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Sunday Sep 28, 2014 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:46:27 [4] *** 7.41 km (14:22 / km) +207m 12:36 / km
spiked:15/18c shoes: Columbia Romero trail runners
EMPO meet at Thacher. Boy is this map good, I don't think I've orienteered here in quite a while.
Gabor set a slate of courses all on the short side, so I changed plans from green to red. 18 controls in 5.6km makes for a lot of short legs, most bags hidden behind rocks or down in pits.
1. Lost ~1min looking at a differet knollish area
2. went straight and hit it right on
3. around the marsh to the left, held up 20m in front of the control looking at another ditch ending at the rock face -- it was on the map but under the control circle! Couldnt' figure it out until I stepped a few meters ahead and looked
4. Went around the big ugly ridge; didn't even notice that going over the ridge would be out of bounds
5. no problems, mostly trail, went around to the trail intersection
6. went to trail, passed the hilltop then shot in. Saw Dave Porter here for the first time; I was punching, he was about 10m away on higher ground looking at me and I don't think he saw the bag
7. Nice leg to the middle of the crevice/wooded area with no obvious catching features. However the map is so good and the contour relief so sudden its easy to follow the ridge lines when you pay attention. My compass shot got me about 10 degress off and caught myself on one of the boulders, then went back left.
8. Went pretty much straight. Saw Zoe, Max, and Stacey on the trail. Zoe's doing her first yellow (with a shadow!)
9. Took trails to the right; surprising how steep going up the ridge was. Prob 20m climb in about 10m horizontal. Blew by the control and hit the park boundary while looking at the wrong cliffs (too big!). Saw David again as I was walking along the bottom of the ridge to get the bag; he was up on top.
10. Straight line but after the rocky spur the gullies really lead you in (they are hard to see on the map though). Punched prob. 30s before David
11. Went straight -- steep hill, slid down. David passed me in the woods abouto halfway to the control.
12. Easy to follow stone wall remnants to the bag; consciously stayed a bit down hill to keep it visible from below (I've learned Gabor's tricks)
13. straightforward
14. followed the bottom of the slope along the south edge of the marsh (there's a pipeline at ground level there too -- going to the water tower?). Then crossed to the trail and gambled that the control was hung near the trail side, so went out to the field and ran around. No, it was in the woods. oh well.
15. Followed trails by the water tower and down the slope. This one was about 20m of gratuitous climb up to the bag -- at least it was hung high.
16. easy
17 easy
18 yay, last control
A lot of fun - thanks Gabor
Gabor set a slate of courses all on the short side, so I changed plans from green to red. 18 controls in 5.6km makes for a lot of short legs, most bags hidden behind rocks or down in pits.
1. Lost ~1min looking at a differet knollish area
2. went straight and hit it right on
3. around the marsh to the left, held up 20m in front of the control looking at another ditch ending at the rock face -- it was on the map but under the control circle! Couldnt' figure it out until I stepped a few meters ahead and looked
4. Went around the big ugly ridge; didn't even notice that going over the ridge would be out of bounds
5. no problems, mostly trail, went around to the trail intersection
6. went to trail, passed the hilltop then shot in. Saw Dave Porter here for the first time; I was punching, he was about 10m away on higher ground looking at me and I don't think he saw the bag
7. Nice leg to the middle of the crevice/wooded area with no obvious catching features. However the map is so good and the contour relief so sudden its easy to follow the ridge lines when you pay attention. My compass shot got me about 10 degress off and caught myself on one of the boulders, then went back left.
8. Went pretty much straight. Saw Zoe, Max, and Stacey on the trail. Zoe's doing her first yellow (with a shadow!)
9. Took trails to the right; surprising how steep going up the ridge was. Prob 20m climb in about 10m horizontal. Blew by the control and hit the park boundary while looking at the wrong cliffs (too big!). Saw David again as I was walking along the bottom of the ridge to get the bag; he was up on top.
10. Straight line but after the rocky spur the gullies really lead you in (they are hard to see on the map though). Punched prob. 30s before David
11. Went straight -- steep hill, slid down. David passed me in the woods abouto halfway to the control.
12. Easy to follow stone wall remnants to the bag; consciously stayed a bit down hill to keep it visible from below (I've learned Gabor's tricks)
13. straightforward
14. followed the bottom of the slope along the south edge of the marsh (there's a pipeline at ground level there too -- going to the water tower?). Then crossed to the trail and gambled that the control was hung near the trail side, so went out to the field and ran around. No, it was in the woods. oh well.
