Training Log Archive: Charlie

What a difference a week made. Boulder dash day 2. Can't say the courses were unfair. Good orienteers did well. I won't go back here, though. Much too difficult for me to see what I was supposed to be looking for, and too hard for me to figure out which features were going to be reliable for finding things. Just too frustrating to be fun. A 1:10000 map is not much help when it is as dense as a 1:15000 map used to be.

I should note that the organization was impeccable. All aspects of the event were run perfectly, including start, finish, results, general logistics. I am a veteran of A-meet Saturday night dinners, and this was one of the best. A fine time visiting with many o-friends, too. The map is a really amazing achievement in a very complex area.

Green X Day 2 - Splits

Event: Boulder Dash 2007
 

Green X day 1 at Boulder Dash. Perhaps most frustrating day of O in quite some time. A couple of stinkers, and one particular leg where I just couldn;t find the control or any identifiable large feature in the area.

But then off for some pleasant rogaine practice with PG at the local Plausawa Valley Country Club. Welcomed very genially at the pro shop, and since things were crowded with a strange club event involving about ten guys playing together, they were kind enough to send us out to start at #3. Continued the recent pattern with no drives in the fairway and hitting many trees, whether on good shots or bad.

Green X Day 1 - Splits

abs portion of Rhonda's Friday morning circuit group. Followed by 10 minute rotations on bike, treadmill, bike and rowing machine. Girls coming up the driveway this am found a birch had fallen across the drive, so I will clean it up with the chainsaw after breakfast.

stationary bike, with the girls

treadmill, alternating faster and slower, and dreaming of PG's amazing track workout

alternating faster and slower, but no distance as the battery is out. Need to charge it with the laptop.

Some vigorous chain sawing, cleaning up the downed birch on the driveway, and another larger downed birch that Michael had taken down with the excavator for me. Then cut down a group of pines growing in the western corner of the side field. I was cutting the rather large stump of one of the birches when I ran into a rock on the far side, dulling the chain beyond use. It will take a while to re-sharpen.

Then spread grass seed over the side field, packed up and headed to PG's for rogaine practice with PG and Gail, including the AOWN experience of visiting the fox on the 17th fairway.

Trying to rest up after a couple of tiring days. Rhonda was taking care of Wells Tanner today, so took him for a backhoe ride down to fill in a hole east of the bridge. He had a pretty fine time digging, but the ride was a little too bouncy for him and he walked back up with Rhonda.

Then an hour of pleasant laurel wrangling, clearing part of an old skid road that I am rehabbing to be part of the trail network, and a spate of rogaine practice with Tom.

Rhonda's morning class with all the skogsnymphs. It's a tough crowd. Suffering a bit from a sore back and sore hand and wrist from yesterday's chainsaw activity.

CCW loop at McLean with Rhonda and Kathleen. They kept getting ahead and then waiting, but they took off on the last section before we turned onto single track and got out of site. Worked really hard to catch back up. Now I need a nap.

Now that these runs are happening a little later in the day (started around 8:40 today), we will invite Lyn and George next time we go to McLean.

Michael is finishing up with the backhoe today.

C • a far distance for yoga 2

With Rhonda and Hazel down to see the drainage projects Michael has been doing along Derby Rd, then back again, dropping Hazel off and walking over to see our friend Alex, who is dealing with chemo and breast cancer. She was pretty perky today, but has another round coming up on Thursday.

Lots of chainsaw work, clearing a few larger trees, but mostly saplings to give the backhoe some scope to work on the drainage projects on Derby Rd. Really tiring, and hard on my lower back. Just cutting trees down is not so bad, but dragging stuff into piles is much worse.