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Saturday Dec 5, 2015 #
Event: QOC Occoquan
7 AM
Stretching 25:00 [3]
rhr:81 slept:6.0 weight:147.8lbs
11 AM
Orienteering 2:59:47 [3] 7.7 mi (23:21 / mi) +689ft 21:31 / mi
shoes: MPMW15:w
Occoquan
Blue (14 controls, 9.1 km, 210 m)
Actual Distance Traveled: 12.4 km
I seem to have better success at getting good climb data from my own Garmin. I had to borrow a Garmin from the club today and the same thing happened that happened last time I borrowed one, I got a climb reading that was several times what the course was supposed to be. In this case the Garmin told me I climbed more than 900 meters. It's very possible that my actual climb was more than the course climb but there's no way it was that much climb.
For the most part I didn't have too much difficulty. I spent a little more time that I ideally would have liked to spend searching for a few controls.
6/137 - This control was fairly close to 9/142. In turning the map around I got 6 and 9 mixed up as I was headed from 5 to 6. At first I was headed toward 9. It wasn't until I got about 3/4 of the way there that I realized I was heading for the wrong control and adjusted my course. I have to wonder if the course setter did that on purpose.
8/141 - I thought I was in the correct re-entrant when I was actually just to the north of the one that the control was in. It wasn't until it occurred to me that the evergreen tree I was near might be the evergreen tree to the north of the control instead of the one to the southwest of the control that I headed south and found the control fairly rapidly.
11/145 - I was close to this one but to the southwest of it and too low on the hillside. After looking for it unsuccessfully I headed for 4/150 and then north from there. That did the trick. For whatever reason I didn't expect the control to be that high up on the slope.
12/135 - After crossing the stream at the southwest corner of the pond I didn't head far enough west. Instead I turned south and looked there. Once I tried heading west from the corner of the pond I found it.
16/152 - My plan was to find 19/151 and then head northwest. I thought I spotted 19/151 but it was actually 11/145. I didn't verify which control I had just passed. I just kept going. The terrain didn't seem to match the map but I kept going northwest until I saw the fence. At that point I figured out what I had done wrong and turned south and found the control.
19/151 - I went right past this one without seeing it. I couldn't have been more than 20 feet from it when I passed it. It wasn't until I was within sight of 16/152 that I knew exactly where I was and doubled back and found the control I was looking for. It was hidden pretty good but I might have spotted it the first time around if I had been looking to my left as I passed it.
I don't feel as though I lost too much time today. I already mentioned all four controls it took me the most time to locate (11, 12, 16, 19).
The weather was gorgeous, sunny, cool, hardly any wind. I just wore a long and short-sleeved t-shirt on top and felt warm enough.
I tripped and fell a few times. I wasn't running when this happened. I just got my feet tangled in big branches and went sprawling.
This was my first time at Occoquan. It isn't my favorite park. It is a little too small for my tastes but there is lots of good terrain for orienteering in it. The problem with such a small park is that you keep running into people headed this way and that which is very distracting. Given what the size of the park I think the course setter did a great job designing the course.
Blue (14 controls, 9.1 km, 210 m)
Actual Distance Traveled: 12.4 km
I seem to have better success at getting good climb data from my own Garmin. I had to borrow a Garmin from the club today and the same thing happened that happened last time I borrowed one, I got a climb reading that was several times what the course was supposed to be. In this case the Garmin told me I climbed more than 900 meters. It's very possible that my actual climb was more than the course climb but there's no way it was that much climb.
For the most part I didn't have too much difficulty. I spent a little more time that I ideally would have liked to spend searching for a few controls.
6/137 - This control was fairly close to 9/142. In turning the map around I got 6 and 9 mixed up as I was headed from 5 to 6. At first I was headed toward 9. It wasn't until I got about 3/4 of the way there that I realized I was heading for the wrong control and adjusted my course. I have to wonder if the course setter did that on purpose.
8/141 - I thought I was in the correct re-entrant when I was actually just to the north of the one that the control was in. It wasn't until it occurred to me that the evergreen tree I was near might be the evergreen tree to the north of the control instead of the one to the southwest of the control that I headed south and found the control fairly rapidly.
11/145 - I was close to this one but to the southwest of it and too low on the hillside. After looking for it unsuccessfully I headed for 4/150 and then north from there. That did the trick. For whatever reason I didn't expect the control to be that high up on the slope.
