Training Archive: randyIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-04:
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Saturday Nov 3 | ||
| orienteering race 2:22:13 [3] 12.9 km (11:01 / km) | |
| us champs M21 day 1
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Friday Nov 2 | ||
| orienteering 12:40 [2] | |
| us sprint champs model | ||
| orienteering race 19:11 [4] 2.7 km (7:06 / km) | |
| us sprint champs M40
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| orienteering 25:49 [2] | |
| us champs model
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Wednesday Oct 31 | ||
| running (trail/XC) 56:08 [3] 10 km (5:37 / km) | |
| joy loop 2
Samhain today. Saw one pagan out on Joy, in the most unusual getup, but you really have to go at sunrise or sunset on the sabbats, that's when most come out. I miss running at sunrise, but that's when I get my best work done now. Oh well, the Wheel now spins onto another year, next stop Midwinter's Eve, Yule, The Solstice, Fesitivus or Xmas, depending on your persuasion. Watched a "documentary" on Nostradamus last night. I'll admit I'm a bit of a Nostradamus geek, tho from the skeptical side of course. But the semiotics is beautiful. I wonder why they never have professors of semiotics on those Nostradamus shows (well, I know why, or course, that would give it away). Anyway, they have a million learned "professors of Nostradamus" come on (how does one get to be a "professor of Nostradamus" anyway; that's some sweet action if you get it), telling us how this quatrain or that one relates to Osama or the Twin Towers. Now, I'm no "professor of Nostradamus", but I have a handful of books on the subject in my library, and I look up cited Osama quatrain in a book published last decade. Gee, no mention of Osama or anything close in the "interpretation". For good measure, I look it up in my book published in 1912 (a must for any Nostradamus geek), gee a different meaning. Hmm, I wonder why my 1912 book has no mention of "Hitler" in any of the interpretations? And why don't these "professors of Nostradamus" have these volumes in their libraries, which I assume must be extensive. Well, I still love Nostradamus, the writing as art, at least, is beautiful. I will say the man had a tremendous amount of talent. Imagine how dry the writing would be if it was "in the year 2001, Osama Bin Laden will organize the flight of aircraft into the World Trade Center". I'm sure art precluded the seer from writing his prophecies thusly. Well, for good luck at the US champs, I'm going to go bury a statue of Nostradamus in my backyard. I think I'll bury some Loonies and Euros also. | ||
| C • Nostradamus 3 | ||
| paddling 30:00 [1] | |
| outdoor puzzle related
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Tuesday Oct 30 | ||
| running (trail/XC) 55:29 [3] 10 km (5:33 / km) | |
| joy loop 2
Oh, good grief is right. It occurs to me to write about the stupidity of prickling volunteers, but it is simply easier to resign. It occurs to me to ponder, that if every volunteer in USOF resigned, would "for profit, non-chartered" entites save the day? Perhaps, but the good news with that senerio is that it would not be my problem. One has to ponder if "for profit, non-chartered" entites would add or reduce the efficiency of providing orienteering entertainment to the USOF base. They have to carry their own insurance, and since insurance premia are proportional to membership, not races, this may double or more the total cost of insurance borne by various race organizers. They have to conpensate their employees and principals, another inefficiency (at least vis-a-vis each USOF volunteer accepting personal inefficiency in exchange for that warm and fuzzy, which goes away when the board snubs you). So, more cash goes to places other than the woods. How is this made up? Higher race fees for you and me? More efficient operation by the FPNC's. Anyone could operate more efficiently than USOF, but to me, it is a "goodwill sponge", for lack of a better term, assuming USOF adds value in some way, as FPNC's don't have to bear the cost of maintaining the USOF community. Is this cost 0? We could find out by having every USOF volunteer resign and see if USOF is necessary at all. May not be, I dunno, but if it is, it is a goodwill sponge. Is the board thinking of these issues? I don't know. The board is not responding to my comments, which may be wrong, but are at least articulate and made in good faith. I'm no feet (foot?), but I'm not totally ignorant of the dismal science. Well, this is a dead horse in my life, outside the intellectual interest. I do feel the board should be brought to task the way this is being handled -- it seems like a big deal (there seem to be some potential gotchas here; incentives aren't aligned for one thing, and anyone who participated in that trainwreck Ukraine meet knows what I mean) -- but no request for comments on clubnet or AP, a proposal to be made, but no draft of the proposal circulated to USOF members for comment, etc. And speaking of feet and the dismal science (quoting) And why do you want to work at presumably below-market wages on a project like this?. I wouldn't. And if USOF wants to keep their head in the sand about the volunteer/labor crisis while moving ahead on this, go for it. At least feet's comments add some comfort that I'm not totally off my rocker for the way I attempt to think things through. Speaking of the dismal science, will the Fed show some backbone tomorrow? Part of me actually thinks so. The captain has lit the fasten seatbelts sign. I'll be bad, but its the right thing to do. Raise the damn thing by 25bps. Back to USOF. I know both my readers love it when I rant USOF, but I'm not sure if its because I'm a "USOF guy" or an "iconoclast" (god I love that word, now that I know it). The latest news is LROC's meet doesn't have the votes to get sanctioned, as of this writing, because of a NO vote without explanation, and Mikell's recusal. Wyoming ranks 4th on my list of US states raced in by count, so they can hold A meets, IMHO. I'm tempted to cover for Mikell's recusal, but alas I have a conflict of interest as I really want an excuse to go out there, so ethics says I can't do it. I'm sure it will get pushed thru eventually, but not in time for the board to do anything about the championship request at this meeting (tho I'm sure they'll do the 'ol punt to the ex committee; a rant for another day). Now, who's laying odds the board gets trail O champs done at this meeting? I'm not a cynic, I just play one in real life :) I wonder what a world based on common sense, transparency, efficiency, and free from proselytization would be like? We can only do so much to proselytize for such. | ||
| C • I read it too 3 | ||