Sunday Jul 8 |
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| Is the new Google Maps interface for directions, allowing you to drag and drop the route, not the coolest thing since sliced wombat? Pity about the quality of the underlying information. |
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| C • Mmmm, wombat. Speaking of whic... 6 |
Saturday Jul 7 |
| Orienteering 2:00:00 [3] 12 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: kaija rautavaara |
| CNYO score-O (aka 11 rogaine controls that fitted on a letter-sized sheet). Finger Lakes NF, Hector, NY (and some other towns as well). Two very dodgy controls near the beginning (77, on a stream about 100m through medium green in the wrong direction from the nearest attackpoint, a trail bend, and 51, a dam in the middle of nowhere in an area that, shall we say, had a few more streams and reentrants than the map did) gave way to a lot of fun running. Great views east from some of the open fields. |
| Orienteering 3:20:00 [3] 16.67 km (12:00 / km) | |
| shoes: kaija rautavaara |
| Went back out with the rogaine map (non-competitive) and did all but four of the southern controls. I'd chosen not to take a headlamp because of safety concerns about being out in the dark alone in an area any team worth its route-planning salt would have done in the daytime (as the 'direction indication' boards at controls largely proved), therefore with little chance of being discovered. That meant I had to cut pretty directly back from the bottom of the map when 8pm struck back to the HH, missing out a few high-scoring more fun controls which would have required more of a detour from the direct way.
Great fun. Slowed to an occasional walk towards the end, but I basically ran the whole way except when rendered lost a couple of times (a couple of thick areas meant some required relocation; once I didn't actually go to the relocation point but was happy to see it in the distance, a bad move since it wasn't the place I thought it was).
Distances are a guess; I'll correct them (probably upwards) later. 1250 points (550 + 700), although the score-O controls are not the ones I would have chosen with the full map to start with if running 6 hours, so I think a full 6-hour equivalent score is about 1500. |
Thursday Jul 5 |
| Bike 1:45:00 [3] 25.2 mi (4:09 / mi) | |
| shoes: shimano m-180b |
| Greenway to the Oatka Ck bridge in Scottsville. Warm (73F) and sticky (dp 64F, earlier thunderstorms), but otherwise a pleasant enough ride. More deer than usual. The annoying little black insects that get in your eyes, nose, and mouth (not to mention hair) seem to have extended their range along the river near U of R, which is irritating. |
Wednesday Jul 4 |
| Running 37:46 [3] 4.87 mi (7:45 / mi) +150m 4:24 / km | |
| shoes: johann aloysius bach |
| Highland - Pinnacle - Cobbs Hill stairs and return. Raining for the first few minutes, warm and foggy (69F, dp about 68F). The Pinnacle hill trails are substantially more overgrown than a month ago. |
Monday Jul 2 |
| Bike 1:15:00 [3] | |
| shoes: shimano m-180b |
| Pittsford Wegmans canal loop. Glorious evening: 72F, dp 41F, light W breeze, sunny. Still a little low on energy (the jetlag is for some reason worse here than it was in Prague - maybe the problem with jetlag is that if you are in some approximation of your previous time zone, then your body gets confused by the arrival of cues (sunrise, sunset) at slightly the wrong time; but if everything is just ridiculously wrong (15 hour difference, 10 hour daylight duration becomes 18 hours, and you've essentially been awake for 36 hours) then your brain is so pleased to get to be horizontal that it's prepared not to make too much fuss. |