12/135 - After crossing the stream at the southwest corner of the pond I didn't head far enough west. Instead I turned south and looked there. Once I tried heading west from the corner of the pond I found it.
16/152 - My plan was to find 19/151 and then head northwest. I thought I spotted 19/151 but it was actually 11/145. I didn't verify which control I had just passed. I just kept going. The terrain didn't seem to match the map but I kept going northwest until I saw the fence. At that point I figured out what I had done wrong and turned south and found the control.
19/151 - I went right past this one without seeing it. I couldn't have been more than 20 feet from it when I passed it. It wasn't until I was within sight of 16/152 that I knew exactly where I was and doubled back and found the control I was looking for. It was hidden pretty good but I might have spotted it the first time around if I had been looking to my left as I passed it.
I don't feel as though I lost too much time today. I already mentioned all four controls it took me the most time to locate (11, 12, 16, 19).
The weather was gorgeous, sunny, cool, hardly any wind. I just wore a long and short-sleeved t-shirt on top and felt warm enough.
I tripped and fell a few times. I wasn't running when this happened. I just got my feet tangled in big branches and went sprawling.
This was my first time at Occoquan. It isn't my favorite park. It is a little too small for my tastes but there is lots of good terrain for orienteering in it. The problem with such a small park is that you keep running into people headed this way and that which is very distracting. Given what the size of the park I think the course setter did a great job designing the course.
Friday Dec 4, 2015 #
7 AM
Note
10 years ago today, on Dec 4, 2005 I went to my first orienteering meet.
Wheaton Regional Park
Orange - 11 controls, 4.2 km, 95 m
It took me 1:19:46 to finish the course. Since then I have gone to an additional 177 orienteering events (Classic, Score, Susquehanna Stumbles, Training, etc.). I have orienteered at 166 of 177 meets, served as meet director at 5 of the other 11 meets, and helped out in some capacity at the other 6 meets.
I quickly moved on from intermediate level courses and for the most part have only attempted advanced level courses in the past 10 years.
37 - Blue
68 - Red
19 - Green
8 - Score
6 - QOC Beer Chase
6 - Training/Short Summer Series
5 - Susquehanna Stumble (Short)
1 - 6 Hr Rogaine
I have not successfully finished every course I have started. I have yet to MP but I have 14 DNFs. The only parks where I have multiple DNFs are PWF/Happyland (3) and Mason Neck (2). I also have a DNF at both French Creek East and West. Two of the DNFs are due to equipment malfunctions. At Lake Accotink (Sep 2006) one of my boots came apart; the sole almost completely separated from the rest of the boot. At Rosaryville (Apr 2012) I lost my ePunch. At Cabin John (Nov 2015) I lost my compass but I managed to finish without it.
Most of the orienteering meets I have been to have been organized by QOC.
159 - Quantico Orienteering Club
10 - Delaware Valley Orienteering Association
8 - Susquehanna Valley Orienteering
I have been to orienteering events in 4 states.
98 - Maryland
66 - Virginia
11 - Pennsylvania
2 - Delaware
Furthest points that I have orienteered:
North - Hickory Run (PA)
South - Westmoreland (VA)
East - Brandywine Creek (DE)
West - Morven Park (VA)
Depending on how you count them I have been to as many as 59 different orienteering sites, although some of them are just different sections or start points in the same park.
I maintain a Google Map of places I have gone orienteering: Dave Goes Orienteering Map
Patapsco River State Park leads the way with a total of 20 events.
10 - Granite/McKeldin
7 - Avalon/Orange Grove/Rockburn Branch
3 - Glen Artney/Baltimore County Community College
Prince William Forest is next with 12 events.
8 - Turkey Run/South Fork
4 - Happyland
Here are the rest of the parks that I have been to 5 or more times.
9 - Greenbelt
8 - Great Falls MD
8 - Hemlock Overlook
8 - Manassas Battlefield Park/Stuart's Hill
8 - Patuxent
8 - Wheaton
7 - Little Bennett
6 - Fountainhead
6 - Lake Accotink
5 - Jug Bay
5 - Oregon Ridge
5 - Pohick Bay
5 - Rosaryville
It is interesting to note that both the last event of the first 10 years (Rocky Ridge) and the first event following this anniversary (Occoquan) are in parks that I had not been to before.
