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Saturday Jun 8, 2013 #
1 PM
Orienteering 2:07:00 [3] 5.46 mi (23:16 / mi)
shoes: INOV8 315
Forgot my heart rate strap.
Jens' Badlands sampler at ILRA.
Great map for me to regain some measure of confidence! In short, spiked all but three. Bobbled a bit on 12, a lot on 15 and a bit on 18. Fun course! Totally runnable, but today's partner preferred otherwise. So fun! #18 was definitely my favorite. Very AR.
Jens' Badlands sampler at ILRA.
Great map for me to regain some measure of confidence! In short, spiked all but three. Bobbled a bit on 12, a lot on 15 and a bit on 18. Fun course! Totally runnable, but today's partner preferred otherwise. So fun! #18 was definitely my favorite. Very AR.
Mountain Bike (Single Track) 54:00 [3] 8.7 mi (6:12 / mi)
shoes: Giant Talon
Blue Loop at ILRA with Ali and Jen K.
Friday Jun 7, 2013 #
weights 50:00 [3]
Wednesday Jun 5, 2013 #
Mountain Bike (road/bike path) 1:07:00 [3] 13.65 mi (4:54 / mi)
ahr:130 max:155 shoes: Giant Talon
Nice little ride on the connected paths along the Huron River. Good practice dodging pedestrians, oh my! Left from SafeHouse Center, to the Dam, to Fuller, to Argo up to Longshore then back through and around. Beautiful day, so glad I took a bike break in this long day!!!!
Monday Jun 3, 2013 #
Orienteering 3:33:00 [3]
ahr:100 max:168
Re-entrants, gullies and ditches OH MY.
So, realized that I really need to learn how those work in topography. And also started to internalize how they can lead you in the right direction. Also picked up a lot about how contours/inclines work.
Went back to work on the area where there is 4, 5, 6 and 7. If I did the QR correctly, I hit 5, then 4, then 6 relatively well. Then 7 it took a million tries-cannot even read the lines hardly, and 8 I bobbled on a more prominent ditch to the dual ditches with gullies I was really looking for--aha.
Then, in the spirit of not making myself crazy, I decided to park to the north of where the last four I planned to find. I don't have data for this...kid was calling, stopped the watch (won't do that again) and forgot to restart. Anyway, took a bearing off the trail at a point that was incorrect, doubled back to the fence line and used that. Then, 13 was a little nutty for me. I had it in my head that it was in that reentrant ditchy thing, but it was on the north side up on the hill. I need to do some armchair orienteering to start visualizing some of the features. Then head up the trail to 14, and as I took a bearing to the east I thought, heck, this is practice, why not look for the reentrant that seems to lean to the depression. So I went over to the water body positioned southwest and followed the reentrant. Voila! Used the ridge to 15 for practice then north to the trail to 17. Used the reentrant and compass to get to the northern side of the circle tipped south a tad and spiked it. Phew. Feeling a little better. I need to study how all these contours work together. and figure out a way how to aggregate the information on to the o-map and USGS map.
So, realized that I really need to learn how those work in topography. And also started to internalize how they can lead you in the right direction. Also picked up a lot about how contours/inclines work.
Went back to work on the area where there is 4, 5, 6 and 7. If I did the QR correctly, I hit 5, then 4, then 6 relatively well. Then 7 it took a million tries-cannot even read the lines hardly, and 8 I bobbled on a more prominent ditch to the dual ditches with gullies I was really looking for--aha.
Then, in the spirit of not making myself crazy, I decided to park to the north of where the last four I planned to find. I don't have data for this...kid was calling, stopped the watch (won't do that again) and forgot to restart. Anyway, took a bearing off the trail at a point that was incorrect, doubled back to the fence line and used that. Then, 13 was a little nutty for me. I had it in my head that it was in that reentrant ditchy thing, but it was on the north side up on the hill. I need to do some armchair orienteering to start visualizing some of the features. Then head up the trail to 14, and as I took a bearing to the east I thought, heck, this is practice, why not look for the reentrant that seems to lean to the depression. So I went over to the water body positioned southwest and followed the reentrant. Voila! Used the ridge to 15 for practice then north to the trail to 17. Used the reentrant and compass to get to the northern side of the circle tipped south a tad and spiked it. Phew. Feeling a little better. I need to study how all these contours work together. and figure out a way how to aggregate the information on to the o-map and USGS map.
