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Sunday May 18, 2008 #
Walking warm up/down 15:00 [1] 1.3 km (11:32 / km) +55m 9:31 / km
shoes: Jala Jukola Spider 6 #2
Warm up walk/jog to the start. Blackflies were in attendance again, but if you had room to move around a little and kept moving they weren't too bad.
Orienteering race (long) 49:51 [4] *** 3.2 km (15:35 / km) +80m 13:51 / km
spiked:7/8c shoes: Jala Jukola Spider 6 #2
"Long" course 4 (= brown level). Perhaps a little short, but the woods were thick in places, though the course gave white-woods options for a large part. Where it was light green, there were lots and lots of maple saplings and they had started to leaf out so visibility was down in those areas. I was happy with my time and kinda glad I didn't do course 5 (W45-54) because of the long drive home afterwards. 1st (of 2) in W55, about 10 minutes ahead of Ilona D. of Canada. Third fastest on course, behind 2 M65's (7 and ~3 minutes behind them). Small bobble at 5 where I expected to see a wide reentrant between two rocky hills but due to visibility didn't see the second hill so climbed a contour up the first one only to go back down again (to the saddle between the hills), maybe a minute to 1:30 lost.
Note
AOWN notes from the weekend:
Saw an unusual bird near the parking area at Gatineau Park, with bright yellow head, black body and some white markings on wings. A review of Google suggests a yellow-headed blackbird, though they're more common in western Canada than in Quebec. Since it was perched on a fencepost near a field, it suggests the blackbird habitat, and I couldn't find anything else that looked close.
Driving through way-northern New York between the Cornwall border crossing and Plattsburgh, we saw a farm that had funny-looking deer, most likely reindeer. :-) And a wind farm that appears to be brand new (saw headlines in a local paper about it just starting up), with a couple dozen towers.
Finally, on the drive home down the Northway, we saw what I at first thought was a fox but Glen said was a coyote (longer legs than a fox), hunting along the side of the road, probably only about 15-20 feet from the travel lane (mouse, rabbit or baby groundhog, anyone?).
Saw an unusual bird near the parking area at Gatineau Park, with bright yellow head, black body and some white markings on wings. A review of Google suggests a yellow-headed blackbird, though they're more common in western Canada than in Quebec. Since it was perched on a fencepost near a field, it suggests the blackbird habitat, and I couldn't find anything else that looked close.
Driving through way-northern New York between the Cornwall border crossing and Plattsburgh, we saw a farm that had funny-looking deer, most likely reindeer. :-) And a wind farm that appears to be brand new (saw headlines in a local paper about it just starting up), with a couple dozen towers.
Finally, on the drive home down the Northway, we saw what I at first thought was a fox but Glen said was a coyote (longer legs than a fox), hunting along the side of the road, probably only about 15-20 feet from the travel lane (mouse, rabbit or baby groundhog, anyone?).