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Saturday Mar 7, 2009 #
running 59:00 [2]
to castelo da foz...
hummed and hawed before finally plumping for the sleeveless top - there were clouds and showers threatened. As it turned out I had blue skies all the way and the Atlantic spray was a welcome coolant before starting the return leg. Lovely. Except that it's mostly on hard surface.
hummed and hawed before finally plumping for the sleeveless top - there were clouds and showers threatened. As it turned out I had blue skies all the way and the Atlantic spray was a welcome coolant before starting the return leg. Lovely. Except that it's mostly on hard surface.
Thursday Mar 5, 2009 #
running 1:01:00 [2]
Down to the Douro and along to Castelo do Foz. Strange when you go around the corner and calm river gives way to crashing Atlantic waves.
Wednesday Mar 4, 2009 #
running 32:00 [2]
pre-dinner run in Porto. Lunch (roast veal, yummy) was jostling around in my stomach so couldn't get the pace up. Just controlling the belly made it hard work.
"Conference" dinner was lobster and crab and cockles and mussels.
"Conference" dinner was lobster and crab and cockles and mussels.
Monday Mar 2, 2009 #
Note
Arrived in Porto last night. Nice to have a room to myself, albeit in a hotel.
Where to start?
- Just got a month's notice that on the apartment in Stockholm.
- While my foot isn't worse, it's still sore.
- I can't read a map.
- I can't run fast.
- I was robbed. This is the biggie. On Friday after the model event in Pataias, we went to the beach of Polvoeira, or some such. It was glorious, the Atlantic ocean, cliffs, blue sky, beautiful sand, waves... Sun-bathed for an hour or two, went for a jog-stroll around some rocks at teh end of the main beach, coming back got hit by a wave, the water was so nice I had to go in for a swim. The beach was very steep and the waves at the edge were big, so there wasn't much swimming going on, but it was magical. Back into the sun for another while, then we went back up to the mini-bus. It was open when we got there, which seemed strange. Opening the back, most of the bags were gone: mine, Ionut's, Wojtek D's and Darek's. fuckfuckfuckfufckfuckfuckfuck After some hours scouring the roadsides in the neighbourhood, we recovered lots of stuff that the robbers dumped... but not three computers, a video camera and a dose of other stuff. My losses include: laptop (happily I backed it up only recently), the backup (who is stupid?), Petzl Ultra, compass, SI card, orienteering socks, maps, library book, maths articles, phone charger, some clothes...
Still, with such nice company and good orienteering it was hard to be upset. Life is great :)
Where to start?
- Just got a month's notice that on the apartment in Stockholm.
- While my foot isn't worse, it's still sore.
- I can't read a map.
- I can't run fast.
- I was robbed. This is the biggie. On Friday after the model event in Pataias, we went to the beach of Polvoeira, or some such. It was glorious, the Atlantic ocean, cliffs, blue sky, beautiful sand, waves... Sun-bathed for an hour or two, went for a jog-stroll around some rocks at teh end of the main beach, coming back got hit by a wave, the water was so nice I had to go in for a swim. The beach was very steep and the waves at the edge were big, so there wasn't much swimming going on, but it was magical. Back into the sun for another while, then we went back up to the mini-bus. It was open when we got there, which seemed strange. Opening the back, most of the bags were gone: mine, Ionut's, Wojtek D's and Darek's. fuckfuckfuckfufckfuckfuckfuck After some hours scouring the roadsides in the neighbourhood, we recovered lots of stuff that the robbers dumped... but not three computers, a video camera and a dose of other stuff. My losses include: laptop (happily I backed it up only recently), the backup (who is stupid?), Petzl Ultra, compass, SI card, orienteering socks, maps, library book, maths articles, phone charger, some clothes...
Still, with such nice company and good orienteering it was hard to be upset. Life is great :)
C • Damn 7
Sunday Mar 1, 2009 #
orienteering race 1:59:39 [4] 16.0 km (7:29 / km)
Meeting do Centro, day 2, no compass
Given my current fitness, this was just an endurance test. I tried to keep a decent pace and after about an hour I was knackered by the sand. My legs could still move (more slowly) but in order to make decisions or think at all I had to stop. Complete brain rot. It was great. I switched to economy mode, running on autopilot and with minial brain use. Didn't make too many mistakes, will count them up later, and was very happy to come in in under 2 hrs.
It was way more "fun" than I expected and while the big forested sand-dune features didn't require intense concentration, you had to keep a good line not to lose time.
Kowal won in 83 minutes or so.
Given my current fitness, this was just an endurance test. I tried to keep a decent pace and after about an hour I was knackered by the sand. My legs could still move (more slowly) but in order to make decisions or think at all I had to stop. Complete brain rot. It was great. I switched to economy mode, running on autopilot and with minial brain use. Didn't make too many mistakes, will count them up later, and was very happy to come in in under 2 hrs.
It was way more "fun" than I expected and while the big forested sand-dune features didn't require intense concentration, you had to keep a good line not to lose time.
Kowal won in 83 minutes or so.