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Monday Jul 8, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering 59:38 2.43 mi (24:32 / mi) +11m 24:13 / mi
ahr:102 max:143 slept:7.5 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Forest model event, at a walk. It was raining pretty hard when we left the apartment so we took a cab, cabs being a pretty inexpensive way to get around here. A little roundabout getting to the event, though, as the cabby went a different way than Google seemed to think. Eventually it looked like his way would work but then the road was blocked, so he had to turn around, got back on pavement for a while, and then eventually saw some signs.
Very different terrain from anyplace I’ve been. Sand dunes with pines and spruce and lots of very low and fairly friendly ground cover. Bumpy, lots of small knolls and depressions. Nothing all that big, no rock. Lots of trails of different sizes.
I went to 10 of the 15 controls in order to get back in an hour. Eventually we took the bus back to the event center, and then tram and bus to get home.
Very different terrain from anyplace I’ve been. Sand dunes with pines and spruce and lots of very low and fairly friendly ground cover. Bumpy, lots of small knolls and depressions. Nothing all that big, no rock. Lots of trails of different sizes.
I went to 10 of the 15 controls in order to get back in an hour. Eventually we took the bus back to the event center, and then tram and bus to get home.
6 PM
Note
Leisurely dinner with Urs and Beatrice at the excellent Casa Nostra restaurant two blocks from the apartment. I had a very fine grilled whole fish, but the shared antipasti were particularly nice, bruschette with baby octopus and a small portion of an excellent eggplant parmigiana.
Since Urs likes to speak Italian and Beatrice is a willing participant, our whole evening was in Italian, and the waitress and the owner also spoke Italian. The owner is Latvian, but lived 20 years in Rome. A very nice evening.
Since Urs likes to speak Italian and Beatrice is a willing participant, our whole evening was in Italian, and the waitress and the owner also spoke Italian. The owner is Latvian, but lived 20 years in Rome. A very nice evening.
C • 1
Sunday Jul 7, 2019 #
11 AM
Orienteering 12:43 2.01 km (6:19 / km)
ahr:145 max:155 spiked:10/10c slept:7.25 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Sprint Final, M70B, pretty easy navigation, generally satisfied with my run. Ended up 27th out of approximately 80 in B. Not long after the last starter went out there was a huge thunderstorm, with lots of rain and hail. Glad not to have been caught out in that.
Sprint Final
Sprint Final
5 PM
Note
Party at the apartment, and some women’s soccer watching on the tv. Among the guests: Sharon, Jeff and Judy, Adam and Phil Bricker, Dick and Nancy Neuburger, Beatrice and Urs, Erik Ohlund and his mother Ingrid and daughter Iris. A nice gathering and a fine conclusion to the soccer game.
Saturday Jul 6, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering 13:58 1.91 km (7:18 / km) +9m 7:07 / km
ahr:152 max:169 slept:7.25 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Sprint Qual, group 70-4. 22nd, which should put me in the B final. Good run, couldn’t have gone much faster.
Couple of route choices might have been better, but not much. Right on 2 would have been maybe a little shorter and have avoided the error I made there, through the middle from 4-5 a little shorter, but a few turns, left on 6 maybe a little shorter. Looking at quickroute, I sure slowed down on the hills leaving 6 and from 7-8. But I guess I knew that.
Sprint Qual
Couple of route choices might have been better, but not much. Right on 2 would have been maybe a little shorter and have avoided the error I made there, through the middle from 4-5 a little shorter, but a few turns, left on 6 maybe a little shorter. Looking at quickroute, I sure slowed down on the hills leaving 6 and from 7-8. But I guess I knew that.
Sprint Qual
C • Run 2
Friday Jul 5, 2019 #
6 AM
Gym (Yoga) 20:00 [3]
slept:7.0
Felt good, particularly after travel and missing yesterday. Slept off and on, but wide awake a lot. Hope to settle down by tonight.
9 AM
Hike 59:59 3.13 mi (19:10 / mi)
ahr:91 max:124
Around town, ending up at the ferry pier where I met up with MJ and waited for G&L to get off the giant ferry. The wait was long, as many hundreds of Swedish orienteers got off first.
On the way out I heard a guide explaining the monument to liberty in Italian, so stopped to listen for 5 minutes. Quite fun, but I wanted to walk, so didn’t stay longer.
On the way out I heard a guide explaining the monument to liberty in Italian, so stopped to listen for 5 minutes. Quite fun, but I wanted to walk, so didn’t stay longer.
2 PM
Hike 19:40 1.1 mi (17:53 / mi)
ahr:107 max:122
Walking around the model map. Saw MJ and G&L a bunch of times going different ways. After I had a nice visit with Sixten and Anna Westland of OK Tyr.
Thursday Jul 4, 2019 #
Note
slept:2.5
Travel day to Riga via Helsinki. On M-J’s advice I downloaded the Bolt app, got a very satisfactory ride from the airport for 7,60€. Our apartment is pretty extensive, quite nice, and even more extensive considering Dennis was not able to come.
We took a bus ride to packet pickup and ran into Judy and Jeff, who are staying nearby, then another bus out to the area of the sprint qual to check out the arena. From there back on the bus to Old Riga and dinner, and pretty soon I was deeply tired. Sat on the couch to look at something, woke up an hour or so later and off to bed.
We took a bus ride to packet pickup and ran into Judy and Jeff, who are staying nearby, then another bus out to the area of the sprint qual to check out the arena. From there back on the bus to Old Riga and dinner, and pretty soon I was deeply tired. Sat on the couch to look at something, woke up an hour or so later and off to bed.
Wednesday Jul 3, 2019 #
9 AM
Gym (Yoga) 20:00 [3]
slept:5.0 weight:165lbs
cycling 44:16 12.27 mi (3:36 / mi) +63m 3:33 / mi
ahr:130 max:153
Tuesday Jul 2, 2019 #
7 AM
Hike 2:10:57 6.33 mi (20:41 / mi) +300m 18:02 / mi
ahr:96 max:129 slept:7.25 weight:163.6lbs
With Tullio and Rhonda. Good brisk outing.
3 PM
Gym (Yoga) 20:00 [3]