Thursday Oct 30 |
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| Last ride before sending the bike to Georgia, breaking in the new equipment. Loop ride including some trails in Crosby/M-Ha. Rambled around the U of M Mpls campus near sunset for a bit, then back roads home.
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Sunday Oct 26 |
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| Event: MNOC - Sand Dunes
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| Orienteering (course setting) 1:45:00 [3] *** 7 km (15:00 / km) +100m 14:00 / km | |
| spiked:15/15c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Setting the rest of the controls for Sand Dunes |
| Orienteering 30:00 [2] *** 2 km (15:00 / km) +40m 13:38 / km | |
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| Picking up controls |
Saturday Oct 25 |
| MTB (technical) 3:00:00 [3] 14.0 mi (12:50 / mi) | |
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| Dean came by the next morning with his friend Sue and the extra bike, so the five of rode Yellow Jacket - Goat Dance - Sidewinder x2 - Hermosa - Toad Road (up) - Cliffhanger. A little cool and windy, though. Left around noon. |
| Orienteering (setting - night) 2:00:00 [3] *** 8 km (15:00 / km) +100m 14:07 / km | |
| spiked:17/17c |
| Rushed home and printed out most of the course master maps only to realize it wasn't the latest version. So I ended up late to Sand Dunes, out of the car with the first batch of controls just before 6 PM. Worked through to 8:30 with the headlamp and got 17 placed - only 15 remaining for tomorrow morning.
I seem to be attracting the fuzz lately. As I was pulling away from my second-to-last loop, I got stopped by the local game warden. I was ready to dig for the permit, and had to open up the hatchback to get to it, but as soon as he saw the flags and boxes of junk strewn about, it was obvious what my situation was. So he said it wasn't a big deal and went off to look for other miscreants, after suggesting we should ensure people wear orange out there.
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Friday Oct 24 |
| MTB (technical) 30:00 [3] 2.0 mi (14:59 / mi) +60m 8:32 / km | |
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| Levis trip with Chuck and Dave. Got there a little late and rode Porky Point. On the way to North Face, my crank arm finally came loose for good. Tried to repair it with electrical tape and a rubber strap, but no dice. Might as well use the opportunity to replace the whole crank set, including the beat-up old chainring.
Chuck and Dave went out to get the last ride before sunset, and while I was siiting around a family drove up in a minivan. I started talking to them, and it turned out to be one of the guys who basically built the whole trail system. His was his daughter's birthday and there were doing a fire and night hike, but after hearing about my situation he offered to let me use one of his bikes, since he was coming out there the next morning to ride anyway. Super cool.
Chuck, Dave, and I went out for dinner and a little rural WI bar hopping. The camp was empty went we got back, but we restarted the fire for a couple hours. |
Thursday Oct 23 |
| Terrain Run (no map) 57:00 [3] 6.98 mi (8:09 / mi) +75m 4:55 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| With headlamp |
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| C • Sand Dunes 2 |
Tuesday Oct 21 |
| Orienteering (setting) 20:00 [3] 2 km (10:00 / km) | |
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| Set out 2 controls at Wirth, SE corner and then proceeded to the start area. |
| Orienteering 41:00 [3] *** 4.8 km (8:32 / km) +60m 8:02 / km | |
| spiked:14/17c |
| Ran a counterclockwise course around all 17 that people had put out. No compass and the tapes were hard to see. Biffed a couple in the SW with the maze of trails.
We need to come up with an intermediate solution - something that's not as reflective as the 3M tape, but is more visible in white LED than the flagging tape. There were at least four controls (that I remember) where I was standing right on the feature, next to the tape, and wasted 5-30 seconds looking for it. |
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| C • Tape 9 |
| Orienteering (control retrieval) 15:00 [3] *** 2 km (7:30 / km) | |
| spiked:3/3c |
| Picked up 1,2,6 by memory. |
Saturday Oct 18 |
| Orienteering (mapping) 1:00:00 [2] 4 km (15:00 / km) +60m 13:57 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Map corrections at Sand Dunes. |
| Hiking 1:20:00 [2] 4.0 mi (20:00 / mi) | |
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| Photo hike at Rum River Central. |
Friday Oct 17 |
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| Event: MNOC - Adventure Run #2
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| Orienteering 45:42 [3] *** 5.8 km (7:53 / km) +90m 7:19 / km | |
| spiked:10/11c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Adventure Run #2 at Tierney's. Same deal as last week - road run to the park and #1 at high speed, only gearjunkie stayed with me. Did pretty well 1-8 and totally blew #9 - a nine minute split let the front of the pack catch up, and mobizmoluv passed me. Bailed out to the trail and attacked #9 three times, found it the third time a couple of seconds after Ian. Chased him to #10, where we saw Tom, then #11, where I punched first but took a bad line out to the trail 50 meters behind Ian. However, the mile-long run back favored younger legs, so I passed at the base of the hill on Highwood and ended about a minute ahead of him and two behind the dynamic duo. |
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| C • splits 1 |
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Long course- NightO - Splits |
Monday Oct 13 |
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| Much better today, eye should be back to normal by tomorrow. |
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| C • equipment for Adv run 1 |
Sunday Oct 12 |
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| Left eye swollen this morning from a branch poke yesterday. Skipped the morning event and drove home early. |
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| C • eye poke 4 |
Saturday Oct 11 |
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| Event: MNOC - Pillsbury State Forest
