Sunday Aug 20 |
 | Orienteering (Field Checking) 1:38:00 [1] *** 2.7 mi (36:17 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB 809 |
| Checking control sites and updating the map at Colonie Town Park for National O-Day meet. Overcast and very humid with some thunder but only a light shower. |
Saturday Aug 19 |
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| Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships Festival
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| Road Run 29:57 [3] 3.3 mi (9:03 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB 878 - #6 |
| Back home again to the humidity (67F dew point) and the oxygen (400ft elevation vs. 8000ft). 66N to Pitts Rd and back. Ribs a bit sore but didn't affect running. Missing the US Champs in CO at 9000+ ft. |
Friday Aug 18 |
| Walking 1:00:00 [1] * 2.2 mi (27:16 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB 878 - #6 |
| Walking in River Bend Natural area in Ft. Collins, CO before heading to the airport. A very nice area of a few hundred acres with several ponds created by earlier gravel mining and bordered on one side by the Cache La Poudre River. Lots of birds - herons, egrets, ducks, geese, and many more. Would be a good Sprint-O area - a trail network, some subtle contour detail and lots of ponds and marshes to set up route choice legs. |
Thursday Aug 17 |
| Orienteering race 48:11 [5] *** 5.01 km (9:37 / km) +180m 8:09 / km | |
| (injured) shoes: VJ Falcons |
| RM 1000 Day - A-meet day on "First with the Most" map - Green course. A good run with only about 3 minutes of errors. Ribs sore which may have slowed me down a bit. Focussed on the navigation and had a decent run. 1st in M50, 2nd overall on Green. |
| Walking 1:20:00 [1] 3.6 mi (22:12 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB 878 - #6 |
| Hike on Turtle Rock trail at Vedauwoo. Loop ccw plus an extra side trail loop (due to inattentive navigation!) |
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Green Day 3 - Splits |
Wednesday Aug 16 |
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| (injured) (rest day) |
| Have reaggravated the injury to my ribs and decided not to run in the Crystal Relay today. Don't recall falling or twisting during the Night-O or Sprint, so it was probably due to the serious wind-sucking I did during the Sprint. |
Tuesday Aug 15 |
| Orienteering race 38:53 [5] *** 2.91 km (13:22 / km) +135m 10:51 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Falcons |
| RM 1000 Day - Team Sprint on "Gates of AMT Hell" map. A fairly technical and very physical course. Lost a minute on the very short first control and 7 minutes on #6. Way too much time to lose on a sprint. |
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US Team Sprint - Splits |
Monday Aug 14 |
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| Event: US Night Champs
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| Walking 2:00:00 [1] * 4.4 mi (27:16 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB 809 |
| Hike on Meadow Falls Trail in Snowy Range, Medicine Bow National Forest. Trail guide says ~350' of climb. Meadow Falls was somewhat anti-climatic, but the hike was very nice - a mix of wooded (by Western standards) and open meadows. All above 10,000 ft elevation. Saw a fox in the parking lot - kept our distance since he didn't seem to be concerned by our presence. |
| Orienteering race 1:16:45 [4] *** 5.1 km (15:03 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Falcons |
| US Night-O Championships - "The Lights of Cheyenne" map. An abyssmal performance with about 23-24 minutes of errors, mostly on 4 different controls. Maybe if I did Night-O more than once a year I'd do better. Ended up 4th in M50, 15th overall on Green. |
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Green Night-O - Splits |