Saturday Sep 27 |
 | orienteering 1:18:06 [3] **** 3.6 km (21:42 / km) +78m 19:34 / km | |
| shoes: Jalas |
| NAOC Middle. Again expected this to be flatter than it was. Major mistake to #1. Fine for the first part then getting closer to the control climbed a hill where I shouldn't,then without realizing it started going more north than south. Then went up, down, around etc. before finally realizing I had to go south,that the marsh I was seeing off to the side was not the one I thought it was. Went by a couple of other controls on the now direct line to mine. I figured maybe 10 min. lost, but probably just 8! Saw a guy in cameo with bow and arrows on the way to 3. I said we were ruining his hunting, he said it was okay. Orienteered fine until #9. Thought of taking the trail around which would have been easier, but I'm walking, I think, so might as well go straight. There were other people and I wasn't paying enough attention. Got into the larger reentrant just west of the control but didn't read that correctly and went off further to the north. The hill I misread the first time, read correctly led me to the control. Haven't looked at other's splits, but maybe a 7 min. error. Okay the rest of the way.
Despite those big errors ended up 3rd north american, 4th in F60.
The 2 yr. break in orienteering really showed.
Knees didn't feel too bad when I finished, but kept getting a little worse as the day progressed.
Peter made it possible for me to go out today by driving me to and from the start/finish area. Thanks! |
Friday Sep 26 |
| orienteering 24:26 [2] 1.8 km (13:34 / km) +50m 11:55 / km | |
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| NAOC Sprint. Hadn't planned to go out on the sprint since walking a sprint isn't very satisfying. But I'm there, it isn't raining very hard, so I decide to try just the first sprint. Hillier than I expected ( hills and bad knees not good), but clean except for looking at a control number between 3 and 4. Several waves of starters went past me before I reached my first control.
Spent too much time on my feet standing around before and after.
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Monday Sep 22 |
| bike 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| 14.0 miles |
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| C • NAOC 2 |
| s & s 30:00 [1] | |
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Sunday Sep 21 |
| hiking 45:31 [2] | |
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| 23:29 out, 22:02 back Right knee felt good until the last little bit up to the house, then ouch.... |