Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

Event: OLOU Night-O and Sprint
 

2m Radio Orienteering at McFarlan Woods in Cincinnati. I've seen the park on prettier days, but I don't think I've ever seen it better for orienteering. I think the horses haven't been using the trails or something. The trails were smoother, and the forest seemed a little bit whiter.

The course didn't take us into the far corners of the park, but it was still a fun day in the woods. I was running much easier than I expected, but the hills did take it out of me. I don't know what I'll have left tonight for the OLou Sprint and Night O'.

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Walked in to get 5 and 4. They were on the central cool hilltop, so it was climby getting to them. This might be a 2 intensity.

Sprint at Tom Sawyer SP near Louisville. A 1:4000 map, but with 1:10000 features and circles. The map was made in the last week, which is just amazing. Pretty simple as sprints go. Too few controls. Needed a few intense short legs. One of the faster sprints I've ever run. Below 10min/km is amazing for me.

1 hour score O' at Tom Sawyer SP near Louisville. A really fun course. It was interesting in that the setter gave us difficult choices for how to get all the controls. Often a score O' has a CW or CCW path that makes it boring. This one had lots of little complicating controls that you could choose to get from multiple directions.

The map was made just this week, and my only complaint would be the vegetation mapping. A lot of it was just ROST or simply yellow. Some more work on this map would open up a lot more control location possibilities. 2.5m (8 foot) contours would be really nice here.

It was very warm and very humid, and most of us were soaked head-to-foot by the finish.

The course setter announced that finishers after 60 minutes would lose all their controls, which is a pretty harsh rule. I didn't get 4 of the 23 controls (I think). I thought I'd done pretty well coming in 48 seconds early, but Mike came in even closer to 60 than I did. hkleaf cleared the course in 43 minutes or so.

The biggest surprise for me was that I can do okay running on flat ground. I ran a good 80% of the course. Slow yeah, but I ran.

I wish I had more time to look at Control 17 (clue: cave). It looked like something out of a first-person shooter video game. A little creepy. (Not that I play video games much---I watch my nephew play them.)

Three trainings in a day for me. That doesn't happen too much.

Sprint - Splits

It's only about 3 weeks from the US ARDF (Radio Orienteering) Championships, and I need to do something drastic to get myself in a little better shape by then. With the car accident, I've had a pretty crazy summer. I finally was able to buy a used car Saturday a week ago, and that is a big load off my shoulders. Work is taking more time than normal. But I really need to just suck it up and run.

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A short 5-transmitter ARDF at Rentschler Park near Hamilton, OH. Bob Frey was the setter, and he said that this was intended purely to get us used to 2m continuous carrier again. We've been using 2m keyed-carrier, which is the international standard, and harder. So this event was fairly easy by our standards.

I got screwed up "in the circle" by number 3 and took 3 or 4 cycles to get it. Had I had more radio-O events under my belt this summer, I think I would have had no trouble with it. The strategy side of my brain was working slowly.

A really fun course. It made good use of the honeysuckle (by placing T's to make it a little easier). I did swim in the thick honeysuckle a few times, but it was mostly trails and more open forest.

I just entered my last month's worth of logging (only a few hours of events, unfortunately/embarrassingly). The highlight is probably the Canadian Orienteering Championships, here. Be sure to read it in chronological order.