Saturday Mar 31 |
 | Orienteering race 1:00:15 [4] *** 7.99 km (7:32 / km) +130m 6:58 / km | |
| spiked:14/15c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Cold wet Red course in the rain at Battle Creek. Nicely set course by Erling, with lots of leg variety and changes of direction. Was a little slow on the first couple and speeded up after that. Not surprisingly, it was a fight with the Persistent Glasses Problem.
Ran out of memory on my watch and lost splits after 7 (but I remembered to take them all!)
2:28 (map), 1:41, 5:44, 3:12, 0:45, 6:13, 1:38, 5:05
Forgot how wet the park can be in the spring and chose a 14-15 route that took me through 20m of waist-deep water. No point in being dainty today. |
| Hiking (control retrieval) 25:00 [1] * 2 km (12:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Picked up White/Yellow - not enough navigation to count. |
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Red - Splits |
Friday Mar 30 |
| MTB (technical) 1:30:00 [3] 14.2 mi (6:19 / mi) | |
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| Cold wet bike in the rain with Brian and Rick. Pretty mch the same area as the last bike. |
Thursday Mar 29 |
| Orienteering (mapping) 2:20:00 [2] *** 9 km (15:33 / km) | |
| spiked:14/14c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Finally finished the last big section at Leb Hills. There's still a few question marks, but they're all close to Schulze. Also did a first look at the sprint course - only some of it needs to be tweaked, some of it can stay as is. |
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| C • Leb Map 2 |
Wednesday Mar 28 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| 17 straight days of training (although not as strenuous because of all the mapping) still deserves a rest day. |
Tuesday Mar 27 |
| Orienteering (mapping) 1:45:00 [2] *** 7 km (15:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Checked Jensen Lake trails and mapped new ones near O'Brien Lake.
Got caught in a line of evening thunderstorms. Luckily, when it started to rain I was about 250m from a shelter. Waited there about 15 min until it passed through and then kept going. |
Monday Mar 26 |
| MTB (technical) 1:40:00 [3] 17.0 mi (5:52 / mi) | |
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| Biking with Brian and Suzanne at dam hill, Minnehaha park to Snelling and Crosby. Took lots of trails (fairly dry) but had to blaze through a few puddles. |
Sunday Mar 25 |
| Orienteering race 58:02 [4] **** 6.3 km (9:13 / km) +260m 7:38 / km | |
| spiked:7/11c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| BGR event at Wildcat Mound. Warm, sunny, and humid day. Very nice terrain and map, but made several parallel errors. However, it seems that others were just as confused at times.
Splits were incomplete, but this seems right
4:26, -, -, 16:03, 3:46, 3:53, 3:22, 3:48, 11:54, -, -, 10:51 = 58:02 |
Saturday Mar 24 |
| Orienteering (course setting) 1:30:00 [2] ** 6 km (15:00 / km) | |
| spiked:21/21c shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Setting and some retrieval at Hyland for skills clinic. |
Friday Mar 23 |
| Orienteering (mapping) 2:10:00 [2] *** 8.5 km (15:18 / km) | |
| shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Lots more at Leb - over the halfway mark now.
