Sunday Sep 19 |
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| Cycling out to Hemlock Overlook and back then home later after writing up the minutes for the last QOC BOD meeting. |
| Orienteering 1:10:32 [4]8.5 km (8:18 / km) +280m 7:07 / km | |
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| Blue course at Hemlock Overlook. Lovely sunny day with temperature in 70s. Made a stupid parallel error and wasted time checking out the next major spur south from control 5. I'm sure 6 was hung about 70 meters southeast of where it was shown on the map so I'm surprised no one else has said anything yet in their entries. I wasted time going back after I concluded that I must have missed it due to it being hung low in the ditch. Had similar troubles with 7 but I think that was the map's or my fault - it was definitely on the only rock large enough to map as an individual boulder but it seemed to me to be much further south in the area of rocky ground and closer to the stream than the map indicated. Didn't go back on this one but I did slow way down when I hit the rocky ground and didn't see the boulder immediately. No major problems from there on although the last five controls involved some very dense vegetation. Looking back, I think it would have made sense to have gone low to the east then south on 13 to 14 rather than directly up a green slope and over the ridge. Not my best technically; decent physically though I think I felt some effects of being on my feet so long in terrain and rain the day before. |
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Saturday Sep 18 |
| Orienteering 2:30:00 [1] | |
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| DVOA training day in soaking wet woods, though it stopped raining for the afternoon session. Extremely stop and go and some of it really was at intensity 1. Had a stab at functioning on a brown only map in the morning - very difficult, probably impossible if charcoal platforms weren't brown. Got some practice at island hopping between them. Some weekend I think I ought to simply go up there and spend several hours doing this at a realistic O speed to work on my compass technique. |
Friday Sep 17 |
| Cycling 1:06:00 [3]13.0 mi (5:04 / mi) | |
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| Form exercises 40:00 [3] | |
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| Warmup, cooldown, 9x100m strides, A's, B's and bum kicks. |
Thursday Sep 16 |
| Cycling 1:43:00 [3]19.0 mi (5:25 / mi) | |
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| Commute plus getting to and from the Kennedy Center. The Puerto Rican dance company, "Andanza" was very good - good enough to keep me awake, which is saying more in reference to last night than usual since the BOD meeting had severely cut into my sleep time. Granted that only means taking it down to what Nadim appears to consider normal. |
Wednesday Sep 15 |
| Cycling 1:40:00 [3]18.5 mi (5:25 / mi) | |
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| Much cycling getting to Dave and Heidi's place to catch a lift out to the very long QOC BOD meeting (there was a lot to cover) then home again afterwards. At least I was spared having to cycle practically all the way out to Great Falls and back. |
Tuesday Sep 14 |
| Cycling 1:15:00 [3]15.0 mi (4:59 / mi) | |
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| Running 24:10 [1] | |
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| Warmup, cooldown and intervals of rest. |
| Running 13:35 [5]3.7 km (3:40 / km) | |
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| 3&3/8x1100m I intervals. Was supposed to be 4x1100m but my digestive tract exercised its veto partway through the last one. Splits of 4:01 3:59 4:03 and 1:32 before abandoning the last one. Rests of about 2 minutes. |
Monday Sep 13 |
| Cycling 1:06:00 [3]13.0 mi (5:04 / mi) | |
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| Stretching 10:00 [1] | |
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| Minimal warmup before first dance class of the fall. |
| Modern Dance 1:15:00 [2] | |
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| First session of repertory and performance class with Nejla Yatkin teaching - performances of the piece she'll set on us will take place on the evenings of Nov 20 and 21. I plan on doing the Stumble and QOC's meet at South Fork regardless - should be fun. The phrase Nejla taught was very sinuous and twisting with lovely disorienting turns. When she demonstrated it. Rather jerkier for the rest of us ordinary humans but we at least got the sequence down by the end of the night. We'll no doubt be correcting details and otherwise smoothing and polishing for the next several weeks. |