Training Log Archive: ken

Survived 1st-grade orienteering. Used Nadim's map (thanks!), modified a bit for 1:1500. 9 controls, score-o style, but with a reasonable route if you take them in numbered order. Classic-red solo cups hanging from strings at each location. Inside the cups were puzzle pieces, sorted so each cup has one type of piece. Find all the controls, and you can make a whole puzzle. They went in groups of 3. No compasses. Not much standing still, or even walking. I didn't tell them it was a race, but they made it one.

Note for next time: once you give them the maps, good luck keeping them around for further instructions. Also, apparently those puzzles come in slightly different patterns, I got 12 each of 4 different patterns, so I had to use just one pattern and have them take 1 piece per group instead of 1 per person.

The kids seemed to like it. At least, they asked to do it again in the afternoon. When I couldn't promise that, they went and collected the "controls" for me.

More pictures (by alex)

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stomach cramping a little bit. probably it was too full of cornbread and pork bbq. Also, I need to sleep more this week.

Event: QOC Pohick Bay
 

a long time to be on the stationary bike, but I haven't fixed my real-bike situation yet. kept busy doing stuff on my phone.

Event: QOC Morven Park Night-O
 

Event: 10Mila
 

Didn't get to follow any of tiomila today, but at least I did get out to go night orienteering! I did the shorter advanced course for less climb and fewer chances to step on something the wrong way in the dark. But as it turned out I think I still went up the steepest hill and the fields were actually pretty smooth running. Kept my light on low most of the time to keep things interesting. I got a little bit confused around #3, it seems like I just didn't go far enough. Wore real o-shoes as an experiment before next weekend. Not exactly painful, but definitely less good than running shoes.

Finished early enough to have some fun taking pictures in the dark.

warmup beforehand, waiting for it to get dark

Medium Adv - Splits