Great day! |
Thursday Mar 22 |
| Orienteering (mapping) 1:35:00 [2] *** 6.2 km (15:19 / km) | |
| shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Another big batch of updates at Lebanon Hills, including the restoration on the hill W of the visitor center. |
Wednesday Mar 21 |
| MTB (road) 2:04:00 [3] 30.9 mi (4:01 / mi) | |
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| Ride over to Uptown, Kenilworth, dtn Mpls, over to the U, up the transitway to SP campus, fairgrounds, and Como. Slowed down on campus to reminisce. Warm but drizzly out. Got wet and my bike shorts chafed. |
Tuesday Mar 20 |
| Orienteering (mapping) 1:30:00 [2] *** 6 km (15:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Mapping new and changed trails at Lebanon Hills |
Monday Mar 19 |
| Spinning 1:10:00 [3] | |
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| Forgot the HRM today, plus I wasn't that into it, so lower intensity than usual - but longer. |
Sunday Mar 18 |
| Orienteering (course setting) 1:20:00 [2] *** 6 km (13:20 / km) | |
| spiked:15/15c shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Taping controls and making some corrections on the long course. There's definitely an increase of the area covered by buckthorn, and to a lesser extent, sumac. |
| Orienteering 34:59 [3] *** 4.6 km (7:36 / km) | |
| spiked:11/11c shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Practice run around the long course. |
| Orienteering 13:04 [4] ** 2.42 km (5:24 / km) +50m 4:54 / km | |
| spiked:15/15c shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Run around the sprint course to establish a benchmark time. Ran a little below race pace to compensate for knowing the route ahead of time. Splits 28, 32, 59, 32, 30, 59, 51, 40, 35, 76, 18, 62, 41, 86, 62, 55. |
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| C • hmmmmm.......... 21 |
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| C • hmmmmm.......... 1 |
Saturday Mar 17 |
| Hiking 1:00:00 [2] 3.0 mi (20:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Messing around on the North Shore - at Temperance River and various spots on the way back. Also checked out Hemlock Ravine near Jay Cooke - the only remaining stand of eastern hemlock in MN.
Only logged 1 hr of 3. |
Friday Mar 16 |
| Orienteering (field checking) 1:30:00 [2] ** 5 km (18:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Icebug MR3 (2007, orange) |
| Field checking of the final part of the map, and one complete jog around the sprint course. Checked some additional options for control placement. |
| Strength/Core (gym) 25:00 [2] | |
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| Another quickie at Highland |
Thursday Mar 15 |
| Strength/Core (gym) 30:00 [2] | |
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| Stopped off at Highland location before going to MNOC meeting. Boy is that ever a hole in the ground. |
Wednesday Mar 14 |
| Spinning 1:15:00 [4] | |
| ahr:157 max:188 |
| Longer session today. |
Tuesday Mar 13 |
| Orienteering (field checking) 1:00:00 [1] 3 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| More checking. Second half of sprint may need to be redone - not just the snowmelt issue but also some features are sketchy on the ground. |
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| C • Sprint ?? 6 |
Monday Mar 12 |
| Orienteering (field checking) 1:10:00 [2] 4.5 km (15:33 / km) | |
| shoes: Montrail hiking boots |
| Map corrections for Hyland. |
| Strength/Core (gym) 25:00 [2] | |
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| Usual routine. |
Sunday Mar 11 |
| MTB (road) 2:45:00 [3] 39.7 mi (4:09 / mi) | |
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| Home to CP 1-2-3-4 TA 1 of the April course, then back home. Total time from CP1-TA1 was 1:12. Lost the sun as I started out, so it was a little colder than anticipated. |
Thursday Mar 8 |
| Road Run (track) 30:00 [3] 4.0 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
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| Late day after picking up the new car. Ran at the gym, as boring as that is. |
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| C • Inquiring Minds 3 |
| Strength/Core (gym) 20:00 [2] | |
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| Blah |
Monday Mar 5 |
| Note | |
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| New car shopping leaves no time for workouts :( Hope to return to normal by the weekend. |
Saturday Mar 3 |
| Orienteering (snowshoe) 1:40:00 [3] *** 7 km (14:17 / km) | |
| spiked:10/10c shoes: Montrail hiking boots |
| Mike set up a snowshoe course at Afton for the gang. Did 5 and finished at a campsite, had a bonfire, then went back to the cars picking up 5 more. Snow was 8-16 inches and it was clear out so we got to see the lunar eclipse. |
Friday Mar 2 |
| Ski (classic) 50:00 [3] | |
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| Another ski at Lake Elmo. A little windy, and the grooming seemed to have been done by a pickup truck dragging a 12x12. Stopped along the way and took a few wintertime photos. |