Training Log Archive: mikeminiumIn the 7 days ending Apr 6, 2020:
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Monday Apr 6, 2020 #
orienteering 5:07:59 [3] ***
100c
Camp Tuscazoar Centennial Challenge. Should have been able to do this considerably faster, but didn't take water and needed to make a very costly (time, distance, steep climb) return to vehicle after about 3 hours. Very physical course. Fun.
River had finally gotten low enough to reach all controls, although the bottomlands were pretty muddy in places. There was one control where my intended route didn't work because of high water (I won't give it away), but the control itself was accessible.
Very open forest, a few patches of multiflora rose, but they generally were not too difficult to avoid.
Biggest complaint - Some of the controls are not very accurately marked on the map; probably spent a total of 20-30 minutes circling marked locations trying to find the plaque - it was a bit frustrating when they were marked on the opposite side of a trail, building, campsite, or other object.
I didn't take a compass; it might have been helpful in the central part of camp with the dense maze of intersecting trails and rides.
Very busy park, but a lot of room to spread out. Lots of fresh tracks of hikers, horses and bikes. Saw a few mountain bikers and a couple trail runners.
River had finally gotten low enough to reach all controls, although the bottomlands were pretty muddy in places. There was one control where my intended route didn't work because of high water (I won't give it away), but the control itself was accessible.
Very open forest, a few patches of multiflora rose, but they generally were not too difficult to avoid.
Biggest complaint - Some of the controls are not very accurately marked on the map; probably spent a total of 20-30 minutes circling marked locations trying to find the plaque - it was a bit frustrating when they were marked on the opposite side of a trail, building, campsite, or other object.
I didn't take a compass; it might have been helpful in the central part of camp with the dense maze of intersecting trails and rides.
Very busy park, but a lot of room to spread out. Lots of fresh tracks of hikers, horses and bikes. Saw a few mountain bikers and a couple trail runners.
Sunday Apr 5, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 3:30:00 [3]
about 50 minutes of chainsaw; the rest hauling and lopping.
Saturday Apr 4, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 2:00:00 [3]
honeysuckle eradication. mostly chainsaw. Union County Schools nature area.
weights / strength 15:00 [3]
chainsaw and hauling. cut down a pioneer Bradford (Callery) Pear . Noted 5 others on my property and will cut them down once they finish blooming.
weights / strength 1:00:00 [2]
Misc. yard and garden - digging / pulling out small honeysuckle, hauling tree branches.
Friday Apr 3, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 5:00:00 [3]
Honeysuckle eradication. 40 minutes if chainsaw, the rest with loppers, pulaski, and hand pulling / hauling.
Thursday Apr 2, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 1:45:00 [3]
Honeysuckle eradication. Union County Schools Nature Area. 45 minutes of chainsaw, about an hour of breaking up and hauling honeysuckle bushes.
Wednesday Apr 1, 2020 #
orienteering 30:00 [1] **
4c
Miami Middletown - located a vandalized control post, replaced a second with a temporary stake, visited 2 other controls.
weights / strength 30:00 [3]
post hole digger and shovel, replacing a permanent course post. hauling fallen tree branches off another control and breaking back some honeysuckle bushes that were also blocking / overgrowing it.
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020 #
weights / strength 3:00:00 [3]
yard and garden. wheelbarrow: hauling and spreading mulch. digging: moved some sod and planted a shrub.