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Training Log Archive: bl

In the 7 days ending May 2, 2010:

activity # timemileskm+m
  Road running3 2:23:57 15.6(9:14) 25.1(5:44) 120
  Mapping/fieldwork/meet prep4 2:13:00 6.84(19:26) 11.01(12:05)
  Orienteering2 1:57:41 6.69(17:35) 10.77(10:56) 305
  Road/trail1 51:07 4.8(10:39) 7.72(6:37) 50
  Total6 7:25:45 33.93(13:08) 54.61(8:10) 475

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Sunday May 2, 2010 #

Orienteering race 1:01:03 [3] 5.2 km (11:44 / km) +195m 9:53 / km
shoes: Teva

Sunday Classic - hot was one theme. Nice map, good courses. About a B performance. #3 was maybe 110m long, lost nearly 3' to PG - I was 4:42, he was 1;51 as I recall. Didn't read map right & failed to note that control was on the high point in the area. Did not note fence crossings in time each & every time. From #7 to 8, got way off to left, not sure where I was or how I got there but was able to run up a reentrant I'd gone down earlier. Had good energy in spite of heat.

Took a peek at the campus after as, for once, did not have to drive home Sunday eve. Found the Highland Falls RR station at the brink of the Hudson, by the decrepit marina. Met a senior cadet, Paul Caston (team captain), from the O team as we were taking down our tent at Buckner, talked with him for 30' - 19 days to graduation, from east TN, glad to be done, seemed to be the quintessential young military gentleman. Went for a swim in Lake Pop, can't recall doing that but can't recall this degree of heat either.

Drove along mystical Seven Lakes Dr., the green foliage having just arrived at glorious maturity - and the whole place a veritable rock garden of Eden. Went to Beaver Pond campground for night. Sign said "no pets" emphatically. So we left but returned "can't hurt to try." Beth provided me with some decent one-liners " they're our fur children" - "you can come out and interview them" and she'd "swear on the bible (she a decent aetheist) that they had rabies vaccinations". Such machinations worked & we got a remote place in the campgound. Currently in the Bright Star diner in Central Valley. It'll do & has WiFi to make up for the lousy beer on tap.

Nice WP weekend indeed.

Okinawa Mess hall in morning still (seats c. 1400)

Morning moon on Popolopen's surface

Endless play

Barth Hall, thirty years of Saturday O dinners

"To The American Soldier", on the main campus

Saturday May 1, 2010 #

Orienteering race 38:40 [3] 3.47 km (11:09 / km) +110m 9:37 / km
shoes: Teva

Middle, 3.5k, 110 climb 38:40. Reasonable run, messed up 2 controls on hillsides, rather bland ones at that - both small 1m rockfaces. On #4, was above so could not see & other features were hard to read for positive location - not much recourse in such a situation. On #9, there were some unmapped features that threw me off. Came to #118 & reasoned where that had to be & continued onto control but didn't like map feedback. Had to be more cautious than I was. Also, #6, went right to center of circle but was looking for barerock - a flat feature in my mind. Lynette & Bill Shannon also looking, L found first*. Control was really by a small rocky knoll to my mind - I'd have mapped it differently. Maybe 2.5' errors. Temp around 70F, really quite perfect with a 0911 start & short run. 2nd M60 after PG; 50 & 55s on X.

* later told me that was not her control

Surveying the damage (if any)

Orienteering race 17:58 [4] 2.1 km (8:33 / km)
shoes: Teva

Sprint - hot at 1:40! Messed up 2nd & 3rd - looked second leg over later & boulder was mapped some 25 deg off & only 4' est higher than boulder I'd just run by (w/ control) - map indicated about 2 2.5m contours needed to get to correct height. Flubbed next, needed better sense of distance & was a bit "cloudy-visioned" in my desire to be lickety-spit. From #7, went to #10, noted the code & had a fairly long haul over to 7 (that mistake was a back breaker, weighed down with irrefutable stupidity) - & when I got on peninsula, ran straight to control I could see, not mine - there were 2, so 60m lost. Jeff S mp'd there - assuming one control & not looking at code. Rest ok.

