Training Log Archive: barb

Event: NEOC: Menotomy Rocks
 

hanging controls at Menotomy Rocks.
LOTS of people there today.
Word had gone out on the parents email list. I did that once before and we got a lot of people. Should do that for all meets.
Talked to Sylvie; I think to get people coming back it would make sense to have multiple meets at the SAME map in one season. If you are bringing out families with kids. Maybe the serious club meets could be on Saturdays, and then everyone volunteers to put on regular local meets on Sundays, to reach out and bring more people in. It worked for our guerilla Cambridge O in Nov & Dec.

A Newton teacher contacted NEOC; looks like we'll have another project in early May, 50 9th grade girls. Jeff Saeger, Jason Tong and Isabel will probably be involved too. Current plan is to do some learning and training the first day, using Edmands Park CSU map, then go to NEOC's Boojum Rock map for the 2nd day. I'll meet with the teacher tomorrow morning to talk about possibilities, and check in with Jeff, Jason & Izzy tonight to make sure we're all on board. Pretty nice to have a school willing to give us two days of their students' time for orienteering. Also nice to have access to girls.

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Submitted a grant application to the City of Cambridge today asking for $21,700 to employ 15 kids + a supervisor for 20 hrs/week, 6 weeks in the summer, learning and teaching orienteering.

Isabel picked up two of the middle school kids at 3:00 and they did a Crossroads training in the snow at a nearby park. Keegan said he'd start a club at the school next year.

The two Cambridge teams:

Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School:
* Isak Prellner, grade 11
* Ethan Rothenberg, grade 10
* Pilli Cruz-De Jesus, grade 10
* Walter Ditrani, grade 12
* Jeffrey Chen, grade 10

Cambridge Street Upper School (all 7th graders)
* Keegan Harkavy
* Harlan Altepeter
* Nicolena Capello
* Alex Rosenberg

The CRLS kids won first in JV. Apart from Isak, the high school kids have been training for one month; prior to that, some of them did a couple of introductory park or street-Os we put on in the fall, but that's it. They didn't start woods orienteering or serious training until a month ago. They are all on the high school track team and some ran on the cross-country team. Isak did a great job teaching them, and deserves a lot of credit for bringing new kids into the sport and helping them get to this level so quickly, with trainings a couple times a week for 4 weeks. He contributed a lot to junior orienteering! Ethan was 5th in the sprint and 4th on Saturday; he lost his epunch today and we hadn't told him ahead of time that he should just continue and punch his map. So he DNFed. Walter was 4th today, 9th yesterday and 14th (of 25) in the sprint. Jeffrey didn't finish the sprint or the course yesterday (he was injured yesterday) but he rallied today and came in 5th. I think this is pretty impressive.

The middle school kids all came out of the school elective I taught last year when they were in 6th grade. Keegan is my neighbor, and had done a little more orienteering with me, but not really any in the deep woods - mostly park-Os and corn maze O :-)
Keegan won the sprint and today's race, and came in second yesterday by one second.
All of the CSUS students are 12 or 13, and were up against kids up to 9th grade (around 15).
The team came in second in IS Intermediate.
They trained 2-3 times a week for the past month.

They all had a positive, open, serious attitude toward training. They engaged naturally and deeply in course reviews and discussions about the sport. I am so proud of them all.


Keegan, Saturday.

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