Sunday Aug 31 |
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| I noticed some time ago I haven't checked how much gasoline I use with my car per km. So, last tank was 6.2 liter per 100 km. Too much, I need to watch out my right leg. Target is sub 6 l.
If anyone is reading this, feel free to comment your own readings.
Injury status: I can't raise my heel from the ground while standing on one (left) leg. |
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| C • Gasoline 2 |
Saturday Aug 30 |
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| (rest day) |
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| Tupplur intervals 30 [0] | |
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Friday Aug 29 |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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| Night O race later today. Let's see how achilles feels like. |
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| C • Hyvä 2 |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
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| Orienteering race (Night) 45:00 [3] 6 km (7:30 / km) | |
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| Inkeroinen, h35. Only 2 competitors, I was second last. I guess I should have run in 21, but it was good training anyway. Leg was not ok, I took path sections easily. No any big mistakes, my headlamp is so better than any commercial HL it is almost impossible to make mistakes with it ;) |
Wednesday Aug 27 |
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| (rest day) |
| I have to skip todays night race.
So I could watch Yokuppi tracking using my cell phone.
So from now on I can watch Yökuppi anywhere I like, even in a pub :)
Who said O isn't spectator friendly? |
Tuesday Aug 26 |
| Orienteering 1:05:00  | |
| (injured) |
| Company league. Achilles pain. |
Monday Aug 25 |
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| I heard today my yesterdays #1 punch unit was not broken and they got pin mark just fine. So I managed to punch so, that I got epuch but not pin mark (it could be seen on lcd screen there was one punch before second control).
This was once in a decade first hand real world test how well emit's back up works with my puncing style. And it failed miserably. It almost worked, one punch out of 14 was missing. So if Emit punch unit or ecard dies, I'd say it's basicly just up to luck will you get pin mark from that control or not. I didn't puch any differently at #1. I just didn't get pin mark there but got from other controls for no reason. |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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Sunday Aug 24 |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [1] | |
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| Orienteering race 37:51 [4] 5.8 km (6:32 / km) | |
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| http://www.routegadget.net/gpsoblog/cgi-bin/reitti...=
eGames, H35. my emit card died, its up to back up paper will they qualify me or not. Let'ts see, I went home before they got final results.
edit: My result is DQ.
Very intresting case compare how this all went in Finland with Emit and compare it to similar cases we have had in Sweden with SI.
This is how it went: my ecard got broken after 2nd control. I had emit with lcd screen, time was still runnin on screen and I was on my way to third. 2nd control's code could be seen (71). But card didn't communicate with any reader units they had in finish. So, it was up to paper pack up. At finish they said they have video cameras, so they can take time using it if needed. But they didn't even write down my time to make it easy to find me from the video... anyway, they tried to look at the paper but those guys were pretty useless, they didn't know how to read back up paper against light or anything. So I had to pinpoint all pin marks to then. All marks were found except #1. But about 2-3 mm from it there was an extra mystery pin mark in an place you should not be able to get pin mark from a emit unit. By accident there was an other H35 runner too with missing #1 pin mark (Sami I) and he also had a mystery mark in about same place as I had. So we claimed the unit was slightly broken, a piece of plastic - "wing" - was dropped of and you could push your card to unit in an other way than the absolutely correct position. The could exlain why #1 pin mark was not in the right place. The guy said it may be this way and they will check the punch unit and is it possible to get pin mark there.
So I waited almost 2 hours to het some sort of result and finally went home, because the other runners in my car didnät want to wait in rain any longer. So I had no reult at all when I left, no dq yet so I couldn't make a protest. At home I checked results and saw I was disqualified. I called the competiton chief and asked what happenned. No one knew anything about it, thos guys who had promised to take care of it just forgot the whole thing and nopody knen nothing about something like that happenned or discussed. And even if thy could check the unit and find a pin mark and qulify me, they had no chance to get me time becaus is too difficult to find mi from a wideo. And hired cameras were already taken back. And they said loud and clear they hare better thingsd to do than try to correct results of a H35 hobby runner. And I should have made writen protest no more than 30 min after the finish was closed.
Ridiculous. They told me my time was still open and I didn't have any result at the time they closed finish. So they wondered should they go and search me, but somebody remembered I just had broken emit so they disqualified me. I think they never printed me on any reslt papers, my dq appeared jsut to web. It's not easy to make protest againd your dq if they don't tell it to you.
