Sunday Jun 29 |
 | Orienteering race 23:03 [3]*** 1.66 km (13:53 / km) | |
| spiked:6/12c shoes: VJ Falcons #1 |
| Sprint A at Ratlum Mountain. I put a pretty high threshold on a spike for this meet, which explains why I spiked so few. The map is a little flaky at #2, and I had to go back out to the trail and try a second time. On #8, I tried going to the right of the bare rock knoll halfway along, and that was a bad idea. #11 was my real screwup, I looked at the map quickly and went to the single cliff to the south, and hunted around for a little while before looking at the map more carefully |
| Orienteering race 26:51 [3]*** 2.49 km (10:47 / km) | |
| spiked:11/12c shoes: VJ Falcons #1 |
| Sprint B at Ratlum Mountain. The only one I really screwed up here was #1, where I got to the feature okay, but circled all the way around it through the green stuff looking for the flag. I went straight on #5, and I'm undecided as to whether I think that was a good idea. A pause at #7 because the control was on the ground and I had to retie it. |
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| Fortunate to have run early enough to miss the thunderstorm. Pretty crazy on the way home — had to get off of I-84 for a little while because the visibility was too low for my tastes, on I-190 there was a new lake across the road, almost too deep to drive through, and near home I had to take a detour because there was a tree fallen across the road that looked too precarious to try and drive under. |
Saturday Jun 28 |
| Canoe-O race 1:11:39 [4]** 9.56 km (7:30 / km) | |
| spiked:10/11c |
| Wyman Pond, Westminster, MA, with Andy Hall.
TOTAL FAILURE!!!
By which I mean that we came in second by about three minutes to the Miller Brothers. And the reason this is such a big deal is that it's the first time that Aims's C2 has ever been beaten in a canoe-O. The lake was nice, but due to a lack of success in obtaining permission from the landowners for people to cross their property, there were very few legal landing spots, and thus very little route choice. That put paddling prowess at a premium, and the Millers have more of that than we do. There were a few route choice options, but I'm not dissatisfied with our choices on any of them. We gave it our all, but I really don't think we had three extra minutes in us. |
| Running in terrain 59:03  4.7 km (12:34 / km) +250m 9:55 / km | |
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| Climbed Mt. Holyoke (Skinner State Park), took a few pictures from the top, and jogged back down and back to my car, in sandals. Despite the fact that the canoe-O had been around 70 degrees (and foggy), out in the Pioneer Valley a couple of hours later it was pushing 90 (and very humid, with threatening thunderstorms that never quite arrived). |
Friday Jun 27 |
| Road running 15:00 [2]2.7 km (5:33 / km) | |
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| The subway was broken when I got to Downtown Crossing, so I just headed out on foot to get to the Bank of America Pavilion, where I met my elementary school buddy George, and we saw opening act Tom Tom Club and headliners DEVO (who we had also seen back in the summer of 1980). It was great! |
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| C • Sounds highly danceable 4 |