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Saturday Jul 30, 2016 #
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Drive to Oslo with Pat Dunlavey, and very nice to have time to visit with Pat. Sad to be leaving the forests and mountains which became scattered farms and fields, then clustered villages and, eventually city. Spent the afternoon on the city waterfront. Nice to be in this new realm. We were last here 15 years ago in association with sailing. I have trouble recalling what we did except for visiting the viking ship and Kon Tiki museums and staying with Wollert who's not in town this weekend. Dinner on the plaza this eve & then waterfront eve walk.
I was 116/120 on the run in yesterday, in 126 seconds. Dave Cady was 12th, 70 secs (much to his credit: 5 &10k races definitely pay off). I think I should have been around 75-80” bracket with two working legs. Wonder what the solution will be.
I was 116/120 on the run in yesterday, in 126 seconds. Dave Cady was 12th, 70 secs (much to his credit: 5 &10k races definitely pay off). I think I should have been around 75-80” bracket with two working legs. Wonder what the solution will be.
Friday Jul 29, 2016 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 53:36 [2] 2.62 mi (20:28 / mi) +142m 17:31 / mi
Day 5, also at the Lindvallen arena. OK run, at least as far as accuracy was concerned. Really lost no time looking for points. Some RC and hesitancy and loss of map contact but nothing serious. Just slow: the terrain was soft, bumpy, marshy/wet or quite packed with stuff to trip on. Leg was weak before 1st point.
1- was long and a good challenge. Started out w/o good map contact, did not get any really until first bit of marsh & path. Soon got in the right marsh (took some convincing) and it became straightforward. Saw the small blue pond, most helpful.
2 - just pay attention; 3 similar - when I got to far side of marsh, I noted the small spur on line & read contours from there. 4 - Read everything, care not to get on wrong side of knoll system about halfway along. Ran right by the boulder/SG. There was a flag at the boulder. #4 marked the end of orienteering. Used the path system toward #5; by then there were lots of orienteers and tracks. After the bldg, I left a bit early from the open area, went down into the woods and was confronted with what appeared to be a huge knoll - which was the elliptical one, maybe 16’ high, mapped as 5m it was atop another contour line so straight up in front of me. Rather foolishly went over, following others, vs around. Got up on the form line point knoll too far right, saw nothing but went toward the well-concealed flag. 6-9 was just a run-in on muddy paths. Walk-jog for most part.
Felt ok about the run from nav standpoint. Felt that way for the entire 5 days. The O-Ringen is so big, a phenomenon actually, but can’t lend itself to the best of courses, particularly for the shorter ones, returning the many, many to the chute in a consistently challenging fashion. Jeff finished 31st in H65, which was my very same position 5 years ago.
Five years ago to the day, a Friday, July 29th, 2011, the bags were packed and I was ready to go.
Time travels and we must travel along with it. Then one day we part company.
Map
1- was long and a good challenge. Started out w/o good map contact, did not get any really until first bit of marsh & path. Soon got in the right marsh (took some convincing) and it became straightforward. Saw the small blue pond, most helpful.
2 - just pay attention; 3 similar - when I got to far side of marsh, I noted the small spur on line & read contours from there. 4 - Read everything, care not to get on wrong side of knoll system about halfway along. Ran right by the boulder/SG. There was a flag at the boulder. #4 marked the end of orienteering. Used the path system toward #5; by then there were lots of orienteers and tracks. After the bldg, I left a bit early from the open area, went down into the woods and was confronted with what appeared to be a huge knoll - which was the elliptical one, maybe 16’ high, mapped as 5m it was atop another contour line so straight up in front of me. Rather foolishly went over, following others, vs around. Got up on the form line point knoll too far right, saw nothing but went toward the well-concealed flag. 6-9 was just a run-in on muddy paths. Walk-jog for most part.
Felt ok about the run from nav standpoint. Felt that way for the entire 5 days. The O-Ringen is so big, a phenomenon actually, but can’t lend itself to the best of courses, particularly for the shorter ones, returning the many, many to the chute in a consistently challenging fashion. Jeff finished 31st in H65, which was my very same position 5 years ago.
Five years ago to the day, a Friday, July 29th, 2011, the bags were packed and I was ready to go.
Time travels and we must travel along with it. Then one day we part company.
Map
Thursday Jul 28, 2016 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 48:34 [2] 2.64 mi (18:24 / mi) +52m 17:20 / mi
4th day O-Ringen. Started rainy & windy with the ride up the chair lift. Cold near the top & my chair companions became silent. They were speaking Swedish, I was not on an end (of 4). 1121 start - I grabbed a plastic bag near the start and kept comfortable enough spending time in the shelter of the chairlift bldg. My run was ok tho I was somewhat whimpy for a while. It was the most open moor yet, an all-yellow map. Seems early starters dealt with fog.
