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Monday Mar 25, 2019 #
6 AM
Gym (Yoga) 20:00 [3]
Good session. Really needing this after a lot of running and sitting in recent days.
7 AM
Hike 22:55 1.34 mi (17:06 / mi)
ahr:118 max:135 slept:7.0 shoes: 2017 Gray Gel Kayanos
Along the canal from the hotel before heading to the airport. Nice morning.
Sunday Mar 24, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 20:49 2.99 km (6:57 / km) +31m 6:37 / km
ahr:162 max:176 spiked:11/13c slept:7.0 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Last race of the tour in Benevento. Another city sprint, longer, less intricate than some. Hard running and I got tired toward the end. 4th on the day in my group out of 13, and 3rd for the three day weekend competition. Earned me a bottle of wine which I was lucky enough to give away.
Benevento
Benevento
7 PM
Note
Dinner along the canal down the street from our airport hotel at Fiumicino. I had been walking along the canal a few years ago and have wanted since to come back for fish. First course was a starter of moscardini (baby octopus) in a tomato and olive sauce, then a first plate of linguine allo scoglio, that is, with mixed seafood. Squid, mussels, shrimp, clams, some other crustaceans. Pretty fine.
Saturday Mar 23, 2019 #
10 AM
Hike 18:33 1.3 mi (14:16 / mi)
ahr:118 max:144 slept:7.0 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Walk and jog to the start in Paestum. The long way around so we are not staring at the competition area.
Orienteering race 17:12 2.27 km (7:35 / km)
ahr:144 max:165 spiked:13/15c shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Sprint race in the archeological park at Paestum among the temples and ruins. Not difficult navigation and very open, but with many short walls, some crossable and some not. Reasonably good, but overran 5 and ended up at the next cluster of walls, had to turn back. Maybe 30 seconds or so, and stopped to check a wrong bag on the way to 12, which I was fairly certain was wrong, but checked it anyway. 4th out of 13, and a clean run would have possibly moved me up to 2nd. Of course a clean run for the other guys might likely have held me off.i 1st was once again well out of reach.
Paestum Archeological Park
On the way back I caught up with Jorgen and some others and we had lunch at Ristorante Nettuno on the south end of the archeological park, near the temple of Nettuno. Very nice. I had grilled orata with potatoes and olives. There were a lot of orders of frutti di mare with pasta or risotto. Quite a fine place.
Paestum Archeological Park
On the way back I caught up with Jorgen and some others and we had lunch at Ristorante Nettuno on the south end of the archeological park, near the temple of Nettuno. Very nice. I had grilled orata with potatoes and olives. There were a lot of orders of frutti di mare with pasta or risotto. Quite a fine place.
2 PM
Hike 30:32 1.25 mi (24:25 / mi)
ahr:102 max:116 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Strolling back to the hotel with Margareta and her husband Folke.
Friday Mar 22, 2019 #
Note
slept:7.0
Long travel day, leaving at 7:30 for Pompeii and arriving at 9, then leaving there at 1245 for the 2 hour trip to the race, running the race and then back on the bus at 545 to go back to the hotel.
Pompeii is awesome. We had a guide who was very knowledgeable, but moved way too slowly and provided too much detail for his audience. A quick and delicious pizza before hopping on the bus. Neapolitan pizza is fabulous. This one was tomato, oregano and garlic. Also quite a fine salad to share with some friends.
Pompeii is awesome. We had a guide who was very knowledgeable, but moved way too slowly and provided too much detail for his audience. A quick and delicious pizza before hopping on the bus. Neapolitan pizza is fabulous. This one was tomato, oregano and garlic. Also quite a fine salad to share with some friends.
4 PM
Orienteering 17:46 2.78 km (6:23 / km)
ahr:149 max:163 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Urban sprint in Marina di Ascea, beach town south of Agropoli and almost dead flat, so no stairs, and generally a less complicated layout. 2nd today out of 13, but well behind Ilmars Limbens of Latvia, quite a strong fellow. No navigational problems, except heading to the last control I couldn’t remember if I had punched the one before, so put on the brakes to check the map, costing about 10 seconds. Otherwise going as fast as I can and not really a false step. Some training might help.
Marina Ascea
Marina Ascea
5 PM
Note
I contemplated swimming from the nice sandy beach, got in up to my knees, but it was cold and late and it didn’t seem worth it to get wet clothes.
8 PM
Note
Another excellent meal. Best was the risotto with mushrooms, walnuts and burrata. Then for a second there was a thick slice of veal ribeye and a small cake of vegetables with a bit of caciocavallo cheese on it. Sliced fruit with raspberry purée for dessert. They come around and offer seconds on everything. Couldn’t resist more risotto.
Thursday Mar 21, 2019 #
Note
slept:8.0
Bus ride along the coast of Calabria, Basilicata and Campania. Stunning terrain, a beautiful day. Beaches, mountains, old towns. Left the hotel in Rende at 8, brief stops in Diamante and Scalea, headed for Paestum.
Turned out to be just a travel day. We stopped and watched the elite sprint camp participants race in Castellabate, tiny town with lots of twisty streets and stairs. They had two loops on a small map, went off in flights of 7 as a mass start. Highlight was Daniel Hubmann holding off Ricardo Scalet by about 20 meters with the others well back, at least a minute.
The plan was for us to get maps and at least to walk around after the races, but they still had heats going off at 5:15, it was getting colder, and people were tired, so off to the hotel, arriving at 6.
Turned out to be just a travel day. We stopped and watched the elite sprint camp participants race in Castellabate, tiny town with lots of twisty streets and stairs. They had two loops on a small map, went off in flights of 7 as a mass start. Highlight was Daniel Hubmann holding off Ricardo Scalet by about 20 meters with the others well back, at least a minute.
