Friday Feb 15 |
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| Event: Interscholastic Champs
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 | orienteering race 17:01 [5]*** 2.28 km (7:28 / km) +63m 6:33 / km | |
| 12c shoes: Icebugs |
| Sprint course for Interscholastic Champs "A" meet. a few brambles & hills, but otherwise a fast & fun woodland sprint.
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| trail running warm up/down 5:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Icebugs |
| warmup before sprint race |
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Sprint A - Splits |
Wednesday Feb 13 |
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| weight:159lbs |
| busy day of drafting, course planning, talking to park officials, tending to USOF business, etc, etc, etc, It would be nice to find time for a short run or bike... but doesn't look like its going to happen. |
Tuesday Feb 12 |
| weights / strength (snow removal) 10:00 [3] | |
| weight:158lbs |
| Removed about an inch of crusty snow drifted along the edge of the driveway. Looks like freezing rain this morning. yuck.
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| mapping - field checking 1:30:00 [1]** | |
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| Rentschler. finished checking all controls for Flying Pig Middle Distance race. still need to do a little more map work, but its coming along pretty well. An inch plus of crusted snow throuighout, light rain falling.
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| weights / strength (snow removal) 10:00 [3] | |
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| shoveled off snow and ice. |
Monday Feb 11 |
| road running 42:21 [3]4.9 mi (8:38 / mi) | |
| weight:157lbs shoes: Sala Runner 3 |
| from auto shop in Oxford. 15 degrees, but no wind made it feel completely different from yesterday.
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| mapping - field checking 2:30:00 [1]** 3.0 mi (49:59 / mi) | |
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| Checking control locations at Rentschler. Heard two great horned owls calling back and forth near the ancient Hopewell earthworks. Then, just as I entered the circle at the earthworks, I saw the one fly off, turn in a semicircle and land on a branch, where it sat motionless as I continued on past it to check a couple more nearby controls. Very, very cool. Finished up just at nearly full dark, as the first flakes of snow began to fall.
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| bicycling - stationary 25:22 [3] | |
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Sunday Feb 10 |
| orienteering race 25:46 [4]*** 2.7 km (9:33 / km) +80m 8:19 / km | |
| 14c weight:157lbs shoes: Icebugs |
| Its a scary thing when the Course Setter names his sprint courses after notorious gangsters. "Scarface" was the first and longest of 3 short races at Twin Creek Metropark set by Tom Svobodny. Gullies and thickets made these a little tougher physically than many sprints, and although Tom did quite a bit of updating to the 1:10,000 map, its reincarnation at 1:5000 still was a little short of ISSOM. Not a bad map, but when you're sprinting, you notice when the grammar are slightly off.
The second scary thing was the weather, 15 degrees F (-9 C), and the first two legs were straight acoss open fields into the teeth of of a wind that reached 30 mph (50 km/hr) at times. And, because the previous days had been much warmer, the field was pocked with many nice puddles of icy water.
Be afraid... be very afraid...
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| orienteering race 22:35 [4]*** 2.57 km (8:47 / km) +85m 7:32 / km | |
| 13c shoes: Icebugs |
| "Bugsy" was the second course of the day. Same first control as "Scarface". Probably my cleanest run of the day, with only one control giving me a little hesitation.
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| orienteering race 19:07 [4]*** 1.82 km (10:30 / km) +75m 8:43 / km | |
| 9c shoes: O T Blaze III |
| There was nothing kinder or gentler about the hand that set "Machine Gun", and it didn't help that I was feeling overconfident when I started. The wind kicked up just as I punched start and set off to the same number one control used by "Scarface" and "Bugsy", and I was a full 15 seconds slower than on "Bugsy", mainly due to fighting the wind. Also, I discovered that going right of a waterhole which I had gone left of on the previous two courses led me splashing through more puddles than the other side. Brrrr.
On the way to #2, my epunch finger was going so numb that I pulled off the punch and just carried it in my compass hand for the duration of the course. Number 2 was my worst mistake of the day. I didn't go quite far enough, stopped 20m before the control and backtracked enough to bounce off #7 (75m away), before returning and looking farther ahead. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Or maybe just numb. After that, pretty clean except for a little bobble on #5.
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| walking 20:00 [1]*** 1.0 mi (20:00 / mi) | |
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| picked up 3 controls at Twin Creek.
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Scarface - Splits |
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Bugsy - Splits |
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Machine Gun - Splits |
Saturday Feb 9 |
| orienteering 50:00 [1]*** 2.0 mi (24:59 / mi) | |
| 20c weight:158lbs shoes: O T Blaze III |
| checking control sites for 2008 US Sprint Championships (south course).
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| orienteering 19:10 [4]** 2.9 km (6:37 / km) | |
| 16c shoes: O T Blaze III |
| South sprint. (red / blue)
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| orienteering 20:44 [4]** 2.91 km (7:07 / km) | |
| 13c shoes: O T Blaze III |
| North sprint. (red / blue)
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| mapping - field checking 2:30:00 [3]** 3.0 mi (49:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: O T Blaze III |
| Field checking - map corrections for 2008 U.S. Sprint Championships. South course. A couple new paths, some minor vegetation changes, added a couple missing knolls and a few other minor adjustments.
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| bicycling - stationary 31:56 [3] | |
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