Sunday Jul 13 |
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| Event: Fin 5
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 | Orienteering race 59:40 [5]*** 1.96 km (30:27 / km) +80m 25:17 / km | |
| spiked:5/7c shoes: Black & Red Jalas Integrators |
| Fin5-Day1. Metsäkoulu map. Our first exposure to our terrain for the next 5 days...and was I disappointed. We came 7000 miles for THIS? It was all slash, logged, medium green, barred green, rough open (really rough), mossy, 2' blueberry, wet jungle, arranged in devilish 300m parallel tracts that made parallel errors easy.
I did pretty well, spending an inordinate amount of time trying to relocate after missing an easy depression. For one thing, Finns use both vertical purple bars AND dark green for showing out of bounds areas. In my haste, I read the dark green as fight, and didn't use the house therein for relocating on two controls. |
Saturday Jul 12 |
| Orienteering 2:30:00 [3]5.5 km (27:16 / km) | |
| shoes: NewBalance 426 |
| Hellegården map in Stockholn with Soupbone. Good training after transatlantic jet lag, and before Viking Line to Helsinki. |
Tuesday Jul 8 |
| City running 1:12:00 [3]6.0 mi (11:59 / mi) | |
| weight:198lbs shoes: NewBalance 715 |
| Beautiful day. Ran up to Weiss Hospital for my 3-mo shot. Spoke with Dr Zorn who left a patient in the OR just to come up in his scrubs and tell me he thought that this might well be my last shot...see how things look in October.
Afterward felt less energized...was it the sudden infusion of medicine? Ran back along the Lakefront in the sun in the late morning. The vistas and sun were wonderful...one of the high points of the summer, already! |
Monday Jul 7 |
| City running 49:00 [2]4.1 mi (11:57 / mi) | |
| weight:198lbs shoes: NewBalance 715 |
| After the golf. Ran around the buildings, and then over to the Lakefront driving range to see how it's rehab is going (closed since April). Looks great, with pure green fresh lawn blending seamlessly with the AstroTurf. Regraded to look like a rising fairway, with "target greens" strategically positioned out to about 250 yards. It should be open by the time I get back from Sweden. |
| Carry golf 2:15:00 [3]** 7.6 km (17:46 / km) +40m 17:18 / km | |
| spiked:11/23c weight:198lbs shoes: NewBalance 715 |
| Carry Golf = playing 23 holes (diverted often from standard play to avoid slow players; replayed 5 holes as the opportunity arose). Logged only half my total time on the links, believing that I was lifting, walking and swinging about 50% of the time.
After the disastrous play last Thursday with Karl and Larry, today was much better: my best round ever! |