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Sunday Jun 13, 2010 #
Running 52:30 5.6 mi (9:23 / mi)
shoes: 2010 Asics
A couple of loops of the Red Beds trail at Devil's Tower, first one with Kat. Very cool trail in a beautiful location!
Saturday Jun 12, 2010 #
Note
Over 2000 miles driving so far.
Animal list: rabbit, prairie dog, pronghorn deer, bighorn sheep, bison, porcupine.
Animal list: rabbit, prairie dog, pronghorn deer, bighorn sheep, bison, porcupine.
C • :-) 12
Friday Jun 11, 2010 #
Running 1:00:00 [3]
On trails in the Badlands. Very cool.
Wednesday Jun 9, 2010 #
Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] *****
shoes: 2009 VJ Falcons
Cat's Meow! Kat and I reran parts of our courses from last fall's US Champs. The terrain there is just fantastic, and nearly is fun in summer. I really enjoyed being out there again and redoing the legs that I screwed up last fall. Also, we saw a badger!
Monday Jun 7, 2010 #
Orienteering 45:00 [2] ***
shoes: 2009 VJ Falcons
An outing to Mendon Ponds. I've never run on this map before, and Kat and I went over to the part with all the intricate contours and depressions. It was great! Some parts were overgrown, but a lot of it was beautiful forest with challenging orienteering. Really fun.
Saturday Jun 5, 2010 #
11 AM
Running 10:00 [2] 1.67 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: 2009 VJ Falcons
Some attempts at a warm-up
Orienteering race 47:57 [4] *** 70.0 km (41 / km)
spiked:14/17c shoes: 2009 VJ Falcons
NEOC local meet at Estabrook Woods in Concord, MA.
A lot has changed since my last NEOC local meet, which was at Nobscot in 2006. This time, we did not have to copy maps on time, or at all, as they were pre-printed and pre-bagged. There was e-punching, and the results were up the very same evening (http://www.newenglandorienteering.org/results/117-...) along with WinSplits and RouteGadget. That's great! For sure, the quality of the local events has improved tremendously.
I knew ahead of time that the map was sketchy in places, so that didn't trip me up too much. The only real negative comment I have about the meet is the lack of reciprocity of lower entry fees for members of other O-clubs. WCOC charges the same price for NEOC, HVO, UNO, CSU, DVOA, etc members for its meets as it does its own members. I was surprised to see that NEOC did not offer the same courtesy. It's not a huge deal, since meet entry fees are too low for the product being offered anyway, but it would have been a nice touch.
Oh yeah, my run. It went ok. There were times when I treated the map as a rogaine map, and just used the big features to get around, but otherwise most of the map was ok, and there are some great bits of terrain in there. Ian and Wendy did a great job with the courses, making them as fun and fair as possible given the map age and quality. Thanks NEOC!
A lot has changed since my last NEOC local meet, which was at Nobscot in 2006. This time, we did not have to copy maps on time, or at all, as they were pre-printed and pre-bagged. There was e-punching, and the results were up the very same evening (http://www.newenglandorienteering.org/results/117-...) along with WinSplits and RouteGadget. That's great! For sure, the quality of the local events has improved tremendously.
I knew ahead of time that the map was sketchy in places, so that didn't trip me up too much. The only real negative comment I have about the meet is the lack of reciprocity of lower entry fees for members of other O-clubs. WCOC charges the same price for NEOC, HVO, UNO, CSU, DVOA, etc members for its meets as it does its own members. I was surprised to see that NEOC did not offer the same courtesy. It's not a huge deal, since meet entry fees are too low for the product being offered anyway, but it would have been a nice touch.
Oh yeah, my run. It went ok. There were times when I treated the map as a rogaine map, and just used the big features to get around, but otherwise most of the map was ok, and there are some great bits of terrain in there. Ian and Wendy did a great job with the courses, making them as fun and fair as possible given the map age and quality. Thanks NEOC!