Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 31 days ending 2007-12-31:
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Monday Dec 31 | ||
| Note | |
2007 is done. Finally. 387 hours of overtime. Gina logged 385. I could have been up to 443 hours, but I was able to flex 56 hours instead of taking 7 vacation days. It's interesting to see how cyclical my overtime was, compared to Gina's more consistent OT accrual. Time will tell if 2008 will require even more.... sigh.
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| Note | |
| 2007 Seattle Head-to-Head Results
Me vs. the fast guys: 2-42 (Eric, Nikolay, Alex, Peteris, Glenn, Ben, Bruce) Me vs. Targo: 2-4 Me vs. Roger: 2-4-1 Me vs. Oyvind: 1-5 Me vs. Rick: 7-2 Me vs. Dave: 8-2 Me vs. Brian: 3-3-1 Me vs. Peter: 3-3 Me vs. Matt: 2-3 Me vs. Jake: 7-1 Me vs. Tyler: 7-3 | ||
Sunday Dec 30 | ||
| Note | |
| More OK jersey designs are up on the OK community page. I'm hoping we come up with a design soon.
Since I was in a designer mood yesterday, I whipped up the 2008 Team REACH Street Scramble t-shirt design. Now it's just a matter of getting REACH on board to do the events for a third year. I also put together a really cool Cascade design for a shirt. Maybe I'll start up a CafePress store with my shirt designs. I've now done three Street Scramble designs, NW Forest Frenzy, some random OK stuff that I've never shared, and the new Cascade design. I also have a shirt design for the Seattle Sprint-O Spectacular, that sadly, once the overtime hit this summer, has been shelved until who knows when? | ||
Saturday Dec 29 | ||
| Orienteering race 54:19 [3]*** 4.3 km (12:38 / km) | |
| spiked:13/14c | ||
| The annual Bog Slog at St. Ed's, and my effort was pretty "meh", duh to several reasons:
-- I woke up late -- Ate too much breakfast too soon before running -- I didn't stretch much before starting (I started after 12pm) -- I wasn't really mentally prepared -- This event isn't worth any Series points, so I wasn't as motivated -- I was worried about getting caught by a red-light camera on the drive over. (I think I was already in the intersection when it turned red, and I don't think there are any cameras pointed in the direction I was going... but it was on my mind nonetheless). Basically, once I started getting to the uphill legs, my breakfast came back to haunt me, and my right shoulder was really hurting (from what, i have no idea). So I walked a lot. And similar to last year's Bog Slog, my mind was in a bit of a fuzzy state out there. Still, I managed to finish 4th because I pretty much nailed the navigation, when everyone else seemed to make mistakes out there. I beat Peter, Rick, and Tyler, guys who usually only beat about half the time, so I guess I was doing ok. Start to #1: I got a really quick jump on this one, and this is one area where I've really improved my orienteering--leaving the gate quickly. I remember my first race at St. Ed's and I was really confused in the triangle. I did make a slight bobble (< 5 seconds), as at first glance I thought the control was on the historical marker, but it was actually about 50m further at the trailhead. Not a big loss, as the marker was exactly on the way. #1 to #2: I nav'ed it perfectly, but I took the safer (for me) route choice which was considerably around (perhaps 2.5x longer) on trails. I was a little scared of the darker green I would have to slog through going straight, so I went around. My time was 5:18 on this one, which was about 2 minutes slower than those who slogged perfectly. However, there were a lot of people who slogged through and missed it, so my time was also faster than many. #2 to #3: The circle for #3 was way off. Not even close. I don't have the map in front of me, but this one confused a lot of people. The description was a bridge, but the feature wasn't on the map. I figured that it was just a boardwalked section of the main trail, so I would just keep trail running until I got there. I started to get worried when I saw experienced orienteers running back on the trail (assuming they overran it). But, I figured, "no, this has got to be obviously on the trail". I kept running and it paid off, but it would have been more fair had the circle been in the right spot. #3 to #4: Pretty easy. I made a great decision to wait until the last minute to leave the trail. Another guy cut in early (though a shorter line), but I passed him as I waited until the trail got really close to the hill. #4 to #5: I coulda