The plan was for us to get maps and at least to walk around after the races, but they still had heats going off at 5:15, it was getting colder, and people were tired, so off to the hotel, arriving at 6.
8 PM
Note
This is a much nicer hotel, and much better food than the other places we have been staying. Dinner was a first course of paccheri (large pasta tubes) with cubes of swordfish and an eggplant sauce. They were obliging enough to come around offering seconds. Second course was amberjack breaded and baked, with a zucchini purée and julienned carrots and zucchini. Then a dessert of several little kinds of mousse, including a chocolate one and a limoncello one, very elegantly presented. Quite fine.
Wednesday Mar 20, 2019 #
Note
Fairly early start, pulled out of the hotel around 7 or so, bus ride to Messina, then took the ferry across to Calabria. Very workmanlike ferry, unlike the luxurious (and expensive) one from Malta to Sicily (and a much shorter ride). This one had passenger tickets at 2.50€, while the tickets on the John Paul II from Malta were 62€. And then some bus riding until arriving at the hotel in Rende, where a not very pleasing lunch was waiting for us. Casereccia pasta with an undistinguished tomato sauce and cold cooked spinach. A walk around town, not all that interesting, and eventually a bus ride up to the old part of Rende, very picturesque, on top of a mountain, views of the sea 20 minutes away, but not looking very lived in.
4 PM
Orienteering race 17:52 1.91 km (9:20 / km) +89m 7:34 / km
ahr:154 max:168 spiked:9/10c slept:7.0 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Very entertaining sprint in the little hill town of Rende in Calabria. Lots of stairs. One small error where I missed a turn and had to go around, but not much loss there. Otherwise fine. Could have shaved a few seconds with better routes, but that always happens. Haven’t seen the results, but first in M70 out of 10, so that was satisfying. Got a bottle of wine.
Rende - Old Town
Rende - Old Town
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering 51:44 3.75 km (13:48 / km) +103m 12:08 / km
ahr:131 max:171 spiked:5/9c slept:7.0 shoes: 2017 Icebug Anima BUGrip
Middle distance race at Bosco Ragabo on the north-east flank of Etna. I had been here a year and a half ago, but apparently didn’t learn enough from the earlier experience. Three small bobbles and one giant error, perhaps 13 minutes. I hadn’t gone far enough, but got confused by an unmapped track and thought I should already be in the right area, so a lot of thrashing around before finally understanding I had a lot further to go. Otherwise also coming up short a few times and pausing to look around, and one parallel reentrant error that cost maybe 1:30. Quite a nice time, though, and a lovely day. The sky was particularly clear in the morning and Etna was blowing smoke, quite impressive. Still a fair amount of snow up top, but relatively little on our courses a bit further down. Lunch at the Rifugio Bosco Ragabo, where we had been in 2017, then an hour in Acireale before heading back to the hotel. Acireale was more interesting than I had expected. Like a lot of cities here there are many, many churches, quite elaborate and beautiful.
Bosco Ragabo (Etna)
Bosco Ragabo (Etna)
Sunday Mar 17, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering 25:32 1.8 mi (14:11 / mi) +69m 12:41 / mi
ahr:141 max:183 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Saturday Mar 16, 2019 #
3 PM
Orienteering 26:46 2.94 km (9:05 / km) +65m 8:11 / km
ahr:148 max:167 spiked:9/12c slept:8.0 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
City sprint at Cospicua. Good except for confusing the various sets of stairs around 6, 7 and 8. Seems went the long way around a couple of times. 11th today. Took one tumble on a curb right at the start, skinned my knee a bit.
Bormla - Città Cospicua
Bormla - Città Cospicua
Friday Mar 15, 2019 #
Event: MOC Championships
Event: WCOC/HVO Winter Series 2019
6 AM
Hike 51:44 2.57 mi (20:08 / mi) +43m 19:08 / mi
ahr:95 max:110 slept:9.0 shoes: 2017 Gray Gel Kayanos
Went for a walk with my friend and roommate Max. The track is from the way back. On the way out we stopped at the Wignacourt tower at St. Paul’s Bay. Quite a bit cooler than I had expected, but not as cool and windy as yesterday.
5 PM
Orienteering race 30:52 3.64 km (8:29 / km) +66m 7:47 / km
ahr:152 max:170 slept:8.5 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
MOC stage 1 at Buskett Gardens. Intricate network of paths and stonewalls, none crossable. A failure of map reading led me to go way around on successive legs, probably about 6 or 7 minutes, but others had trouble, too and I was 6th of 22 in M70. As a condition of permission, we were asked not to post the map. Hadn’t run into that before. I hope they will post splits, but they are not always good at that.
Saw my friends Luisella, Claudia and Maria from Trento, many other people I know. Had dinner with Max and with some Brits I did not know before, Carol Edwards, Karen and Andy. Late when we got back.
Saw my friends Luisella, Claudia and Maria from Trento, many other people I know. Had dinner with Max and with some Brits I did not know before, Carol Edwards, Karen and Andy. Late when we got back.
Thursday Mar 14, 2019 #
Event: MOC Tour
10 AM
Hike 1:09:31 3.19 mi (21:47 / mi) +32m 21:08 / mi
ahr:95 max:130
After arriving at the hotel on St. Paul’s Bay. Very windy, fairly cold. I got tired and repaired back for a quick dinner and bed.
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019 #
5 AM
Gym 40:00 [3]
slept:6.5 weight:165.2lbs
Part of Rhonda's morning class
10 AM
Hike 53:56 2.54 mi (21:14 / mi) +67m 19:38 / mi
ahr:109 max:125
At the lake, with microspikes. A mix of ice, crusty snow and soft snow. Enough soft snow that skiing would be a reasonable way to get around, but not much time for experimenting today.