Training Log Archive: barb

Isak, Pilli, Ethan and Jeffrey conducted a bake sale and orienteering consciousness awareness yesterday at parent-teacher night. Isak's idea, from a suggestion by Elizabeth. I baked all day, including a highly successful new recipe for choc chip cookies (in the past I have always made Toll House version but was told no nuts, and some research led to a new recipe). I didn't attend the bake sale (instead going to a CSU/hang-with-Diego meeting), but did drop-off and pick-up of stuff. They wore the hats. They prOselytized. It was good. It was gratifying to have this happen without me needing to be there. Isak is awesome.

Jeffrey was talking about going door to door for donations, and asked me if I thought one person alone or two people would be more successful. I mentioned this to Isak later, and Isak said he managed to convince Jeffrey that going door to door was his (Jeffrey's) idea.

We are up to $94 + $555 toward our goal of $3600.



Dave took this photo - the maps were for the star / attackpoint-to-control exercise from last weekend and Monday.

C • Goal 2

Yesterday Isak took the CRLS team to experience Ian's training course at Prospect Hill. They met up at each control. Sometimes some of them executed the leg reasonably cleanly. Isak mopped up the rest of them. Ethan was best in the beginning, but faded; ran out of steam - they had also done a 4-mile run for track before starting, and the woods were wet and cold. Walter improved and was the best during the last half.
This picture is not from yesterday; rather, it was from the much nicer (weather wise) training on Sunday at Boojum.

Navigation Games news:

Dave and I met with the director of Community Schools in Cambridge. We need teachers for spring after-school classes, so if you're interested let me know! If you know anyone in the Cambridge area you think might be good - again, let me know!

Also, we want to run a 6-week summer camp, 20 hours/week, July 7-Aug 15. Need people to work that. For teens, to teach them (1) how to orienteer (2) how to teach other kids and (3) how to put on an event.

We have a 19-year-old coming for the summer; she is not an orienteer or a teacher but she likes maps and is willing to work for us. She'll stay with me and Dave.

And, we are training two teams for IS champs! :-)

C • 6 weeks 6

I convinced a bunch of Cambridge kids and their parents to go to the IS champs and said I was confident that we could raise a lot of the money so they didn't have to pay $500 each for the trip. So far we've got about half of the hotel bill covered, and donations of $145 on our fundraising page. NEOC agreed to handle the money to reduce fees by allowing us to use Generosity.com, which is awesome.
Anyway, if you can donate cash or loan us a thumb compass through April 4th, that would be awesome.

As incentive, here is a photo of two of the athletes on the Intermediate Schools team.

C • Map 2

Today I took the 4 7th graders to Boojum. There was some light rain, which cleared up partway through. I worked with Alex and Nic on distance estimation, orienting the map, route planning. I sent Keegan and Harlan to do the star exercise (practice going from attackpoint to control), and asked them to pick up the controls (placed yesterday). Everyone did better than yesterday. I was happy. Yesterday was interesting - seeing the group being 7th graders. I had kind of forgotten about 7th graders, and assumed I would just have 4 Keegans, or two pairs of Keegan+Harlan. Alex and Nic injected a sassy vibe, you could say.
I love how focused they can be, while still easily slipping back into random patter when there is space for it. They were completely engaged with the training. They went through an armchair course with me on the Ohio map afterward, that went great.

Dave and I hung controls in the morning.
We spent the afternoon in the woods with the team, training.

Went to Pine Hill with Dave and checked out some of the control locations for an old CSU race. I think they could work as an orange training course for the high school team.

We are up to 8 definite athletes at the IS Champs on two teams (Int and JV), plus 5 parents, another coach (Izzy), and the possibility of another 2 kids plus 1 parent. Dream come true. All flight, rental car and hotel arrangements have been made. Still need to register one or two people.

In other news, I got to spend time with little Diego (Katia & Giovanni's son) last night! He is twice as big as he was last time I saw him. He smiles.

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