The longest classic courses in terms of the number of controls were at Lake Needwood (28 controls in Sep 2011 and Sep 2012) and Great Falls MD (28 controls in Nov 2011)
The longest course in terms of distance was at Prince William/South Fork (11 km in Oct 2013)
The most time I ever took to complete a regular course was at Mont Alto in May 2007 (Red: 12 controls, 6.4 km, 240 m) when it took me 4:18:46. I recall getting very turned around that day on one control in particular.
More recently it took me 4:08:44 to finish the blue course (19 controls, 10 km, 405 m) at Patapsco/Glen Artney in March 2015. There was 3-5 inches of snow on the ground in most places which made things "interesting" and definitely slowed me down.
In 2005 QOC was still using a mix of ePunch and pin punching, although ePunch was starting to become more prevalent. Now it is very rare for pin punching to be used at QOC events.
In 2005 it was fairly common for participants to have to draw their own courses on the map. Sitting outside, drawing your own course on a cold windy day was not a fun activity. The most recent map that I have of a course that I drew by hand at Patuxent (Red: Feb 2009). By that point it was fairly rare to have to draw your own course. I have only 4 maps on which I drew the courses from September 2007 - February 2009.
I have averaged 17-18 o-events per year (Dec - Nov) for the last 10 years but there has been only two years that I have actually been to either 17 or 18 meets: 2007 and 2010. The fewest number of events I have been to in a year is 12 and that happened twice: 2006 and 2009. I have been to 20 or more events in 4 of the past 5 years, the only exception being 2013 when I only made it to 16 events and the high watermark being 2015, when I made it to 24 events.
There are other numbers and statistics I could and may in the future compile about the past 10 years but I think I will leave it at that for now.
Wheaton Regional Park
Orange - 11 controls, 4.2 km, 95 m
It took me 1:19:46 to finish the course. Since then I have gone to an additional 177 orienteering events (Classic, Score, Susquehanna Stumbles, Training, etc.). I have orienteered at 166 of 177 meets, served as meet director at 5 of the other 11 meets, and helped out in some capacity at the other 6 meets.
I quickly moved on from intermediate level courses and for the most part have only attempted advanced level courses in the past 10 years.
37 - Blue
68 - Red
19 - Green
8 - Score
6 - QOC Beer Chase
6 - Training/Short Summer Series
5 - Susquehanna Stumble (Short)
1 - 6 Hr Rogaine
I have not successfully finished every course I have started. I have yet to MP but I have 14 DNFs. The only parks where I have multiple DNFs are PWF/Happyland (3) and Mason Neck (2). I also have a DNF at both French Creek East and West. Two of the DNFs are due to equipment malfunctions. At Lake Accotink (Sep 2006) one of my boots came apart; the sole almost completely separated from the rest of the boot. At Rosaryville (Apr 2012) I lost my ePunch. At Cabin John (Nov 2015) I lost my compass but I managed to finish without it.
Most of the orienteering meets I have been to have been organized by QOC.
159 - Quantico Orienteering Club
10 - Delaware Valley Orienteering Association
8 - Susquehanna Valley Orienteering
I have been to orienteering events in 4 states.
98 - Maryland
66 - Virginia
11 - Pennsylvania
2 - Delaware
Furthest points that I have orienteered:
North - Hickory Run (PA)
South - Westmoreland (VA)
East - Brandywine Creek (DE)
West - Morven Park (VA)
Depending on how you count them I have been to as many as 59 different orienteering sites, although some of them are just different sections or start points in the same park.
I maintain a Google Map of places I have gone orienteering: Dave Goes Orienteering Map
Patapsco River State Park leads the way with a total of 20 events.
10 - Granite/McKeldin
7 - Avalon/Orange Grove/Rockburn Branch
3 - Glen Artney/Baltimore County Community College
Prince William Forest is next with 12 events.
8 - Turkey Run/South Fork
4 - Happyland
Here are the rest of the parks that I have been to 5 or more times.
9 - Greenbelt
8 - Great Falls MD
8 - Hemlock Overlook
8 - Manassas Battlefield Park/Stuart's Hill
8 - Patuxent
8 - Wheaton
7 - Little Bennett
6 - Fountainhead
6 - Lake Accotink
5 - Jug Bay
5 - Oregon Ridge
5 - Pohick Bay
5 - Rosaryville
It is interesting to note that both the last event of the first 10 years (Rocky Ridge) and the first event following this anniversary (Occoquan) are in parks that I had not been to before.
