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Saturday Mar 5, 2011 #
5 PM
Rogaine 43:56 [3] 4.08 km (10:46 / km) +113m 9:27 / km
shoes: Brooks Trance
Geogaine 2011 (1 of 3 )
5:27 PM. Redwood Park. Burned 267 calories.
Wow. How much fun in Rogaining and Geocaching combined. I teamed up with Christofuffel from Team Smeg for the first time since about 1998 for a rogaine. I have to say that Geogaining is a lot harder than Rogaining. In Rogaining you can plan your route before hand and then simply go and execute that plan. In Geogaining you can't come up with a plan, you have to think on the fly. I like that idea, and it can lead to a whole lot more combinations of results than a rogaine. Plus the geocaches don't tend to stand out like the rogaine controls.
Our strategy was simple - find geocaches, start with the hard ones and make our way to the easy ones. Since both of us were a bit rusty on the geocaching side of things i thought we might have had trouble in the finding of the caches. We did have a little help to start with but i think we were searching with the Kettles on the first hard cache. I was lucky enough to find it and was almost sly enough to not expose the location to the Kettles, but i found out that i am human and i couldn't leave without giving away the location and karma ends up coming back to you anyway..... So we then made our way to 90 - the hard way through the prickly acacia bushes. and scrambled up to punch the control. We passed 81 on our way to 90 and thought we'd give 90 a crack first. So on the way back down we found the Kettles just finishing up their seach (succesfully) at 81 and thankfully removing all of our search time at that cache (though we still had to climb all the way to pecariously punch the cache). W darted off to the medium controls and discovered that 3 hours goes fast especially when you are whinging about Telstra. 50 was a nice change from the hard to the medium caches. We opted to try for all the medium caches, going to 71 after the central cache. We had some difficulty finding 71 with another team, but found a GC cache there in conjunction. Running more and more short of time we took off straight for 61. Within 100m of the cache we were both focussed on our GPS and walked waist deep straight into a hole - me first and Chris directly follwoing me. An interesting surprise that was since the grass didn't really indicate a hole.... By this stage we had about 45min remaining as we shot of to 20 to see how many bonus points we could get before being too late. The darkness had truly come in by the time we got to 20 and we found our selves with about 15min remaining when we were leaving the control so 20 was our last visit. We finished with 6min to spare.
Ok so we ended up winning much to our surprise, since we walked to whole way i wouldn't have been surprised if any runners could've taken out the event. Luck for us there were none. We ended up on 440 points and were kind ouf chuffed with our result. I have a new strategy for the next geogaine and hope to try it out...
Thanks Z and Sushilord for a well orgainsed event, and to SARA for the great Rogaine and pizzas. Our car on the way home was full of certificates since my girlfriend and her partner won the womens Rogaine and were 4th overall, yay for them!
5:27 PM. Redwood Park. Burned 267 calories.
Wow. How much fun in Rogaining and Geocaching combined. I teamed up with Christofuffel from Team Smeg for the first time since about 1998 for a rogaine. I have to say that Geogaining is a lot harder than Rogaining. In Rogaining you can plan your route before hand and then simply go and execute that plan. In Geogaining you can't come up with a plan, you have to think on the fly. I like that idea, and it can lead to a whole lot more combinations of results than a rogaine. Plus the geocaches don't tend to stand out like the rogaine controls.
Our strategy was simple - find geocaches, start with the hard ones and make our way to the easy ones. Since both of us were a bit rusty on the geocaching side of things i thought we might have had trouble in the finding of the caches. We did have a little help to start with but i think we were searching with the Kettles on the first hard cache. I was lucky enough to find it and was almost sly enough to not expose the location to the Kettles, but i found out that i am human and i couldn't leave without giving away the location and karma ends up coming back to you anyway..... So we then made our way to 90 - the hard way through the prickly acacia bushes. and scrambled up to punch the control. We passed 81 on our way to 90 and thought we'd give 90 a crack first. So on the way back down we found the Kettles just finishing up their seach (succesfully) at 81 and thankfully removing all of our search time at that cache (though we still had to climb all the way to pecariously punch the cache). W darted off to the medium controls and discovered that 3 hours goes fast especially when you are whinging about Telstra. 50 was a nice change from the hard to the medium caches. We opted to try for all the medium caches, going to 71 after the central cache. We had some difficulty finding 71 with another team, but found a GC cache there in conjunction. Running more and more short of time we took off straight for 61. Within 100m of the cache we were both focussed on our GPS and walked waist deep straight into a hole - me first and Chris directly follwoing me. An interesting surprise that was since the grass didn't really indicate a hole.... By this stage we had about 45min remaining as we shot of to 20 to see how many bonus points we could get before being too late. The darkness had truly come in by the time we got to 20 and we found our selves with about 15min remaining when we were leaving the control so 20 was our last visit. We finished with 6min to spare.
