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Monday Sep 27, 2010 #
5 AM
Gym 1:00:00 [3]
weight:162.5lbs
Rhonda's morning class. Jan told a convoluted story about when her father met Eddy Mercx in 1988, and told Eddy about his daughter the bike racer. He and Eddy struck up a bit of a conversation and Eddy ended up giving him an autographed picture. Jan was at a big bike show last week and Eddy was a speaker there. She brought the picture and chatted Eddy up about the incident, and about the daughter who went on to become a world champion. Eddy was polite enough to act like he remembered her dad.
5 PM
Note
My friend Shirley came over for a tour of my charcoal platforms this afternoon. She is an inveterate program leader and has gotten interested in charcoal lately. She was also interested in the frogs, the herons, witch hazel, and a number of other things that turned up along the way. It was raining pretty briskly, but that certainly didn't slow her down any, and I gave her the full tour. She was impressed that I had streamer tape on a number of the charcoal platforms and thought I had put it there for her. Well, no. It is just left over from some old o courses, and I took most of it down while we were walking.
Sunday Sep 26, 2010 #
Event: WCOC Paugussett
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:30:58 *** 8.46 km (10:45 / km) +274m 9:15 / km
ahr:131 max:172 spiked:20/21c weight:161lbs shoes: 2009 Yellow NB 840s
Score-O at Paugusset. Fine weather. 470 net points, as I had ten penalty points which gave me a net breakeven on the last control I strayed off the trail to pick up. Opted to make sure I got out to the little group to the NE that looked interesting, rather than pick up more controls in the SW, since I couldn't do both. My route.
Saturday Sep 25, 2010 #
Event: West Point B-Meet
11 AM
Orienteering 1:30:59 *** 7.29 km (12:29 / km) +302m 10:20 / km
ahr:133 max:156 spiked:7/12c weight:162lbs shoes: 2009 Yellow NB 840s
Green course at Bull Pond - USMA B meet.
Navigation not so clean, and I ended up skipping #2 after looking for it quite a while. I was the first starter, and after a while there were three of us hunting for it, so I gave up. Particularly because I needed to get back to go to Zack's cross country meet. Turns out I was too far west in a difficult area with lots of unmapped 4 meter+ cliffs. Then lost a lot of time and bailed out on #3 before attacking again. Trouble following a straight line on 4, 6 and 8, although no trouble finding the controls once I figured out where I was. Hot day, and moving slowly, but it was fun and worth the trip.
Navigation not so clean, and I ended up skipping #2 after looking for it quite a while. I was the first starter, and after a while there were three of us hunting for it, so I gave up. Particularly because I needed to get back to go to Zack's cross country meet. Turns out I was too far west in a difficult area with lots of unmapped 4 meter+ cliffs. Then lost a lot of time and bailed out on #3 before attacking again. Trouble following a straight line on 4, 6 and 8, although no trouble finding the controls once I figured out where I was. Hot day, and moving slowly, but it was fun and worth the trip.
3 PM
Note
Went to the Canterbury Invitational XC meet in New Milford on the way home from West Pt. Got there in time for the girls' race and saw Doodle from Forman finish a strong 3rd. Meanwhile, the Forman boys had spent most of the day in the hot sun and Zack was already fairly overheated by the start. He settled into about 9th place for most of the run, and put on a strong finish to move up to 8th in 18:59, but collapsed at the finish line with some pretty classic heat exhaustion symptoms. He spent about an hour either laying on a table at the medical tent or stumbling around, not even sure if he had finished the race. It was pretty scary. A couple of hours later he was mostly bounced back, but he went to bed right after supper.
C • heat 1
Thursday Sep 23, 2010 #
4 PM
Orienteering 1:27:56 *** 7.64 km (11:30 / km) +169m 10:22 / km
ahr:127 max:151 20c weight:161lbs shoes: 2010 NB MT840
Sessions, using Peter's map from last weekend. Pretty fine - downloaded it from his log. Planned on 1:15, but got bogged down in the south and had to bail out. Ended up with 20 and running all the way in from #50 to get back. If I were going to be more efficient about it, I could have done without 32 and 33 for example
Wednesday Sep 22, 2010 #
12 PM
Running 1:27:10 11.02 km (7:55 / km) +459m 6:33 / km
ahr:151 max:175 weight:164lbs shoes: 2010 NB MT840
Tunxis trail run from the house. Very hot, and this is a longer run than I am used to, and a very rugged trail. My sense was that anything better than 85 was pretty unlikely, and anything worse than 100 would be a disappointment. So 87 was a pleasant surprise, especially since I was so toasted at the end that I walked up most of Doyle Rd.
A few odd noises in the brush from time to time, but the only real AOWN moment was when I got bopped on the forearm by a falling acorn. It fell with a lot of force. Not as bad as getting hit with a golf ball, but pretty noticeable.
On reflection, this is the hardest effort I have put out on a run since the Billygoat.
A few odd noises in the brush from time to time, but the only real AOWN moment was when I got bopped on the forearm by a falling acorn. It fell with a lot of force. Not as bad as getting hit with a golf ball, but pretty noticeable.
On reflection, this is the hardest effort I have put out on a run since the Billygoat.