No mistake time. Some legs were pretty trivial. From 4, I could see 5 and, after a short distance, I could see 6, too, tho neither seemed to be on the feature in the control code description and I was unsure until I saw the actual code #. As for the physical side, I was functioning on about 1.6 legs. I’m thinking this reproducible onset of weakness may be intermittent claudication. A predictable onset within a pretty much set amount of effort time every time. Strength is normal when resting. Needs diagnosing, addressing. I can’t see running in the USOC or NAOC like this. Too bad, too, with their being at Ward Pound Ridge and in NH.
There was no water stop on the way to #4 which threw me for a short bit. I was using it as an AP but inclement wx probably led to the decision not to set it up. #10 was my main worry - did not see the flag when I was close by - indeed out of sight from the direction I had come. #13, the go control, is on open slope, no feature circled. Don’t know if that is an error or what - could have moved the circle to a nearby mapped feature.
It was a long, muddy walk down to the other classes' finish - the main finish - we had to then pass thru that chute, walking if we chose. But at least keeping out of the way/not getting run down. The final 300m or so of the chute were all lovely wood chips. The day ended warm, breezy, bright, sunny. I’m just amazed with all the people!
One more day & then time to move on.
Map
Mud
No mistake time. Some legs were pretty trivial. From 4, I could see 5 and, after a short distance, I could see 6, too, tho neither seemed to be on the feature in the control code description and I was unsure until I saw the actual code #. As for the physical side, I was functioning on about 1.6 legs. I’m thinking this reproducible onset of weakness may be intermittent claudication. A predictable onset within a pretty much set amount of effort time every time. Strength is normal when resting. Needs diagnosing, addressing. I can’t see running in the USOC or NAOC like this. Too bad, too, with their being at Ward Pound Ridge and in NH.
There was no water stop on the way to #4 which threw me for a short bit. I was using it as an AP but inclement wx probably led to the decision not to set it up. #10 was my main worry - did not see the flag when I was close by - indeed out of sight from the direction I had come. #13, the go control, is on open slope, no feature circled. Don’t know if that is an error or what - could have moved the circle to a nearby mapped feature.
It was a long, muddy walk down to the other classes' finish - the main finish - we had to then pass thru that chute, walking if we chose. But at least keeping out of the way/not getting run down. The final 300m or so of the chute were all lovely wood chips. The day ended warm, breezy, bright, sunny. I’m just amazed with all the people!
One more day & then time to move on.
Map
Mud
Wednesday Jul 27, 2016 #
Orienteering 1:30:00 [1] 1.5 mi (1:00:00 / mi)
Walked some of the Lindvallen training map with Beth - knolls and marshes and mosquitoes when not moving. 5th day type-terrain.
Lively dinner here with Saegers, Cadys, Pat Dunlavey and Greg Balter & Leif Akerblom and wife Birgit.
Covered about 5mi walking total - 1.5 mi either way to the competition center, to & from start triangle, and on the map. Training in quotes.
Lively dinner here with Saegers, Cadys, Pat Dunlavey and Greg Balter & Leif Akerblom and wife Birgit.
Covered about 5mi walking total - 1.5 mi either way to the competition center, to & from start triangle, and on the map. Training in quotes.
Tuesday Jul 26, 2016 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 42:41 [2] 2.02 mi (21:07 / mi) +74m 18:57 / mi
Day 3, same arena Hogfhjallshotellet & same routine for arriving at start. Rained on the walk to the bus, gray skies indeed. We got moderately wet but by time we got to our rendezvous point, it had stopped, tho it was thoroughly overcast. Earliest runners got soaked. Decent run, another B+ estimate.
To #1, it was really only contour to the big valley and find the point where runners convened. Soft, uneven footing though. #2 along the stream/reentrant to the deep reentrant at the end and move on thru thickish veg til the point was seen - past quite a few uncertain orienteers but not sure what feature they were looking for. #3 probably the worst for time per distance, give I climbed more than needed and the climb was steep and slow. Should have stayed with the stream much longer, lessening the climb.
4-10 were pretty much straight-forward. For four, stopped before the stream so duh there. #9 could have made my way toward the building which I could see in woods and that would have made the point easier. Opted not to, got mixed up with stream and intermittent stream, maybe lost 30”, not sure. Half the run-in was downhill. Same drag-a-leg finish. 310 stopped I think - will see if any data.
Hard to believe three days are past. Met Greg Balter today, Magnus and Sarah Bjorkman yesterday.
Map
To #1, it was really only contour to the big valley and find the point where runners convened. Soft, uneven footing though. #2 along the stream/reentrant to the deep reentrant at the end and move on thru thickish veg til the point was seen - past quite a few uncertain orienteers but not sure what feature they were looking for. #3 probably the worst for time per distance, give I climbed more than needed and the climb was steep and slow. Should have stayed with the stream much longer, lessening the climb.
