Training Log Archive: JanetT

66N to Pitts Rd (far side of intersection). I was going to do 4.2 today, but my knees were aching so much from the outset that I cut it short. Time to break out the ice, I guess.

Event: US Classic Champs
 

Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships Festival
 

Rest and recovery day! Hips, knees, and bruises are sore from the pounding and relentless orienteering of the past week-plus, so I think I deserve a rest.

Walking in River Bend Natural area in Ft. Collins, CO before heading to the airport. A very nice area of a few hundred acres with several ponds created by earlier gravel mining and bordered on one side by the Cache La Poudre River. Lots of birds - herons, egrets, ducks, geese, and smaller ones, too.

Glen carried the map, but I looked at it too to see where we were. Time includes stopping to watch birds and to look around. :-)

Green day 3 on First With The Most map (1:10000). Messed up control 2 by a lot, wandering around in other rock with other orienteers (rule #67, ignore all other orienteers in the area!) until realizing that bag #44 that I found was actually on my course, only much later (control 13). Used it to relocate.

Messed up control 10 a little (again, I let other orienteers in the area distract me), and could have used a better route choice to control 6 (I went around the west end of the darker green, not taking a chance with the sliver of light green closer to the beeline, but it worked well for others). Total time lost ~15:00...which would have put me in 4th place, F50, but I finished 6th out of 8.

Turtle Rock trail (3 miles, circling the large rock formation) at Vedauwoo, counterclockwise this time. I think it's physically easier in this direction. The rock-pile figure we took a picture of earlier in the week was gone from the bare rock outcrop. We started earlier in the day and avoided the rain shower (and hail!) that came through around 3pm. Took a wrong turn near the end of the trail, adding 0.5mi.

Green Day 3 - Splits

Relay at Antenna Hill. Leg 3 for the EMPO team of Phil, Sue, me and Marty (Glen wasn't feeling up to it due to reaggravating his rib/side injury). Covered closer to 6 km with contouring.

Only missed control (#12) was when I contoured around a hill, a little lower than I should have, and punched at a different one; but I corrected and punched the right one which was a little further around.

Crystal Relay Leg 3 - Splits

Gates of AMT Hell map. Messed up 3 of the sprint controls (1, 4, & 6) for about 9-10 minutes of errors. :-P I wonder how many sprint points I got for that one...

US Team Sprint - Splits