Saturday Sep 8 |
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| 1) Barebones trip is all logged.
2) I just completed my 3rd full year of orienteering. (A full year starts and ends with National Orienteering Day, and I don't really count the first 18 months where I only participated in 5 events.)
Some Stats:
Traditional Orienteering
2006-07: 151 total km, 10.41 min/km average
2005-06: 147 total km, 11.62 min/km average
Urban Orienteering
2006-07: 124 total km
2005-06: 110 total km
Rogaining
2006-07: ~ 80 total km
2005-06: ~ 35 total km |
Thursday Sep 6 |
 | Volleyball 3:00:00 [2] | |
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| Three hours of open gym volleyball. Non-stop, no breaks.
This was my first outing with the new team (of co-workers) in Seattle. We improved a lot, so I hope we should be middle of the pack in the B league. Shannon has experience, so she's pretty solid. Sergio and Simon have a knack of what to do, so that's good. Maria needs a lot of work. Though, her serve is solid.
My new jump serve, on the other hand, needs some practice. After a month off, it wasn't consistent... I missed a lot of them into the net. |
Wednesday Sep 5 |
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| back from canada.
more later, but here's a teaser:
long #1: started ok, huge mistake, faceplant at #11. ouch.
long #2: jeebers, i have no idea what i'm doing out there. i suck.
3-legged race: i only win because i'm stuck to eric.
super-sprint: sub 2 minutes, very fun
night-o: biggest mistake was skipping the go control and having to go back and get it.
sprint-o: broke my new compass, lost 30 seconds at #3, fast run in
middle: bad route choice mistake (nav ok), and made a dumb nav mistake (lost 60 seconds). the rest was pretty good, considering i ran w/o compass.
relay: super fun, we won the 4-point division. I ran the easy legs, but super fast and flawless. |
Tuesday Sep 4 |
 | Hiking 3:47:00 [2]10 km (22:42 / km) | |
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| Hike with Eric in Jasper National Park near Mt. Edith Cavell. We did the Cavell Meadows loop, plus extra hikes up to some viewpoints. On the way back, we stopped by the lake full of icebergs and took the Path of the Glacier trail.
Lots of climb to the second viewpoint, I was out of shape. I was also wearing my big, fat, hiking boots instead of trail runners because of my sprained ankle. |
Monday Sep 3 |
 | Orienteering race 17:37 [4]*** 2.4 km (7:20 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed |
| Barebones Relay with the Cascade 4-point team.
I was on a team with Tori, Kean, and Zbynek, who ran legs B, C, and D respectively (I ran the A legs). We stacked the deck with the Cascade 8-point team, who won the whole enchilada very easily. We finished 7th of 17, I think.
Everybody got to run twice during the relay, a sprint and a middle. I ran the easiest courses (A), but I also had a solo leg (3 of the 5 legs had multiple teammates out there on various courses... the next leg wouldn't start until both were back). Because of the easy solo leg, I ran it because I was the fastest runner on the team in short distances and I would spike them all, which I did.
I took the sprint loop (0.8 km) really easy, at about 10 min/km, because I knew that I'd be back before my teammates on the other loops. Nothing remarkable here, though I did have the fastest time on the A-1 loop.
I ran the middle loop (1.6 km) super fast (6 min/km) and without a compass. I caught up to, and passed several of the juniors running the A loop here, at just about every control. Everything was pretty easy, though #4 and #7 were tricky, as they were off the trail a ways and set on challenge course objects out in the woods.
I pushed hard on the trail, which was really uneven. I rolled my ankle twice, the second time pretty bad, causing me to fall and need ice afterward.
I finished in 9:15, which I'm pretty sure was the fastest time on A-2 (I was only running against Dave Tallent and a bunch of kiddies).
Very fun courses! |
 | Hiking 2:00:00 [1]6 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| Hiking with Eric in Banff and Jasper National Parks. The time and distances are appoximate. We hiked up to the touristy viewpoint of Peyto Lake, and then up some old road to a spring, and then back down to a much better view of Peyto Lake.
Later, in Jasper, we hiked up to and on the main glacier at the lodge near the Columbia Ice Fields. |