Training Log Archive: Sandy

Event: DVOA Fort Washington
 

This was only sort of orienteering. DVOA had their annual summer picnic and relay event. I teamed up with Brian Komoroski. There were two courses - a yellow and an orange - but only one map. You could do the courses consecutively, use a phone, have one person do memory-o, etc. The courses were such that after every 2-4 controls, there would be a common control on the two courses.

Brian is a great runner and a decent orienteer. I've set courses in the park so know it reasonably well. I did the Yellow and he did the Orange. Once punching start, I memorized the first 4 controls and he took the map and we met at the 2nd common control. There I memorized the rest of the course and then we both finished. Brian had the fastest time on the Orange - some of the speedier folks were doing it from memory so he had that advantage. I had a decent time on the Yellow, with no errors, but having to walk a good bit. It helped that I had seen the courses since I was the one that did the overprinting.

There was also an elaborate handicapping system - things like -40 minutes if you had never orienteered before, +20 minutes if you were ranked in the top 20 any of the previous 5 years, etc. I had a -10 credit for being old and my best club ranking was just shy of having a penalty. I was thinking I should get a penalty for having seen the courses ahead of time, but the event director decreed that was my bonus for volunteering. We ended up 2nd overall. Woohoo.

It was a lot of fun.

Late afternoon hike. I'm having some work done on one of the bathrooms in my house and during the day the water is turned off so a morning shower would have been tough. Not to mention the workmen around.

Got rained on but not very hard.

4 sets of 20 pushups, 20 situps

Have no idea why this took as long as it did. I didn't think I was going any slower than last week. Strange.

Jogged almost of the loop. One hill I didn't try (the steepest one) and in one other place I stopped to let some mountain bikers by and then walked a bit of a hill that was just after that. I was totally not thinking about running (thinking about things at work) and probably would have just cruised up that hill without realizing it until the bikers. Oh, and stopped about two houses short of mine.

Not much faster despite jogging more, but I felt kind of stiff and clunky so wasn't expected a very good time.

4 sets of 20 pushups, 20 situps

Hike in the Wissahickon listening to an audiobook. Wore a light fleece over my shirt and, amazingly, wasn't too hot! But I wasn't really pushing. Just one of those days.

3 sets of 20 pushups, 20 situps/crunches

Phooey. Guess it's to be expected since we ate and drank well over the weekend.