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Monday Feb 27, 2023 #
Event: WCOC HVO Winter Series 2023
1 PM
Hike 40:05 1.51 mi (26:33 / mi) +47m 24:12 / mi
ahr:88 max:117 slept:6.0 weight:174.5lbs shoes: 2022 Icebugs
With Luna, after picking her up from the kennel. She only comes with me because Rhonda is along. Disappointed, but not surprised, at the condition of the g. Too much eating.
Saturday Feb 25, 2023 #
9 AM
Hike 1:37:13 2.43 mi (40:00 / mi) +309m 28:40 / mi
ahr:91 max:127 slept:8.0 shoes: 2022 Gel Kayano black
Up the long staircase to the upper town at Nazaré, then down to the old fort at the point, admiring the jet skis and the surfers they were towing into the surf along the beach north of town. Nazaré is one of the prime big wave spots in the world, and there was a sign for the big wave tournament this winter, with its °waiting period° from Nov 15 to Mar 31. When the waves are big enough, the word goes out and the big wave guys hop on planes. But it was pretty mild when we were there, so no tournament. Nazaré is an old fishing town with a lot of history, and a big fresh fish market. We also ate some good fish for dinner last night. I had a fish stew with monkfish, clams and shrimp.
1 PM
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A visit to the walled city and castle of Obidos. Very cool. Memories for G&L who stayed a night in the castle some 40 years ago.
Thursday Feb 23, 2023 #
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Nice day in Porto. Found a coffee bar in the next block that was open at 7, earlier than the 8 most places open, and R and I went with Peter for cappuccino and chocolate croissant. And then back again for more coffee and some scrambled eggs with George and Leslie. Then the group went on a walking tour to the Clérigos tower, which we can see from our terrace, but getting there is a bit more complicated, with an intricate street network and the Main Street heading there completely blocked off by a construction project. From there through the old town and down to the river, lined with restaurants to the Luis bridge with its two levels. We took the lower one, for pedestrians, but also with some sort of construction project, so in a path between chain link fences. The port cellars are along the far side of the bridge in Gaia, and we walked about for a bit and took a tour at Sandeman with a port tasting, white, ruby and tawny, of which we inexperienced port drinkers all preferred the tawny. Back across the river and lunch at a restaurant called Fish Fish. Sea bass. Porto is quite steep, and there is an interminable staircase rising from the river to near our apartment. George and Leslie took the funicular. The staircase did me some good, and warmed up the muscles around my right knee that have been giving me so much trouble lately.
After a bit another walk with Rhonda, and then back to rest a while before dinner. Dinner at Abadia do Porto, nice place, way too much food. Some really tasty bread and olives, then I had pork tenderloin with roasted chestnuts, potatoes, tomato, vegetables and rice. Going out to dinner the view from the terrace was magnificent, crescent moon with Jupiter and Venus, hundreds of gulls flying overhead, the lights of town reflecting from their white undersides.
After a bit another walk with Rhonda, and then back to rest a while before dinner. Dinner at Abadia do Porto, nice place, way too much food. Some really tasty bread and olives, then I had pork tenderloin with roasted chestnuts, potatoes, tomato, vegetables and rice. Going out to dinner the view from the terrace was magnificent, crescent moon with Jupiter and Venus, hundreds of gulls flying overhead, the lights of town reflecting from their white undersides.
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023 #
2 PM
Hike 34:50 1.63 mi (21:22 / mi)
ahr:93 max:115 shoes: 2022 Gel Kayano black
A little out and back on a boardwalk at Barrinhas on our way to Porto.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023 #
11 AM
Orienteering 52:23 3.2 mi (16:22 / mi) +71m 15:19 / mi
ahr:137 max:166 shoes: 2022 Icebugs
Day 4 at POM. My best placement of the 4 days, 24th. Still a couple of unfortunate legs, #1 where I struggled to find the thicket on a hillside that seemed like one giant thicket and lost about 3 minutes, and #8 where I lost concentration, climbed the wrong fence and was far left and beyond. Somehow only lost about 4 minutes with that. Could have been much worse, and really pretty good on relocating, considering how lost I had gotten myself. Otherwise just fine, 6 splits in the top 20, including 2nd and 3rd on the last two. 34th out of 70 for the 4 days. It is a beautiful place to orienteer, and an excellent meet, good logistics, all quite fun. Nothing of any kind to complain about. I would definitely come again.
