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Monday Sep 13, 2010 #
Note
From yesterday's drive home, courtesy of Marie:
Why not just have two towns?
Why not just have two towns?
Sunday Sep 12, 2010 #
orienteering 36:34 [3] *** 3.5 km (10:27 / km)
ahr:145 spiked:8/10c
Pawtuckaway 4
Brown course. Chickened out of blue as knee wasn't 100%
Hesitant to 1, wrong angle out of it... slower route to 5 in order to check out the beaver dam :) stopped to pee too... apart from that pretty much fine.
More fun.
Thanks to all for a fun weekend - Kat for the lamp, Boris for the sleeping bag and thermarest, AL for getting them to me, M&M for the lifts, Lynn for the bag, Jeff for the duct tape, Sam and Ross for the tent, Alex for paddling... and the organisers for masses of food and orienteering
Brown course. Chickened out of blue as knee wasn't 100%
Hesitant to 1, wrong angle out of it... slower route to 5 in order to check out the beaver dam :) stopped to pee too... apart from that pretty much fine.
More fun.
Thanks to all for a fun weekend - Kat for the lamp, Boris for the sleeping bag and thermarest, AL for getting them to me, M&M for the lifts, Lynn for the bag, Jeff for the duct tape, Sam and Ross for the tent, Alex for paddling... and the organisers for masses of food and orienteering
Saturday Sep 11, 2010 #
10 AM
orienteering race 1:32:25 [3] *** 8.0 km (11:33 / km)
spiked:13/25c
Pawtuckaway 1
Blue Course, set by Sam, who even copied my course for me, so I wouldn't check out the course before starting :)
Not a great run, but wonderful woods and terrain.
1: Got to the rock/hill just SSE, ticked them off and ran WNW to the wrong hill, with not just one rock on top but a whole collection of them (a small insight into the art of black triangle). Checked the side of various rocks before returning to my hill and then over to the correct one. 1:30 lost.
2: Didn't have a good feel for direction/contours heading up from the marsh/lake. lost 30s maybe.
3. This was one tricky central butterfly control. Took it slow and hesitated quite a bit.
4. zigzgged a bit, control was misplaced by 20m I guess, nothing serious since it was visible.
5. Again, some small trouble feeling the contours after crossing the stone wall. Fine into the control.
6. Except the next leg wasn't planned. Bad direction leaving, hit the big collection of rocks (three badass boulders plus a wee black triangle - again the black triangle stood for way more than I expected) and got back on track. 15s
7 Somehow stopped a spur too early (can't count to one?)... figured it out, losing a minute?
8 central control.
9 apart from running to 15 first, got this fine.
10 thought I was going for the Eern boulder, not S. 30s.
11 10s
12 ok
13 slow and hesitant
14 central, ok
15 easy peasy
16 low vis leaving 15, direction all wrong the first 50m. So I changed plan and took a mildly circuitous route with detail+channels to keep on track.
17 - 25, no issues... :)
Blue Course, set by Sam, who even copied my course for me, so I wouldn't check out the course before starting :)
Not a great run, but wonderful woods and terrain.
1: Got to the rock/hill just SSE, ticked them off and ran WNW to the wrong hill, with not just one rock on top but a whole collection of them (a small insight into the art of black triangle). Checked the side of various rocks before returning to my hill and then over to the correct one. 1:30 lost.
2: Didn't have a good feel for direction/contours heading up from the marsh/lake. lost 30s maybe.
3. This was one tricky central butterfly control. Took it slow and hesitated quite a bit.
4. zigzgged a bit, control was misplaced by 20m I guess, nothing serious since it was visible.
5. Again, some small trouble feeling the contours after crossing the stone wall. Fine into the control.
6. Except the next leg wasn't planned. Bad direction leaving, hit the big collection of rocks (three badass boulders plus a wee black triangle - again the black triangle stood for way more than I expected) and got back on track. 15s
7 Somehow stopped a spur too early (can't count to one?)... figured it out, losing a minute?
8 central control.
9 apart from running to 15 first, got this fine.
10 thought I was going for the Eern boulder, not S. 30s.
11 10s
12 ok
13 slow and hesitant
14 central, ok
15 easy peasy
16 low vis leaving 15, direction all wrong the first 50m. So I changed plan and took a mildly circuitous route with detail+channels to keep on track.
