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Sunday May 15, 2011 #
Event: Billygoat Run
Orienteering Race 3:23:21 [3] 13.97 km (14:33 / km) +520m 12:16 / km
Billygoat Run....
Finished my 25th Billygoat under 3 1/2 hours. All those hours of training paid off. On and off rain during the race slow up my pace a bit, but that worked out since my companions didn't want to go any faster than my slow pace. No physical problems during run except feeling wet and squishy. Grazed right knee again rock, but no serious damage.
Was in a group that kept getting bigger as we went along. Reached 10-12 people at one point. Nice thing was that everybody in our group made 3 1/2 hours.
Checked my splits and we went faster as the event went along. This was the plan, so that worked out well.
Came thru with my motivation intact. What's next?
Finished my 25th Billygoat under 3 1/2 hours. All those hours of training paid off. On and off rain during the race slow up my pace a bit, but that worked out since my companions didn't want to go any faster than my slow pace. No physical problems during run except feeling wet and squishy. Grazed right knee again rock, but no serious damage.
Was in a group that kept getting bigger as we went along. Reached 10-12 people at one point. Nice thing was that everybody in our group made 3 1/2 hours.
Checked my splits and we went faster as the event went along. This was the plan, so that worked out well.
Came thru with my motivation intact. What's next?
Wednesday May 11, 2011 #
Field Work 6:00:00 [0]
Finishing up Blue Mountain update. Finally done and very tired. Next couple of days will be drafting and resting for the Billygoat.
Map notes:
On the rock front, two things really irked me about the Blue Mountain map. There are a significant number of cliffs not connected to contours. This would indicate they should be monoliths, but I've only seen one map where this was truely the case. In this case, some of them should have been connected via form lines and others should be bare rock and/or knolls. My second issue is that bare rock is not consistently mapped. In some places the map shows a cliff and its clearly bare rock based on the fact I could run up it.
Since I was only focused on vegetation and trail updates, I didn't update the rock features on the map unless they completely annoyed me.
Map notes:
On the rock front, two things really irked me about the Blue Mountain map. There are a significant number of cliffs not connected to contours. This would indicate they should be monoliths, but I've only seen one map where this was truely the case. In this case, some of them should have been connected via form lines and others should be bare rock and/or knolls. My second issue is that bare rock is not consistently mapped. In some places the map shows a cliff and its clearly bare rock based on the fact I could run up it.
Since I was only focused on vegetation and trail updates, I didn't update the rock features on the map unless they completely annoyed me.
Tuesday May 10, 2011 #
Field Work 5:45:00 [3]
After all this field work, finally reached Blue Mountain itself. In the northwestern quadrant it is very open and detailed. Nice woods. Not as steep as you might think. Plenty of signs of the dead pine/slash areas that can be dominent in the old slow run.
Nice weather and the bugs have been worse. Almost done. One more hard day and then maybe some cleanup. Getting a bit worn down. Go home and fall asleep within an hour. On the good news front, weight has dropped 4 pounds since I began the field work.
Mapper's notes. Areas of open woods can vary from wide open and extremely fast, to more closed in woods with limited visibility, to areas of slash.
Mapping slash as white woods was a difficult decision. It looks like slow run, but after a couple of runners have beat down the slash, it's pretty easy to get through.
If we'd been Swedish, I'm sure forerunners woould go out and bash down all the slash for the team trialers Not being Swedish, the mapper put on his biggest clown shoes to tromp down the slash on the logical routes in and out of controls. And since some folks are not as logical, I tromped down slash on the less logical route choice into controls. Does it help? Probably not, but it does prove out the theory of the ease of bashing down the slash.
Nice weather and the bugs have been worse. Almost done. One more hard day and then maybe some cleanup. Getting a bit worn down. Go home and fall asleep within an hour. On the good news front, weight has dropped 4 pounds since I began the field work.
Mapper's notes. Areas of open woods can vary from wide open and extremely fast, to more closed in woods with limited visibility, to areas of slash.
Mapping slash as white woods was a difficult decision. It looks like slow run, but after a couple of runners have beat down the slash, it's pretty easy to get through.
If we'd been Swedish, I'm sure forerunners woould go out and bash down all the slash for the team trialers Not being Swedish, the mapper put on his biggest clown shoes to tromp down the slash on the logical routes in and out of controls. And since some folks are not as logical, I tromped down slash on the less logical route choice into controls. Does it help? Probably not, but it does prove out the theory of the ease of bashing down the slash.