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Sunday Jan 25, 2015 #
Event: SLOC - Babler
Orienteering race (Babler Cold Nose-O) 2:49:00 [3] 8.0 mi (21:07 / mi)
Raced with Mickey.
1: I was my usual totally disorganized self at the start, which meant that I just followed along messing with my pack and didn't actually look at the map until after we were in the woods for a bit, so I was totally out of touch with the map. Usual first-control struggles. Whole BOR/DB/Amanda group caught up with us here. I kind of thought we were too low but wasn't sure. Eventually found the control higher.
2: Teamwork! Mickey got us going in the right general direction, and I had a good handle on the map as we got closer. We basically went directly here (not the redline, but no bobbles).
3: Mixture of roads, trails, and some bushwhacking here. Pretty clean (for us).
4: Quick bushwhack, went straight there. Mickey went right past it, but luckily I saw it.
5: Were going to follow the creek when we ran into the (clearly marked on the map) trail. I get serious tunnel vision...didn't even see the trail on the map until we hit it. Trail to road, hike up reentrant, straight there. "I love this sport! This is so fun!" And then we started climbing out of 5...ugh.
6: Hiked from 5 up to road, ran road to a parking area, dropped cleanly down to 6. So far, so good. And then the fun started.
7: Hiked up to road from 6, but then decided to take a short bushwhack from road to parallel trail. Chose the point where road was farthest from trail (and this is very obvious in retrospect and should have been at the time), leaving us to climb a huge hill and then trek back downhill, only to then have to follow the trail back uphill. We basically couldn't have made things any harder on ourselves without going in the totally wrong direction.
Nice, runnable paved trail until it got steeper, then turned into a ridiculously muddy equestrian trail. Hilarious. Couple photo ops, after the second I got kind of turned around. Mickey got us going in the right direction, and then we found 7 without too much more trouble. Saw Dave B. on his way in/our way out.
8: Climbed up to trail, took trail to 8, but I took us in too early so we wasted some time there.
9: Looked pretty easy on map, but I think the trail had been somewhat rerouted and I was very confused by the map here. This one took us way longer than it should have. Dave ended up beating us here.
10: Paved trail to another trail, no real problems here, just not very fast. Dave got there first again, which meant Mickey pushing for us to hurry.
11: Running got us ahead, and we went straight to 11 and then up to the road to run to 12.
12: Oops...Dave C popped out of the woods as we hit the top of the hill waving my passport. Damn! Mickey ran back for it, and I picked my way down the hill behind some house towards our last CP. The Daves were pretty close on our heels, but we were able to run up most of the last hill and beat them back to start/finish. Timewise I'm sure they both beat us, but it made for a more exciting finish I guess.
Much more encouraging than last time I was at this meet, when I left crying, or than Queeny, when I was in some kind of fog, but that's probably largely due to having a partner.
Looks like I'm racing Physically Strong with my sister-in-law, though, so I'd better improve my navigation quickly!
1: I was my usual totally disorganized self at the start, which meant that I just followed along messing with my pack and didn't actually look at the map until after we were in the woods for a bit, so I was totally out of touch with the map. Usual first-control struggles. Whole BOR/DB/Amanda group caught up with us here. I kind of thought we were too low but wasn't sure. Eventually found the control higher.
2: Teamwork! Mickey got us going in the right general direction, and I had a good handle on the map as we got closer. We basically went directly here (not the redline, but no bobbles).
3: Mixture of roads, trails, and some bushwhacking here. Pretty clean (for us).
4: Quick bushwhack, went straight there. Mickey went right past it, but luckily I saw it.
5: Were going to follow the creek when we ran into the (clearly marked on the map) trail. I get serious tunnel vision...didn't even see the trail on the map until we hit it. Trail to road, hike up reentrant, straight there. "I love this sport! This is so fun!" And then we started climbing out of 5...ugh.
6: Hiked from 5 up to road, ran road to a parking area, dropped cleanly down to 6. So far, so good. And then the fun started.
