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Sunday Aug 10, 2014 #
9 AM
Walking warm up/down (to start) 15:00 [2]
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
To start of Day 2, Round Mountain map, similar weather to Saturday. Meet notes called it a 750 m walk.
Arrived early enough to hang around for a bit, congratulate Claire Dell of OCIN for her and her husband's win of a Golden Troll Award on Saturday, and chat with a few other folk before warming up briefly to make sure my knees would still work. I'd fallen again coming out of #3 yesterday, and bashed the right knee again, but not as hard (sore triceps later showed I'd caught myself with my arms this time rather than all on the knee).
Arrived early enough to hang around for a bit, congratulate Claire Dell of OCIN for her and her husband's win of a Golden Troll Award on Saturday, and chat with a few other folk before warming up briefly to make sure my knees would still work. I'd fallen again coming out of #3 yesterday, and bashed the right knee again, but not as hard (sore triceps later showed I'd caught myself with my arms this time rather than all on the knee).
10 AM
Orienteering race (classic day 2) 57:02 [4] *** 5.47 km (10:25 / km) +89m 9:38 / km
spiked:11/11c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
The test today was to put out of mind my placing from day 1 as I've often gotten mentally distracted by my competition instead of focussing on the orienteering. I was successful and was clean on all the controls, finishing with a time I was okay with on the 4.9km / 70m course with more technical placements than on day 1.
I started at 10:03, and the last results posted were just before noon with only 3 of 6 in my class, so I didn't know how I'd done relative to Beatrice... until the awards, where I was called up as the winner. !!!
I talked to her later and she said she'd had a big mistake on our #6 finding our #3 flag but not realizing it was one she had already visited. Bummer for her, but lucky break for me. My first US Classic Champs age group win, and I think only the second overall champs win (Middle at Moses Lake Sand Dunes in Washington state several years ago). Nice.
I started at 10:03, and the last results posted were just before noon with only 3 of 6 in my class, so I didn't know how I'd done relative to Beatrice... until the awards, where I was called up as the winner. !!!
I talked to her later and she said she'd had a big mistake on our #6 finding our #3 flag but not realizing it was one she had already visited. Bummer for her, but lucky break for me. My first US Classic Champs age group win, and I think only the second overall champs win (Middle at Moses Lake Sand Dunes in Washington state several years ago). Nice.
2 PM
Note
Thunderstorms were threatening to the east so we left just before it hit M Lazy C Ranch, but not before we got back to our lodging... When we got out to US 24 it had started raining, and a few minutes later it was hailing, and then accumulating on the road...winter driving conditions! Temp dropped quickly (per the car's thermometer) from the 60s to mid 40s by the time we made it to the house. Exciting.
C • Hail 2
Saturday Aug 9, 2014 #
9 AM
Walking warm up/down (to start) 15:00 [2]
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Walked along a dirt road (and climbed a bit) to the start, arriving with a few minutes to spare. 1 km from parking per the meet notes. Warm, temps in upper 60s probably.
10 AM
Orienteering race (classic day 1) 59:56 [4] *** 5.84 km (10:16 / km) +85m 9:34 / km
12c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Brown X course on Badger Gulch map, or some portion of it (Glen has a copy of the full map for his day 1, but courses were printed on 8.5"x14" paper where configuration allowed). SL 5.3 km / 80m climb
Didn't feel I had a clean run because I was off a bit (again, usually to the left) on maybe a third of the controls, but AP split analysis shows no errors, so relative to others I guess it was a clean run.
Pleased to be just five minutes behind Beatrice as I saw her as the likely winner overall based on past experience. Virginia Lehman has also beat me in the past, and I think she had been in Laramie so was likely more used to altitude, but I have a good cushion going into Sunday.
EDIT: Added FR track and course statistics
Didn't feel I had a clean run because I was off a bit (again, usually to the left) on maybe a third of the controls, but AP split analysis shows no errors, so relative to others I guess it was a clean run.
Pleased to be just five minutes behind Beatrice as I saw her as the likely winner overall based on past experience. Virginia Lehman has also beat me in the past, and I think she had been in Laramie so was likely more used to altitude, but I have a good cushion going into Sunday.
EDIT: Added FR track and course statistics
11 AM
Walking 15:00 [2]
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
I signed up for the US Trail O Champs for some reason, and figure did give it one more try before swearing off the sport completely if I didn't so well. Managed to get my 1:30 start time rescheduled to 12:16 because I wanted to attend the AGM as EMPO's delegate at 3:00 and there was a two-hour limit for the course (and I didn't know how fast I'd be).