shaved off some distance through some light green, but I didn't want to chance it, so I took the trail. I'm guessing that my route couldn't have been any slower. #5 to #6: Here comes the climb! And my breakfast! And then my back and shoulder were achy for some reason. So I walked. However, I nav'ed to the correct knoll straight away, when there were at least 3 others in the woods around here looking at the wrong knolls. I passed Tyler here. #6 to #7: More slogging up the hill. I'm still walking. I spiked this one, too. #7 to #8: This leg was a long trail run up a hill. And I still wasn't feeling great, so I walked. Tyler passed me just shy of the control. #8 to #9: It flattened out, so I started running again. Pretty easy nav, and I kept a steady distance behind Tyler. #9 to #10: Bar none, the best leg of the course, with lots of route choice. I think going through the wooded trails right of the line would have been fastest, but my mind wasn't feeling sharp, so I went left on handrails, which wasn't much longer. I'm pretty sure that Tyler went the other way (trails), because I didn't see him on this leg. Though, I saw him soon after, so my route wasn't too much slower (if any) than his. #10 to #11: The trail to this one just disappeared, and my route took me through the muddiest section of the map. I was still a steady distance behind Tyler here. #11 to #12: Used my compass here, the only time during the race. I cut through the woods just fine, and I spied the flag early (and higher up the opposite hill than I expected). I caught up to Tyler at the flag. #12 to #13: Tyler went around to save climb, and I started to head low, but realized that climb was coming, so I backed out to the high route. Tyler was up 20-30 seconds on me, and I didn't see him the rest of the leg. Once I stayed high, I took a trail instead of the road. It worked, but it was probably 10 seconds longer. Not a sharp leg. Tyler gained a lot on me. #13 to #14: Pretty easy nav. #14 to Finish: I really pushed hard on the sprint across the muddy soccer field. I'm curious to see if I have the fastest split here, because I was moving. When I finished, Peteris was there, and he wanted to see my times. He really annoys me at the finish chat, because he's always expecting me to be faster. His exact words: "What were you doing? This is slow." That's three meets in a row where I've had very, very good navigation, and all three times he comments on my lack of speed. You'd think that he'd see a pattern here: I'm just not as fast of a runner as he is. | ||
| C • results 2 | ||
Friday Dec 28 | ||
| Note | |
| My Favorite Albums of 2007
KEXP is currently counting down their list of the top 91 albums from the year, so I thought I'd do the same here, with my official countdown in the comments section. Comments and opinions welcome! I've collected 28 albums from the year, and I'm rationalizing this as a list of my favorites, which isn't necessarily a list of the "best" albums. Basically, which ones would I take to a desert island with me? Alas, there are probably some albums out there that I would love... but they just didn't make it into my hands this year. Before I start counting them down, here are three albums which won't make my list because they are either: live, soundtracks, or compilations. Elliott Smith - New Moon. Released 4 years after his death, this compilation collects two discs worth of unreleased music from his heyday, 1994-1997. If you're an Elliott Smith fan, this stuff is really good. I'm Not There Soundtrack. Two discs full of Bob Dylan covers, recorded by various artists including: Eddie Vedder, Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson and a host of other alternative/indie/folk/alt-country rockers. It's a really nice companion to my Bob Dylan catalog and it's a fun listen. Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble - New Impossibilities. I just got this for Christmas, and I haven't had a chance to listen to this much. It was recorded live in Chicago with a bunch of native Asian musicians and composers, with flavors of Arabia, China, and everything in between. | ||
| C • Album Countdown 9 | ||
Thursday Dec 27 | ||
| Note | |
| Click thumbnails for larger images. Leave comments if you wish. These images don't show sleeve logos, because I didn't want to go into that much detail for the sketches. Also, I didn't put the AxisGear logos on options B and C, but they'd be about in the same spot as option A. The font is the one I want to use, too.
