Training Log Archive: dbakker

Event: Ski-O Larch Hills
 

BAH! Incredibly frustrated with 2drerun right now. I have tried setting up the map about 5 times, about 1.5 hours of playing around with it, and it still refuses to work properly. Everything is a little out of wack. It doesn't seem to be on my end, because when I add one of the athlete's .gpx track directly as a template to the map file, it lines up perfectly, without any of the distortion. Anyone have a solution?

http://3drerun.worldofo.com/index.php?id=-464257&a...

Setting out controls, the first batch.

The second batch of controls, forgot to restart the GPS for this one. Guessing on distances, etc.

Picking up some controls. Went down Devil's Lunge - what a blast!

GVOC has switched Membership and waivers to a digital format! High time we adopt this method too in my opinion. https://gvoc.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/3209

Today was hardly a rest day, but didn't have any loggable training...

Was up at the Ski Hill all Morning and early afternoon doing timing volunteer - lots of dancing, etc. to keep warm.

Came home and shovelled the driveway. Went and printed maps, had supper, got all the orienteering stuff figured out for tomorrow, even synced the units.

Lots of mapping for Toronto today. Finished off the section to the west of the river, finally figured out what was on the inside of a bunch around some of the central building courtyards that are externally accessible, and worked on the residences a bit. Now I just have around 4.5ish hours of residences left, then it's all fieldwork and corrections.

Mapping/Work to do in Order of Priority:
1. Finish off U of Toronto Mississauga Campus (5 hours initial passthrough, unknown amount post fieldwork...)
2. Start, Do, Finish Kensington Park in Burnbaby, BC (this is the map donated to the HPP silent auction, that is just now been ordered). Probably around 20 hours altogether.
3. Not mapping explicitly, but related to it, I need to get things together for applying for Jobs Grant funding for OBC/Sage for mapping/programming in the interior this coming year.
4. Finishing Kelowna OART mapping (around 20-30 hours left?)
5. More Toronto Maps?

So it's going to be a fun couple of months, with various and assorted mapping to do, mostly without deadlines - but a bunch at various points. Need to make sure I make time for training as well, which could be tricky.

Recovery Spin. Legs were hurting from yesterday.

We seem to have hit the bare minimum of 10 people signed up for the Ski-O, so I guess it is going ahead. Now I just need to organize an entire event over the next two days.

EDIT: Course planning complete, should be fun. Tell your friends to come out. See updated descriptions and course info at: https://sage.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/3154

On another note, with minimal promotion through: my training log, the creation of a Facebook, Attackpoint, and WhyJustRun events, we now have 20 people who are signed up as interested in the Okanagan Adventure Running Tournament. https://sage.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/3157
Now we just need our permissions to come through, and me to finish up the mapping after I finish this first Toronto map.

I did just over 2 hours on Toronto map today, procrastinating the last chunk of residences by working over in Erindale Park. Hoping to get my side of the mapping done by the end of the weekend, although Saturday is a complete right off (timing a XC race), as is much of Sunday (organizing a Ski-O).

Attempt #2 at Mount Ida. We had already packed down the first 3-3.5km or so, so we made it quite a bit further this time, but was snowing the entire time. Made it up onto the ridge, where normally there would be a great view, but today just clouds and snowflakes. We turned around with about another 1.5km to go along the ridge to reach the main viewpoint with a 360 panorama. Lots of fun on the way down.

Easy ski up in the cold at Larch Hills. South loops need another half a foot to a foot of snow to be in good shape - lots of sticks right now and even a few rocks. First time seeing the big new clearcut.