Training Log Archive: barb

We are about to ramp up our activities significantly, with WOD next week. Melanie arrives this evening, and Adam next week. We have events every day, often overlapping with up to 3 events simultaneously, next week.
On the personal side, Mom and Dad arrive today; the kids are here; Izzy moving to an apartment today for her summer internship; David walking in commencement this weekend.

I enjoyed giving Vilppu's Food & Farming class a tour of our garden and basement and chicken coop yesterday.

Met with Jackson's teacher yesterday morning. Looking forward to a literary score-O on June 14th or so.

C • Literary score O 2

Lugged the trailer to a school and then a park for orienteering practice. Also commuted to and from work.

Vilppu's Food, Farming and Our Planet class is going on a field trip tomorrow. To our garden!

Milestone:

I got an email from one of the CRLS kids. His English teacher asked him to arrange an orienteering field trip for his class. He just wanted the map. No help. Just the map.

This is how it becomes sustainable.

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Meeting 7:30am with middle school orienteering coaches; meeting 8-10 with my awesome administrative assistant. Then work work.

Navigation Games WOD:

1 public event (Forest-X)
1 pre-school
3 lower schools
2 middle schools
4 after-school K-5 classes
4 after-school middle school team practices
1 after-school high school team practice

Staying home from Billygoat due to hip pain. The pain is probably due to not running enough Billygoats.

Updating the Nav Games website; excerpt:

In 2018, we continued the NEOC/CSU youth project with another four events. On the competitive side, Navigation Games helped CRLS send teams in all three categories (Intermediate, JV, Varsity) to the USA Junior Nationals. Our intermediate team won Silver; JV won Bronze; Varsity won Gold. The teams were coached by former USA Orienteering Team member Ethan Childs, Brazil Air Force Orienteering Team member Josivan Juan de Oliveira, and Czech coach Pavla Zdrahalova de Oliveira. Navigation Games continued improving and growing in-school programs, and is planning to host the first-ever middle school championships in Cambridge on June 5, 2018. The middle school teams are coached by two graduate students from the Boston University physical education and health department (Rachel Schwartz and Cristian Guzman), two mountain bike orienteers from the Czech Republic (Tomas Kamaryt and Marie Brezinova, who is on the national team), and a former member of the Brazilian Junior Orienteering Team (Gabriella Franco). Former Team USA member Melanie Sergiev is studying outdoor education and will intern with us for a month, bringing our K-5 PE curriculum to life through a 2-week stint with the Cambridge Public Schools. The summer program for teens should be better than ever, with leadership by TWO current and former USA Orienteering Team members (Ethan Childs and Evalin Brautigam), an experienced orienteer and sports event management student from Norway (Maiken Sandberg), and an environmental scientist (David Miller). We are beyond excited to welcome new Executive Director Cristina Luis and her family to Cambridge this summer.

Reading over that, it sounds like we are in the business of collaborating with elite orienteers to bring the sport to kids.

C • Collaboration is Good 2

I'm psyched about the updated OUSA website and marketing campaign around WOD. A lot of people worked on it: Bob Forgrave, Dave Yee, Ken Walker, Mary Jo Childs, Kris Beecroft, Janet Tryson, Pat Dunleavy, with help from Cristina, J-J, Ethan, Vilppu, and others. The vendor doing the website work was Jacob Hodara of IDL Web Inc.

Through this project, OUSA provided clubs with a draft WOD press release, and IOF provided a lot of material to help with ideas for WOD. The tech team decided to use the AP event database: clubs put their event info there, and the OUSA website has a front page section showing the next 3 events with a link to a page Ken set up for us, a variant of the AP map event view, but with links going directly to the club websites (if provided).

The ideal cycle:

Clubs connect with local schools to create WOD events.
Clubs adapt the press release and notify local news outlets.
Local news outlets pick up the story (cool stuff! get kids outdoors with maps - and by the way, families can attend upcoming public events), driving readers to the OUSA website.
The OUSA website now has links to local events as well as a (fixed) map of local clubs, sending folks to club events.

Now we just need clubs to take advantage of this great opportunity!

C • WOD AP thread 1