Training Log Archive: barb

The WIOL league in the Seattle area will produce some strong juniors the next few years. Hopefully Erin will get the training plans and weekday trainings and local coaches into place when he goes out there this November, if it hasn't already happened by then. So far he has draft training plans from roughly 20 kids around the country. Which is working pretty fast, given that he's been working for about 3 weeks now. In those three weeks he also ran two training camps, held meetings at two A meets, drafted the junior development team & standing team applications, and the athlete code of conduct, sketched out the perqs of development team, attended an OUSA Board meeting, coached at NAOC including picking relay teams, helped edit the rules, touched base with the OUSA coaching certification people, ran in the meets himself, and set up the technology subcommittee (so far Anna Schafer-Skelton and Dave Yee). I like how he stations himself at the spectator leg so he can coach from there. Izzy said his voice was the only one she heard on that section.

Got that Kenyan chain letter about orienteering.

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My favorite photo from the weekend is Neil's

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Sprint at NAOC. Made an error going to 5.

Isabel beat me in all three races this weekend.

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Long. Nice - wore the camera and made no big mistakes, which I believe was correlated. Much cleaner than the middle yesterday. Just moving slow.

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Thursday evening we had a good JTESC meeting; it was nice to have an actual meeting and even nicer to have it be in-person. I like that we have a group with diverse opinions, but with mutual respect. We made progress on the Rules - we'll be making specific proposal to the Board, with some changes now and JWOC selection changes to come in the next few months. (For 2013 we need to stick with the old rules, since we are already into the period of racing.) We also talked about adding people to the committee. And various other things.

Erin held a course review; all juniors were invited and the senior team came along to help out. After awards, Erin led a meeting of juniors; the topic was training. Saturday there will be another round of course review, and a meeting to start building training plans for juniors of all ages, for the coming year. Erin is a good teacher and coach; I have been so impressed with his methods.

Lots more to say but I'm out of time.

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Event: 2012 North American Orienteering Championships
 

Here is David's Understanding Islam homework from a few weeks ago:





And his explanation:

In this calligraphy piece, I took the word “Allah” and formed the letters to resemble Arabian architecture. The piece more specifically is meant to portray a mosque; the ل and the ه represent the central building and the initial ا and ل represent a minaret tower. The letters are filled with a design of a design of plants and flowers, growing out of the base of the letters, and then climbing and splitting until they reach the top. The plants represent life and beauty on earth, as well as the human presence—both good and bad, represented by a mixture of the smooth curves on stems and leaves and the sharp points of thorns and corners. The upward growth of the plants portrays the constant struggle of humans to be closer to God; as plants reach to the sun, humans reach to God. The plant-like design is supposed to emulate some Kufic styles that were very monumental, used frequently in stone carving.

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On the willpower front, last night was OK (B-). I didn't get everything done on my list (that's the -), but I worked fairly steadily (B) with reasonable efficiency. I managed two very good phone calls, one on rogaining committee business and one on junior team business. I posted information about junior activities at NAOC. I printed a map for this morning's 5th grade orienteering meeting. I started working on today's CSU training map (hill-O in Cambridge). I didn't get my homework done, and I didn't make as much progress on junior team stuff as I'd hoped. I spent some time on Reddit before going to sleep, which is not so great. I made banana bread, and ate some (yum). Had a cup of coffee so I could get up early this morning and finish the CSU map.

Tonight's Hill-O map with streets from Ed:

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