7: Hiked up to road from 6, but then decided to take a short bushwhack from road to parallel trail. Chose the point where road was farthest from trail (and this is very obvious in retrospect and should have been at the time), leaving us to climb a huge hill and then trek back downhill, only to then have to follow the trail back uphill. We basically couldn't have made things any harder on ourselves without going in the totally wrong direction.
Nice, runnable paved trail until it got steeper, then turned into a ridiculously muddy equestrian trail. Hilarious. Couple photo ops, after the second I got kind of turned around. Mickey got us going in the right direction, and then we found 7 without too much more trouble. Saw Dave B. on his way in/our way out.
8: Climbed up to trail, took trail to 8, but I took us in too early so we wasted some time there.
9: Looked pretty easy on map, but I think the trail had been somewhat rerouted and I was very confused by the map here. This one took us way longer than it should have. Dave ended up beating us here.
10: Paved trail to another trail, no real problems here, just not very fast. Dave got there first again, which meant Mickey pushing for us to hurry.
11: Running got us ahead, and we went straight to 11 and then up to the road to run to 12.
12: Oops...Dave C popped out of the woods as we hit the top of the hill waving my passport. Damn! Mickey ran back for it, and I picked my way down the hill behind some house towards our last CP. The Daves were pretty close on our heels, but we were able to run up most of the last hill and beat them back to start/finish. Timewise I'm sure they both beat us, but it made for a more exciting finish I guess.
Much more encouraging than last time I was at this meet, when I left crying, or than Queeny, when I was in some kind of fog, but that's probably largely due to having a partner.
Looks like I'm racing Physically Strong with my sister-in-law, though, so I'd better improve my navigation quickly!
Saturday Jan 24, 2015 #
Other (Trail workday) 1:30:00 [3]
I only logged about 1/2 the time we were out there, but I guess it doesn't really matter since we aren't posting on fb anymore.
Trail building days remind me once again that I don't do much physical labor. Rerouted a section of trail 3 and then spent the rest of the time "de-berming"...basically knocking off the raised edges of the downhill side of the trails. This was made particularly fun because the trail was frozen, so it was like chipping away at concrete. Actually, it was like chipping away at a gigantic frozen block of chocolate, which made me both tired AND hungry.
Trail building days remind me once again that I don't do much physical labor. Rerouted a section of trail 3 and then spent the rest of the time "de-berming"...basically knocking off the raised edges of the downhill side of the trails. This was made particularly fun because the trail was frozen, so it was like chipping away at concrete. Actually, it was like chipping away at a gigantic frozen block of chocolate, which made me both tired AND hungry.
Thursday Jan 22, 2015 #
8 PM
Elliptical warm up/down 19:02 [3] 2.0 mi (9:31 / mi)
9 PM
Strength (NROLFW3A2) 45:00 [3]
A One-armed dumbbell snatch
25/6 x 3
B1 Dumbbell single-leg Romanian DL...balance is still hard.
35s/6 x 3
B2 Barbell bent-over row
70/6 x3
C1 Dumbbell single-arm OH squat
12/25/6 x 3
C2 Dumbbell incline bench press
25s/6 x 3 - guess I'm gonna try 30s next time
D1 Plank
90 sec x 2
D2 Reverse wood chop
55/6 x 2
25/6 x 3
B1 Dumbbell single-leg Romanian DL...balance is still hard.
35s/6 x 3
B2 Barbell bent-over row
70/6 x3
C1 Dumbbell single-arm OH squat
12/25/6 x 3
C2 Dumbbell incline bench press
25s/6 x 3 - guess I'm gonna try 30s next time
D1 Plank
90 sec x 2
D2 Reverse wood chop
55/6 x 2
Wednesday Jan 21, 2015 #
5 PM
Trail running (Little Woods) 39:27 [3] 2.4 mi (16:26 / mi) +255ft 14:56 / mi
Ran/hiked with Patrick. Still a layer of slimy mud on top, making the trails not so fun for running. File this under "better than sitting on the couch, but just barely". Good company, though.