Training Log Archive: bl

Sunday brown. Cool with little sun. I'd give this about a B vs yesterday's about an A. A bit shorter than I would have liked but this weekend was a look-see into what's working.

#3 lost maybe 20" going one way then the other deciding where to cross a narrow part of swamp and another 20" balancing on a small log etc; #4 from the boulder in the marsh, I could see a reentrant, one not mapped, went to it, no flag. The flag was about 30m to the N in the mapped reentrant. Maybe 30" lost. #5 did not keep in contact with the map along the marshes - stopped too early, investigated a knoll with no flag. Allowed loss of map contact. Maybe 1.5' lost; #7, the last control - went to the AP of two boulders. Was not deliberate enough & went to the base of the lower contour. No reentrant with depression. Went back to the two boulders & took a bearing & that got me there, having lost maybe 75". Stopped there on my way back from picking up a few flags and a water stop. From the two boulders, the map was fine. I could even see the boulder next to the flag. Slow and deliberate when called for (often) gets one home faster. With this weekend, I felt like I returned to competitive orienteering, though behind the eight ball.

Another camping weekend well done by hardworking UNO troopers. I wasn't of much help for a number of reasons. This meet may be 20+ yrs old by Darrell's estimate. Popular and in need of help all the while.

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C • hardworking UNO troopers 2

Brown - Splits

Event: UNO Camping Weekend
 

Pawtuckaway camping weekend, brown. On the cool side. Was careful, accurate, kept good map contact for most part. 2-5 involved a fair amount of logged forest with all the debris underneath. No mistakes, some hesitations & minor misreadings. Flags were hung high or at least quite visible. Right upper hamstring did not surface but was sore an hour or so after. Still tomorrow should be OK. Night O would have been too much - as well as Mocha sitting w/ Beth in Vt and unexpected call, tonight only. There were days when I'd finagle the latter.

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Brown - Splits

Nottingcook around 5pm. Had a hard rain about 90' before. On the dark side & buggy. Right hamstring makes itself known but nothing more. Being cautious.
Stopped by the old target range, dumping site - nothing new on the ground there. A mattress near the entrance getting on to 3 yrs and one large shot-up appliance in the weeds.

Around the main 3 Sisters island on Squam Lake. Visit with Roger M, a college classmate I last visited maybe 20 yrs ago in Norwich, Vt. Other than that, had not seen him since college, so 50 years. His wife's family bought this 3 ac island in 1950. Summer house built late 1800s, no electricity, graciously wide porches, an abundance of shade trees, grand views and loons for background "music". Calm as could be today. Roger, a talented and still a bit driven runner, held the college 880 record for some 20yrs at 1:53.xx. He still runs regularly but when on the island, swims around it once or twice a day. So we did that once, stopping now & then at little beaches or on isolated rocks. Got me OOB a # of times.

Boat day, not exactly rest but nothing conventional in the way of training.
IS 95 was already slow go with Labor Day traffic heading home at 1015 near Portsmouth. Returned 4/9/202 to avoid it at the end of the day. T close to 90F.

Met a hunter at Nottingcook this morn while I was "walking" Mocha. He had a pistol on his hip and a rifle in his back pack, was dressed in fatigues, wore a full beard, was maybe in his early 30s, from Manchester. We were certainly of a different stripe but had a pleasant near 15' conversation. He perked up with the concept of orienteering. He'd done triangulation from the air for designated ground points when in the civil air service. He knew Nottingcook in his way as I knew it in mine. He kept track of all the hunters' stands as a territorial consideration. He was out to shoot any coyotes he found. He spoke of 12 hrs in a deer stand in the fall awaiting that "coveted moment", very cold at first.

C • cold 2