Day 4 Map
Day 4 Map
Monday Feb 20, 2023 #
11 AM
Orienteering 40:55 2.51 mi (16:18 / mi) +25m 15:49 / mi
ahr:132 max:191 shoes: 2022 Icebugs
Middle distance race at São Bartolomeu do Outeiro, long walk to the start, mostly just fine, but two regrettable errors. Number 3 dropped between 5 and 6 minutes, headed down the right spur, but didn’t see an expected patch of bare rock and also seemed like I was getting too close to the road at the bottom, so went exploring. I had been so close. Then on #8, just a lapse of concentration, crossed a fence and had another 150 m to go, and realized after a bit that my mind was wandering, thought I hadn’t come to the fence yet, so had to try to figure out where I was. So that was another 3 1/2 or 4 minutes. Ended up 46th on the day.
Day 3 Map
Day 3 Map
Sunday Feb 19, 2023 #
8 AM
Hike 39:25 1.55 mi (25:26 / mi) +25m 24:13 / mi
ahr:94 max:123 slept:8.0 shoes: 2022 Gel Kayano black
Morning stroll with Rhonda down to the elegant 18th century baroque church at Santuário de Nossa Senhora d’Aires, out in the middle of, well, nowhere. Nicely maintained, inside and out. Looks like there is some EU funding for an upgrade of the surroundings. Inexplicable large round structure next to it. Looks like it may involve livestock, but it is locked.
11 AM
Hike 32:46 1.39 mi (23:34 / mi) +29m 22:08 / mi
ahr:83 max:92 shoes: 2022 Icebugs
Walk to the start.
Orienteering 1:11:58 4.13 mi (17:25 / mi) +79m 16:27 / mi
ahr:126 max:186 shoes: 2022 Icebugs
Day 2 M-75 at São Bartolomeu do Outeiro, longer today, 4.4k, and as it turned out more difficult. Saw my Belgian friend Dirk Goossens on the way up, and my friend Sixten Westlund right at the start. Started out well enough, ran right to the first control, and got there a little sooner than I expected it, so I was feeling confident and ran off in the general direction of #2, seeing a big boulder cluster off in front of me and running to it, but alas that wasn’t it, and not any good idea of where I was. Saw George there, which was a surprise, since he had started well before me. So wandered uphill, found another boulder cluster with a flag that wasn’t mine, and past that stumbled on mine, probably having lost about 4 minutes in the process. Headed to 3, across the two fences at the crossing points, got to the hill that the control was supposed to be on, but just couldn’t find the right pair of cliffs. There were many of them. So without ever getting more than 50 meters or so from the control, I proceeded to squander 20 minutes hunting for the damned thing. And then the rest was unremarkable. Lost about a minute on 4, off to the right a bit, and maybe 30 seconds or so on 11, wandering right to check a control on a boulder that I really knew wasn’t mine, but basically ok the rest of the way. At the end got a ride down the hill in a van, which was very welcome.
Day 2 Map
Day 2 Map
Saturday Feb 18, 2023 #
Event: POM 2023
9 AM
Hike 55:33 2.43 mi (22:54 / mi) +23m 22:15 / mi
ahr:89 max:122
Hike 44:36 1.8 mi (24:49 / mi) +11m 24:20 / mi
ahr:82 max:104
1 PM
Orienteering 30:50 1.99 mi (15:30 / mi) +46m 14:27 / mi
ahr:135 max:167 shoes: 2022 Icebugs
Day 1 M-75, 2.9k, fast and open. A pretty good run for me, with the only exception number 5, where I misread the map and navigated to a cliff one line up from the correct one, and didn’t scope out that I was looking for the wrong cliff until after I had finished.
Day1 Map
Day1 Map
Friday Feb 17, 2023 #
2 PM
Orienteering 54:49 1.66 mi (33:01 / mi) +37m 30:51 / mi
ahr:84 max:116 slept:7.0 shoes: 2022 Gel Kayano black
A few controls of the model, with George. Map a bit sketchy, fair amount of green, but one shouldn’t expect a model to be the best quality terrain. Saw enough.