Training Log Archive: bl

Event: UNO Fort Rock
 

Event: Hudson Highlander XVII
 

UNO NOD meet, Deb Humiston's hard work. Day began grim at home with the last of heavy rain but a blue band was visible in the west on the way over & it was sunny/pleasant eventually. Helped with S/F. Did brown - had not been there in years - very technical but with its share of paths. Lots of boulders, well-mapped, good contours but still hard. Not careful enough to #2 & #7 flag was by the wrong but nearby boulder. Had quit on that one & in heading to #8, there it was.

Threw away 15' on 2 points. TP was 80' for 5.8k green so difficult O. Lots of paths but space between them (to get 'lost'). I think they are all mapped.

Not sure how many came (25?) but reminded me of all the work for no guarantees & how I think I'd do a local now expecting significant help beforehand, ie, help a future meet director. Ernst, Jim, Alar, Dean were the regulars. Tim Parson was about the first I saw (it had been so quiet while still very gray) - a MD yesterday & 'day off' today.

Brown - Splits

Event: NEOC: Great Brook Farm
 

Event: Ottawa O-Fest 2013
 

NOD @Great Brook Farm SP, thanks to Tim Parson & NEOC. Lots of people there. Decent run, B+ anyway. Red was 7.1k and 21c so a bit long - scale was 1/7500. Remember the days when I hoped courses would be around 10k for a better chance at Steve Tarry.

Feet thoroughly wet on way to #3 - no way to avoid. Felt like #5 wasn't quite where it was supposed to be. Lost maybe 1' @ 12, 45" @ 18, 45" @ 19, 1.5' on way to & @ 21. Best for me around 80'. Missed splits 13, 15, 18, 19.

Marvelous coincidence: saw a fellow orienteering with four Corgis.
A form of Four-O - if there ever was one.

After drove along Curve & Fiske harking back to good old days, all ghosts today. Walked the perimeter of the Fiske property as Beth & I used to do.
The garden was overgrown, the old shed still there - neglected, half hidden by vegetation. We wrapped a VW Beetle up alongside it on an October eve in 1984 - left it there for the winter when we went away. I'm nostalgia prone, Beth very little if at all.

C • Four-O 2

Red - Splits

Stumpfield loop, CCW. Cool enough around 3p, plenty of shade. Have not done this in a long time. Haven't even run 5 mi in too long. Glad to see the barn. Felt good about doing it though. More to come.

Just walking - to slough in am & along WH road with Beth & dogs in pm. We re-stained the paintball-defaced kiosk at the end of the road. Also picked up trash in the "shooting gallery" field.

2 O meets this weekend for a change. Local, too.

SPS wander late pm on a delightfully cool day. I think it was the first frost of the new season this morning. Went down the bike path, along the shore of Turkey Pond & back thru campus & XC woods. Saw lots of XC kids out.
Also one lovely image of a guy fishing on a pane of blue glass with splendid background. He was fishing from a motionless canoe (with electric motor on back) - long gray beard and hair and wide brimmed cap.

Considerable wood hauling & splitting as well.

Beth's bird feeder & bear (from a few weeks ago)

C • Bear... 10