Saturday Apr 28 |
 | Road Biking (mtn bike) 2:00:00 [2]28.0 mi (4:17 / mi) +120m 2:38 / km | |
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| Bike along Gateway to Pine Point and Square lake for lunch with Keith, Kelly ,& Lori |
Friday Apr 27 |
| Swimming 25:00 [3]1.25 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| 4 x (100mfr+100br+100ba) +50m evening cruise |
Thursday Apr 26 |
| Trail running 29:00 [3]4 km (7:15 / km) +40m 6:54 / km | |
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| Kath abbott trail run 1 outer loop , 3 inner loops. Knee a little twingy. |
Wednesday Apr 25 |
| Road Biking (mtn bike) 1:26:00 [3]20.5 mi (4:11 / mi) +80m 2:35 / km | |
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| Through KA to Pine Springs to Gateway to Pine Point and back via hills and Willernie. Felt sluggish ... rear brakes rubbing a bit and headwind and ?? |
Sunday Apr 22 |
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| MNOC Sand Dunes |
| Orienteering (control retrieval) 45:00 [2]*** 3.5 km (12:51 / km) +30m 12:20 / km | |
| spiked:3/4c |
| Control retrieval in the rain at Sand Dunes plus looking for 3 lost boy scouts (they eventually found a house and a ride back ). |
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| C • Did you do a course? 3 |
| Orienteering 1:25:00 [4]*** 5.9 km (14:24 / km) +130m 12:59 / km | |
| spiked:11/14c |
| Sand Dunes MNOC event
Started in heavy rain shower . Started out cautiously since almost immediately felt low level of contact with the map (rain on glasses etc) . 20m off #1 , #2 approached in a safe arc from the NW, spiked #3, #4,& #5 (used safe attackpoint of road junction to NW). #6 veg in openish area didn't match well so took safe approach and went until saw trail bend NW of #6 and looped back, #7 spiked, #8 spiked (nice area).
Then the overconfidence kicked in, # 9 (lots more open area and recent forestry work to the W ) , couldn't find it went off to NW , saw trail on NW relocated , came back through again (saw Jim Mullin also looking) , and went all the way going E to about 100 m from trail heading to #8. Then finally got the topo and the unmapped veg changes figured out and carefully came back again and found #9 (15 minutes goofing around ... all basically along the right NW-SE line but shifted 75 m N ).
#10 spiked, #11 (shaky ... 75 m wide to the W ), #12 spiked, #13 spiked. #14 spiked.
It was classic sand dunes (scratchy, and somewhat trashy underfoot) with complex topography. The courses were well designed with great use of the topography and some challenging "way out there away from any good atrtackpoints" controls (espec #9 and to some extent # 4,6, 11, 13). As usual at Sand Dunes the penalty for losing contact with the map was severe ! I was lucky to get only a 15 minute penalty ! |