Saturday Apr 28 |
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| GH Inv - 6 AM |
Friday Apr 27 |
| Orienteering 1:10:00 [3] ** 6.2 km (11:17 / km) | |
| spiked:7/7c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Flagging at CGR |
Thursday Apr 26 |
| Terrain Run (no map) 40:00 [3] 4.5 km (8:53 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Switching reflective tape for orange tape at L Elmo. |
Wednesday Apr 25 |
| MTB (technical) 1:12:00 [3] 9.4 mi (7:40 / mi) | |
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| A couple of loops at Wirth, plus coming back through Cedar and Brownie. |
| MTB (road) 23:00 [3] 6.2 mi (3:42 / mi) | |
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| Paved trails from Suzanne's house to Wirth and back. |
Tuesday Apr 24 |
| MTB (technical) 58:00 [3] 9.0 mi (6:26 / mi) | |
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| A couple of loops at Wirth with Chuck, plus we checked out the old trails down by Sweeney Lake. |
Sunday Apr 22 |
| Paddling (kayak) 3:45:00 [3] *** 8.5 mi (26:28 / mi) | |
| spiked:4/4c |
| Putting out flags on the paddle section. A little slow because we were navigating to unmarked spots at night. Saw a barge in the distance. |
| MTB (road) 30:00 [3] ** 3.5 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
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| After deflating the boats and storing them in my car, we moved on to the trekking section. |
| Orienteering 1:45:00 [3] *** 7 km (15:00 / km) | |
| spiked:6/6c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Trekking section with all off trail CPs. Brian did a good job navigating. |
| MTB (road) 3:30:00 [3] ** 38.0 mi (5:31 / mi) +500m 3:18 / km | |
| spiked:4/4c |
| Long ride to finish the loop. It got really hot out and we had to stop along the way and grab some ice cream bars. |
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| About 1:30 of transition, rest time. A large part of that was packing up the boats.
Total of about 56 bike, 8-9 paddle, 5 trek in 13 hours. Strong wind at the beginning, died down in the middle (night) and up again in the last half. |
Saturday Apr 21 |
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| GH Inv pre run - 9 PM |
| Orienteering 2:00:00 [2] *** 11 km (10:55 / km) | |
| spiked:13/13c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Setting out reflective tape for tonight's festivities. |
| MTB (road) 1:30:00 [3] ** 14.2 mi (6:19 / mi) +300m 3:42 / km | |
| spiked:4/4c |
| Late start to the spring practice. Biked a bunch of hills down to the paddle put-in. Dave and Chris met us there with the boats. The wind died down at night and made for an impressive paddle section. |
Friday Apr 20 |
| MTB (road) 1:34:00 [3] 22.2 mi (4:14 / mi) | |
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| Gateway trail to McKnight to Battle Creek. Stopped to scout out a location along the creek.
The first part of the Gateway trail is a little sketchy. I biked past a drunk guy who saw me coming, got into a crouch and (really!) tried to tackle me while shouting obscenities. Luckily I was doing about 18 mph and he went for my leg and missed. |
Thursday Apr 19 |
| Orienteering 40:00 [3] *** | |
| spiked:7/7c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Some CPs by memory at L Elmo (not the permanent course ones) |
Wednesday Apr 18 |
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| Boat your butt off - 6 PM Medicine Lake |
| Paddling (kayak) 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Paddled around Medicine Lake with Rick in the new Wild kayaks. So much better than the yellow ones. People made fun of me beforehand for wearing the wetsuit, but not afterwards! |
Tuesday Apr 17 |
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| (rest day) |
| Tired today. |
Monday Apr 16 |
| MTB (technical) 1:30:00 [2] 9.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Easy bike at Lake Elmo with Suzanne and Rick. Suzanne got her new bike yesterday and it was the first time with clipless pedals. She fell once on the grass while testing them out and then not at all while riding. Good for her! |
Sunday Apr 15 |
| Orienteering race 1:04:11 [4] *** 8 km (8:01 / km) +200m 7:08 / km | |
| spiked:17/17c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Fun course at Leb Hills - one long loop all the way over near Jensen. Navigated well. Splits: 1:56 (map) 3:10 3:10 4:09 2:50 (est) 4:09 2:01 4:03 4:43 3:42 3:10 4:39 5:28 3:44 3:16 3:00 3:34 2:47 0:40 |
| Hiking 32:00 [2] ** 3 km (10:40 / km) | |
| spiked:13/13c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Setting out the sprint course. |
Saturday Apr 14 |
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| Bike-Hike-BBQ - 10 AM Andrews Park |
| MTB (road) race 2:00:00 [4] ** 21.0 mi (5:42 / mi) | |
| spiked:12/12c |
| Raced Dan's Bike-Hike-BBQ race with Rick O in Champlin and Anoka. A good part of the biking was off-road along the Rum River. In the lead pack for the first 8 CPs, a couple of slight mistakes. Got a flat tire between 8 and 9, but recovered to finish 8 minutes behind Wedali. |
| Orienteering race 29:00 [4] *** 2.5 km (11:36 / km) | |
| spiked:3/3c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Foot course in the northern section of Elm Creek. Some good locations, challenging enough to gain ground on a few good biking teams. |
Friday Apr 13 |
| Trail Run (warmup) 16:40 [3] 2.5 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Warmup run before checking the sprint course. |
| Orienteering 14:45 [4] *** 2.37 km (6:13 / km) +60m 5:31 / km | |
| spiked:13/13c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Test run of the sprint course. Not feeling very fast. Splits 60, 66, 98, 83, 37, 69, 103, 64, 59, 84, 42, 62, 31, 25. |
Wednesday Apr 11 |
| Spinning 1:08:00 [4] | |
| ahr:168 max:193 |
| Good hard session at SLP with Suzanne. Feels good to do something. |
| Strength/Core 15:00 [2] | |
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| Upper body workout, short. |
Sunday Apr 8 |
| Orienteering 30:00 [3] ** 2.38 km (12:36 / km) | |
| spiked:13/13c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Hopefully final run of the sprint course - should be done with the tweaking now. It's a little long, so maybe 15-16 minute winning time. I'll do a practice run at race pace to get a baseline. |
| Orienteering 1:30:00 [2] ** 7 km (12:51 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Checking locations for GHI Trek 1. Ran into Jim Dickerson and talked for a while about mapping. |
Thursday Apr 5 |
| Orienteering (field checking) 20:00 [2] *** | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Vegetation SE of the visitor center and small scale detail around the new building, parking lot, and plaza. Cold and windy out. |
| Orienteering 40:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Testing the sprint course. They starting cutting down trees near one of my points, so who knows what it will look like on the 15th. Argh. |
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| C • you seem to attract forestry equipment 2 |