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Saturday Nov 3, 2012 #
Orienteering race 1:29:02 [2] 4.8 km (18:33 / km) +35m 17:54 / km
shoes: Columbia Romero trail runners
Orange course at Woods Hollow, set by Bob Lange, on a new map of a small park near Saratoga. Went out with the whole family, Max on my back and Zoe taking the lead and punching most of the time while I navigated and Stacey escorted Zoe down to controls I didn't want to trudge down to :)
We didn't shy away from woods-routes either, though a lot of the saplings' branches had to be avoided lest they schwack Max in the face.
Pretty good course though a bit easy due to high visibility and lots of trails and other handrails. Though it would be hard to do much better I think. Towards the end there were two long trail run legs that were pretty unnecessary; could have skipped control 12 and it would have been fine. Only error was getting too far left off-line from 9 to 10. This whole part of the map could use more detail, lots of unmapped stuff.
A highlight was stumbling upon some teenager's beer stash about 20m behind someone's property. Considered partaking but it was bud light. Or maybe it was an unmarked refreshment stand? I'll have to ask Bob.
Orange course map
No GPS track -- forgot to start the watch!
We didn't shy away from woods-routes either, though a lot of the saplings' branches had to be avoided lest they schwack Max in the face.
Pretty good course though a bit easy due to high visibility and lots of trails and other handrails. Though it would be hard to do much better I think. Towards the end there were two long trail run legs that were pretty unnecessary; could have skipped control 12 and it would have been fine. Only error was getting too far left off-line from 9 to 10. This whole part of the map could use more detail, lots of unmapped stuff.
A highlight was stumbling upon some teenager's beer stash about 20m behind someone's property. Considered partaking but it was bud light. Or maybe it was an unmarked refreshment stand? I'll have to ask Bob.
Orange course map
No GPS track -- forgot to start the watch!
Wednesday Oct 31, 2012 #
6 PM
Hiking (trick-or-treating) 58:48 [1] 1.52 km (38:41 / km) +2m 38:26 / km
shoes: Nike Structure 14
Round 1
7 PM
Hiking (trick-or-treating) 40:50 [1] 1.22 km (33:25 / km) +3m 33:01 / km
Round 2
Zoe was a shadow ninja, Max was a train engineer. I think Max had the most stamina and willpower to get more "snacks" than all the other kids we were with.
Great night for it, too -- 50F, crunchy leaves all over, just a sprinkle or two by the time we were done.
Zoe was a shadow ninja, Max was a train engineer. I think Max had the most stamina and willpower to get more "snacks" than all the other kids we were with.
Great night for it, too -- 50F, crunchy leaves all over, just a sprinkle or two by the time we were done.
Sunday Oct 28, 2012 #
Note
In the morning we went up the Thacher (Hailes Cave) for the Albany Running Exchange's Hairy Gorilla race. Stacey ran the 6 mile while I watched the kids. On the way up we were behind a car with an O-control rear-view mirror decoration; car had NY plates. Didn't recognize them though!
3 PM
Run / Walk 37:49 [3] 4.4 km (8:36 / km) +30m 8:19 / km
shoes: Columbia Romero trail runners
Trail intervals at Pine Bush (watertower)... 5 min walk them mostly stuck to 2 min run/1 min walk intervals. At the end ran on one of the illegal bike trails that I hadn't checked out yet. I suppose it was what mountain bikers call "sweet singletrack" with lots of sharp ups and downs but I thought it was suicide if a biker suddenly came barreling down at me with little notice.
Also a bridge on the red trail over a creek (at about 2.6km on my track) was posted as under repair, trail closed, no access allowed -- typical Pine Bush hyperventilating. They had some lumber out, apparently for the bridge -- impressively large 12x12 posts. I courageously disobeyed the multiple levels of "no access" signs to find a trickle that was easily jumped. I guess it won't be like that tomorrow though.
Also a bridge on the red trail over a creek (at about 2.6km on my track) was posted as under repair, trail closed, no access allowed -- typical Pine Bush hyperventilating. They had some lumber out, apparently for the bridge -- impressively large 12x12 posts. I courageously disobeyed the multiple levels of "no access" signs to find a trickle that was easily jumped. I guess it won't be like that tomorrow though.