Training Log Archive: JanetTIn the 7 days ending Oct 15, 2007:
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Sunday Oct 14, 2007 #
Orienteering race (green course) 1:42:13 [4] *** 5.2 km (19:39 / km) +190m 16:37 / km
spiked:11/14c shoes: Jala Jukola Spider 6 #2
Day 2 at Boggs Mtn. Did fine on # 1, then managed to leave the control 45 degrees off to the south and made things match up until they didn't, when I finally decided to relocate, ~7:30 lost. On the slog up to # 3 (9 contour climb) Glen passed me--he had started 12 minutes behind. I missed it and went a contour or two too high and relocated off another boulder with a flag at a trail bend, ~2 min lost. And # 4 was another miss, as there were more unmapped thickets in the area besides the one my control was near; relocated off a control along the road, ~1:30 lost.
Did better after that with clean route choices, and was glad I had help into the Go control which was barely a 1/2 m boulder off the trail, with the flag hidden in a hole behind it (the clues DID say "N side", which was where the hole was).
Overall, finished 1st F50 (out of 2 official finishers; 3 others DNF'd or DNS'd or MP'd). Ardis Dull was Western States Champ, about 10 minutes behind.
Did better after that with clean route choices, and was glad I had help into the Go control which was barely a 1/2 m boulder off the trail, with the flag hidden in a hole behind it (the clues DID say "N side", which was where the hole was).
Overall, finished 1st F50 (out of 2 official finishers; 3 others DNF'd or DNS'd or MP'd). Ardis Dull was Western States Champ, about 10 minutes behind.
Saturday Oct 13, 2007 #
Orienteering race (Green course) 1:30:10 [4] *** 5.2 km (17:20 / km) +180m 14:47 / km
spiked:13/15c shoes: Jala Jukola Spider 6 #2
Day 1 at Western States Champs in Cobb, CA, Boggs Mtn Demonstration Forest. "Not too steep" by Calif. standards, but still pretty steep in a few areas (including one where I messed up, near control 4). Otherwise I was pretty successful at reading the terrain, the vegetation, and my compass, for the most part. 1st F50 (of 5--two of whom I'd never heard of; one of whom I met at the start who said she's a runner but hasn't orienteered for very long).
Thursday Oct 11, 2007 #
Hiking 1:32:00 [1] 3.01 mi (30:34 / mi)
shoes: Trail NB 706 9D # 1
Will add distance later when I get home; we hiked at the Corte de Maderos Creek Open Space area west of Palo Alto, CA. The redwoods there were impressive, as were the sandstone formations; the "vista point" needs some pruning or it will soon no longer have a vista. :-)
Later that day we drove down to Santa Cruz and walked out the municipal wharf (and watched sea lions at rest lying on the crosspieces under the wharf at low tide) and back, and then to the nearby lighthouse off whose point surfers were having preliminary heats for a competition this past weekend.
[Note: added distance]
Later that day we drove down to Santa Cruz and walked out the municipal wharf (and watched sea lions at rest lying on the crosspieces under the wharf at low tide) and back, and then to the nearby lighthouse off whose point surfers were having preliminary heats for a competition this past weekend.
[Note: added distance]