Discussion: How I spent 2004
in: Orienteering; General
Dec 30, 2004 12:01 AM
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Since I don't send out a holiday letter to my friends and family (being a single guy and all), I thought I'd take advantage of my standing as the person with the most AttackPoints and let you all know about my past year. And since I'm not planning on any New Year's Eve orienteering, I can safely declare my competitive year to be over.
No 143 meets for me! Not even half that. But close. I did 71 orienteering courses this past year, which is just shy of my PR of 72 (set in 1991, when I did a summer trip to Europe). This year it was all in the USA. And I kept alive my current streak of orienteering at least once a month that started in January 1998. There were also 5 times when I was present for an orienteering race, but didn't participate (usually because I was a meet worker).
It was a PR year for controls, though. This year I racked up 1173 of them, beating my old record of 1155, set in 2002. Halfway through the year, I wasn't expecting that to happen. That puts my lifetime total, after 947 courses, at somewhere in the neighborhood of 14930 (I'd have to subtract the few that I missed to get an exact total). This year's races, in 14 states, totaled 631 km, and a little over 124 hours. They comprised:
14 A-meet Blue
9 A-meet Red
7 local Blue
5 local Red
4 Goat races
12 sprint/park races
1 ski-O
1 MTB-O
4 canoe-O
3 relay legs
1 Rogaine
1/2 Snowgaine
1 adventure race
and 9 other assorted courses (score-O and such).
I suspect that this is the most orienteering that anybody in North America did this year, but that's just a guess.
Some of you may have noticed that there's very little posted on my Attackpoint training log. Is there nothing backing up all of those races? Well, not much. Looking through my logbook, I see 32 sessions that could have been logged as training, totaling as follows:
Mapping: 18 hours
Setting/vetting/control pickup: 10.75 hours
Canoeing: 8.5 hours (mostly training races)
Running: 5.5 hours
X-C skiing: 4.25 hours
Ice skating: 2.5 hours
Snowshoeing: 2 hours
Golf: 9 holes
Culvert crawling: 31 seconds
and a few other random low-intensity things like setting up a prairie golf course, and shadowing kids on White courses.
Yep, only 5.5 hours of plain ol' running all year. Basically, what I do for exercise is orienteering. And what does this get me? I'm a second-tier M40 in the US arena. I'd say that 2005 is looking to be a substantially less active year. But you never know.
So as we welcome in the new year, I'd like to extend my gratitude to all of the course setters and other meet workers who have made this all possible. Thanks!
No 143 meets for me! Not even half that. But close. I did 71 orienteering courses this past year, which is just shy of my PR of 72 (set in 1991, when I did a summer trip to Europe). This year it was all in the USA. And I kept alive my current streak of orienteering at least once a month that started in January 1998. There were also 5 times when I was present for an orienteering race, but didn't participate (usually because I was a meet worker).
It was a PR year for controls, though. This year I racked up 1173 of them, beating my old record of 1155, set in 2002. Halfway through the year, I wasn't expecting that to happen. That puts my lifetime total, after 947 courses, at somewhere in the neighborhood of 14930 (I'd have to subtract the few that I missed to get an exact total). This year's races, in 14 states, totaled 631 km, and a little over 124 hours. They comprised:
14 A-meet Blue
9 A-meet Red
7 local Blue
5 local Red
4 Goat races
12 sprint/park races
1 ski-O
1 MTB-O
4 canoe-O
3 relay legs
1 Rogaine
1/2 Snowgaine
1 adventure race
and 9 other assorted courses (score-O and such).
I suspect that this is the most orienteering that anybody in North America did this year, but that's just a guess.
Some of you may have noticed that there's very little posted on my Attackpoint training log. Is there nothing backing up all of those races? Well, not much. Looking through my logbook, I see 32 sessions that could have been logged as training, totaling as follows:
Mapping: 18 hours
Setting/vetting/control pickup: 10.75 hours
Canoeing: 8.5 hours (mostly training races)
Running: 5.5 hours
X-C skiing: 4.25 hours
Ice skating: 2.5 hours
Snowshoeing: 2 hours
Golf: 9 holes
Culvert crawling: 31 seconds
and a few other random low-intensity things like setting up a prairie golf course, and shadowing kids on White courses.
Yep, only 5.5 hours of plain ol' running all year. Basically, what I do for exercise is orienteering. And what does this get me? I'm a second-tier M40 in the US arena. I'd say that 2005 is looking to be a substantially less active year. But you never know.
So as we welcome in the new year, I'd like to extend my gratitude to all of the course setters and other meet workers who have made this all possible. Thanks!
Jan 4, 2005 7:29 PM
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I averaged a little under 14 miles per week including those done on the bike (a new purchase in September). I retired the rollerblades for good - after only 25 minutes of use in 2004 - never could enjoy the possibility that I was going to wipe out hard any second.
The biggest thing this year is that I had only 6 weeks of no activity or lawn work listed as activity. This was down from 9 in 2003, and 3 of these were related to home improvement project.
After seeing an allergist in March, I had 0 sinus/chect infections the rest of the year!!
Activity Hours Miles
Biking 15 8% 157 22%
Orienteering 80 46% 181 26%
Running 32 19% 179 25%
Trail Run 14 8% 64 9%
Walking 33 19% 126 18%
174 100% 708 100%
The biggest thing this year is that I had only 6 weeks of no activity or lawn work listed as activity. This was down from 9 in 2003, and 3 of these were related to home improvement project.
After seeing an allergist in March, I had 0 sinus/chect infections the rest of the year!!
Activity Hours Miles
Biking 15 8% 157 22%
Orienteering 80 46% 181 26%
Running 32 19% 179 25%
Trail Run 14 8% 64 9%
Walking 33 19% 126 18%
174 100% 708 100%
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