Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

Event: OCIN-FAST-O-Ft. St. Clair
 

Course 3 at Ft. St. Clair, near Eaton, OH; courses set by Jon Rauschenbach.

It was overcast and had rained the night before, but it was basically perfect weather. It wasn't too hot, it actually was a bit humid, but you only noticed it intellectually---it just felt like a perfect day.

Basically a long sprint, but with a few seriously tricky legs. It felt like I was moving faster than normal, even though I did walk all the steeper uphills.

Toward the end, I was running and talking to Joe R, an experienced orienteer who's been mostly out-of-the-sport for several years. It was really shocking how different we were running at the end. He seemed to know all the right angles in-and-out of the controls, and where he was going next. I'm normally like that, too. But next to Joe, I was a wreck. My brain just wasn't working right---I was doing the right things, but just much slower than normal. I'm chalking it up to oxygen debt.

As I'm writing this half-a-day later, I'm still tired and a bit shaky. I did some yard work about 5-7pm, and it was tough.

Note: It was really tough to line up my GPS track to routegadget. If you look at my track on the Google photo, it's significantly off in a lot of places. It seems to me the original routegadget fit more-or-less matched the google maps fit, so I don't think it's a major map distortion. Maybe it's just a bad day for GPS coverage.

Also---Installed Purple Pen last night. Need more time with it. Condes is so easy for me to use because I use it so much. But I've kinda felt obligated to give it a try. The interface is neat. I haven't done a whole event with it. Ahhhhhhhh! The Inertia!

C • Map distortion 3

OCIN Ft_St_Clair_Course 3 - Splits

Event: WOC 2011 + O'Festival Savoie Grand Revard
 

1hr 7min: Monthly transmitter hunt with several of the ARDFers. In cars. I'm logging it to get the GPS track, as well as checking to see if zero intensity stuff gets logged on the main screen---I'm hoping not.

Kinda fun. I can only take bearings when I stop, so I'm much much slower than the guys with serious hardware, who can actually take bearings as they're driving.

{Edit: It looks like attackpoint sorts by the sum of 1-5 zones, but shows the total time logged including the 0 zone in the training tab list. So I knocked down the 0 time by knocking off the seconds: 1:07:15 becomes 1:07.}

2m ARDF at French Park. Very short event, but still fun. I didn't get 5 because it got taken down while I was hunting for it. I ran past it about 3 times when it wasn't on, and got confused by mistaking 4 and 5. I didn't have a map, and that threw me some, but it was more just the short course having no mercy for short lapses of attention.

If you go to my track (blue globe), and look ESE a few hundred meters, you will see a red driveway. That is supposed to be the driveway of a Frank Lloyd Wright house, one of two in the Cincinnati Area.

Update about the Virginia thing. It appears that this might be a case of a very much less than helpful DMV worker, rather than a major problem with Virginia Law. I'm gonna make some phone calls and see. This actually makes me less likely to write the letter---aren't less-than-helpful DMV employees par-for-the-course?

12 x 25m swimming. The water was just a tiny bit too warm.

My form still falters on the later reps, but I'm getting better.

20 minutes on the indoor bike (because I'm too stupid to pump up the air in my bike and wipe off the dust).

Some guys at work do a monthly 10-mile time trial. I might do it next month. (I'll be slow.) That gives me about 4 weeks.

12 hours in the car. The Commonwealth of Virginia has some {expletive deleted} laws. The primary objective was unfulfilled because of Virginia's {expletive deleted} laws. The state-level equivalent of O' club membership reciprocity was not recognized. Kinda mad about it. I'm trying to decide if it's worth a letter (or series of letters). I can't quite see a path that will either (1) get it fixed, or (2) make me feel better by just writing the letter. The problem is the letters probably need to go to the Secretaries of State and maybe the Governors, so the chance of getting something done is low and the chance of looking like a crank is high. I'm gonna let it stew for a few days. That way, I'll either forget about it or I won't, and if it's the latter, then the letter will almost write itself.

I used to tell myself I was going to write a letter and then not follow through. More and more I wait a full week and am still mad enough to write the letter. I fear I'm turning into a curmudgeon.

A rhetorical argument just occurred to me---I'm off to the google...