Option A: Checkerboard 
Option B: Jim Ryun Throwback 
Option C: Modified Status Quo  | ||
Wednesday Dec 26 | ||
| Note | |
| Since my blog doesn't blog anymore these days, I figure that my favorite music albums of 2007 will show up here. I think the current tally is 28 albums from this year, which is a lot more than I'm used to listening to (though, only 25 are list-eligible, as I don't rank compilations, live recordings, or soundtracks).
I'm a little antsy and I want to post my list now, but I there are four more I need to evaluate first, two of which I think have a really good shot to make the Top 10. Oh, and as as teaser to the orienteers... 2 albums are from Sweden. (3 are from Canada, 3 from the UK, 1 from Argentina, the remaining from the USA.) | ||
Tuesday Dec 25 | ||
| Other 20:00 [3] | |
| Over at Gina's for Christmas, where I spent 20 minutes punching out Gina, her sister, and three of her female cousins. Basically, I beat up on five girls younger and smaller than me. Gina was able to last 8 minutes before she wasn't able to get up. I dispatched the others in about 3 minutes each.
(Of course, this was on the Nintendo Wii's boxing game.) | ||
Friday Dec 21 | ||
| Note | |
| New car purchased!
Intensity 5 negotiating! (just kidding, it went really smoothly) | ||
| C • What kind? 4 | ||
Wednesday Dec 19 | ||
| Volleyball 1:30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroSeek | ||
| Last day of Seattle B-League volleyball, and for the first time all season, we didn't end the night with a losing record!
We won the first game by a lot. We won the second game close. We tied the third game. We lost by 3 in the fourth game, and we got killed in the fifth game. (We played teams in order of their ability, obviously). We went 2-2-1 on the night, with only four people. I made a lot of hits, but I also missed some, too. I also took a pretty bad fall, and my right arm is sore/bruised pretty good. Kate did awesome, Simon is getting really solid, and even Maria the Statue --realizing that this was her final night of vball before she moves to CA-- was moving around and playing decently. We finished the season with 9.5 wins and 45.5 losses. But, on the bright side, we've gone 4-6 over the past two weeks! | ||
| C • Sweet! 2 | ||
Saturday Dec 15 | ||
| Note | |
| I am embarrassingly, pathetically slow.
I spiked everything out there. I ran the entire time. I never stopped moving. I made the most efficient macro route choices out there, and lost perhaps 30 seconds over the total course on micro route choices. It was the best race I've run in a long time. But Roger, Glenn, and Peteris beat me by over 3 minutes. And when I get back and they hear my time... [paraphrasing] "Oh, where were your mistakes?" "Um, I don't think I made any." "I thought you'd be faster than that." Sigh. I need to stop working 65 hour weeks and get out and run. | ||
| C • Pathetic? 3 | ||
| Orienteering 31:02 [5]*** 5.2 km (5:58 / km) | |
| spiked:14/14c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Winter O' Series #4: UW Campus
I pretty much nailed everything, with zero stops and only one hesitation (when a girl asked where we were, and I lost concentration approaching a control). Looking at macro route choices, I think I made the correct decisions on everything (except 11-12-- too conservative), but I really want to look at all of the micro-route choices where I think I could have saved some time. Yeah, so after I wrote that mopey note, I went and looked at my spreadsheet, and today's race was the fastest orienteering I've ever done (except for a few sub-2km sprints). Heck, I ran today's 5.2 km UW course faster than I ran last year's 4.8 km UW course... and I set that one! My pace today was also faster than every Street Scramble I've done, too (except for the fake one in Carnation in '06). I thought today's course was fun, but being admittedly biased, I thought the Course 7 last year was more interesting. There were too many legs out there today with minimal route choice. I ran Course 3 today, also, and I thought that, even though the controls were at easier locations, the legs required a lot more thought. I lost significantly more time on Course 3 than I did on Course 7 today. | ||
| Orienteering race 25:37 [3]*** 3.5 km (7:19 / km) | |
| spiked:9/12c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| I ran Course 3 after Course 7, and my brain wasn't as sharp. I thought Course 3 had harder controls. I lost a few seconds on 1, a few seconds on 2, I actually stopped short of 11 for a while and was convinced that the control had been yanked. (I ran to the exact center of the circle, but it was off. The description sheet was accurate, though.).
