Training Log Archive: Katnap

Event: 2017 Gold Rush Meet and USA SML Championships
 

Event: ICE-O 2017
 

Data coming when I'm back in Canada (sans 'puter)

Race Time: 32:19
Placed: 8/11

MY FIRST INTERNATIONAL RACE! (NA races don't count haha) oh and I forgot to mention that there were wild Icelandic ponies around control 4 :D

Terrain was as though Bishops Land and a Scottish Moor had a love child. As well the area was full of extra unmapped water because as the start man said "Iceland is waterproof!"

Raudholar (Reykjavik) | 1:5000 | 2m

S-1 was straight forward
1-2 was not ideal cut too far north between the paved area and the partially enclosed depression but knew it as it happened so recovered well
2-3 too far east and hit the BIG chevron shaped rock pillar cliff thingy first then bounced over to 3 which was on a less impressive rock feature
3-4 went 'well' hesitated over the path on the map being under water and not evident and a path that was not on the map slightly more east and very evident. I trusted the rock features I was using and went in!
4-5 crunch rock road = faster than lose misc rocks with veg
5-6 went right and contoured to the path then straight picking off depressions until I punched 6 which had a Jen coming up and punching from below while I punched from above I was quite surprised to see her and so suddenly and so close :p
6-7 drawn by the crowd too far northeast circled 1 depression to get back to the correct side where the control was
7-8 went well
8-9 again drawn by the crowd at a control a little south while mine was at the bottom of the depression a little north
9-10 long run on the crushed paths that I ran all the harder because I had Jen behind me since 6 punched 10 and had barely made it up the little hill before Jen was punching
10-11-12 went well very straightforward
12-F Jen passed me here and we ran together with me a bit behind to finish

We ended up exactly 2:00 mins apart which is fun as that was exactly our start distance apart :D

Splits

C • Yeah! 1

Arrived safely in Reykjavik and had two days for the price of one! Thank you time change it's been a while since I've pulled 24+ hours.

Wandered around for 20+ km, saw lots of cute shops, got our camping pass and saw a giant topographical map of Iceland at City Hall, went to the Icelandic Phallological Museum, a beautiful church modeled on the hexagonal basalt formations, the trial run of the new Museum of Icelandic Wonders 'Glaciers and Ice Caves' exhibit for 1ISK, and then fumbled our way through the last 200m of the control that was our accommodation (to be fair to us there was VERY little info to go on haha). In that order :p

Game 1 - Happy

Game 2 - Still Happy

Event: GVOC WJR - Spring Series #3 - Mt Sumas
 

Event: CascadeOC Ultimate Orienteer #9: Goat
 

I have been exhausted by the past couple weeks; working two jobs before adding in orienteering work and being away for fun if tiring adventures. The past couple weeks have had an additional emotion strain as the family supported each other through the final weeks of my aunt's amazing life.

I took today off the WJR to sleep, hang out with my family, tidy, pack, work on o-stuff, and play with my bunnies. Remember:

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller

Comp-Intro O-Course @ UBC

Casual kayak from Jericho around to the point of UBC and back with the wonderful Alex! It was exactly the kind of relaxing exploratory mini-adventure I needed to process the past week. For a bit, we just chilled in the kayaks looking out at the world - silence & contentment.

Plus we made plans for future kayaking adventures :D