Sunday Apr 13 |
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| Event: 30th Annual Billygoat Run
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 | Orienteering race 1:44:12 [3]**** 12.9 km (8:05 / km) +500m 6:46 / km | |
| spiked:13/21c shoes: esa-pekka olsson |
| Billygoat 2008. Nice map, new to me, hence some interest in making the lengthy trip from Rochester for the race. Cool and overcast, with occasional showers and a few brief sunny spells. Not the best run, but adequate on the day.
St-1 I hung back, trying to decide the best skip and deciding that really it didn't matter much - there were about six equally good ones and no outstanding one. I tried to make 13 the best skip but couldn't justify it. Likewise 1 and 22 (which are stylish controls to skip). Hanging back might have been dangerous because Ross got to navigate but he managed it fine. By 1 I was near the front, and after the short leg to 2, alone with Jon Torrance after we alone in this group decided on going left. It was clearly faster, both on paper and in reality (probably about 90-120 seconds faste on route choice alone, rather than running speed). Debated skipping 5 and 6 but didn't think hard enough about 4, which I spiked but got caught in thicker-than-mapped laurel on the way towards 5. Tried to head left to go towards 6 trying to drop Jon by skipping, but the laurel forced me south towards 5. I was high at 5 and low at 6, so that Jon was about a minute in front at 6, enough time for him to choose an odd route to 7 and vanish completely (although of course I didn't realize this until the spectator control at 14). 7-9 was clean and fast. A little low to 10 (sucked right by a highish wall I didn't want to cross), straight to 11 and 12, then a long trail run to 13 and 14. Got confused in the camp area at 14 and approached the control from behind. 15 was fine, but 16 was a difficult control I didn't attack carefully enough; probably a minute to the right after misreading the smaller spur before the one before the control as the second-named. Considered not skipping since it didn't really save much time to go 17-19 and not via 18, but decided not to be cocky. Right 21-22 was probably slower than left.
Nice course, nice day, and nice to see CSU members running well ahead of Tiomila. |
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| C • bad initials 8 |
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| C • Nice run! 4 |
| Running 25:00 [2]2.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: esa-pekka olsson |
| Went to pick up glasses left behind at 8 when it was raining. |
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The Goat - Splits |
Saturday Apr 12 |
| Bike 1:30:00 [3]23.4 mi (3:50 / mi) | |
| shoes: shimano m-180b |
| Bridge beyond Greece Canal Park. 10mph W wind, overcast, 51F. Distressing amounts of trash in some places. I may even get motivated to go pick some of it up at some point, it's so ugly. |
Friday Apr 11 |
| Running 47:00  6.48 mi (7:14 / mi) | |
| shoes: johann delphiniorum bach |
| 4*4/3. Usual route. Started out overcast and 47F, caught a 20 minute shower from about 13 minutes in. I think I prefer running in the snow to running on the ground: much more forgiving on the feet... |
Thursday Apr 10 |
| Running 1:01:00 [3]8.71 mi (7:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: johann delphiniorum bach |
| Mendon, after a site meeting to finalize relay start/finish arrangements. Through the course area, then out to the south, looping around east of Quaker Pond, through the west fields, and back mostly along the roads past Hopkins Pt and the north side of Hundred Acre Pond. Totally dark by the time of finishing (8:40pm), but the moon shining through thin clouds meant I could still take shortcuts across the fields where I know them. Conditions in the forest are surpassingly excellent right now - dry underfoot, although a wet weekend could still change that, and no leaves out yet. |
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| C • Stars WRE attendance probability quantifiable? 3 |
Wednesday Apr 9 |
| Bike 1:12:00 [3]18.4 mi (3:54 / mi) | |
| shoes: shimano m-180b |
| Pittsford Center out and back. |
Tuesday Apr 8 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [2]7 km (8:34 / km) | |
| shoes: esa-pekka olsson |
| Taping sites for the relay champs. Actual time in the forest about 3 3/4 hours, but I'll log it as one since movement was not fast. Forest is in great condition (I ran in running shorts and didn't even get scratched, although there are probably a few places where other route choice options would take you through a little green); the snow only persists in tiny patches at the base of some of the deepest kettles, and should be gone in a day or two. (You don't want to run there anyway if you are being efficient.) Warm and sunny (68F); in fact it's been warm enough this week that there were even the first mosquitos of spring out in a few places.
Saw what was probably a fox (a couple of times), plus the usual deer. |