I also got stuck in a fenced in area by the maintenance buildings. I had to run back out and around. I didn't have a lot of fun on this one. | ||
UW - Splits | ||
Friday Dec 14 | ||
| Note | |
| Big race tomorrow. I could use some big points in the Winter Series, and UW may be my best shot at it. Despite it being a really fast map, I was the course setter last year, so that should help me out a little bit.
Also: Nick, Scott, Mike, and Gina are all coming tomorrow, and all of them are running course #7, so it should be exciting. Predicted order of finish: me, nick, scott, gina, mike | ||
| C • finish order 1 | ||
Thursday Dec 13 | ||
| Note | |
| Shoes and Socks Notes
I wore my hi-vis yellow socks to volleyball last night, and during one of my many dives, I managed to rip holes in both of them simultaneously. A small hole on one ankle, a large on on the other. Good thing the Street Scrambles are off for 4 months so I can either find new ones or darn the old ones. I really love both of my Pearl Izumi shoes, and I have one pet peeve, and it's a weird one. The top outside eyelet of my right shoe slices through laces like I've never seen before. And here's the kicker: on BOTH pairs. How does that happen? I put in new laces before volleyball last night (note to PI marketing reps: is volleyball an approved activity? or just running?). When I got hope to untie my shoes, the lace was already 95% severed. Ruined in one usage. Pathetic. Speaking of shoelaces, I saw some hi-vis yellow ones at wal-mart the other day. Those would be sweet for street scrambles. I'm not sure if REACH is going to back me in organizing Street Scramble teams for next year, but if they are, I think there's some interest in shirts again, and I think I have a design in my head. But, first things first, I gotta finish up the OK designs. | ||
Wednesday Dec 12 | ||
| Volleyball 1:30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroFloat | ||
| Coed B League, Seattle
Well, we won 1, tied 1, and lost 3, which is by far our best performance of the year. We actually almost won our last game, which would have been really special. And, we actually did all of this with our team captain there and only a team of four. Kate and Simon were pretty solid all night. Simon came through big-time with 3 digs on the same point (it was game point against us) and we came through. I only missed one serve, and my spikes were pretty good. (Although, I felt bad on one of them... I knocked over an older lady.) After a really good game of setting last week, my sets were pretty bad again. I wasn't able to give Kate many clean spikes last night. During the game that we tied, the clock was winding down and we were down a couple of points, so I would flat-out sprint to go retrieve the ball so that we could get more points in before the horn sounded. That was exhausting, but we came back enough to secure the tie. And I have one story about our team captain. She's in the setter's position. The other team goes bump-set-spike to their best guy. He spikes it. HARD. She ducks and covers her head with her arms, cowering by the net. The guy spikes it right at me, so I'm able to dig it. And it floats to the setter. But she's still crouched by the net. Sigh. | ||
Tuesday Dec 11 | ||
| Note | |
| I've created some digital templates for OK suit designs. (These templates look nothing like the actual templates, but they give a much better feel of what the suits will look like.)
Look for Design #1 to be posted here by the end of the week. Maybe even two designs. One with a royal/pink/black/white checkboard scheme, and the other with a powder/pink/white "Jim Ryun throwback" scheme. | ||
Sunday Dec 9 | ||
| Note | |
| I worked 66.5 hours this week, and on my day off (today), Gina and I aced the Street Scramble course (clearing all but one).