Anyway, I had gps so I know my time was 37:52. I told it to them just to pinpoint they should have written it down right away at finish when they couldn't read my card.
This all makes me wonder... Let's compare this to all thos SI disqulifications. Malfunctioning punch unit, you don't get punch mark. One could prove it by going to forest and checking if unit is broken or any evidence could be found there to qualify you. Both cases we are not willing to do any checking, here they just forget the whole thing just like that. In Sweden they simply dq. And that would be better. Because they didn't DQ me in proper time, so it made it difficult or impossible to make protest (I don't think I would have done) as we could do in sweden if we like. So, I must say these things may not be handled too well with Sweden with SI, but here the seems to be much worse.
I'll post RG with GPS track later - I may not be able to post it to organizers site because DQ runners may not be in RG - depends how they do it (if they use it).
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| C • Possibilities 3 |
Saturday Aug 23 |
| Running 56:00 [1] | |
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| C • production 2 |
Friday Aug 22 |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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Wednesday Aug 20 |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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| Orienteering (Night) 50:00  | |
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| Yökuppi, Tihaja. 4th race in 5 days, I was quite tired right from the start. GPS tracking with N78, worked better than I expected. But quite not as good as it should. I ran with home made led headlamp, it's pretty good.
http://gadget.yokuppi.net/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=m...= |
Tuesday Aug 19 |
| Orienteering race 48:00 [4] | |
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| Company league, Velskola. |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [1] | |
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Monday Aug 18 |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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Sunday Aug 17 |
| Running 20:00 [1] | |
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| Orienteering race 49:00 [4] 6.2 km (7:54 / km) | |
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| district relay H21, last leg. |
Saturday Aug 16 |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
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| Orienteering 1:17:00 [4] 9.7 km (7:56 / km) | |
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| District champs, H21. I was third last. |
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| C • And 1 |
Friday Aug 15 |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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Thursday Aug 14 |
| Orienteering (Night) 1:08:00  | |
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| Landbo. Headlamp worked well, light & bright :)
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Wednesday Aug 13 |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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Tuesday Aug 12 |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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| Running 30:00 [3] 6.79 km (4:25 / km) | |
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Monday Aug 11 |
| Bike 40:00 [1] | |
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Thursday Aug 7 |
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| (sick) (rest day) |
| Fever |
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| C • Kylmää 6 |
Wednesday Aug 6 |
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| (sick) (rest day) |
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Tuesday Aug 5 |
| Bike (commuter) 40:00 [1] | |
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| Running 32:00 [1] | |
| (sick) |
| I felt very tired. no wonder, at home 38.3 fever. |
Sunday Aug 3 |
| Orienteering race (Night) 46:00 [4] | |
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| 43-kavlen, second leg. Voimis had a bad day on first leg, so I started 23 min after leader and ran all alone in a dark forest, a lot like while doing training on my own. Controls were well hidden, so I had trouble finding two of them, like standing 5 m from the control wondering what the X on map should look like in forest. Finally found it hidden in a hole - saw punch unit, not flag/reflector. Never saw what the X actually was like. I guess X means a control hidden in a tiny rock hole? Anyway, losing time some meters from a control was a bit annoying, but didn't make a big difference - I was awfully slow and used too much time on hesitating instead of going steadily on. So we were 26 min behind the lead after my leg and I thought we never will get any decent placings and I went to tent and slept rest of the night. In the morning I was pretty amazed - rest of the team ran so well we were 16. Not a good result, but I expected much worse.
BTW I ran with lupine. I did both trainings with home build lamp but thought ti would be too risky to run a relay with it. Not because it might got broken more easlily than Lupine, no. It is just if I run with Lupine and it gets broken, it's considered just bad luck, but if I run with my home made and it get broken my team mates would leave me to Sweden, that's sure.
43-kavlen was well organized event as always. Map maybe wasn't as good (as well drawn, lots of funny cliffs help curves) as usually and some night controls were too well hidden, but it was nice race anyway. Too bad there is every year less and less teams. What could be done. If I remember right Bubo mentioned year ago the one reason is it's so difficult to get team due 43 average age limit. How about allowing too young teams. Like 427 years old team could compete, but they has to start 3 min after old enough teams, 1 min/year or something. It would make it easier to find replacement if someone gets injured just before the event, and no team has to mispunch just because they have too young team. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [1] | |
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