Training Log Archive: GlenTIn the 12 days ending Aug 8, 2017:
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Tuesday Aug 8, 2017 #
Strength and Flexibility (Pilates) 50:00 [2]
We were in the area so made a guest appearance at the Pilates class we used to attend at the East Greenbush Y. This stuff is harder when you don't do it for a while.
5 PM
Orienteering 57:53 *** 6.47 km (8:57 / km) +30m 8:45 / km
ahr:141 max:160 20c shoes: Falcons 7
EMPO Summer Series - Score-O on the brand new* Central Park (Schenectady) map on a Tuesday evening. On our way back from Canada (sort of) so we worked it in to the schedule. Twenty six controls marked only with pin flags each with a letter on it which you wrote on the punch card to verify you were there. The area is an urban park but there are some wooded areas with trail networks, so a mixture of running across open land and some through the woods stuff. Much of the vegetation mapping is from the original field checking, so some of the "green" is more open than mapped. Got to 20 of the controls in the 1 hour time limit (tried for another which was placed somewhat off and gave up searching after a couple of minutes). 155 out of a possible 200 points. 70s and muggy.
* New, but many years in the making, with the initial field work done in 1992, drafting of that field work done in 2012, and finally finished up recently by Phil H-T incorporating LIDAR and additional field work.
* New, but many years in the making, with the initial field work done in 1992, drafting of that field work done in 2012, and finally finished up recently by Phil H-T incorporating LIDAR and additional field work.
Sunday Aug 6, 2017 #
Event: Canadian Championships Long
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:08:54 *** 6.7 km (10:17 / km) +170m 9:08 / km
ahr:137 max:160 spiked:14/15c shoes: Falcons 7
COC Long at Foley Mountain Conservation Area. Course 7 (5.9k, 160m). A really nice area with a variety of terrain and technical detail - and excellently mapped. Good course design, taking us through most of the areas and incorporating a 1.7k long leg. Not a lot of route choice for most of the legs but without many trails or big hills I can see the challenge. Rocky underfoot in lots of places.
I had a very good run. Lost a minute on #4 checking out a nearby knoll. Some hesitation on the long leg (#6) when things weren't making sense and I changed my plan by dropping to the stream with distinct (rock and contour) features which let me reestablish map contact and hit the control right on. Got lucky on #11 when things weren't matching but I stayed on my compass heading and a bag showed up with the right code on it. Placed 4th in M55+, 2min behind 2nd but 17min behind Ted de St, Croix in 1st. M45+ ran the same course - about 8 people faster than me in that class.
I had a very good run. Lost a minute on #4 checking out a nearby knoll. Some hesitation on the long leg (#6) when things weren't making sense and I changed my plan by dropping to the stream with distinct (rock and contour) features which let me reestablish map contact and hit the control right on. Got lucky on #11 when things weren't matching but I stayed on my compass heading and a bag showed up with the right code on it. Placed 4th in M55+, 2min behind 2nd but 17min behind Ted de St, Croix in 1st. M45+ ran the same course - about 8 people faster than me in that class.
Saturday Aug 5, 2017 #
12 PM
Orienteering race 41:26 **** 3.49 km (11:52 / km) +101m 10:22 / km
ahr:143 max:161 spiked:13/15c shoes: Falcons 7
Wednesday Aug 2, 2017 #
9 AM
Orienteering 1:35:28 *** 7.9 km (12:05 / km) +160m 10:58 / km
ahr:137 max:154 spiked:12/12c shoes: Falcons 7
Retr-O. Re-run of the first COC courses, held in 1968. Camp Fortune map in Gatineau Park. Black and white map, 1:20,000, 6m contours. Ran the Red course, which is the course run by the elite women. 6.1km straightline distance. Navigation mostly by trails, marshes and contours. Many features you'd expect to find on a "modern" orienteering map were not shown. Woods were summer green but not too thick with OK visibility. Somewhat rocky underfoot. Navigated pretty well, depending heavily on the compass. Found all the controls just about where I expected them. Biggest error was navigating to the Finish where I took a bit of a circuitous route. Warm with the temperature about 80F. Thanks to Gord Hunter, who was the primary organizer for the event.
Tuesday Aug 1, 2017 #
11 AM
Orienteering 1:55:17 ***** 8.05 km (14:20 / km) +22m 14:08 / km
ahr:110 max:132 16c shoes: Falcons 7
Playing in the Carp Barrens. Training event with about 30 points marked with mini-bags, so make your own course. Focused on reading features mostly at a walk/occasional jog and navigated to about 10 controls in the eastern part of the map (the "barrens"). Then visited another 5 or 6 in the western part as I headed back to the car (after running about a km along the road). Water level was high in the area, so extra bonus marshes were available for sloshing through.
Monday Jul 31, 2017 #
8 PM
Orienteering race 30:01 *** 4.83 km (6:13 / km) +41m 5:58 / km
ahr:148 max:160 spiked:15/16c shoes: NB 1210 "Leadville"
Night-O on a golf course, organized by Gord Hunter. At Rivermead Club de Golf in Aylmer, QE. 1:5000, 1m contours. Course 2 (4.4k), which included Men 55+ and Women 35+ (and maybe <17). Mass start with course variations (two different first controls, two loops done either cw or ccw I think and them common controls 12-16, 8 variations in total (?) with slightly different distances). Really fast (it's a golf course so even the white woods are mowed grass). A few rough open and light green areas, which along with water features and OOB areas made for some route choices. Tie for fourth overall with Marketa Graham (was at the finish first but fumbled the punch - if the timing resolution were finer she probably would've beaten me since I heard the box she punched beep first). 3rd M55 (actually all three of us are 60+). Lost about a minute on control #4 when I followed a crowd headed to a different control.
Sunday Jul 30, 2017 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 33:57 *** 3.85 km (8:50 / km) +5m 8:46 / km
ahr:147 max:170 spiked:10/12c shoes: Falcons 7
Saturday Jul 29, 2017 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:14:44 **** 7.32 km (10:12 / km) +18m 10:05 / km
ahr:138 max:167 spiked:9/11c shoes: Falcons 7
Eastern Canadian Champs Long - Course 7 (5.7k, 25m) on Notre-Dame-de-I'lle-Perrot map (1:10000, 2.5m contours). Very flat area (with lots of micro-undulations), moderate to heavy trail network and many marshes. I found the navigation to be pretty challenging since contour detail was minimal, wetter than usual weather meant a lot more marshy areas than mapped and the trails weren't always as easy to follow as one might expect. No really big errors, but probably some time loss on almost every control - felt like I was constantly working to reestablish map contact. One significant fall resulting in a sizeable egg on my left shin a few inches below the knee (caught a toe as I was jumping over a ditch). Ended up 7th (of 25) in M55+.