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Thursday Dec 8, 2022 #
7 PM
horseback riding (english) 1:00:00 [1]
Lesson on Charlie
Wednesday Dec 7, 2022 #
7 PM
walking 2:30:00 [1] 2.65 mi (56:36 / mi)
shoes: Skechers D-Lites Tie Dye
Longwood Gardens
Sunday Dec 4, 2022 #
9 AM
orienteering race 1:38:15 [4] *** 5.3 km (18:32 / km) +190m 15:43 / km
11c shoes: Inov8 O-roc 280 Red Threedux
QOC Patapsco CCBC (Mid-Atlantic Championships) - Green
A pretty nice day for December and beautiful woods with the occasional somewhat thorny patch. I found most of the course to be fairly easy with lots of trail routes and controls not far from the trail.
Two mistakes - at 7 the trail I picked up after the stream may not have been the one I thought. I actually saw the control but it seemed way too low and I climbed the hill before seeing some other rocks and realizing that might have been mine after all. I went back down and it was. Then I had to climb the hill again to leave.
8 to 9 I should have just gone to the trail, instead I decided to cut down the middle and got pulled off line by downfall. I hit what I thought was a trail, turned right, and ended up by a junction and then a stream crossing which was wrong. Then I thought maybe that trail was a ride and I had somehow gotten past the control. Finally I realized it was the dried intermittent stream bed and I was on the smaller trail north of the control. Stupid error on what should have been an easy beginner level control.
A pretty nice day for December and beautiful woods with the occasional somewhat thorny patch. I found most of the course to be fairly easy with lots of trail routes and controls not far from the trail.
Two mistakes - at 7 the trail I picked up after the stream may not have been the one I thought. I actually saw the control but it seemed way too low and I climbed the hill before seeing some other rocks and realizing that might have been mine after all. I went back down and it was. Then I had to climb the hill again to leave.
8 to 9 I should have just gone to the trail, instead I decided to cut down the middle and got pulled off line by downfall. I hit what I thought was a trail, turned right, and ended up by a junction and then a stream crossing which was wrong. Then I thought maybe that trail was a ride and I had somehow gotten past the control. Finally I realized it was the dried intermittent stream bed and I was on the smaller trail north of the control. Stupid error on what should have been an easy beginner level control.
1 PM
orienteering race 19:59 [5] 1.9 km (10:31 / km) +33m 9:41 / km
shoes: Inov8 O-roc 280 Red Threedux
QOC Patapsco CCBC (Mid-Atlantic Championships) - Relay Leg 1
Little campus sprint relay which was so fun. Not enough SVO people to make a team, I ended up on a mixed team with Patty C and Kathy M (who had arrived late and was still in the woods on her first course when the relay started.)
Somehow I got the shortest leg which was actually ok because I was pretty dead from the first race. We were a 9 point team so started first. I was keeping ahead of a decent number of people until I made an error at 5, same as a lot of people. I was about to go into the patio thing, then saw outside corner on the description and thought aha, a trick. Unfortunately, the first part of the description was paved area and not wall, and the control actually WAS inside the patio area. I got stuck outside the wall and could see it, but had to go back around to get in. (Apparently, from what I heard, a lot of people broke sprint rules and climbed over the wall on later legs.)
That error allowed Janet T to get ahead of me and I spent the rest of the time trying to reel her in. I lost a tiny amount of time at 6 by going on the upper level and slightly past the stairs instead of just around the side of the building. The rest of it was fine and I finally started catching her in the open and powered by on the last hill before the finish.
Little campus sprint relay which was so fun. Not enough SVO people to make a team, I ended up on a mixed team with Patty C and Kathy M (who had arrived late and was still in the woods on her first course when the relay started.)
Somehow I got the shortest leg which was actually ok because I was pretty dead from the first race. We were a 9 point team so started first. I was keeping ahead of a decent number of people until I made an error at 5, same as a lot of people. I was about to go into the patio thing, then saw outside corner on the description and thought aha, a trick. Unfortunately, the first part of the description was paved area and not wall, and the control actually WAS inside the patio area. I got stuck outside the wall and could see it, but had to go back around to get in. (Apparently, from what I heard, a lot of people broke sprint rules and climbed over the wall on later legs.)
That error allowed Janet T to get ahead of me and I spent the rest of the time trying to reel her in. I lost a tiny amount of time at 6 by going on the upper level and slightly past the stairs instead of just around the side of the building. The rest of it was fine and I finally started catching her in the open and powered by on the last hill before the finish.
5 PM
walking 2:00:00 [1] 4.23 mi (28:22 / mi)
shoes: Skechers D-Lites Tie Dye
After all of that I rode the Metro into DC and walked around until my feet were ready to fall off. Archives station to the National Tree, down to the mall, up to F St to District Taco because I was starving (ok but nothing special, not better than Qdoba). Down to the Capitol to that tree, then back to the Metro.