trail / road, clearly faster after our record with reentrant issues. Caught the water resupply guy on his way in and followed him the last several hundred meters. Stopped to rig for the night. 1:03:57 (117/224) 504 Ran the road, took the trail and found it wasn't quite as mapped. M caught when the trail heading had subtlely turned, pulled me back (pace way off from what I thought were the Bear Springs). We double checked that we had gone past by hopping over the spur to the second stream, following it in to the junction. 52:45 (120/142) 411 Night fell on our way up this loooong reentrant. We nailed the control, however - M did a great job with compass and watching the lay of the land as much as she could with her headlamp, and my pace was right on (90/100 dusk, 100/100 night) - hit the saddle, I took the lead with the power light, found the hill and the control with no issues. 55:55 (111/117) 505 Came down hoping to hit the clearing, but hit the trail in the woods left of it instead. Out to the trail, up to the edge of the clearing, attacked along the spur from there. Power light at 100m out, easy find. 1:07:28 (104/143) Down the spur to the trail, stopped for water and sock change (me), then right into a swamp (so much for dry socks, but they felt great for 5 minutes), through nasty thick vegetation, and up to the control. Too easy. 2:39:33 (110/150) 601 and 803. Back the way we came to the water point, too the trail 600m and the straight up so we would be able to work down the spur. Another easy find. Then down the spur to the trail, through the clearing (I HATE wet ferns...we were wet the whole time because even after the rain was gone, there was so much foliage!) to the trail (and through another nasty swampy area). Tried to decide if the light green fence-ish marker (inholding boundary) was visible in any way on the map, because we were very concerned about finding the trail to 803. Decided it wasn't, and went with a strategy of aiming off right and pace count. Ended up hitting the stub trail (although we didn't see it on the map until later) and figured it was a logging trail that would extend to our trail. It did! And then, to top it off, our trail had been marked by hunters, allowing us a really easy climb to the top. A glow-in-the dark trail for an 80 point control - it doesn't get better than this. We held a pow-wow to decide what to do, since we'd already hit the controls we felt we could do in the dark. I argued for 402, since we were doing very well on our off-road navigation and I was quite confident we could manage in the dark with M's compass and my now well-calibrated pace. We considered staying out all night and just doing our original Day 1 loop. I thought we could make it in with the time we had left, but I had food concerns since I was down to very little by then and figured M was, too. M really wanted to get back to the camp to change shoes - her feet were bothering her and she had to reign me in a few times during the day. We decided to go 402/805/701 in and then go out for a mini-loop. If we'd carried the food necessary and could have dried M's feet out, we might have had the points to win - we'd missed 100 with the 703 error and dopped 90 other points, which would have made 1410. However, I didn't feel like pushing it - neither of us was really in the mood for extra pain at this point, and M was having some nice hallucinations. I'm not sure we could have been clean enough to pick all those points up on Day 2. 3:02:03 (104/123) 402 and 805. We nailed 402 with a lot of pacing and using the power light to make sure we stayed on the spurs and in the saddle. Did a great job of collecting features by night using the same strategy of mini-legs of compass and pace to big features (hilltops, spurs) Overshot the spur, however, by a 100m or so, and in the dark I was convinced it was ahead of us instead of behind...as BMCT demonstrated 300m after that, we were on the saddle to the west. I took the lead back to 805. M was pretty tired, but perked up with the daylight. I ate my Pop Tart and we shared some mint oreos. Too much sugar - nauseous again at 0600. Apparently I need to heavily weight my packing list towards non-sweet things, felt like I did in AZ. 1:18:11 (105/128) M led while I droned down the hill. Had some trouble getting out of the clearings and the BIG swamp - not at all like the others mapped this way, this one was swamp and LAKE. Stomach settled down we relocated out the end of the swampy area - we were pretty frustrated with relocating there for a bit. Filled up on water (I was dry) at the campsite, and headed down the road to the field and up to 701, no problem Decided that by the time we got 510, it would make sense to head back in and call it a day - we'd broken 1000 points for pride, but we knew we didn't have the points to win, and didn't see the point in pushing ourselves over the edge. 1:21:08 (104/132) 510 and Base Camp. M led out of 701 and we both droned a bit - suddenly realized we were heading nearly north and tagged out