Training Log Archive: BorisGrIn the 1 days ending Apr 16, 2010:
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Friday Apr 16, 2010 #
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stressed.
10 AM
Orienteering 1:20:00 [1]
shoes: Fall 2009 VJ Falcons
Drove to Harriman, met up with my awesome volunteers: Paul B, Guy O, Nadya P. Divided up control hanging assignments, dropped off Guy at Kanawauke Circle, and drove up to Tiorati to hang the relay courses. Beautiful forest - Surebridge is very worth of the "101 maps" list. I loved being back here!
2 PM
Orienteering 45:00 [1]
After a break, met up with MrPither and BigE and split up controls for Baileytown. We parked in the sketchiest gay cruiser pick-up spot. Felt quite uncomfortable running in tights past the middle-aged men sitting in their cars in the parking lot, leering at us.
Running on Baileytown right after Surebridge is like chasing Peter Luger's with some McDonald's.
Running on Baileytown right after Surebridge is like chasing Peter Luger's with some McDonald's.
11 PM
Orienteering race 25:09 [5] *** 3.3 km (7:37 / km)
spiked:14/17c shoes: Fall 2009 VJ Falcons
CSU Harriman Camp Session 1 - Night Sprint on Polebrook
After hanging controls on Baileytown, I drove over to Polebrook and sat in the car for about 5 hours until everyone showed up. Sergei F and Eric K ran the sprint at the scheduled time, while the CSU crowd rolled in around 10:30pm. It was dark, cold, and raining - perfect weather for a night sprint. We all mass-started, and promptly messed up #1. Got there with Ross, and then we went our separate ways to do the loops in different orders. I ran well for the first loop (it helped that the controls were hanging high and reflecting from a long ways away), but made a mistake finding the second pivot control the second time, ending up on the hilltop to the right of it. When I finally got the control, I could see Ross' lamp ahead of me and set off in pursuit. We were together on 10,11,12, but he took a better route to 13 (staying higher) and got ahead. I almost couldn't see him coming into 14, but must have taken a better line to 15 (well left of the line, hitting the road at the junction) and caught up. Through the buildings, I was just hoping Ross would hesitate or miss something, but that was not to be, and he orienteered confidently in front all the way to the finish, beating me by 10 seconds or so.
Map (no routes): http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
After hanging controls on Baileytown, I drove over to Polebrook and sat in the car for about 5 hours until everyone showed up. Sergei F and Eric K ran the sprint at the scheduled time, while the CSU crowd rolled in around 10:30pm. It was dark, cold, and raining - perfect weather for a night sprint. We all mass-started, and promptly messed up #1. Got there with Ross, and then we went our separate ways to do the loops in different orders. I ran well for the first loop (it helped that the controls were hanging high and reflecting from a long ways away), but made a mistake finding the second pivot control the second time, ending up on the hilltop to the right of it. When I finally got the control, I could see Ross' lamp ahead of me and set off in pursuit. We were together on 10,11,12, but he took a better route to 13 (staying higher) and got ahead. I almost couldn't see him coming into 14, but must have taken a better line to 15 (well left of the line, hitting the road at the junction) and caught up. Through the buildings, I was just hoping Ross would hesitate or miss something, but that was not to be, and he orienteered confidently in front all the way to the finish, beating me by 10 seconds or so.
Map (no routes): http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...