The longest classic courses in terms of the number of controls were at Lake Needwood (28 controls in Sep 2011 and Sep 2012) and Great Falls MD (28 controls in Nov 2011)
The longest course in terms of distance was at Prince William/South Fork (11 km in Oct 2013)
The most time I ever took to complete a regular course was at Mont Alto in May 2007 (Red: 12 controls, 6.4 km, 240 m) when it took me 4:18:46. I recall getting very turned around that day on one control in particular.
More recently it took me 4:08:44 to finish the blue course (19 controls, 10 km, 405 m) at Patapsco/Glen Artney in March 2015. There was 3-5 inches of snow on the ground in most places which made things "interesting" and definitely slowed me down.
In 2005 QOC was still using a mix of ePunch and pin punching, although ePunch was starting to become more prevalent. Now it is very rare for pin punching to be used at QOC events.
In 2005 it was fairly common for participants to have to draw their own courses on the map. Sitting outside, drawing your own course on a cold windy day was not a fun activity. The most recent map that I have of a course that I drew by hand at Patuxent (Red: Feb 2009). By that point it was fairly rare to have to draw your own course. I have only 4 maps on which I drew the courses from September 2007 - February 2009.
I have averaged 17-18 o-events per year (Dec - Nov) for the last 10 years but there has been only two years that I have actually been to either 17 or 18 meets: 2007 and 2010. The fewest number of events I have been to in a year is 12 and that happened twice: 2006 and 2009. I have been to 20 or more events in 4 of the past 5 years, the only exception being 2013 when I only made it to 16 events and the high watermark being 2015, when I made it to 24 events.
There are other numbers and statistics I could and may in the future compile about the past 10 years but I think I will leave it at that for now.
Stretching 25:00 [3]
rhr:68 slept:6.0 weight:149.4lbs
8 AM
Walking 35:50 [3] 1.9 mi (18:51 / mi) +190ft 17:13 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Home to Takoma Metro
9 AM
Walking 8:30 [3] 0.5 mi (17:00 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Crystal City Metro to Office
5 PM
Walking 8:35 [3] 0.5 mi (17:10 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Office to Crystal City Metro
6 PM
Walking 30:05 [3] 1.6 mi (18:48 / mi) +89ft 17:52 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Takoma Metro to Home
Thursday Dec 3, 2015 #
7 AM
Stretching 25:00 [3]
rhr:80 slept:6.0 weight:148.4lbs
8 AM
Walking 35:20 [3] 1.9 mi (18:36 / mi) +190ft 16:59 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Home to Takoma Metro
9 AM
Walking 8:35 [3] 0.5 mi (17:10 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Crystal City Metro to Office
6 PM
Walking 8:35 [3] 0.5 mi (17:10 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Office to Crystal City Metro
7 PM
Walking 29:25 [3] 1.6 mi (18:23 / mi) +89ft 17:28 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Takoma Metro to Home
Wednesday Dec 2, 2015 #
8 AM
Walking 35:45 [3] 1.9 mi (18:49 / mi) +190ft 17:11 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Home to Takoma Metro
10 AM
Walking 8:35 [3] 0.5 mi (17:10 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Crystal City Metro to Office
4 PM
Walking 8:45 [3] 0.5 mi (17:30 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Office to Crystal City Metro
5 PM
Walking 9:05 [3] 0.5 mi (18:10 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Silver Spring Metro to Sport Honda
Tuesday Dec 1, 2015 #
7 AM
Walking 9:05 [3] 0.5 mi (18:10 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Sport Honda to Silver Spring Metro
8 AM
Walking 9:30 [3] 0.5 mi (19:00 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Crystal City Metro to Office
5 PM
Walking 8:40 [3] 0.5 mi (17:20 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Office to Crystal City Metro
6 PM
Walking 30:00 [3] 1.6 mi (18:45 / mi) +89ft 17:49 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Takoma Metro to Home
Monday Nov 30, 2015 #
8 AM
Walking 35:15 [3] 1.9 mi (18:33 / mi) +197ft 16:54 / mi
shoes: MMW14:w
Home to Takoma Metro
9 AM
Walking 8:35 [3] 0.5 mi (17:10 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Cyrstal City Metro to Office
6 PM
Walking 8:15 [3] 0.5 mi (16:30 / mi)
shoes: MMW14:w
Office to Crystal City Metro
7 PM
Walking 30:20 [3] 1.6 mi (18:57 / mi) +89ft 18:01 / mi
Takoma Metro to Home