Training Log Archive: JanetT

Low key and on the floor class (no stepping). Blister under callus on left heel not bothering too much after I padded it a bit (just a band aid so far), but I may want to find something to do after Pilates that doesn't involve walking.

Event: DVOA Mount Penn - Pagoda
 

Our choices yesterday were the Rochester Map Adventure (which we'd never done before...and we still didn't get downtown), or UNO's Pawtuckaway local meet, each approximately equidistant from where we live. This log post confirms that Rochester was the right decision.

Only one weekend without an organized orienteering event so far since March 21 (Memorial Day weekend).

My "baby" is 27 today...how time flies.

Event: ROC - Rochester Map Adventure 2015
 

Results ... More tomorrow when I download watch.

Fun day at the Rochester Map Adventure starting at the Fleet Feet Sports store near Cobbs Hill Park. Temps in the low to mid 80s and partly sunny, with a short rain shower around the 2 hour mark (3-hour adventure went from 11am-2pm), which was enough to cool me down for a bit. Not excessively humid, either.

First time out with both the new Halo (brand) baseball cap and the new FR220 (whose track you see here).

Miscommunication between organizers and adventurers meant a lot of folks on both the three- and five-hour Foot courses took the combined question sheets for both map sides A and B, not realizing that by doing so we were declaring ourselves "non-competitive." The original intent was to "go on side A as long as you want, come back to S/F and do a map exchange for checkpoints on side B," which didn't sound as fun to me as having all the questions together so you didn't have to do two shorter loops.

I think they decided (since so many people did what we did) to just call us "double" instead of N/C. Not that there were any prizes that I noticed, just a lot of very delicious refreshments (including some home-made snacks) at the finish, thanks in very large part to Dayle Lavine. Nice course and question design with only a few typos affecting some folks' interpretations of things. Very nice map by Dick Detwiler.

There were a total of 97 checkpoints with questions spread over the two maps, plus three electronic checkpoints (they used epunch for start/finish, so why not have a few e-controls in the parks as well?). I was able to get to 31 of the checkpoints plus 2 e-controls, and I think I answered all the questions correctly, though one in particular caused some concern (color of a door and frame on the "E" side of a specified house... when they really wanted the door on the "W" side, which I think was actually a decorative door and frame that led into a yard rather than into the house). I turned on the wrong trail for the e-control in Cobbs Hill Park so took extra time to find it.

I would definitely do this again, and think all clubs in major cities should have Street Scramble type events every year. :-)

An interesting link and discussion in Barb's log .

Back home after a few days visiting with most of my family in Delaware.

We spent several hours on Tuesday at the DuPont Nature Center near the Delaware Bay (east of Milford if anyone knows Delaware geography), looking both at the birds outside and the exhibits inside. May is the time of year that a sandpiper-like bird called the red knot stops on its way from Brazil and southern South America to the Arctic (northern Canada) on both sides of Delaware Bay where horseshoe crabs spawn. They only eat the protein-rich horseshoe crab eggs. In recent years numbers of birds were down because of over-collection of the crabs, and the birds couldn't make it to the Arctic to nest. Efforts have been made to control the hsc harvest and their numbers as well as red knot numbers are on the rebound. My best photos (10x zoom camera) are pretty fuzzy because they were across the inlet from us, so here's a website about them...

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red_Knot/id

C • HSCs 2

Followed by adductors, pulldowns, and leg presses.