12 PM
Orienteering (Trail O) 1:09:39 [1] *** 2.8 km (24:53 / km) +12m 24:21 / km
spiked:9/16c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Trail O Champs course plus three TempO problems. Interesting experiment after having attended Clare's talk on Friday, but results showed I only got one TempO control correct and 9 of the 16 TrailO problems (several of which were later protested and two thrown out). I learned I really didn't enjoy it, especially after having been on a regular foot O course earlier, because I'm much more rewarded by choosing a route and executing it well, than picking out the right flag of many (or none!). If TrailO were all A-Z problems (where you identify if the flag is placed correctly or not, and have a 50-50 chance of getting it right), I might participate more often. Meh.
Sharon was course designer for the champs, letting her experience protests from another angle. ;-)
Sharon was course designer for the champs, letting her experience protests from another angle. ;-)
Friday Aug 8, 2014 #
1 PM
Walk/Jog 25:00 *
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
After listening to a couple of talks at the convention, Glen and I teamed up for a try at cell phone O, sponsored by the junior team on a blown up black and white campus map of the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
I went first, and other than a couple of hesitations while I searched for streamers in the control circle (including one which called the control a "tree" when in actuality the tree had been taken down and the streamers placed on an electrical box at the position), did fine for a first time. Mostly brisk walking with a bit of jogging here and there, followed by sitting while Glen was out. The person back at home base had to write down the word printed on the correct streamer that the runner found.
Ran down our cell batteries, but it was fun. :-)
I went first, and other than a couple of hesitations while I searched for streamers in the control circle (including one which called the control a "tree" when in actuality the tree had been taken down and the streamers placed on an electrical box at the position), did fine for a first time. Mostly brisk walking with a bit of jogging here and there, followed by sitting while Glen was out. The person back at home base had to write down the word printed on the correct streamer that the runner found.
Ran down our cell batteries, but it was fun. :-)
Thursday Aug 7, 2014 #
3 PM
Orienteering (model) 28:57 [3] 2.97 km (9:44 / km) +31m 9:15 / km
spiked:4/9c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Model map for US Classic Champs near Round Mountain. Checked out 9 of the 10 controls (the other involved a barbed wire fence crossing that I didn't want to do).
Valuable because my bearings were off to the left on most points...good to know to use other techniques even in the wide open terrain. Good also to attempt to understand mapping differences in the boulders, dot knolls, knolls, boulder clusters, and rocky ground. Pace counting woked well for the most part, then I looked off to my right. :-)
Valuable because my bearings were off to the left on most points...good to know to use other techniques even in the wide open terrain. Good also to attempt to understand mapping differences in the boulders, dot knolls, knolls, boulder clusters, and rocky ground. Pace counting woked well for the most part, then I looked off to my right. :-)
Tuesday Aug 5, 2014 #
10 AM
Running (dirt) warm up/down 2:50 [2] 0.19 mi (14:54 / mi)
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Short warm-up before club sprint at COCs.
Walking 40:00 [1]
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
From parking to relay arena and back.
11 AM
Orienteering race (Relay) 24:45 [4] *** 2.11 km (11:44 / km) +63m 10:13 / km
spiked:8/9c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Club relay at COCs, with Glen and Mitch Collinsworth as a 9+ point Team New York (we had 11 pts). Haven't seen results yet but know we didn't win; some Canadian team with fast runners received awards, including Joanne Woods who won my category in the long.
Leg 2, nominal 1.7 km, unknown climb but some; intermediate level. Course redesigned a bit at the last minute to avoid the tag-off being in an area blocked off for a toad migration (they just started moving a few days ago, and we had to pick our way through them on our way to the relay arena).
I managed to mess up at an area with several mapped trail junctions including a trail I didn't see at first so I was confused, backtracked, then decided I was right the first time, 45-60 seconds lost (or more; I always underestimate my errors). Otherwise fine, though I had to encourage a passing dog not to lift a leg at a control I was about to punch.
Leg 2, nominal 1.7 km, unknown climb but some; intermediate level. Course redesigned a bit at the last minute to avoid the tag-off being in an area blocked off for a toad migration (they just started moving a few days ago, and we had to pick our way through them on our way to the relay arena).
I managed to mess up at an area with several mapped trail junctions including a trail I didn't see at first so I was confused, backtracked, then decided I was right the first time, 45-60 seconds lost (or more; I always underestimate my errors). Otherwise fine, though I had to encourage a passing dog not to lift a leg at a control I was about to punch.
Monday Aug 4, 2014 #
10 AM
Walking (Downhill) 10:00 [1]
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Downhill from the ski lift drop-off to start area.
11 AM
Orienteering race (Long) 1:22:33 [3] *** 4.48 km (18:27 / km) +82m 16:54 / km
spiked:9/12c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
COC Long, nominal 3.0km, 60m climb. Black Magic map. Sunny and temps in 70s, but we were in the woods quite a bit.