If I had the Street Scramble results, I'd probably format and post them tonight, but I don't, and I'm tired, and I'm going to bed, despite it only being 5:15pm. | ||
| Street Scramble race 1:49:11 [3]** 13.3 km (8:13 / km) | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroSeek | ||
| http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1494246
Street Scramble at the Market Team with Gina 950 points, 1st place corporate, 11th place overall (of 103) Write-up to follow, but the big milestone: I earned my 10,000th Street Scramble checkpoint here (more specifically, at the Walgreen's at 3rd and Pike). | ||
Saturday Dec 8 | ||
| Note | |
| Street Scramble tomorrow (too bad it was pushed back, the weather today is AMAZING and there's 40% chance of snow showers tomorrow), and 7 REACH teams are coming. Gina and I have our work cut out for us, as one of the teams consists of two runner people, one of whom ran with Vlad in Fremont and finished 2nd to us.
We're going to really improve our team efficiency within the circles, something that Nick and I did really well. Speaking of Nick, we've talked teaming up for a Scramble in '08 (and having the girls team up, too). We didn't run together all year. I haven't had much time to work on the new OK suits this week. I think we'll stick with the unisex sizing. I've got a bit of a color dilemma with my design. Going with the old school colors of pink and blue, it's a florescent pink and a powder/sky blue. However, if we go with the better orienteering jerseys (Atak), the only blue I can use with my #1 design is royal. It still looks really sharp with the square OK logo, and the royal blue is both a) a current OK color and b) a current KU color. But, part of me wants to get that brighter blue. The pink isn't going to be a problem, as it's only used on the sublimated panels of my design. Some alternatives: 1) Go with another style of jersey. Pros: I can select any color and put it anywhere I want. Cons: It's not as durable or breathable. 2) Stick with current design and Atak jersey and keep current OK colors (royal, black, white). Pros: I can keep the design, which I like. Cons: Zero (or limited) pink. Plus, the OK logos will look much less sharp with this color contrast. (It looks really sharp with my favorite color combo). 3) Stick with Atak jersey, but completely redo the design. Pros: It'll have the lighter blue and the bright pink. Cons: It'll have significant areas of black or white, or lots of color-contrasting panels. I probably won't like the design as much. | ||
| C • OK tops 2 | ||
Wednesday Dec 5 | ||
| Volleyball 1:30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroFloat | ||
| Co-ed Volleyball, Seattle B-League.
Went 1-4, but we should have gone 2-3. Our captain is still a pain to deal with... only two more weeks of that and then she moves. Kate and I, despite being the two best hitters on the team, decided to play side-by-side. This meant that in the front row, we were able to set each other up well and get tons of points. However, when the two of us got stuck in the back row, then it was bad. But, this rotation seemed to work better than the others. I don't know if we'll have Kate back for next season, as an A-leaguer saw her and is recruiting her for his team. A-league girls are hard to come by. One of the girls on my Everett team is moving, and it will be really hard to replace her. | ||
Tuesday Dec 4 | ||
| Note | |
| The suspense is killing me! Post the results!!!
All I know is that 4 people beat me, 2 people tied me, and 2 people were slower. I need every point I can get, since I won't be throwing out any races this season! | ||
Sunday Dec 2 | ||
| Note | |
| I updated my orienteering spreadsheet today, something I hadn't done in a while. That was good.
