Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: CSU Orienteering Superstars
 

Warming up for the race.

Orienteering superstars 3k competition at Amherst College track. Very cold, but otherwise a fine day. My strategy of bulking up for the competition was quite successful, as I was able to finish in the top 15. Of course, if there had been 16 or 17 competitors, things might have been different.

C • Well done! 1

There is much that should be reported about the Superstars, but others will probably take care of most of it. This post is about the concluding event, the bowling. I entered without much in the way of expectations, but it turned out really well. My training primarily consisted of bulking up. A pretty successful strategy. As for actual bowling, my recollection is that there was an episode in the mid or late 80s where I went with PG and Gail and perhaps some other fans of orienteering and bowling around the time of an A meet in St Louis (a place with a lot of bowling, as I recall). Then there was a duckpin tournament in Winsted in connection with a Billygoat around '95. Went with J-J and Bob McBride to 10pins in '96 in Colorado Springs, but that didn't go so well, as I had a sprained left ankle and couldn't plant my forward foot. And then a 14 year break to work on strategy.

The result of this fine training program was pretty awesome. 176 and 172, out in front of the pack. I am in the process of putting this training regimen to work on my golf game, which means that by around 2022 or so I should be ready for some really high quality golf.