The course started 410 meters above where we finished on the ski slopes of Blackcomb Mtn, below the Wizard chair.
Control 1 was 85 m (adding:) *of descent* mostly straight downhill through the woods, which were not easy to run or even walk through at that point. I knew it was going to be tricky but I kept on a pretty good compass bearing and watched for the two flatter areas, one just before the control. I think I was just right of the reentrant as I got to the flat and looked around in the wrong direction before returning and finding the flag, so several minutes lost there.
Good on 2, following compass. On 3 got in the general area but thought I was looking for a cliff and not a reentrant, so a couple minutes lost. Straight to 4. Careful down the hill toward 5 looking for the bike trail, but around to the right. Figured out where I was from the v. large cliff on the map and spiked it from there. Then 6 contours practically straight down to a trail. The course had descended about half of the 410m by that point, a third of the way through...all relatively short legs, none longer than 250m or so.
The rest of the course was still tricky but less steep, more across the ski slope than tumbling down the steep woods. Made an error on number 9 misreading woods blobs and finding 10 first, requiring a 20 m climb back up to 9. So likely around 10 or more minutes of error, on 1, 3, and 9.
14th of some higher number, 1st was 47 minutes with 2nd one second behind!
NOTE: added FR
The course started 410 meters above where we finished on the ski slopes of Blackcomb Mtn, below the Wizard chair.
Control 1 was 85 m (adding:) *of descent* mostly straight downhill through the woods, which were not easy to run or even walk through at that point. I knew it was going to be tricky but I kept on a pretty good compass bearing and watched for the two flatter areas, one just before the control. I think I was just right of the reentrant as I got to the flat and looked around in the wrong direction before returning and finding the flag, so several minutes lost there.
Good on 2, following compass. On 3 got in the general area but thought I was looking for a cliff and not a reentrant, so a couple minutes lost. Straight to 4. Careful down the hill toward 5 looking for the bike trail, but around to the right. Figured out where I was from the v. large cliff on the map and spiked it from there. Then 6 contours practically straight down to a trail. The course had descended about half of the 410m by that point, a third of the way through...all relatively short legs, none longer than 250m or so.
The rest of the course was still tricky but less steep, more across the ski slope than tumbling down the steep woods. Made an error on number 9 misreading woods blobs and finding 10 first, requiring a 20 m climb back up to 9. So likely around 10 or more minutes of error, on 1, 3, and 9.
14th of some higher number, 1st was 47 minutes with 2nd one second behind!
NOTE: added FR
Sunday Aug 3, 2014 #
7 AM
Running (paved) warm up/down 9:22 [2] 1.39 km (6:45 / km) +5m 6:38 / km
shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
Jogged from our lodging to the start of the sprint (later jogged/walked back from the finish/arena to lodging to change, before heading back to see the results).
Took it slow and easy to see how the knee would do. I'm under the influence of NSAIDs mostly to keep the swelling down, and it's helping with the soreness, at least, though the knee still looks like a goose egg.
This afternoon we'll ride the gondola up Whistler; I'll pick up my HPP fund raiser map but not run it (it's a predict-your-time format, about 2 km course). Then we can take the Peak to Peak gondola to Blackcomb and see the sights.
Took it slow and easy to see how the knee would do. I'm under the influence of NSAIDs mostly to keep the swelling down, and it's helping with the soreness, at least, though the knee still looks like a goose egg.
This afternoon we'll ride the gondola up Whistler; I'll pick up my HPP fund raiser map but not run it (it's a predict-your-time format, about 2 km course). Then we can take the Peak to Peak gondola to Blackcomb and see the sights.
8 AM
Orienteering race (sprint course 2) 18:35 [4] *** 2.09 km (8:53 / km) +14m 8:36 / km
spiked:12/13c shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
Fun sprint in Whistler Village before there were a lot of other folks around. Glen and I had early starts (first was 8:03 am; Glen was 8:04 and I was 8:08) so we avoided having to weave around very many people unlike later starters.
Map 1:4000, 2.5 m ... SL 1.7km
Fun, had to keep looking for passageways and dead ends (but only had one tricky leg). I count the depression in a wooded spot (#4) as a non-spike because I could have entered the woods from the side I approached, but I looped around instead.
9th of 23, about where I should be, given that I wasn't pushing harder because of my knee. Did speed up a bit on the leg downhill to the Olympic rings that I could see. :-) 4:23 behind first W55.
Map 1:4000, 2.5 m ... SL 1.7km
Fun, had to keep looking for passageways and dead ends (but only had one tricky leg). I count the depression in a wooded spot (#4) as a non-spike because I could have entered the woods from the side I approached, but I looped around instead.
9th of 23, about where I should be, given that I wasn't pushing harder because of my knee. Did speed up a bit on the leg downhill to the Olympic rings that I could see. :-) 4:23 behind first W55.
