Thursday Jul 3 |
 | Orienteering (race) 57:33 [4]5.31 km (10:50 / km) +205m 9:05 / km | |
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| Red, Ash Fest Day 1, "Manitou Lake." Nice terrain but most of us struggled a bit with the vegetation mapping (white woods were semi- or just plain open). But the contours were good so I just used those. Two errors where I lost about a minute, otherwise just slow from lack of training (speed, hill). 9+ minutes behind Annabel (who was fastest on the course! Yay Annabel!) & 7+ behind Nadim. Warm, sunny, dry. |
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Red - Splits |
Wednesday Jul 2 |
| Orienteering (race) 22:58 [4]2.9 km (7:55 / km) | |
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| Prologue. 20-second interval start. Warm, high, dry. Stanislav caught me at the first control. Saw Randy Hall at 3; he climbed over the rocks to 4 which I wasn't willing to do. Lost less than a minute total; just running speed slowed me. Fun. |
| Orienteering (race) 1:29:00 [4]8.16 km (10:54 / km) | |
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| Chase, "Badger Gulch." Caught almost immediately by the guys behind me; they were out of sight by the long leg to #2. Blew #2 by loosing track of where I was and deciding I was on the correct ridge when in fact I was one ridge south. Found 2 pits -- also 2 pits near my control -- and rocky knolls and reentrants...but no control. Finally saw the road below and figured it out. Brain dead from lack of oxygen?? Charlie DeWeese was at 2 when I reached it, and George Walker was ahead of me approaching #4. Was happy to see the guys I'd started out with (Michael Rounds, Jan Urban) as I approached #8; Alan Young passed me on the way to #9. Jim Eagleton was in the area as well. Misread the map going to #11, so I drifted far left and passed #7 on the way to it. Alan also drifted and we were together at the last control. Frustrating to make a couple stupid errors but the race didn't really count so it was good training. |
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Sprint Prologue - Splits |
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Sprint Chase - Splits |
Tuesday Jul 1 |
| Orienteering 26:14 [2] | |
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| Lake George map with Nadim. Really just a leg-stretcher and to show Nadim what the terrain is like. Really quite delightful, though the hills/altitude were tiring. An approaching thunderstorm kept us moving but we didn't quite escape it; the last few minutes we were running straight into a strong painful rain. Ouch. |
Monday Jun 30 |
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| Whitewater rafting on the Payette River. I went on the gentle ("wimpy") ride with Nancy Neuburger & her sisters, while the others (Mike & Mary, Dan, Dick, Nadim) went on the rougher ride. We still enjoyed some rapids, including a couple Class 3s. But mostly it was a pleasant, gentle float. We did get soaked; happily, it was a warm day and the cold water felt good. Not enough paddling to put in as training, but a fun diversion. |
Sunday Jun 29 |
| Hiking 2:33:15 [2] | |
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| Duck and Hum Lakes trail near McCall, Idaho. Because the relay ran a bit later than expected, and we of course had to eat lunch, we didn't get started until nearly 5 pm. Not a big deal since there's plenty of light and it was plenty warm. The trailhead was over 6000' so it didn't take much climbing to get up into neat mountain stuff. The first part, to Duck lake, was easier, but the part to the ridge above Hum was much more interesting. Climbing all the time but not steeply; it went through some areas that Nadim and I thought would be great for orienteering if it were only accessible (trees had been burned in a fire 9 years before; they were widely spaced anyway so the visibility was fantastic and the ground was pretty good -- some rocks and small downed trees -- and there were boulders of various sizes throughout the terrain. Gentle contours, bare rock ridges; it was great!). We'd decided, due mostly to time but also energy, that we'd just hike to the top of the ridge on the way to Hum, not down to the lake and back up. When we reached the ridge top, we found snow on the downside to Hum. The trail was under the snow and it was steep -- I wouldn't have wanted to "hike" that. The views were great. Nadim hiked further up to the top of a rocky knoll nearby while I waited and swatted away bees and gnats. Much faster downhill of course. A really nice hike. |
| Orienteering 36:02 [5]3.45 mi (10:26 / mi) | |
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| US Relay Champs, leg 2 ("yellowish-orangish" but we all thought it was more "orangish-brownish"), Ponderosa State Park, McCall. Ran for OK's classic 4 point team, with our standard order of Snorkel, me, Spike, Mook. Dan came in in 6th after a run with a few minutes of errors early. I moved us up to 5th but only because Lauren Wolfe of BAOC had a large error & I passed her. I had 3 min of errors; during my 2-min error Jennifer Knowles of COC appeared, and then at #7 she was right with me. We drifted together through the green and into the marsh, losing probably another 2 minutes on the poorly-executed route. In the end, I made the better micro-route choice to the final control to manage to stay ahead of her for the course. Mike was thrown off by a poorly-mapped area at a control, where the control feature was mapped incorrectly and there was another boulder, unmapped, in the area. He was ready to come in to say the control was missing when Wyatt Riley found it and yelled to him. He was still mad and that threw him off for the next control so he lost some more time. He was NOT a happy orienteer. He dropped us to 7th; Mook almost moved us up to 6th with a fine run. Well, better luck next year! We all agreed that much of the area was unpleasant (woods, anyway) & wondered why it was used. The trails were nice, anyway. |
Saturday Jun 28 |
| Orienteering 1:02:45 [4]5.3 mi (11:49 / mi) | |
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| Huckleberry Hillside Hunt, McCall. Green course. I seem to have a problem with this kind of western terrain, and I think negatively about my chances of orienteering well in it, so I didn't start out in a positive frame of mind. Didn't help that the map notes warned us of a not great map. Did okay at first but then I missed #3 badly and had a hard time relocating. I think the map was a bit funny in my approach & it led me to think I was higher than I was. By the time I decided to head high to relocate, Clare Durand -- 8 min behind me -- caught me at the control. Ack, run hard now. Still had a few small errors but the rest of the race went much better. Some of the terrain was quite delightful.
Despite my problems, I finished 1st on F40 by 10 minutes -- but first woman on Green was Jennifer Knowles, about 5 minutes ahead of me. Not a great run. Beautiful day, lovely views, great smells. |
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Green - Splits |