lead. Came to an unexpected fire break, busted through the nasty field (if I never see another ferny field for the next 10 years, it will be too early), hit the bridge and over the water. Needed to go high to travel this easily, no problem finding it, came back down right across the water and into camp. Very enjoyable - I am most sore in my abs, have some chafing from my gators on my legs and in unmentionable places from the rain (I'd forgotten that happened), but had the stuff to deal with it in the 1st aid kit. Felt very good about our rate of improvement as the race went on - 506 was the last major bobble, and we were in less than optimal conditions after that. A good race - not a serious physical effort compared to my other rogaines, but I'm ok with that! It's nice not to be so sore I can't move. Off to find Anna and Peter - poor Peter's doctor appt was rough...they couldn't find a vein to draw blood for the longest time, and I couldn't tell who I was singing to, Peter or the tech! He was so rattled...I had to give up my "I don't like needles" act, or we never would've gotten it figured out. And the doc wants an O-map of the hillside...we've got another convert, folks! | ||
Thursday Jun 12 | ||
| Cycling (commute) 25:00 [3]4.5 mi (5:33 / mi) | |
| Road Run (setting points) 58:47 [1]*** 4.04 km (14:33 / km) | |
| ahr:118 max:149 weight:152.6lbs shoes: Saucony Pro Grid Triumph | ||
| Went out for a really easy "run" to look for more Beast-O points, wrote up about 25 more possibilities. Felt loose and good, a little soreness in my glutes - probably from cycling - and no psoas issues. Definitely ready for Saturday.
Very tasty cheeseburger for lunch - Jon's on strike from making lunch, and I bet the bookstore's on its summer schedule of no sandwiches. Much easier to grab something from the club and come back to finish figuring out which books I can't live without for the rest of my research. Jon's taking Anna to the dentist...she had a pretty spectacular crash on her bike last night, and chipped a front tooth. Not much, but she says it feels loose. I wonder what they do about that? Definitely can't say that we're being overprotective! Poor bunny. Hopefully the arrival of grandparents will distract her. Ok, enough shamming - back to work! | ||
Tuesday Jun 10 | ||
| Cycling (commute) 25:00 [2]4.5 mi (5:33 / mi) | |
| weight:152lbs | ||
| Fiddled around looking for possible controls for Beast-O around Koszciuszko's...
Could have done without the tick between my toes. Must be the dumbest tick alive...between my toes? Felt it when I got in the bath with Peter (might as well - he splashes around so much I get soaked, anyway)...nice thing was, the bath seemed to stun it and it came out without any resistance at all. It recovered after a half hour and started wiggling. Who knew? I don't think it was there very long - hadn't eaten yet, and I didn't see it there last night when I soaked my feet in the tub (and Peter soaked everything else). Psoas feels good. Ready to run, if it gets cool enough. Won't manage that tomorrow - special collections closes at noon, so I'll have to go there first, which means it'll be nasty by the time I'm ready to run. | ||
Monday Jun 9 | ||
| Note | |
| Finished Balkoski's Omaha Beach...would make a good pairing with the Lewis. The first should focus on the impact of the individual and leadership, the second on planning and the conflict between strategic, operational and tactical goals.
Interesting comment on the MOH and the two colonels...and yet another battlefield where rank and branch was not a discriminator as to who fought and who died. Perhaps today's battlefield is not as unique as we might think. | ||
| Cycling 25:00 [3]4.5 mi (5:33 / mi) | |
| The ride in was not bad - hot already by 1100, glad I'm on leave and can wear civvies, although I had to upgrade from my usual funky running shorts and t-shirt so I could hit the library for some research. Beat wearing ACUs all day, though.
Put out some minor fires in the office, engaged my out of office assistant, and prepared to chill. Ah. The ride home was slow and hot. Looked for possible Beast-O points, although without a map to focus me, it was really just getting ideas. More specifics tomorrow since Jon's divvied up the area a bit now. Started and finished the Engineer book for Normandy - completely worthless, not worth more than 5 mins of my time to asses it. No wonder the cadet briefing it had such a poor briefing. Definitely going to drop this in favor of a second book on Omaha Beach, instead. Wonder what the weather's going to be like tomorrow? I'm ready for a run - and that's a good thing! Looks like we have some competition from a couple of Canadian adventure racers for this weekend. At least they're closer to my age this time, but...they specialize in longer races than anything I've ever tried, much less recently. Sigh. The things kids do to derail your fitness plans! It's so hard to train up to that level again for a third time - some days I wonder if there's any point to it? | ||