Sunday Oct 30 |
 | Trail Run 45:00 [3] 9 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Denver Salomons |
| Cedar/Brownie/Wirth trail run |
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Friday Oct 28 |
| Orienteering race 45:04 [4] *** 6.4 km (7:02 / km) | |
| spiked:10/11c shoes: Denver Salomons |
| Stephen Bullard's adventure run at Wirth Park. It was a straight 11-point Night O, intermediate level. Run a little too fast at the start and had to play catchup (by 5), then it was just holding off Justin and Molly to the end. 1st by about 2:30. 3 stars - there were some areas with a maze of tricky small trails and the dark made them harder to see, also the near-sprint speed. |
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| Orienteering 15:00 [2] *** 1.5 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Denver Salomons |
| Control retrieval |
Wednesday Oct 26 |
| Road Run 1:09:06 [3] 15.4 km (4:29 / km) | |
| shoes: Denver Salomons |
| Snelling/Edgcumbe loop, counterclockwise. Started down Grand, up Summit hills. |
Sunday Oct 23 |
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| Sand Dunes O-meet |
| Orienteering race 1:29:36 [4] **** 7.4 km (12:06 / km) | |
| spiked:10/13c shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Difficult, prickly run at Sand Dunes. Lost about 5 min on 6 & 7, boomed on #11 which was about 10m from a parked bulldozer involved in the ACTIVE logging going on today (to be fair to the setters, the logging wasn't close to the control at the time they taped it!) My natural instinct was to stay away from the noisy, heavy, woodchip spewing machinery and that unfortunately overrode my map reading sense. Managed to take 3rd behind the Bairds (sounds like a broken record...) and held off Justin by 2 min.
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| Orienteering 45:00 [2] **** 2.5 km (18:00 / km) | |
| spiked:4/4c shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Pleasant walk for control retrieval. |
Saturday Oct 22 |
| Trail Run 50:00 [3] 6.6 mi (7:33 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| L Elmo around Eagle Pt Lake and back through the campground. |
Thursday Oct 20 |
| Road Run 1:03:52 [4] 9.1 mi (7:01 / mi) | |
| shoes: Denver Salomons |
| Edgecumbe-Snelling loop, back on Summit. A little under 2 miles of intervals. |
Tuesday Oct 18 |
| MTB (technical) 1:00:00 [3] 9.1 mi (6:35 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Borrowed Jane's bike to do Wirth with Chuck and Dave. |
Monday Oct 17 |
| Trail Run 51:00 [4] 10.5 km (4:51 / km) | |
| shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Hwy 5 - Ford bridge loop, clockwise. My new stretching routine seem to be helping. |
Sunday Oct 16 |
| Hiking 2:15:00 [2] * | |
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| Hiking at Nerstrand, with a little off trail running. |
Saturday Oct 15 |
| Hiking 1:30:00 [2] 5 km (18:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Denver Salomons |
| Hike into Afton walk-in campground, with backpack. Long way out on Sat morning. |
Friday Oct 14 |
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| Where's the check box for "Lazy?" the past three days? |
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Tuesday Oct 11 |
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| (rest day) |
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Monday Oct 10 |
| Orienteering race 49:10 [4] *** 7.14 km (6:53 / km) +150m 6:14 / km | |
| spiked:13/14c shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Fast race through an area thick with clearings, fences, cattle trails, and of course, cowpies. Turned into my best run of the weekend and the best run I've ever had outside of local meets - everything just clicked. Broke 7 min/km for the first time and snuck off with 1st place by 49 seconds. |
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Manitoba Champs - Splits |
Sunday Oct 9 |
| Orienteering race 1:59:16 [4] **** 12.55 km (9:30 / km) +250m 8:39 / km | |
| spiked:10/14c shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| A little overconfident from yesterday, and this course smacked me down a notch. Mistakes on 4, 5, bad route to 8, mistakes on 8 (fuzzy head), 13, 14 (!) Fatigue was more of a problem than navigation, especially near 8 where I attacked from the WRONG TRAIL BEND and thought "Oh, the map doesn't quite match up, that's OK." See splits for the gory details (4 turned out to be the worst.) Despite all that, good enough for 3rd (Darius 12 min and Patrick 24 min ahead) |
| Hiking 2:10:00 [2] 9 km (14:27 / km) | |
| shoes: Denver Salomons |
| Kevin, Ian, Joan, me, Andrea and the boys hiked at Spirit Sands, out to the Devil's Punchbowl and then to the dunes. Cool stuff. |
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WCOC Day 2 Course 8 - Splits |
Saturday Oct 8 |
| Orienteering race 46:47 [4] *** 6.22 km (7:31 / km) +130m 6:49 / km | |
| spiked:8/9c shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| WCOC Day 1 course 8. Fairly easy course that was good to get adjusted to the terrain. Mistake on 3, suboptimal (i.e., bad) route on 4, bobble 6, slow leaving 7. |
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WCOC Day 1 Course 8 - Splits |
Friday Oct 7 |
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| Event: Western Canadian Orienteering Championships 2005
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| Orienteering race 9:34 [5] ** 1.9 km (5:02 / km) | |
| spiked:11/11c shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| WCOC Sprint 3 at the Spruce Woods campground. There was a big snowstorm a day or two before, and 6 inch drifts left over. However, my course was flat and mostly snow free. Good warmup event (although no preparation for the coming days!) |
| Orienteering 7:02 [5] *** 1.66 km (4:14 / km) | |
| spiked:10/10c shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Ran course 2 sans e-punch, trying to beat Kevin's time. Less trails than the other course. |
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Sprint 3 (Friday) - Splits |
Sunday Oct 2 |
| Map Run 1:40:00 [3] *** | |
| shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Map run - about 40 min off the North Country Trail in the Porcupine lake wilderness, and about 60 min on the Telemark west map. Need to brush out the navigation cobwebs for next weekend. |
| Trail Run 30:00 [3] 4.0 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Out and back along the North Country Trail east of CR D, north of Lake Namekagon |
Saturday Oct 1 |
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| Murphy-Hanrehan O-meet |
| Trail Run 51:00 [3] * 10 km (5:06 / km) | |
| shoes: Montrail Vitesse II (2006, gra |
| Sunrise run over to the N End ski hut and back around the south end of Mt Telemark, across the ski hill. |
| Hiking 1:10:00 [2] * 6.5 km (10:46 / km) | |
| shoes: Denver Salomons |
| Scenery hike through the area west of the lodge. |
| MTB (technical) 3:30:00 [3] * 24.0 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
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| Did the whole Rock Lake trail including the new singletrack around Hildebrand Lake. There were several uphill rock gardens that looked suspiciously unnatural, so I didn't try to overdo it (45 minutes from the road.) Came around the Glacier trail, and stopped for lunch at N30. Then S and E around Patsy Lake, then N up the Namekagon trail to the town hall where I ate the other half of my lunch. Right as I started back to Rock Lake, I caught a branch in my rear derailleur and tore it up. I was able to take a few links out of the chain and go singlespeed down the ski trail to the gravel road to the main road - but it looks like the biking is done for this weekend. Well, still another day for lots of map running! |
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