Walk/Jog warm up/down 9:10 [1] 0.93 km (9:53 / km) +17m 9:03 / km
shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
2 PM
Hiking 1:06:57 [1] 3.52 km (19:01 / km) +32m 18:11 / km
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
Took the Whistler Gondola up to the Roundhouse lodge, where the HPP fund raiser was supposed to start. I decided not to run it, but took my map anyway since it was paid for. While Glen ran the course my brother Ed and I took the next lift up to the summit for the fabulous views!!! almost 360 degrees... and then hiked down the road from the top to the lodge. That was also one terminus of the Peak 2 Peak Gondola that goes across the valley to Blackcomb Mtn, which we all took when Ed and I finally reached the lodge.
AOWN: one marmot and one ferret/weasel like creature, maybe a mountain weasel.
Later, walking in Whistler Village after dinner, we saw a dark-eyed junco, very distinctive with a dark colored head compared to its brown body.
AOWN: one marmot and one ferret/weasel like creature, maybe a mountain weasel.
Later, walking in Whistler Village after dinner, we saw a dark-eyed junco, very distinctive with a dark colored head compared to its brown body.
Saturday Aug 2, 2014 #
Event: 2014 Canadian Champs
11 AM
Orienteering race (course 5 (M75/W55/W65)) 46:40 [3] ***
spiked:5/9c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
COC Middle at One Duck Lake, Whistler, BC. Nominal 1.3k/80m; 1:7500
Not a good day on a format I normally enjoy and do well in. I was fine to the first control, and I navigated well to the second but a few meters away caught a toe and landed such that the middle of my knee impacted a rock under moss. Ouch! Took several dozen seconds to get up. I knew it was going to swell up (tissues under/around the kneecap are not happy) and got a bag of ice at the finish. And I'm icing it now, before we head over to the banquet/BBQ.
A bit rattled after the fall, I took a less than optimum route around on a trail instead of mostly straight to 3, which was a formline reentrant that was mapped half open/half green, and I likely proceeded right by it. 15 minutes later, after spending time down the steep hillside, I got to a control that Ardis was punching (she started 12 minutes behind, and she said she'd messed it up too but not as bad).... Grrrrr.
I was sloppy on the next 3 too, trying not to follow her, then I finally got ahead of Ardis on the way to 7 and did the last two okay, though I stopped to check the code on a box I passed on the way to 7. A slow grind uphill to the finish, passing one woman on the way in.
Well behind where I should have been; 30-31 minutes would have put me in about 9th or 10th of 30 [not 35], instead of 17th.
mbo didn't start today (don't know why); Debbie N was third after Kitty Jones and Barbara Scheck of Canada, all between 23 and 24 minutes.
Edit: only 30 listed in results, including two dns. Turns out Marion sprained her ankle early this morning.
Not a good day on a format I normally enjoy and do well in. I was fine to the first control, and I navigated well to the second but a few meters away caught a toe and landed such that the middle of my knee impacted a rock under moss. Ouch! Took several dozen seconds to get up. I knew it was going to swell up (tissues under/around the kneecap are not happy) and got a bag of ice at the finish. And I'm icing it now, before we head over to the banquet/BBQ.
A bit rattled after the fall, I took a less than optimum route around on a trail instead of mostly straight to 3, which was a formline reentrant that was mapped half open/half green, and I likely proceeded right by it. 15 minutes later, after spending time down the steep hillside, I got to a control that Ardis was punching (she started 12 minutes behind, and she said she'd messed it up too but not as bad).... Grrrrr.
I was sloppy on the next 3 too, trying not to follow her, then I finally got ahead of Ardis on the way to 7 and did the last two okay, though I stopped to check the code on a box I passed on the way to 7. A slow grind uphill to the finish, passing one woman on the way in.
Well behind where I should have been; 30-31 minutes would have put me in about 9th or 10th of 30 [not 35], instead of 17th.
mbo didn't start today (don't know why); Debbie N was third after Kitty Jones and Barbara Scheck of Canada, all between 23 and 24 minutes.
Edit: only 30 listed in results, including two dns. Turns out Marion sprained her ankle early this morning.
Friday Aug 1, 2014 #
3 PM
Orienteering (map hike) 25:00 [1] ***
spiked:4/5c shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
Walked to a few controls on the Middle training map while Glen changed into actual O clothes. It was hot but not too humid, and fairly reasonable in the woods. Found 5 streamers, one of them with a little delay/confusion as I had no compass and the wrong glasses on. Good to see how the white woods vs light and medium green were depicted.
Woods will be slow; F55-64 Middle course tomorrow is 1.26 km.
Woods will be slow; F55-64 Middle course tomorrow is 1.26 km.