4-10 were pretty much straight-forward. For four, stopped before the stream so duh there. #9 could have made my way toward the building which I could see in woods and that would have made the point easier. Opted not to, got mixed up with stream and intermittent stream, maybe lost 30”, not sure. Half the run-in was downhill. Same drag-a-leg finish. 310 stopped I think - will see if any data.
Hard to believe three days are past. Met Greg Balter today, Magnus and Sarah Bjorkman yesterday.
Map
Monday Jul 25, 2016 #
8 AM
Orienteering race 53:15 [2] 4.29 km (12:24 / km) +120m 10:53 / km
O-Ringen second day, sun & cloud, I did get hot even tho an 0859 start. 500m to start & 100m climb. Lost maybe 1.5’ on #4, the long leg. Otherwise OK. 1, 2, & 3 were in open anyway. It was 160m uphill to the start triangle and the next 1.5 legs were also up. Needed the two water stops. Relocated on #4 with a dot knoll with a flag and my AP was a small pond with a flag (& quite a few runners), then about 250m on compass, most thru white woods with marsh for backup. #4 also had a few large re-entrants in the terrain that did not appear to be depicted as large by the map which caused some confusion. Was beginning to despair on 4 on the lone point in featureless terrain but could see I needed to go further to be about the right distance from the marsh & voila, there it was. A dot knoll in uniform contours. The rest were straightforward. 270m in chute: 2:13. So maybe B+ O and 3/5 running strength. There was a slightly overweight but competitive hustle D70 or 75 who punched #8 5m before me. She punched #9 about 10m ahead and then beat me to the finish - today’s feedback. Typically the chute is where one finally puts the pedal to the metal! At least satisfying to go sufficiently straight to the points.
Met Leif Akerblom/bubo last night. Fun how cyber existence can flesh itself in.
Map
Summer color
Looking toward the start
Met Leif Akerblom/bubo last night. Fun how cyber existence can flesh itself in.
Map
Summer color
Looking toward the start
Sunday Jul 24, 2016 #
1 PM
Orienteering 48:08 [2] 2.61 mi (18:27 / mi) +51m 17:23 / mi
7/24 First day of O-Ringen. Map 1/7500 with 5m contours, much like yesterday's practice map but bigger scale. 4.0k course, accurate navigation, and, as I thought might happen, the right leg was w/o as much as 1/3rd the strength most of the time, so effort-wise, a 3/5 would be my estimate. The 2:18 for the 290m chute is an indication (Jeff was 1:04). It was jog maybe 30m and walk maybe 10-15m for 290m. Could feel it coming on about halfway to the first control, much like at High Rock several weeks ago. No pain, numbness, tingling etc - just the weakness - not sure what’s behind it. I think of circulatory insufficiency but a puzzle. No hx of sciatica which includes pain by definition.
The first leg was a challenging start. The 4th was probably the hardest - I went straight which was probably not a good RC - up and down across reentrants. Better down to the corner of the houses and up the proper reentrant. #5 cost maybe 1-1.5’ minutes. I tripped on some tiny projection, landed hard on soft ground. Got up, checked my compass to see if it had been changed for the set direction. Seemed it had not but then I headed off maybe 30 deg to the right unaware. Came upon a steep cut/reentrant nowhere on my planned leg (the one I thought I was taking across fairly bland open). I managed to relocate on a control with two adjacent green veg features. Went to #6 ok - going slowly most of the time because of the leg. Contoured around the knoll to #7 tho the animal tracks went right across. Did not have leg strength either up or down. Points across the road were straightforward. Everyone crossed over an elaborate bridge on the south side of the road. Maybe a B+ for nav and the effort available was about a C. Was 66th, don’t know how many were on the board. I was a late starter today which was just fine as it provided ample time to figure the routine out.
Nice evenings with the Saegers.
Map
The first leg was a challenging start. The 4th was probably the hardest - I went straight which was probably not a good RC - up and down across reentrants. Better down to the corner of the houses and up the proper reentrant. #5 cost maybe 1-1.5’ minutes. I tripped on some tiny projection, landed hard on soft ground. Got up, checked my compass to see if it had been changed for the set direction. Seemed it had not but then I headed off maybe 30 deg to the right unaware. Came upon a steep cut/reentrant nowhere on my planned leg (the one I thought I was taking across fairly bland open). I managed to relocate on a control with two adjacent green veg features. Went to #6 ok - going slowly most of the time because of the leg. Contoured around the knoll to #7 tho the animal tracks went right across. Did not have leg strength either up or down. Points across the road were straightforward. Everyone crossed over an elaborate bridge on the south side of the road. Maybe a B+ for nav and the effort available was about a C. Was 66th, don’t know how many were on the board. I was a late starter today which was just fine as it provided ample time to figure the routine out.
Nice evenings with the Saegers.
Map
