Sunday Aug 12 |
 | Orienteering Meet race 15:59 [5] *** 2.4 km (6:40 / km) | |
| spiked:10/11c |
| Sprint Relay . Well not really ready to get going after a great dinner and Margerita's last night. Had to clear and check 30 seconds before the start. I did not know there was lots of forking. So my second control was a lone tree, and even though I was heading for the right one, I saw the tree with a control and headed to that one, oops wrong, went to the next one, wrong again, finally the third one was a winnner. The rest was fun fast moving. Now the long drive home. Goodbye Colorado and one long ass drive to WI |
Saturday Aug 11 |
| Orienteering Meet race 1:38:00 [5] ***** 9.3 km (10:32 / km) +300m 9:04 / km | |
| spiked:8/10c |
| US Long O Champs at Salor Park 9000 + feet . Started out pretty poor, and on a 1/15000 map I was about 2-3 hundred meters off before I worked my way towards the control. After that I had some of the fastest splits till No.6. I cut east too much and lost 4-6 minutes finding the control. I should of stayed with the pack but they were moving too slow down the reentrant. I than still had the fastest split on a tough no 8 control that I went direct at, and it was really hilly. Anyway I ended up third overall on green and third in M-50, so a 3rd place medal is not so bad. |
Friday Aug 10 |
| Orienteering Meet race 28:51 [5] **** 3.7 km (7:48 / km) +125m 6:40 / km | |
| spiked:9/9c |
| US Short O champs. Manitou Lake CO. Now I have been at Manitou Lake before, but they had a new map of a new southern section. I started late and heard that lots of mistakes were being made and times looked somewhat slow. I though here I go again. I had to copy clues on a new sheet because they ran out. Thanks to Mark P coming out to pick up his water bottle and I bumed his clue card. Off i went to one of the best runsI have had in a year. Yes, one of those once a year runs where the map looks and runs like it was nothing. Talking to others wondering how they could have problems??? Anyway a First Place in the Short/Middle? O champs. |
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| C • Awesome race. 1 |
Wednesday Aug 8 |
| Hiking 1:00:00 [3] 5.0 mi (11:59 / mi) | |
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| Hiking near Browns Creek with the dogs and Tony. Its great to see the dogs run like dogs should. |
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| C • Night O...up to #7 1 |
| Orienteering Related 58:31 [4] ** 5.0 mi (11:41 / mi) | |
| spiked:12/12c |
| Mt. Bike O at PVR in CO. This was a non-competitive event with a score course format. Not much route choice, but my map/compass system works great except I need a new compass for it as the air shakes up real bad. |
| Orienteering Meet race 1:00:00 [5] *** 5.5 km (10:55 / km) | |
| spiked:10/11c |
| US Night O champs. I was going along real well untilll No. 7 and an extra 7-10 minutes llost cost. It seem as the rocks were not mapped well and I was way short of the control. After much relocation I found the control. Oh well where is the beer and the next event. |
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| C • OK...US Champion! 1 |
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| C • Happy Birthday! 1 |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| Mt. Biking 30:00 [3] 3.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Started to ride from Tony's house to the Midland trail. I crossed the bridge and headed up on some single track about 5 minutes into climbing up my chain broke. So I coasted down and used my bike as a scooter to get back. All of this in the rain. |
Monday Aug 6 |
| Road Riding 1:30:00 [3] 21.0 mi (4:17 / mi) | |
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| Road ride on Mt Bike in Buena Vista up the road along Ark River. Super fast on way back. Stop at Bongo Billies for coffee and hustle home to beat the rain. |
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| C • Rain? 2 |