Saturday Oct 20 |
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| Event: Big Blues Ramble 2007
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 | Orienteering 35:29 [3]*** 5.9 km (6:01 / km) +25m 5:53 / km | |
| spiked:7/15c shoes: kaija rautavaara |
| Big Blues Ramble, CAOC, Busse Woods, Elk Grove Village, IL. Extraordinarily flat but very pleasant forest, with perhaps a little overmapping of features ;) Spiked the very nerve-wracking first control (300m across flat areas with only marshes, vegetation, and compass to rely on), but went a little haywire on the next four (particularly 2-3, leaving 2 in the wrong direction and persuading myself this was the right thing to do even once I realized what I was doing). After control 8 it got a little easier once the climb rose to the 0.6% level (instead of the 0.1-0.2% level), making the features a little more distinct, but it never got easy - I continually felt unsure even when spiking controls. Very interesting map: worth the trip out. Running 6:01km while continually feeling unsure and with around 2:15-2:30 of mistakes in 5.9km indicates how fast this forest is. |
| Orienteering 10:26 [3]*** 2.2 km (4:45 / km) +8m 4:39 / km | |
| spiked:9/12c shoes: kaija rautavaara |
| Sprint. Biggest win of the weekend, %-wise (the other races were close). The three non-spikes are a little tough on myself: wrong route choice (forest rather than clearing) 2-3, a little left of the line 5-6 (not recovering after heading left to avoid medium green), and then a slight wobble at 8.
This may be the first time I've broken 5:00/km in the US, or indeed anywhere except in ACT suburban maps like Campbell Park Offices. This was a little thicker so probably the fastest I've ever orienteered, adjusting for terrain. |
| Orienteering 9:38 [5]*** 2.2 km (4:23 / km) +8m 4:18 / km | |
| spiked:11/12c shoes: kaija rautavaara |
| Rerun. Saved 3-5 seconds on almost every leg, but lost 3 seconds at 8 (the leg after the hard control, but not actually that easy itself) and 1 second on the run-in (tired...). Not a fair comparandum to the above since I wasn't really navigating... but interesting to see the difference between pure running and navigating speeds. |
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Sprint - Splits |
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Middle (Blue) - Splits |
Thursday Oct 18 |
| Paddling (erg) 4:46 [3] | |
| shoes: johann aloysius bach |
| Too hungry to keep going with this, so picked something easier instead. Rowing is tough. |
| Cross Training (elliptical) 27:00 [3] | |
| shoes: johann aloysius bach |
| Much easier. |
| Note | |
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| It occurs to me that since I began orienteering at the age of 14, I've now been an orienteer for more than half my life. I guess I can't think of myself as a newbie any more. |
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| C • newbie 1 |
Wednesday Oct 17 |
| Running 1:24:28 [3]11.65 mi (7:14 / mi) | |
| shoes: johann cantaloupe bach |
| Oatka Creek Park. Spent most of the time on the river trails, including a tour along the NW bank of the creek as far as the rail bridge, which I crossed, probably unwisely given the possibility of a train coming by as it did a few minutes later.... Finished well and truly in the dark, with the last ten minutes on the road on the S and then E boundary of the park, under a new moon struggling to shine through the forming fog. Warm and humid for late October, courtesy of a complicated but weak warm front passing by; 64F, dp 57F at 6:00pm.
There are more grass seeds on my socks and shoelaces than I have ever seen before. When untied, the shoelaces stood up by themselves due to the added structure...
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| C • Will, you need 15 |
Tuesday Oct 16 |
| Other 1:00 [3] | |
| shoes: johann aloysius bach |
| Let's just say that the students in my department had better be better at other sports than they are at softball, or there will be more 26-5 whippings to be handed out. |
| Paddling (erg) 10:00 [3] | |
| shoes: johann aloysius bach |
| Reminding myself what this is about. 2:02.8 average. |
| Cross Training (elliptical 2) 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: johann aloysius bach |
| Cross-train 2 program; tried to keep the cadence at 180 to mimic good running form. I may stick with this in the future. |
Monday Oct 15 |
| Running 48:20  6.9 mi (7:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: johann cantaloupe bach |
| Usual warmup through Highland Park for 4*4/3, then decided to do the intervals in the park. Alternating up Elmwood, across Highland Ave, and then along the flat pseudotrail in the main section of park to the far end; intervals 1 and 3 started at the base of the field near the veterans memorial and finished near S Goodman St, 2 and 4 started near Elmwood and S Goodman and finished near the crosswalk between the main section of the park and the veterans memorial section. Disadvantage: would be hard in the dark, uneven and requires dodging lilac bushes, together with one extremely marshy and smelly wet ooze (and given the number of unmarked and scattered dead bodies reputedly under the main section of Highland Park, the ooze is somewhat unsavory). Advantage: essentially all grass.
Back through the park to Mt Hope, then back along Linden. |
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| C • "unmarked and scattered dead bodies " 6 |