I was also thinking about all of the people that I've brought along to an orienteering meet since 2004. Nick: 25+ events, including two 24-hour rogaines, Street Scrambles, and a trip to Oregon. Mike: 25+ events, including three rogaines (one 24 hr), and Street Scrambles. My Dad: 25+ events in the KC metro. Gina: 15+ events, including Street Scrambles and a trip to Spokane. Scott: 9+ events, including a Goat. Jeremy: 7+ events in 4 states (interned in WA, college in MI, from IL, now lives in CA.) Angela (Nick's wife): 5+ events Lowell: 5+ events, all Street Scrambles except he came to Vampire-O this year. Shannon H: 4 events: Three Street Scrambles and a Samm meet Steve L: 3 events: two 24-hour rogaines and a Street Scramble Matt D: 3 events: one 24-hour rogaine, a Street Scramble, and a Cascade meet Sean: 3 events in 2004 when I was still in Kansas. Marcia: 2 events: a Street Scramble and a Cascade meet. Meredith: 2 events: a Street Scramble and a Samm meet People with 1 non Street Scramble event: In WA: Lindsay, Megan, Joe H, Beth (Scott's wife), Simon, Sergio, Joe S, Eliza, Steve P, Steve's girlfriend. In CO: Ryan In VA: Matt Z In KS: Dan About 65 different REACH people (not already mentioned above) over the past two years to at least 1 Street Scramble (some have 5+). Another ~30 scouts and leaders from my scout troop in Kansas in 2004. Wow, that's around 125 total people! | ||
| C • You're the Pied Piper of Ha... 3 | ||
Saturday Dec 1 | ||
| Event: Possum Trot Weekend | ||
| Orienteering race 38:43 [4]*** 4.7 km (8:14 / km) | |
| spiked:14/15c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Winter Series #3, Hamlin Park
Finally, a super-duper clean run for me, except for one 2-minute error, but it was a clerical error, so I don't feel bad about it (I still navigated spot-on). Start to #1.Roger started two minutes ahead of me, so I thought that he'd be a good motivator in my run. I watched him in the start triangle, to see how long it took him before he started off. He was standing there for a while, and then I got distracted, so then I looked up and he was gone. I probably only stood for about 3 seconds, and I was out. So, I'm guessing that I got about 10 seconds on him just in the triangle. This park has some complex topography (for a small city park), but I think a lot of that gets lost in all of the vegetation, rootstocks and web of trails everywhere. I wanted to focus on my contour reading for today's race, and it certainly helped on #1. 1 to 2. Too much hesitation on this one, maybe 20 seconds worth. I popped out to the road junction like I wanted, but instead of taking the trail straight from the road, I ran around the hill to the left, which didn't give me a good attackpoint to the rootstock. Why didn't I take the trail? I think I got it confused with Lynndale Park, and I had something tell me, "no, that trail doesn't go anywhere." Distance-wise, it was about the same, but my route required the extra hesitation. 2 to 3. The super-long leg, from way north to way south, over 1-km, and worth over 7" of red ink. It was so long that when I turned over the map, I didn't realize that the 2-3 and 4-5 lines crossed.... so I was dead-set on navigating to 4. So I navigated to 4 rather well, which was tricky because of the ballfield fences as tricky obstacles. And I got all the way to 4 and punched, still thinking everything was happy. So then I started off to 3, believing that to be 4 (and saw Roger here, thinking I had passed him already). The 4 to 3 route was easy, but imagine my surprise when the control codes didn't make sense! I briefly thought that Cascade had hung them wrong (me wrong? never!), but then I looked at what'd I'd done! D'oh! 3 to 4. No trouble here, obviously. 4 to 5. When I navigated to 4 the first time, I thought that I could have saved some time cutting through ballfields, so on the way to 5, I did so, crawling under and climbing over some fences. I thought it was a decent route choice, though I think cutting through the high school would have been slightly faster. 5 to 6. Exiting the control quickly was tricky, but the rest was easy. 6 to 7. Original plan was to go around south of the school, but I sucked north and then got worried about my effectiveness in the forest once I ran right across a flag-football game (sorry guys, but my sport trumps yours...). But, what was my focus? Contours! Bam, the woodsy stuff was easy! (and after looking at it now, I think it was better than going south of the school). 