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Saturday Oct 4, 2014 #
walk dog 15:00 [1] 0.78 mi (19:14 / mi)
slept:6.0 shoes: Merrell Chameleon 4 #4
Oooh, sore this morning. How come it is so bad when the average pace was nowhere near my 5K race pace? (or even my normal workout pace). Different kind of running for sure.
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J not to thrilled that he does not get his 2 hour weekend walk!
(nor is he thrilled about the rain).
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Rain makes an interesting twist - as someone new to wearing glasses, I have run into that fogging problem.
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Today's goal: LEARN. I'm not a distance guy, so today is to avoid the 30 minute WTXAI (where the X am I?) controls. And learn the terrain.
Almost a quarter mile of climb today in running shoes. Good fun.
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... time to head out!
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J not to thrilled that he does not get his 2 hour weekend walk!
(nor is he thrilled about the rain).
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Rain makes an interesting twist - as someone new to wearing glasses, I have run into that fogging problem.
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Today's goal: LEARN. I'm not a distance guy, so today is to avoid the 30 minute WTXAI (where the X am I?) controls. And learn the terrain.
Almost a quarter mile of climb today in running shoes. Good fun.
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... time to head out!
Orienteering warm up/down (Flag pick-up) 25:00 [1] ** 1.0 mi (25:00 / mi)
spiked:7/8c shoes: Nimbus 15
The rain had made some areas quite difficult - especially when holding onto a bunch of control stands. Glad that VirtO and turbodog offered to pick one up that was on a path headed their way.
walk dog 15:00 [1] 0.78 mi (19:14 / mi)
shoes: Merrell Chameleon 4 #5
Car came by us twice, and on the third time, stopped and asked how to get out of our neighborhood. ..
That EXACTLY sums up today's O meet.
That EXACTLY sums up today's O meet.
Note
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Clue sheet holder saga is over. I bought a strap-on one from Berman O store - they were selling out of the back of their car. And it was MUCH cheaper than that football arm playbook thing.
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Clue sheet holder saga is over. I bought a strap-on one from Berman O store - they were selling out of the back of their car. And it was MUCH cheaper than that football arm playbook thing.
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11 AM
Orienteering 1:53:23 [3] 6.16 mi (18:24 / mi) +380m 15:27 / mi
shoes: Nimbus 15
I win! I get to have the largest amount of pionts added to the Attackpoint metric (time, that is).
I also get to have many learning opportunities. Unfortunately, I was clueless from the get-go. Just not prepared for this terrain, and have real trouble deciphering non-obvious landforms.
Um.... I guess today was my statement that I'm an orange level navigator. Sad part was that my biggest (of many big) error happened where I took a wrong path at an intersection . Just didn't see it. So I was looking for control 4 North of the path I was on, rather than south. 45+ minutes. YOWZA
Not that it was the fault of my eyes, but I may wear my normal glasses tomorrow - can't hurt.
The faster controls were not real. At that point, I was in the wake of a couple of other green runners.
This one knocked me back to 48.4... it took over as one of the 'excluded' scores.
I also get to have many learning opportunities. Unfortunately, I was clueless from the get-go. Just not prepared for this terrain, and have real trouble deciphering non-obvious landforms.
Um.... I guess today was my statement that I'm an orange level navigator. Sad part was that my biggest (of many big) error happened where I took a wrong path at an intersection . Just didn't see it. So I was looking for control 4 North of the path I was on, rather than south. 45+ minutes. YOWZA
Not that it was the fault of my eyes, but I may wear my normal glasses tomorrow - can't hurt.
The faster controls were not real. At that point, I was in the wake of a couple of other green runners.
This one knocked me back to 48.4... it took over as one of the 'excluded' scores.