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Training Log Archive: GlenT

In the 7 days ending Sep 6, 2019:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m				load
Orienteering	9	7:46:52	25.58	(18:15)	41.17	(11:20)	956	65 /	77c	84%	142.3
Hiking	2	1:31:44	2.0	(45:52)	3.22	(28:30)	245				2.3
Walking	1	16:25	0.84	(19:32)	1.35	(12:09)	42				0.3
Total	11	9:35:01	28.42	(20:14)	45.74	(12:34)	1243	65 /	77c	84%	144.9
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Friday Sep 6, 2019 #

Event: BAOC: U.S. Nationals

1 PM

Walking 16:25 1.35 km (12:09 / km) +42m 10:31 / km
ahr:82 max:116 shoes: VJ Falcons 10

Walk to the start from arena.

Orienteering race 51:46 *** 3.73 km (13:52 / km) +164m 11:22 / km
ahr:133 max:170 spiked:9/11c shoes: VJ Falcons 10

US Middle distance champs at Big Basin SP. M65+, 2.4k, 160m. No color courses were specified, only course 1-11 (this was course 6). Curiously, the course numbers were not on the maps, only the classes, printed in tinyfont.

Terrain was steep, generally soft underfoot and there was some thick vegetation so it was physical and slow for much of the course. Course design used the terrain well. Temperature mid 70s and sunny, which also slowed things a bit.

My run was not very good. Major screw-ups on the first two controls. Lost about 5 minutes on the first one when I missed to the left, saw features I couldn’t identify and wound up going back to the start triangle for a redo. Crossed the big stream too soon on the way to 2 and spent time searching to the west of the control. Eventually crossed back over the stream to the trail to go to a proper attack point to find the control, having squandered about 10 minutes. Pretty clean the rest of the way. ~23 minutes from start to control 2, ~28 minutes for the rest of the course. Could’ve been about 36 minutes, but well off the podium with the two big errors.

Some organizational issues at the Start as some people punched a start box while most did not. Starts were shifted by two minutes for those not punching a start box, so real time results were messed up. Also, the start crew apparently didn’t have a list of competitors by start time, so had no idea who was supposed to start when. And the much advertised “quiet zone” at the start didn’t seem to have been communicated to the start crew. Hope they get this figured out before hosting NAOC in a year.

Brown X Middle - Splits

Thursday Sep 5, 2019 #

4 PM

Orienteering 1:01:31 *** 2.64 km (23:19 / km) +203m 16:51 / km
ahr:86 max:123 shoes: VJ Falcons 9

Model event at Big Basin SP. Got close enough to all 10 controls to see the flag. Didn’t always agree with how things were mapped or the positioning of some of the flags.

Wednesday Sep 4, 2019 #

12 PM

Hiking 46:44 1.16 mi (40:17 / mi) +184m 26:59 / mi
ahr:73 max:126 shoes: New Balance 880

Trail from the top of Paulina Peak in Newberry Volcanic National Monument (and back since the car was parked up top).

Tuesday Sep 3, 2019 #

10 AM

Orienteering race 20:54 *** 3.19 km (6:33 / km) +45m 6:07 / km
ahr:142 max:159 spiked:13/14c shoes: NB Leadville VS

2 PM

Orienteering race 24:22 *** 3.17 km (7:41 / km) +75m 6:52 / km
ahr:137 max:182 spiked:12/13c shoes: NB Leadville VS

Shevlin Park Sprint - Splits

Monday Sep 2, 2019 #

8 AM

Orienteering 51:47 3.49 km (14:50 / km) +92m 13:06 / km
ahr:87 max:114 shoes: VJ Falcons 9

9 AM

Orienteering race 1:31:21 *** 8.8 km (10:23 / km) +239m 9:08 / km
ahr:123 max:167 spiked:9/12c shoes: VJ Falcons 9

11 AM

Orienteering 50:00 [1] 3.5 km (14:17 / km)
shoes: VJ Falcons 9

From assembly area back to parking. Did a little bit of off trail with no compass.

Medium Day 3 Upper Dutchman - Splits

Sunday Sep 1, 2019 #

10 AM

Orienteering race 44:46 *** 5.41 km (8:17 / km) +50m 7:55 / km
ahr:150 max:172 spiked:12/14c shoes: VJ Falcons 9

Deschutes Daze -Day 2 on Lava Butte map. Mostly flat(ish) open woods with point rock features (lava outcrops) with areas of undergrowth ( depicted with vertical green). A dogbone course where pairs of controls needed to be visited (in either order) before visiting the next pair, making this an exercise in planning routes ahead. I did the shorter of the two available courses (4.9k) with 7 control pairs.

This race was a mass start with both the long and short courses having the same first two control pairs. For the first four controls it was just stay on the train. It got much lonelier when the long course runners deviated. Overshot the first control 4 and had to double back (1-1.5 minutes). By the time I got to the fifth pair, long course runners started appearing again and were helpful on the 5 and 6 pairs. Overshot the second control 7 by a little but I turned around and saw the flag (45-60 sec). I think I finished 2nd overall on the short course (pending seeing the actual results).

1 PM

Hiking 45:00 0.84 mi (53:34 / mi) +61m 43:41 / mi
ahr:80 max:131 shoes: New Balance 880

Trail at Big Obsidian Flow in Newberry National Volcanic Monument south of Bend, OR. Rocks, lots of rocks, many of them sharp, some of them very sharp, and many of them black and shiny.

Saturday Aug 31, 2019 #

Event: Deschutes Daze 2019

9 AM

Orienteering race 1:10:25 *** 7.24 km (9:43 / km) +88m 9:10 / km
ahr:136 max:176 spiked:10/13c shoes: VJ Falcons 9

Deschutes Daze Day 1. Short Course on “Witch of Many Boulders” map. Same map as the long course but shortcutting to skip controls 5,6,7 and 9. Supposedly 4.3k, but it seemed longer (and my GPS distance of 7+ km seems to support that since I don’t think I added that much distance by my wandering). A challenging technical section (controls 10-14) in an area of lava flow. Sunny and low 70s - quite nice.

Completely screwed up #1 - finally relocated near the road but lost about 8 minutes. Lost a minute or two to control 8 by heading off toward the Long course control rather than following the cutoff. Missed 11 in the lava field and had to relocate from the road beyond (4 min lost). Should have easily been under an hour.

Lower Dutchman, Short Witch - Splits

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