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Saturday Oct 24, 2015 #
Orienteering 2:55:46 [3] 7.6 mi (23:08 / mi) +1115ft 20:18 / mi
shoes: MPMW15:w
Red - 16 controls; 8 km; 340 m
Actual Distance Traveled: 12.2 km
One big blunder leaving 3/101 heading to 4/127. I meant to head southeast leaving 101. I started in that direction but then I turned started heading southwest. I mistook one hill for another and one streaming crossing for another and before I knew it I was way off course. I knew I blundered but I wasn't sure exactly what I did wrong until I saw my track. I recovered well before I got to 127 but my blunder cost me quite a bit of time.
I think that I know what I did wrong, and it took me a while to stop doing it: for the first couple hours I wasn't turning the ring on my compass like I usually do. Instead I was eyeballing it and trying to read the direction I was headed in based on where the needle was pointing. With a lot more practice I'm sure I could get that to work but it cost me some time today.
Other than that I had a fine time orienteering today.The weather was nice.
I am a bit suspect of the base camp software's analysis of my Garmin track. It says I traveled 7.6 miles even though when I finished it had my distance at 9.99 km (6.2 miles). That seems like a pretty big variance. Base camp claims that I climbed over 3500 feet. There is no way I climbed even half that much today.
I think I made the right choice in choosing red over blue today. I might have been able to finish blue before 3, but I'm pretty sure it would have taken me at least 3.5 hrs, and that's assuming I didn't make any colossal blunders.
Friday Oct 23, 2015 #
Stretching 25:00 [3]
rhr:78 slept:7.0 weight:149.6lbs
Thursday Oct 22, 2015 #
Walking 39:25 [3] 2.0 mi (19:42 / mi) +75ft 19:02 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Philadelphia Ave - Maple Ave
Walking 44:15 [3] 2.2 mi (20:07 / mi) +200ft 18:31 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Maple Ave - Ritchie Ave - Takoma Ave - Philadelphia Ave
Stretching 25:00 [3]
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015 #
Walking 1:04:40 [3] 3.3 mi (19:36 / mi) +302ft 18:02 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
In addition to some exercise my plan was to pick up a copy of the Express but by the time I got to the Metro there weren't any copies left. :(
Walking 1:01:10 [3] 3.1 mi (19:44 / mi) +197ft 18:37 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
I made it to the metro (miraculously) without having to stop for any lights. The same was not true on the way home. I stopped for 3 lights and at 1 additional intersection to wait on traffic.
Stretching 25:00 [3]
rhr:70 slept:7.0 weight:147.8lbs
Tuesday Oct 20, 2015 #
Stretching 25:00 [3]
rhr:76 slept:5.5 weight:148.6lbs
Walking 17:53 [3] 0.9 mi (19:53 / mi) +112ft 17:47 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Walking 1:00:11 [3] 3.1 mi (19:25 / mi) +151ft 18:33 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w