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Thursday Aug 4, 2005 #
Running warm up/down (Warm-up) 5:00 [2] 0.65 km (7:42 / km)
slept:7.5
San Isabel National Forest near Buena Vista, CO. Warm-up in the parking/start area for the first day of cummulative competition for the Colorado 5-Day.
Orienteering race (Forest) 1:18:53 [4] **** 6.32 km (12:29 / km) +315m 9:59 / km
spiked:9/18c
Colorado 5-Day in the San Isabel National Forest near Buena Vista, CO. This physical and technical course got the better of me. There were some problems with the setting at #10 and #13 but I made my worst errors on #2 and #12. For #2, I was off on the wrong hill, 400m away from where I should have been. Had not the course ran that way and I ran into Peter, heading to another control on the course, the error would have been worse. I had problems with scale and with reading the very detailed rock but I ran okay when it was possible. I was well off J. Brautigam's winning time of around 59 minutes. Eddie B. was leading Blue when I left at about the same time for a kilometer longer. A light rain fell with a cool breeze in about 50F weather. The altitude was somewhere between 8,000 and 9,800 ft. See the Split List.
Other (Geocaching) 2:00:00 [2] 1.75 mi (1:08:35 / mi)
In North Cheyenne Canyon Park (North Bear Canyon Park) near Colorado Springs. After the debaucle with orienteering I thought to try something else for diversion and accompanied Gayle Ryan on attempts at 5 caches. We got them all. The first was down a steep eroded mountainside so we decided to skip it and went to the next. We found it by following a winding trail. It was under a UPW--or as the aficianados say: under a Ubiquitous Pile of Wood. Being near the one we first attempted, we thought to try again and located it after climbing on an unmapped trail, bushwacking to a rock formation, scrambling 50 ft. up a chute and searching under a precariously balanced 4 ft. boulder to eventually find it. Others we found were: in a bark covered jar sitting on tree branches, in a pill box screewed onto a false branch which fit into a hole in a tree, and in a guard rail with a hollowed wooden 4x4 that only appeared to be nailed to other wood on the rail. While looking for one cache I turned over a rock to find a tiny live scorpion. It was fun and we got great views of Colorado Springs and Garden of the Gods. Light rain continued.