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Friday Dec 13, 2013 #
orienteering race 1:04:13 [4] *** 5.1 km (12:35 / km) +155m 10:56 / km
12c shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes
U.S. Night Course Championships at Hueston Woods. Green Course. Very nice course set by David Waller. The snow covering the ground made it almost like daylight, and I felt really good.
Spiked 1 through 4; a little right on 5 and probably lost close to a minute there. 5 to 6 was the 1.6 km long leg across the map. There was a very long road and trail option, but I chose to go pretty direct. The key point here was to be sure of going up the right spur once you crossed the powerline and the creek. I was a little extra careful there.
7 might have been the trickiest cointol on the course - tucked into a small side reentrant, where it could not be seen from very far away. I hit it dead on, although partly assisted by the excellent visibility and seeing lights going in and out. As I left, I am sure I passed the same favor on to the person behind me if he / she was alert enough to pick up on it. 9 was back across the nasty powerline, definitely using the trail to cross. I had already looked ahead to 10 and knew that it would be potentially deceptively difficult.
Control on a trail. How tough can it be? Well, it was a short piece of trail in the maze of open corridors and thicker patches of vegetation that make up the new disc golf course. Fairly flat around it. I decided on the right hand trail route, leaving the trail where it bent to cross the powerline, and using the ditch / dtream junction as an attackpoint. Hit it cleanly.
Leaving 10, low honeysuckle branches ripped off my ski cap and headlamp, and I lost 20 or 30 seconds fumbling to get it properly seated back on my head. Probably was less than optimal getting out to the road (seemed to hit morte green than should have been necessary), and then blasted down the road to the lodge. Light snow was falling at this point. A few seconds lost finding the control behind the lodge which was hiding in plain sight. Right out in the open, right next to a paved walkway, but the blasted landscaping lights along the path kept me from notyicing the reflection of the control, and I had to hesitate to check the map again, within just meters of the control.
From there, the return to the last control and the finish chute was into the wind, into the teeth of now heavily falling snow, an exhilerating finish, and I managed to kick high for that last little bit of effort, snagging third place in M50.
A very fun course. Thanks again Dave!
Spiked 1 through 4; a little right on 5 and probably lost close to a minute there. 5 to 6 was the 1.6 km long leg across the map. There was a very long road and trail option, but I chose to go pretty direct. The key point here was to be sure of going up the right spur once you crossed the powerline and the creek. I was a little extra careful there.
7 might have been the trickiest cointol on the course - tucked into a small side reentrant, where it could not be seen from very far away. I hit it dead on, although partly assisted by the excellent visibility and seeing lights going in and out. As I left, I am sure I passed the same favor on to the person behind me if he / she was alert enough to pick up on it. 9 was back across the nasty powerline, definitely using the trail to cross. I had already looked ahead to 10 and knew that it would be potentially deceptively difficult.
Control on a trail. How tough can it be? Well, it was a short piece of trail in the maze of open corridors and thicker patches of vegetation that make up the new disc golf course. Fairly flat around it. I decided on the right hand trail route, leaving the trail where it bent to cross the powerline, and using the ditch / dtream junction as an attackpoint. Hit it cleanly.
Leaving 10, low honeysuckle branches ripped off my ski cap and headlamp, and I lost 20 or 30 seconds fumbling to get it properly seated back on my head. Probably was less than optimal getting out to the road (seemed to hit morte green than should have been necessary), and then blasted down the road to the lodge. Light snow was falling at this point. A few seconds lost finding the control behind the lodge which was hiding in plain sight. Right out in the open, right next to a paved walkway, but the blasted landscaping lights along the path kept me from notyicing the reflection of the control, and I had to hesitate to check the map again, within just meters of the control.
From there, the return to the last control and the finish chute was into the wind, into the teeth of now heavily falling snow, an exhilerating finish, and I managed to kick high for that last little bit of effort, snagging third place in M50.
A very fun course. Thanks again Dave!
orienteering 45:00 [2] ***
15c shoes: Icebug 2012
Late night control pickup at Hueston Woods. 15 controls and a crate of water. Jogged most of it.
Thursday Dec 12, 2013 #
orienteering 2:15:00 [1] ***
18c weight:165lbs
Putting out control stands at Armco.
Tuesday Dec 10, 2013 #
weights / strength 1:00:00 [3]
weight:162lbs
Snow removal. A fresh 2-3 inches of powder overnight.
Sunday Dec 8, 2013 #
weights / strength 10:00 [1]
weight:163lbs
Snow removal. Light dusting to small drifts on about half of the driveway.
Saturday Dec 7, 2013 #
Event: OLOU Goat Meet (CANCELLED)
weights / strength 20:00 [3]
weight:164lbs
Snow removal.
walking 10:00 [1]
Checking start line and finish layout with Dave Waller.