Dinner at Okinawa Hall. more substantial than Barth. Silent auction - got a Silva compass for $16 - orig value prob $50. Beth's sweater that she knitted around '82 caught the attention of a few cadets & there was a taker for the only Lopi handknit O sweater extant:). Fun to introduce him to the knitter, point out that it was made before he was born - yet it was about as good as new.

Friday Apr 30, 2010 #

Note

Very pleasant drive (285mi) with Beth & dogs via 9/202 to 91S, west on Mass pike to TSP to 84W & south on 9W thru ailing Newburgh. Temp at 7p was mid70s in downtown N'burgh, right out of a summer night. A lot more foliage here, sunset 8:02. TSP a rolling green jewel. Camping at Buckner in a new place. No bugs, lots of peepers. Good start.

Thursday Apr 29, 2010 #

Mapping/fieldwork/meet prep 34:30 [1] 1.6 mi (21:34 / mi)

Bright, brisk DP. Picked up 4 controls in very SE, Beth got one. Had no compass or map which was generally ok but got mixed up after going thru thickish area & not emerging into anything recognizable...flat, swampy, mt laurel. Panic was setting in, sun had let me down...how stupid could I look, to dogs at least, who were having a fine time running in circles. Finally went right, saw contours & then familiarity. Had I used the same routes as previously, it should have been straightforward.

Cat-eyes Mocha by the first control

Road running 53:42 intensity: (38:42 @3) + (15:00 @4) 6.2 mi (8:40 / mi) +120m 8:10 / mi
shoes: New Balance 1011

Fisk, CCW, NW windy! Gust to 45 kts @ IOS. First half upwind, more or less uphill, then the opposite.

Wednesday Apr 28, 2010 #

Mapping/fieldwork/meet prep 38:00 [1] 2.0 mi (19:00 / mi)

3 controls in very west, farthest at base of Great Hill. No dogs, kept home by the dog nurse so they can nurse their stiffness. Flakes coming out of what looked like a blue sky, quickly gray & more flakes - nothing sticking to speak of but strange with all the burgeoning green. Stopped to appreciate the view from the Gt. Hill spur - rolling gray weather over rolling green terrain. Came down right next to Berman's house & neighbor's - good that neither apparently has dogs as the 2 houses are about 120m apart with a patch of woods between.

Road/trail 51:07 [2] 4.8 mi (10:39 / mi) +50m 10:19 / mi
shoes: New Balance 1011

Noon SloGo with Diane - light rain turned steady. First time Diane has run in rain with me...washes off the makeup. Bit chilly. Up to Water Tower. A pm break from control gathering.

Tuesday Apr 27, 2010 #

Mapping/fieldwork/meet prep 34:00 intensity: (24:00 @1) + (10:00 @2) 2.0 mi (17:00 / mi)

4 control DP. A few newish routes, refreshing views of forest. No people, squirrels etc. Still trying to rain.

Road running 37:20 [3] 3.9 mi (9:34 / mi)

Short noon loop, spitting a bit. Only interesting part was brief departure from road onto/across field. Track group but by 4:30 there was a cold rain.

Beth went to fetch 2 controls from Sunday which is most helpful. Zoe will have to be scraped off the floor until the am when she'll demand more.

Ferns & hostas coming up. Will make an effort to keep deer from eating latter.

Monday Apr 26, 2010 #

Mapping/fieldwork/meet prep 26:30 [2] 2.0 km (13:15 / km)

Picked up 4 controls. Beth came, cleaned up the water stop. Very nice by the Meadow. Did not rain.

Score O points

Road running 52:55 intensity: (10:00 @2) + (42:55 @3) 5.5 mi (9:37 / mi)
shoes: NB 993

West on Clinton & then into SPS woods on old path, join XC & continue. Diane got stuck at work. Entered CT A meet on last penalty-free day. Hate myself when/if I miss - would have been beside myself with self-loathing! Paper noted a 5 acre forest fire Saturday night (wasn't lightening) on Catamount Hill at Bear Brook - know the hill & just off the new mapping.

Note

Faraway Series, photos from elsewhere, #13:

Red Sea Realty, Suakin, Sudan, 1990

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