Ok so we ended up winning much to our surprise, since we walked to whole way i wouldn't have been surprised if any runners could've taken out the event. Luck for us there were none. We ended up on 440 points and were kind ouf chuffed with our result. I have a new strategy for the next geogaine and hope to try it out...
Thanks Z and Sushilord for a well orgainsed event, and to SARA for the great Rogaine and pizzas. Our car on the way home was full of certificates since my girlfriend and her partner won the womens Rogaine and were 4th overall, yay for them!
Rogaine 42:39 [3] 4.19 km (10:11 / km) +55m 9:33 / km
Geogaine 2011 (2 of 3 )
6:30 PM. Redwood Park. Burned 282 calories.
6:30 PM. Redwood Park. Burned 282 calories.
Rogaine 52:08 [3] 5.32 km (9:48 / km) +40m 9:27 / km
Geogaine 2011 (3 of 3 )
7:29 PM. Redwood Park. Burned 365 calories.
7:29 PM. Redwood Park. Burned 365 calories.
Thursday Mar 3, 2011 #
6 PM
Running 23:15 4.39 km (5:18 / km) +11m 5:14 / km
ahr:157 max:176
Fieldtrip run
6:33 PM. Edithburgh. Burned 410 calories.
I was working in Edithburgh for the Friday morning so Jesse (my Chainy) and i went for an evening run around the town, now those who have read my log before know that Jesse is a footy player, so he has speed, but not much endurance. So i was having to run a bit faster for a shorter run, we got back from our first loop making it a 3km round trip and i said that that was not going to be enough for me so we tried to extend it out to 5km. I turns out that Edithburgh isn't a big town so running from one side to the other doesn't even equate to 2 km. Oh well, it was fun. Jesse warned me that since he was wearing Kadina Footy club colours that there was a high likelihood of us getting shot at. We were not shot at.
We even had a chance to recconoiter our job site for Friday morning.
6:33 PM. Edithburgh. Burned 410 calories.
I was working in Edithburgh for the Friday morning so Jesse (my Chainy) and i went for an evening run around the town, now those who have read my log before know that Jesse is a footy player, so he has speed, but not much endurance. So i was having to run a bit faster for a shorter run, we got back from our first loop making it a 3km round trip and i said that that was not going to be enough for me so we tried to extend it out to 5km. I turns out that Edithburgh isn't a big town so running from one side to the other doesn't even equate to 2 km. Oh well, it was fun. Jesse warned me that since he was wearing Kadina Footy club colours that there was a high likelihood of us getting shot at. We were not shot at.
We even had a chance to recconoiter our job site for Friday morning.
Tuesday Mar 1, 2011 #
6 PM
Running warm up/down 14:40 1.88 km (7:48 / km) +48m 6:56 / km
ahr:131 max:162 shoes: Brooks Trance
Placing Controls
6:03 PM. Shepherds Hill. Burned 156 calories.
Putting out controls for the Sprintervals. I have been a little bit mean by setting 4 little courses which 2 go up hill and 2 go down hill.
6:03 PM. Shepherds Hill. Burned 156 calories.
Putting out controls for the Sprintervals. I have been a little bit mean by setting 4 little courses which 2 go up hill and 2 go down hill.
Orienteering intervals 46:45 5.47 km (8:33 / km) +143m 7:34 / km
ahr:133 max:168
Sprintervals
6:37 PM. Shepherds Hill. Burned 453 calories.
Since i set and placed all the controls i sort of partially did this activity. I skipped a couple of controls and observed Fern as she ran too (trying to coach her, but i think i was more of a distraction). The area was really confusing and because i only had the demo of OCAD10 (sooooo freaking expensive - stoopid software) i only could have 15 controls on the map. I think i varied each course enough to be interesting and challenging. But some of the areas were getting quite familiar by then end.
6:37 PM. Shepherds Hill. Burned 453 calories.
Since i set and placed all the controls i sort of partially did this activity. I skipped a couple of controls and observed Fern as she ran too (trying to coach her, but i think i was more of a distraction). The area was really confusing and because i only had the demo of OCAD10 (sooooo freaking expensive - stoopid software) i only could have 15 controls on the map. I think i varied each course enough to be interesting and challenging. But some of the areas were getting quite familiar by then end.
Monday Feb 28, 2011 #
6 PM
Running 46:10 7.17 km (6:26 / km) +160m 5:48 / km
ahr:144 max:163
Fern's Forest Frolic
6:42 PM. Eden Hills. Burned 668 calories.
Ran with Fern and Troy from home down to Blackwood Fores then through Frank Smith Park and then up Winns Road. I was really fatigued and probably came accross as grumpy to the others. I was just doing it tough. The climb up Winns Road was ok, but it went on for a long time.
6:42 PM. Eden Hills. Burned 668 calories.
Ran with Fern and Troy from home down to Blackwood Fores then through Frank Smith Park and then up Winns Road. I was really fatigued and probably came accross as grumpy to the others. I was just doing it tough. The climb up Winns Road was ok, but it went on for a long time.