Training Log Archive: fkawam

Started our Riding Mountain National Park tour with a hike on the Lake Kiisao - Grey Owl Loop....we decided against putting all our eggs in one basket and doing the trail all the way to the Grey Owl cabin...
Saw a tiny mouse and grouse on the loop...then headed off to the Lake Audy Bison range to view and run a trail.

No Bison...well one really far away so we did the Central trail at the north end of the enclosure as a run...Legs getting tired from driving

After lunch we went to the escarpment trail walked a bit before leaving the east gate...the gps track shows some of the drive back to Winnipeg before I realized my watch was still on...big drop from the escarpment to the historic east gate

Thought we'd get a quick trail in before checking out the arena for this afternoon's middle. This was a very neat trail overlooking the Marshs Lake which we did our run around on Thursday PM.

After checking out the arena we did a quick hike before lunch on the loop aound the Kiche Manitou Campground oxbow lake. Noticed a tick on me while eating.

WCOC : Cyprus River, Spruce Woods PP, Manitoba
Middle - Course 7 - 3.9 km - 11 controls....120 m climb
Started watch @ start triangle - walked there from start punch 3rd min (+31 s) Thus official time 1:35:16...)

My first away meet!...Or should I say our first away meet...glad to have Andrew with me ...this course was just at the right level for him as well.

Aside from control 2 I think things went pretty well with only minor blips.
This was the long leg and reconciling the map with the terrain except for the really big features was a challenge for both of us. Since we couldn't "win" any awards being from the east we worked together here after I had gone about 15 minutes on this leg...then we were both good to go our own ways afterwards
4 - probably not the ideal route...and I still acted a slow and cautious but executed my plan (so I won't count that fully spiked)
8-minor blip going up wrong field before getting to ridge to follow as handrail...
1,3,5 (best split), 6 (saw a baby fawn en route to), 7 (few people went in directly from field...branbles/PI), 9,10,11 ...all solid
Best in from the Go control on course 7...only 3 beat me on this one across all courses...yay!
So I'm calling it 8/11 spiked...I'm pretty happy with this...quite a challenge for me n spots.
Position: 4th in M45 (out of 5 :( ), 6th on course 7 (out of 17...7 dnf/mp's)
Andrew missed the first control and was slightly over the time limit so although I think he did great he ends up mp..
Made a few friends at the banquet especially Fritz who was just ahead of me in M45
Full results at:
http://www.orienteering.mb.ca/WCOC2017/results.htm...

As for the terrain ...
-tons of poison ivy...you really couldn't go more than 50 m on any route without encountering some...logging now on Tuesday only Andrew seems to have been affected even though we both took precautions and there was a wash up station at the end.
-lots of hills of sand/grass but not as bad as you might think...then again I went slow and deliberate
-spear grass bad but I learned from the training event and my map case shin guards left me unscathed ...unlike yesterday
- heat...hot but worse than the heat was really no shade the course was largely wild open with scattered trees...the flap hat was very handy...Andrew got quite a back of the neck burn...carried water but lots of water on course...should have availed myself but I only used my own ..Andrew drank from the stations...good lad!

Finally I got 91 m climb while the listed climb was 120 m...interesting
Est ave hr @ 2


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Event: 2017 Western Canadian Orienteering Championships
 

Hiked to the Devil's Punch Bowl-Spirit Sands in Spruce Woods.
Did a scout's pace mix of running and walking at various speeds. Beautiful...especially near the dunes...much like the beaches of the outer banks...with poison ivy

We did the WCOC training map at Epinette creek...learned the horrors of spear grass....I only had shorts on so was cautious ...lots of PI...bailed near a few controls where the PI was just too thick.
There were 25 controls set we did about 8 each on our own before it started to thunderstorm...which only lasted ~15 min and the day was lovely again.
Did a lot of running here so I'll call the ave hr 3.

Hiked parts of the Seton Trails in the afternoon after getting supplies and eating lunch....at splits 1 and 2 we saw what looked like a massive wall of hay bales in a big open area about 1 km away...Hopefully the aerial will give some insights to this.

After getting to Spruce Woods via Morden and checking out Glenboro supplies and our home base at Dusty Mile we did our own hike on the Yellow Quills trails south of tomorrow's training session on the Yellow Quills map....then went into town for supplies...lots of poison ivy.

Four running loops of the Marshs Lake trail loop (~1.8 km each)...2 each way.

OOC Training - No practice