15. Followed trails by the water tower and down the slope. This one was about 20m of gratuitous climb up to the bag -- at least it was hung high.
16. easy
17 easy
18 yay, last control
A lot of fun - thanks Gabor
C • #6 2
C • #4 2
Friday Sep 26, 2014 #
4 PM
Run / Walk 49:41 [3] 4.72 km (10:32 / km) +116m 9:23 / km
shoes: Columbia Romero trail runners
Run/mostly walk in Skidmore's north woods. Should do this every day! Seriously want to map this.
Saturday Sep 13, 2014 #
10 AM
Hiking 40:42 [0] 3.38 km (12:02 / km) +85m 10:41 / km
shoes: Columbia Romero trail runners
Field checking for meet at Tawasentha next week. Literally checking out fields. They all still seem to be there!
Also, the Tawasentha playground has been replaced with some huge climbing structure. Probably 20 feet up to the highest platform, at least, with a big tube slide. Max loves it. Large enough for adults, easily.
Also, the Tawasentha playground has been replaced with some huge climbing structure. Probably 20 feet up to the highest platform, at least, with a big tube slide. Max loves it. Large enough for adults, easily.
Sunday Sep 7, 2014 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 2:56:27 [4] **** 9.02 km (19:33 / km) +197m 17:38 / km
shoes: Columbia Romero trail runners
Green(2) course at Pawtuckaway, third year in a row. How to turn a 5km course into a 9km course (ugh.)
Seems like everytime I come back here I have to learn what a map scale is again. And pacecounting.
Did fine to #1. Got off to #2 in the correct direction but somehow got a little off (to the right I think) and proceeded to walk about 500m to an uncrossable lake at which I point even I knew I did something wrong. I believe I 180d multiple times to fool myself into thinking I was looping back to the control. Or something. Ugh. horrible.
Then on to #3. This time I started off going to the road (who knew a road leg could go wrong!). Tried to go in using the marsh as a handrail, though I knew were I was the whole time, and then once I was "in the circle"... surprise water feature where none should be for 150m at least. Ergh. Stumbled on the little trail; promptly 180d on the trail and figured it out a few minutes later. Came back and got it OK. Took me 1hr 30min to get to this point (maybe 25% of the course distance); should have been ~30 minutes if I was doing OK with some small errors.
After that I was too tired to make mistakes. Considered DNF, but figured "I only come here once a year, might as well give it an honest shot". And the rest of the O went pretty well. Found 4 just fine (went pretty much along the beeline) and saw moose droppings up top there. For 5 I got off the hill OK, followed the stone walls roughly and pinpointed my way to it -- minor parallel error in the circle but lost just a few minutes chasing another "pond".
Went to 6 straight on and hit it. By this point I knew I had to have pretty flawless orienteering to get back within 3hrs. And I just about did that. Followed the trail to 7 flawlessly. Wasted a minute or two on the wrong knoll for 8 and limped in fine after that. 2:57!
Seems like everytime I come back here I have to learn what a map scale is again. And pacecounting.
Did fine to #1. Got off to #2 in the correct direction but somehow got a little off (to the right I think) and proceeded to walk about 500m to an uncrossable lake at which I point even I knew I did something wrong. I believe I 180d multiple times to fool myself into thinking I was looping back to the control. Or something. Ugh. horrible.
Then on to #3. This time I started off going to the road (who knew a road leg could go wrong!). Tried to go in using the marsh as a handrail, though I knew were I was the whole time, and then once I was "in the circle"... surprise water feature where none should be for 150m at least. Ergh. Stumbled on the little trail; promptly 180d on the trail and figured it out a few minutes later. Came back and got it OK. Took me 1hr 30min to get to this point (maybe 25% of the course distance); should have been ~30 minutes if I was doing OK with some small errors.
After that I was too tired to make mistakes. Considered DNF, but figured "I only come here once a year, might as well give it an honest shot". And the rest of the O went pretty well. Found 4 just fine (went pretty much along the beeline) and saw moose droppings up top there. For 5 I got off the hill OK, followed the stone walls roughly and pinpointed my way to it -- minor parallel error in the circle but lost just a few minutes chasing another "pond".
Went to 6 straight on and hit it. By this point I knew I had to have pretty flawless orienteering to get back within 3hrs. And I just about did that. Followed the trail to 7 flawlessly. Wasted a minute or two on the wrong knoll for 8 and limped in fine after that. 2:57!