Training Archive: cmorseIn the 7 days ending 2008-07-04:
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Friday Jul 4 | ||
| Note | |
| raining this AM, so didn't do any mapping, but went in to work directly and spent most of the day drafting the past weeks field notes, interspersed with occasionally showing folks the Corpse Flower. 4pm - not blooming today. Will do it again tomorrow. | ||
| Fieldwork (Cross Farms) 45:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Puma Sierra Trail Racers | ||
| A few odds and ends after work... | ||
Thursday Jul 3 | ||
| Fieldwork (Cross Farms) 1:30:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Puma Sierra Trail Racers | ||
| Another early AM fieldwork session. These early sessions are definitely more productive than the afternoon variety. A few skeeters out this AM though.
Been using the GPS a bit more the past couple days, not for absolute positional stuff though for some things it works ok (large vaguish vegetation boundaries). But the past couple days I've been using it as a more accurate pace counting aid, particularly over rougher ground where my stride length is forced to accomodate available places to step. Did a couple longish loops of trails and stonewalls and such and in both cases when I got back to a solid, known basemap location my circle closed with very good precision. Not always the case when counting paces the old fashioned way. Additionally, since I reset my distance counter at the beginning of each feature I was measuring, should I come across a feature (such as a wall junction) enroute, I can readily make a note of how far along the feature it occured and then keep moving on the original feature. Quite handy... | ||
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| Ahh yes, another vacation wrecker rears its giant phalloid visage. My vacation was supposed to start tomorrow :-(
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| C • B-AL 3 | ||
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| AOWN moment - nothing to do with training or anything. After picking up the meet kit from Georges (I'm teaching an O camp next week), I stopped by the folks house in Granby to pay a visit. While there the resident mama bear wandered into the yard, snatched one of the bird feeders off the line and headed for the woods down back. That was one well fed bear, and this time around she was accompanied by three young cubs. Prior bear incidents at my folks have only involved a single adult. I've seen the photos previously, but this time I got to witness the whole snatch and grab... | ||
Wednesday Jul 2 | ||
| Fieldwork (Cross Farms) 1:30:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Puma Sierra Trail Racers | ||
| Very foggy this AM, did some work around the ball fields to avoid the water dripping from the trees. Need to fabricate some contours though, the ones on the base aren't really very close in the disturbed open areas. Seem pretty good in the woods though. | ||
| Fieldwork (Cross Farms) 2:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Puma Sierra Trail Racers | ||
| A bit more field work in the afternoon after work (and after rain showers passed through). Not nearly as productive in the PM though.. | ||
Tuesday Jul 1 | ||
| Fieldwork (Cross Farms) 2:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Puma Sierra Trail Racers | ||
| Started at 6am, got a couple very productive hours in before heading to work (later than usual) at 8am. Got a lot more done in the AM than I would have gotten done in the equivalent time in the afternoon. | ||
Monday Jun 30 | ||
| Fieldwork (Cross Farms) 30:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Puma Sierra Trail Racers | ||
| Double checking a couple things at Cross Farms | ||
Sunday Jun 29 | ||
| Event: WCOC BBQ, Sprints, Meeting at DeWeese Farm | ||
| Orienteering - Event race (Ratlum Sprint A) 24:22 [3]1.66 km (14:41 / km) +95m 11:25 / km | |
| (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14 | ||
| Sprint A (which I ran after B). With so much laurel to bash, most of this was brisk walk/bash, with a few slow jogging segments. Minor issues
- on #2 I went straight in, realized I was on a charcoal platform, found it on the map, then turned around and saw the control down hill - #4 - contours not right, wound up wide right, recognized I had been through here on the earlier course, turned left and hit #5 deadon, looked downhill and saw hill on which I then found #4 clean but slow the rest of the way... skies opened up for the last three controls - finished in the downpour, since I was wet and nasty, I stripped the shirt off and stood in the rain for 10 minutes, at least I washed much of the funk away, now I was just wet. Changed to a dry shirt in the house and enjoyed the fine food and finer company that always goes with a Ratlum Mtn event... Many thanks to Charlie and Rhonda... | ||
| Orienteering - Event (Ratlum Sprint B) 29:01 [3]2.49 km (11:39 / km) +95m 9:47 / km | |
| (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14 | ||
| After being sick for the past 5 days, I didn't have any zip at all, but I ran where I could...
#5 - came down slightly north of circle, but the clearing is pretty vague with other openish areas in there, a bit of hunting until I found it. #9 - went straight in the green from the trail junction under the line, but drifted R and crossed the trail north of the bend and got N of flag, corrected OK, but Glen got ahead of me here... #11 - got back ahead of Glen enroute to #11, I was on a straight line, he was coming up the hill | ||
| Fieldwork (Cross Farms) 1:20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14 | ||
| A little more field work. I'm only going to get the area around the school done for my workshop next week and since I'm doing the map for 1:5000 sprint scale, I guess I could do the fieldwork at 1:2500. Not quite enough room to draw the fine detail around the buildings at 1:5000 | ||
