Saturday Mar 31 |
 | orienteering race 1:20:37 [4]*** 8.2 km (9:50 / km) | |
| 23c shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes |
| DVOA Fair Hill Red Course (Day 1). A pretty decent run for me, except that completely blew by control #7. It would not have added more than a minute to my time. So I'm down as a mispunch. Otherwise, a pretty clean run, with only a minute or so error on #2 due to loss of concentration & not seeing a control that was half buried by fallen leaves.
As I was approaching #2, three things happened. I was a little left of my planned approach, which I should have figured out if I'd maintained concentration. Then, I had to descend a steep hill & a branch yanked my SI card off my finger. I recovered it in seconds, but the stop & turn-around also hurt concentration. Then, just as I got to the bottom of the slope, one of the interscholastic competitors came barrelling down, tripped and did a spectacular Superman imitation, crash landing just in front of me. Checking that the kid was okay threw off the remainder of my concentration as I crossed the creek, looked in the shallow reentrant that I was sure the control was in, failed to see the buried control (which the unhurt youth was scampering to and punching), then wasted almost a minute relocating before coming back to the same spot. The stand was surrounded by dead leaves which came halfway up the bag & when I stepped into the leaves to punch, my feet sank calf deep in the mud underneath (reminds me of another sinking control in Ontario a few years ago).
Otherwise, a fun place to run... a little cool starting off, but a dry day.
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| orienteering race 20:52 [5]*** 2.7 km (7:44 / km) | |
| shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes |
| Sprint at DVOA Interscholastics, Fair Hill, Maryland. A fun, fast forest sprint... white forest with a web of trails & a few small streams with a couple wet-foot crossings. I felt very stiff before the race & wasn't sure I'd be able to run, but 15 or 20 minutes of thorough stretching & loosening up proved to be adequate & I maintained a run for all but a few steps up a rather steep bank. |
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Friday Mar 30 |
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| Event: DVOA A-Meet (Interscholastics)
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| orienteering 20:00 [2]** 2 km (10:00 / km) | |
| weight:158lbs shoes: Icebugs |
| Jogged to a few of the model controls at Fair Hill. Needed to loosen up after 10 hours of driving. The navigation was pretty simple, but a good refresher in Fair Hill vegetation. |
Thursday Mar 29 |
| orienteering 56:00 [3]** | |
| weight:158lbs |
| setting controls at Camp Friedlander. Pretty easy navigation as O' goes. Did find a new trail connection & an unmapped depression, though. Felt kind of tired. |
| walking 32:00 [2]** | |
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| including a little jogging. Setting controls at Camp Friedlander. |
Wednesday Mar 28 |
| weights / strength 2:00:00 [3] | |
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| yard work... very muddy digging. Actual time well over 4 hours. My shoulders & back will be sore tomorrow. |
Tuesday Mar 27 |
| bicycling - road 11:00 [2]2.6 mi (4:14 / mi) | |
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| trail building / maintenance 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| honeysuckle removal. |
| bicycling - road 32:00 [3]6.73 mi (4:44 / mi) | |
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| sunny day, rolling with a couple big hills (King Rd & S.B. west) |
| weights / strength 20:00 [3] | |
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| garden work - digging |
| mapping - field checking 1:00:00 [1]** 2.0 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: O T Blaze III |
| Fieldwork for Miami Univ. trails extension proposal. Lots of new construction since 2005 aerials. |
Monday Mar 26 |
| walking 2:00:00 [1]4.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| weight:160lbs shoes: O T Blaze III |
| OBBA. Indian Creek Pioneer Cemetery, Oxford Community Park, M U Natural Areas. |
| bicycling - stationary 11:00 [3] | |
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Sunday Mar 25 |
| weights / strength 1:30:00 [2] | |
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| planted 2 new 1.5 meter pine trees, then hauled several wheelbarrow loads of gravel & sod to finish filling the truck rut along the edge of my road. |
| walking 1:00:00 [1]2.0 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
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| Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas project. mostly listening for woodcock and owls. Miami Univ. Kramer Woods & Environmental Research Center. Actually spent about 1:45 in the woods, but discounting the time for standing & listening. |