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Monday Jan 18, 2010 #
Orienteering 2:00:00 [3]
shoes: orienteering shoes
Extreme-O! Good fun.
I ran with John and Tracy. It was amusing...
- Canoe challenge: paddle out to an island and get three controls. John hopped out and waded around in the knee-deep mud when we got to the island, and Tracy and I paddled around to the other side to pick him up.
- Bat tunnel: When you get to the control site, it's at the end of a long, 3-foot tall tunnel near a dam...and there are bats living in it. Apparently Hilary and Dana startled the bats and they were flying around in the tunnel with them. Almost completely dark and about 30m long. We had a camera so took some pictures with the flash to get a little bit of light.
- Culvert control: a very small culvert or a very large pipe. Got pretty drenched crawling in that one.
- Memory O' leg
- Aerial photos
- Plotting UTMs
- Contour-only
- Under a building
- In a port-o-potty
...after we finished, John hid in one of the other port-o-potties and made all the other finishers feel spectacularly awkward when they opened it looking for the control. I think he also photographed their expressions :).
Beautiful day, warm and clear skies. Plus there wasn't any egg to break this year, which was good.
I ran with John and Tracy. It was amusing...
- Canoe challenge: paddle out to an island and get three controls. John hopped out and waded around in the knee-deep mud when we got to the island, and Tracy and I paddled around to the other side to pick him up.
- Bat tunnel: When you get to the control site, it's at the end of a long, 3-foot tall tunnel near a dam...and there are bats living in it. Apparently Hilary and Dana startled the bats and they were flying around in the tunnel with them. Almost completely dark and about 30m long. We had a camera so took some pictures with the flash to get a little bit of light.
- Culvert control: a very small culvert or a very large pipe. Got pretty drenched crawling in that one.
- Memory O' leg
- Aerial photos
- Plotting UTMs
- Contour-only
- Under a building
- In a port-o-potty
...after we finished, John hid in one of the other port-o-potties and made all the other finishers feel spectacularly awkward when they opened it looking for the control. I think he also photographed their expressions :).
Beautiful day, warm and clear skies. Plus there wasn't any egg to break this year, which was good.
C • FUN! 1
Sunday Jan 17, 2010 #
Orienteering 1:21:11 [4] 7.7 km (10:33 / km)
shoes: orienteering shoes
Day 2!
A solid run in general; I hesitated a few times and started drifting toward disaster once but it didn't actually happen because I saw the park boundary, so overall pretty clean navigationally.
My biggest area for improvement from today's run is speed -- my legs were feeling pretty tired out there! This is usually not the biggest problem, so it's kind of exciting because it's very train-able. It's not just speed in general either, but hills. I really need to run more hills.
So I'm going to add in a must-run hills workout to a hopefully-to-become-more-regular training schedule. Saturdays sound good.
Incomplete general training schedule with lots of blanks for things I haven't defined yet:
Monday --- short-ish, doubling as grocery run
Tuesday --- ?
Wednesday --- ?
Thursday --- long-ish with Christina
Friday --- ?
Saturday --- hills (Hillsborough Street or repeats of Battle Park exit hill)
I'd like to add in regular time for mapping, long run, medium run, and some gym time especially for legs and maybe my nonexistent arm strength if inspiration strikes.
A solid run in general; I hesitated a few times and started drifting toward disaster once but it didn't actually happen because I saw the park boundary, so overall pretty clean navigationally.
My biggest area for improvement from today's run is speed -- my legs were feeling pretty tired out there! This is usually not the biggest problem, so it's kind of exciting because it's very train-able. It's not just speed in general either, but hills. I really need to run more hills.
So I'm going to add in a must-run hills workout to a hopefully-to-become-more-regular training schedule. Saturdays sound good.
Incomplete general training schedule with lots of blanks for things I haven't defined yet:
Monday --- short-ish, doubling as grocery run
Tuesday --- ?
Wednesday --- ?
Thursday --- long-ish with Christina
Friday --- ?
Saturday --- hills (Hillsborough Street or repeats of Battle Park exit hill)
I'd like to add in regular time for mapping, long run, medium run, and some gym time especially for legs and maybe my nonexistent arm strength if inspiration strikes.
Saturday Jan 16, 2010 #
Event: Georgia Navigator Cup
Orienteering 1:20:27 [4] 7.2 km (11:10 / km)
shoes: orienteering shoes
Day 1!
Great fun and a lot of controls went well, with the exception of two major errors that were frustrating:
#3: I saw the control, didn't check it, ran in circles for 8 minutes, and then found it again and punched it. Very annoying! -8 minutes.
#12: I convinced myself that the control must be at the top of a reentrant near a rootstock even though the map said it was in the next reentrant over. I stared at the map for a very long time here, too, then bailed to the road and attacked the same incorrect location again. Bizarre! Then I came to my senses and realized it was over there. -3 minutes.
Great fun and a lot of controls went well, with the exception of two major errors that were frustrating:
#3: I saw the control, didn't check it, ran in circles for 8 minutes, and then found it again and punched it. Very annoying! -8 minutes.
#12: I convinced myself that the control must be at the top of a reentrant near a rootstock even though the map said it was in the next reentrant over. I stared at the map for a very long time here, too, then bailed to the road and attacked the same incorrect location again. Bizarre! Then I came to my senses and realized it was over there. -3 minutes.
Thursday Jan 14, 2010 #
3 PM
Run 45:28 [3] 5.0 mi (9:06 / mi)
shoes: Nike Trail
I went for a run with Christina after the history lecture. Through Battle Park and along Bolin Creek and then across MLK through a short trail system I hadn't explored before.
...maybe they're the trails that supposedly link the hopefully-to-be-next year's-house with the Bolin Creek trail. That would be awesome :).
We came back via the enormous hill at Hillsborough St, which I found quite difficult but we managed to run up the whole thing. Success!
Distance is approximate; my watch has 4.46 but took awhile to locate. I should probably start leaving it under a bush for ~10 mins before going out to run.
Absolutely beautiful day out, and t-shirt weather!
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Super excited for Georgia tomorrow!!
...maybe they're the trails that supposedly link the hopefully-to-be-next year's-house with the Bolin Creek trail. That would be awesome :).
We came back via the enormous hill at Hillsborough St, which I found quite difficult but we managed to run up the whole thing. Success!
Distance is approximate; my watch has 4.46 but took awhile to locate. I should probably start leaving it under a bush for ~10 mins before going out to run.
Absolutely beautiful day out, and t-shirt weather!
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Super excited for Georgia tomorrow!!
Wednesday Jan 13, 2010 #
8 AM
Run 29:40 [3] 3.0 mi (9:53 / mi)
shoes: Nike Trail
Morning run #1.
Battle Park. Clear and cold; nice for running but I was glad I had a hat.
The time includes stopping briefly to chat with a friend I ran into in the woods, but that can't really account for much of the speed issue here. Looks like it was a sloww morning run.
But on the bright side, I feel much less sick than yesterday!
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Eric gave me some mapping tips (thanks!), so hopefully that project will be underway soon :).
Battle Park. Clear and cold; nice for running but I was glad I had a hat.
The time includes stopping briefly to chat with a friend I ran into in the woods, but that can't really account for much of the speed issue here. Looks like it was a sloww morning run.
But on the bright side, I feel much less sick than yesterday!
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Eric gave me some mapping tips (thanks!), so hopefully that project will be underway soon :).