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| Orienteering race 2:17:00 [4] *** 15.8 km (8:40 / km) +300m 7:55 / km | |
| spiked:20/22c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Minnegoat at Pillsbury. Good run, but a bit hectic at the beginning. The pack exploded at #9 - Justin gained a couple minutes on me there, and stretched it to about 7 minutes by the end. Didn't see anyone else for the whole rest of the race. Ian and Jerritt came in a little while after, but within seconds of each other. |
| Orienteering (night-O) 58:20 [3] *** 5 km (11:40 / km) +100m 10:36 / km | |
| spiked:7/11c |
| 1 hour night score-O. Feeling tired and not concentrating well. Ran with a pack at first, then with Ian and Jerritt for a while. Fell at least 10 times, and found out later my headlamp was slowly failing. Lots of little things conspired for a sucky performance (external factors were by no means all of it, they just didn't help.) |
| Orienteering (control retrieval) 15:00 [2] *** 1.5 km (10:00 / km) | |
| spiked:3/3c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| I'm counting these because it was at night and raining steadily so I had to take my glasses off. That was an interesting change of perception. |
Thursday Oct 9 |
| Road Run 1:17:00 [3] 10.3 mi (7:29 / mi) +100m 4:31 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Down the hill, all around downtown, to the river, back up the hill. |
Tuesday Oct 7 |
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| TNT - Pete @ Battle Creek |
| Orienteering (setting) 50:00 [3] ** 4.5 km (11:07 / km) | |
| spiked:15/15c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Taping locations for TNT. |
Sunday Oct 5 |
| Orienteering (vetting) 4:10:00 [2] *** 12 km (20:50 / km) +200m 19:14 / km | |
| spiked:36/36c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Vetting at Sand Dunes. Got there just after it quit raining and finished just before it started again. |
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| Foot much better, jogged a lot today. Not worth calling it an injury. |
Saturday Oct 4 |
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| Did a Superman on the way to #10 last night and banged my right foot just above my big toe. There wasn't any pain even after the race, but it's slightly swollen and hurts to walk this morning - limping a little. Cross my fingers that it starts to heal and isn't anything serious. |
| Hiking 1:00:00 [2] 4 km (15:00 / km) | |
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| Test hike for the foot - it's better after 10 minutes of walking but I don't dare run yet. Took the camera out to WOB and got some photos. Came back and walked around Como. |
Friday Oct 3 |
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| Event: MNOC - Adventure Run #1
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| Orienteering race (adventure run) 48:40 [4] *** 5.7 km (8:32 / km) +60m 8:07 / km | |
| spiked:9/10c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| First fall adventure run at TIerney's woods. Night event, mass start at 7 PM. Started with a road run from Reynolds Park to the NE corner of the O-map. I went out hard and opened up on the downhill to get a half minute lead. Nailed 1-5, which all had reflective tape and then went for 6-10. This was a little slower since they didn't have tape, basically, you had to navigate to the right spot since you could only see the flag by beaming it. Ran 6-7-8 well but blew #9, crossing a trail without realizing it. I reoriented pretty quickly, but in trying to get back out to the trail I ran into some buckthorn. As I struggled through it, it stripped me of my glasses. I stopped and did a grid search and found them after 4.5-5 minutes. At that point my concentration was gone, so I left my compass sitting on the ground, and clumsily managed to get back on course, finding #9 right after JJ was leaving it. I chased him over to 10 - regretting the lack of compass. I was a little too far south and he was too far east, but we both realized and beamed #10 right at the same time. We ran or and punched 3 seconds apart, right as gearjunkie was coming down the hill towards our lights. We ran out towards W Bush Lake Rd as a group, knowing that it was only a road run to the finish line. We briefly started running the wrong direction down the road, but corrected after about 10 seconds and the three of us set off for the finish at a solid pace. On the way back we had to go back up a fairly long hill, and dropped the pace a bit. JJ stayed right on my shoulder and gearjunkie was within talking (not shouting) distance. As we crested the hill I was happy to feel myself recover from it within about 20-30 seconds. On the flats, both JJ and I put on a couple bursts, which we each matched. JJ cleverly started the psych game and reminded gearjunkie that he had a marathon to run on Sunday, so he shouldn't exert himself too much.
The whole run was decided in the last 150 yards - I was slightly ahead and cutting the straightest possible route on the streets and sidewalks without cutting through people's yards. As we diagonally crossed from the north to south side of 83rd Ave and onto the sidewalk, I tried to squeeze JJ into the weeds. He drifted behind me to avoid that (?), and I made a quick cut-the-corner through tall grass (about 15 yards) as he continued on the sidewalk. I think that was enough to give me a small gap and I started the sprint as soon as I was back on the pavement. In the end, there was a only a five second difference in our times.
Definitely the most exciting finish I've ever participated in - and only possible because of the mass start. Looking forward to JJ's account to see if my memory is correct! |
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| C • reading this makes it all worthwhile.... 3 |
| Orienteering (control retrieval) 30:00 [2] *** 1.5 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| Retrieved controls 9-10-1-2 by memory. Also went back and found my compass in the buckthorn. Came back to the car and got stopped by the Three Rivers Park Patrol. He was OK when I told him what we were doing and said we had a permit. Waited for Tom and Biz and then went for dinner.
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Thursday Oct 2 |
| Trail Run 1:08:00 [3] 7.0 mi (9:42 / mi) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Jiffy Lube to Theo and back with mobiz, followed by Palin Bingo. My card sucked ass. |