7 to 8. Took a fairly safe route and found it ok. A made a small hesitation in the open area just SE of the control because I wanted to double-check that I was taking the correct trail. I could have cut one of the corners a bit and maybe saved 30m of running. 8 to 9. I probably should have been more aggressive on this leg, since I was orienteering so well out there. "Surely the control can't be right here, can it? It hasn't been long enough." And there it was. I hesitated for a few seconds because I was expecting to screw up. 9 to 10. Left turn, left turn, right turn, LOOK! 10 to 11. Run super fast out to the road, and then figure it out after that. This one was frustrating, because I kept trying to look for ways to NOT go around and back into this one, but I had to resort to backing in. Had I decided this earlier, I could have pushed a bit harder here and saved perhaps 10-15 seconds. 11 to 12. First half was easy, and then I got a bit lucky, as I lost focus on a hillside strewn with downed logs, knolls, rootstocks, and trails. I lost focus and it would have been hard to relocate easily here. Lucky, I stumbled into this one with only minimal hesitations. 12 to 13. 30 second leg from one rootstock to another. I was a still a little shaky from the last control. 13 to 14. I kinda knew where to go on this one because I remembered a similar leg when I was directing Gina at cell phone o' last March. However, I hesitated/slowed too much right before the control because I didn't expect it so far up that hill. I thought I had passed it, but I kept going, and there it was. 14 to 15 to finish. 30 seconds down the hill and 18 seconds through the chute. Nice way to finish. I'm *really* interested to see the splits on this one, and I'm really paying close attention to the seconds lost and gained today, because I finished in 38:43, the *exact* same time as Roger and Brian. Also, Peteris, Glenn, and someone else (Matt? Alex?) all finished within 6 seconds of each other in the 35:45 timeframe. It's frustrating that even throwing out my 2-3 minutes of extra running on that one leg, I ran pretty much as well I could have, and I still can't beat them. Nikolay was in the 32 minute range, but I've never, ever beaten him, so, eh, I don't feel so bad. It'll be interesting to see how Jake, Tyler, Rick, and Enger all fared... I did navigate well, but I did make one costly error, and I'm in the worst shape of my life right now. Also, of note... My housemate Joe came and ran Course #3 in 36 minutes. He seemed to have a good time, despite the first-time frustrations, and he will likely come again, especially since the next one is just across the highway. I think he has pretty good potentional, and it'll be interesting to see how he progresses. I think both he and Scott can become pretty good. Nick was also there, running Course #7. I didn't see any posted times, but I'm really glad to see him orienteering again (he's done all 3 Winter Series events so far!). He injured his ankle this summer, and work has swamped him, too, lately. Mike was there, too, running Course #5 in 67 minutes. I'm trying to coach him a bit, but it's really hard, as he's not all that receptive. | ||
| Orienteering race 22:04 [4]*** 2.7 km (8:10 / km) | |
| spiked:7/8c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| I also ran Course #3 as a sprint-distance practice. I also wanted to run and compare my times with Joe. He was rather shocked that I took 14 minutes off his time! Goes to show what a couple of years of experience can do!
I spiked 1, 2, and 3. #4 was another really long leg, and I navigated fine, but I chose not to run through the high school, which was pretty dumb. Had I read the Course #7 map correctly, I might have run through the school, but I didn't. And here on Course #3, I didn't. I wonder why I stayed out to the fields? #5 was easy because it was a common control (2 of the 8 were). I thought #6 was the hardest leg I had all day, from either course. I ran too unfocused... I knew that I had to go up and over the ridge, but I got stuck in the white woods of confusing features, and I got sucked too far south. To make matters worse, once I hit the valley I wanted, my gut said that I was too far south, but I decided to keep going south. Soon after, I saw the road, and realized, whoops, too far. 2 minutes gone. Blah. #7 was quick and easy. I ran aggressively because I had tons of collecting and catching features. Then to the GO control (the other common one) and a short sprint in. | ||
Course 7 - Splits | ||