Sunday Jun 2, 2013 #
2 PM
Orienteering 3:30:00 [3] 7.0 mi (30:00 / mi)
ahr:106 max:144
Pond Lily that Igor streamered...
It was tough for me. I got to 1 (saw Oleg en route, and he looked a little concerned--eep!) and 2 fine, and heading to 3 the indistinct trail was not apparent to me (didn't go far enough) and bobbled along the shoreline. Then there was that pink streamer! :)
I just QRd my experience, and there were a couple of areas that it all just fell apart. First, going from 3, I let myself trot down the trail to the east too long and hit the road. Grrr...I was able to relo pretty quickly and thought to turn off my watch until I was in spitting distance of the QR. I got down the road and saw the two track/abandoned road to the N/S trail to the E/W and headed down that looking for the knolls. (During the whole time I kept telling myself I wasn't a moron) I threw a bearing from there a couple of times, as well I tried from that gully thing south of 5, and well, you can see the spaghetti soup that ensued! I took a bearing from 4 to 5, and found myself in that small water body to the N and made my down and then finally got it, but I was so frustrated that I just don't remember how it happened! Then to 6, and in my travels I saw how to get there, spiked it, then on to 7, and my head got to swirling about so many things, bumbled the bearing, and got turned around in the heavy green and got frustrated...then I decided to head out. Bugger. Looking on the QR I was close.
The good news is that I had not qualms about running out, and felt strong, just got to worrying about getting home, getting better, wondering shy I bumble so much, blah, blah, blah...
So, bah. I am feeling really worried that I will never get this. Also, I don't know how to pace this, and am totally willing to do what it takes. But I don't know if I am going about this the right way? I mean, I think just working at it, and the relo stuff I have to do is probably helpful, and getting to know new terrain is fine too, but I wanted to reach out to seasoned folks to see if I could be doing anything different. I do struggle with the differences of contours. and making sure I am where I am on the map.
Onward and forward. Only thing I can think of to keep my chin up is if I quit, I definitely won't get better.
It was tough for me. I got to 1 (saw Oleg en route, and he looked a little concerned--eep!) and 2 fine, and heading to 3 the indistinct trail was not apparent to me (didn't go far enough) and bobbled along the shoreline. Then there was that pink streamer! :)
I just QRd my experience, and there were a couple of areas that it all just fell apart. First, going from 3, I let myself trot down the trail to the east too long and hit the road. Grrr...I was able to relo pretty quickly and thought to turn off my watch until I was in spitting distance of the QR. I got down the road and saw the two track/abandoned road to the N/S trail to the E/W and headed down that looking for the knolls. (During the whole time I kept telling myself I wasn't a moron) I threw a bearing from there a couple of times, as well I tried from that gully thing south of 5, and well, you can see the spaghetti soup that ensued! I took a bearing from 4 to 5, and found myself in that small water body to the N and made my down and then finally got it, but I was so frustrated that I just don't remember how it happened! Then to 6, and in my travels I saw how to get there, spiked it, then on to 7, and my head got to swirling about so many things, bumbled the bearing, and got turned around in the heavy green and got frustrated...then I decided to head out. Bugger. Looking on the QR I was close.
The good news is that I had not qualms about running out, and felt strong, just got to worrying about getting home, getting better, wondering shy I bumble so much, blah, blah, blah...
So, bah. I am feeling really worried that I will never get this. Also, I don't know how to pace this, and am totally willing to do what it takes. But I don't know if I am going about this the right way? I mean, I think just working at it, and the relo stuff I have to do is probably helpful, and getting to know new terrain is fine too, but I wanted to reach out to seasoned folks to see if I could be doing anything different. I do struggle with the differences of contours. and making sure I am where I am on the map.
Onward and forward. Only thing I can think of to keep my chin up is if I quit, I definitely won't get better.