17 - 25, no issues... :)
3 PM
orienteering race (CANOE) 59:00 [3] ***
spiked:12/13c
Canoe Orienteering with Miss Jospe
How fun was this?
Some slight lack of familiarity with the rules lead to suboptimal tactics and a mere second place. The lack of steering wheel was irrelevant, of course.
How fun was this?
Some slight lack of familiarity with the rules lead to suboptimal tactics and a mere second place. The lack of steering wheel was irrelevant, of course.
8 PM
orienteering race 1:34:29 [4] *** 7.33 km (12:53 / km)
ahr:163 max:182 14c
JJ's Wicked Hard Night-O
Pawtuckaway 3
Mass start. Trusty Petzl was in storage, so had to borrow Kat's old Silva. Worked fine, funny having yellow light, meant the leaves were green.
Ross went off fast, I didn't trust him to the first, lost 30s plus. Decided to take a "safe" route to two, out to the road, and back up the big reentrant, substantially further but hopefully faster. Wasn't where I wanted to be when I crossed the stream, so said f*** it and followed the compass. Convinced myself I was picking off features along the way, and somehow converged to the control. Took a while studying the route to three before leaving. Others came and went while I was doing this. Decided left was safer, some channels and less fine-navigation required, I thought. Don't think I gained anything, but navigated to the control cleanly. Dropped Giovanni. Got four ok, but sloww. Going back to five, I decided to pass by the hill with the two giant boulders... and as I passed underneath I heard a booming MWAHHAHAHHHH which was slightly unsettling. As I approached five, Ross came running out like he was being chased by something nasty. I ran for the nasty thing and found a still moving punch and headed back out after Ross. Lost track of things going to 6, followed the compass and read myself back in 60m from the control, nice.
Seven was easier than it looked, I should have gone faster, then I might have caught Ross, instead, another swinging epunch, the last sign I would get...
It took me forever to get to the eighth, 9 was fine, 10 was ok, although I lost contact for a bit en route, 11 I went down the re-entrant to the right of the line and it took forever to get across to the control, I think I didn't turn sharply enough.
12-14 were uneventful.
FUN, only pity was I wasn't running fast enough to get some head-to-head action with Ross
Memo to self: Duct tape on a mesh top is not as bright as a headlamp.
Pawtuckaway 3
Mass start. Trusty Petzl was in storage, so had to borrow Kat's old Silva. Worked fine, funny having yellow light, meant the leaves were green.
Ross went off fast, I didn't trust him to the first, lost 30s plus. Decided to take a "safe" route to two, out to the road, and back up the big reentrant, substantially further but hopefully faster. Wasn't where I wanted to be when I crossed the stream, so said f*** it and followed the compass. Convinced myself I was picking off features along the way, and somehow converged to the control. Took a while studying the route to three before leaving. Others came and went while I was doing this. Decided left was safer, some channels and less fine-navigation required, I thought. Don't think I gained anything, but navigated to the control cleanly. Dropped Giovanni. Got four ok, but sloww. Going back to five, I decided to pass by the hill with the two giant boulders... and as I passed underneath I heard a booming MWAHHAHAHHHH which was slightly unsettling. As I approached five, Ross came running out like he was being chased by something nasty. I ran for the nasty thing and found a still moving punch and headed back out after Ross. Lost track of things going to 6, followed the compass and read myself back in 60m from the control, nice.
Seven was easier than it looked, I should have gone faster, then I might have caught Ross, instead, another swinging epunch, the last sign I would get...
It took me forever to get to the eighth, 9 was fine, 10 was ok, although I lost contact for a bit en route, 11 I went down the re-entrant to the right of the line and it took forever to get across to the control, I think I didn't turn sharply enough.
12-14 were uneventful.
FUN, only pity was I wasn't running fast enough to get some head-to-head action with Ross
Memo to self: Duct tape on a mesh top is not as bright as a headlamp.
Thursday Sep 9, 2010 #
running 41:00 [2]
fort montgomery
one week left
one week left
Tuesday Sep 7, 2010 #
aerobic (bike/other) 20 [3]
20 mins after work, followed by a little strength... indoors is boring... on the other hand, I did get to watch fifteen mind-blowing minutes of Fox "News" which made free speech radio seem balanced and reasonable. Watch out, because Obama and the unionised black panther communist terrorists are taking over!