Training Log Archive: PG

Valerie, miracle worker that she is, joins us for a moment at dinner to announce that someone has turned in a 305 they found in the woods!

What excellent karma, shows what a life of clean living gets you.

My 305 and I were soon reunited, it suffering not from a broken strap as I assumed, but from a pin that had been pulled out of its socket. Apparently in the same fall in which it now feels like my right shoulder was pulled out of its socket.

So my track -- click on the blue globe if you are a paying customer -- includes my track up to just before my third control, and then a period of rest, and then the rescuer's route from there to the finish. Having a hard time identifying who that was, still working on it.

Meanwhile, :-) :-) :-)

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North Americans, M65, middle. 2.9 km straight line. Good enough run until the last missed, missed the last 4 controls though nothing major. Major miss was that when I looked at my wrist at about #7 to see my time, my 305 was no longer there. RIP.

Excellent map, orienteering on a combination of contours and vegetation.

No energy, just felt dead, but at least most of the time the brain was working.

Click on map for larger version --

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Event: 2012 North American Orienteering Championships
 

Back home from Greenfield after leaving the old Subaru for a little maintenance -- replacing a ball joint that is getting a little worn, plus a new set of tires. I think that's the fourth set of tires, but maybe 5th? Car has 241K miles on it and still seems to be chugging along.

A nippy morning for the road bike, about 40F. But not cold enough or out long enough for the hands/toes/ears to freeze up, though they were getting chilly.

On Mt. Toby, up North Mt, over and then down South Mt. Didn't have to get off the bike at all (which means also no falls). :-)

This is such a nice time of year.

So what's the standard these days for results from a local meet? I went to the HVO meet at Pound Ridge on Saturday. E-punching, printed out splits afterwards from a little printer but the interface with the laptop wasn't working. So there were no results on site. Three days later, none on the web page.

Should I just assume there won't ever be any?

Not that it's a big deal, just curious to see who else was there and how they managed.

C • results 6

Easy peasy O' training with Amy Lane, trying to give a few pointers. Beautiful afternoon, very mellow and enjoyable.

81-82-1-66. Good round, finishing up with a nice birdie on 18.

And then 45 minutes on the porch with two of the guys I played with (had never met before), chatting about life and golf, very enjoyable. Sometimes you get lucky.

A nice birthday present.

Route from yesterday (click on map for larger image) --



If one wanted to be picky, one could say that it was the 40th anniversary, and that the clues for 8 and 9 could have been more precise. :-)

Lots of sore places, generally feeling quite battered. Had the usual number of falls, a couple pretty hard.

C • Ward Pound Ridge 6

Event: HVO: Ward Pound Ridge
 

Nice to see Erin and a bunch of juniors out training at Pound Ridge, after training earlier in the day at Westmoreland. It's going to be interesting and fun seeing what he can accomplish. More power to him. I hope that whenever there is an opportunity to help him, folks will pitch in. Got to get that median age a lot lower!

A slightly modified version of the M21 course at the 1972 US Champs, or maybe of an M21 course if was a two-champs? Slightly modified because the start/finish area was not available, so the beginning and end were different.

Also the map was quite different, 1:15 based on Eric Weyman's 1983 mapping, not the 1:24 used in 1972.

An interesting run, both good and bad, though overall certainly more good than bad. Might as well get the bad out of the way first.... :-)

-- My orienteering was a little shaky, especially to #1, couldn't adjust to (or read) the map, blew off at least a couple minutes. Also misses at #2 (a minute or two), #5 (at most a minute), at #6 (at most a minute, lucky it wasn't more), at #8 (30-45 seconds), and at #9 (a minute). Not so good.

-- My minute or two at #2 is only part of the story. Never found the control. Got to the area and saw two guys claiming to have been there quite a while. Did a quick look around and then split. Balter found it, figured it was 100-150 meters to the north. Glad I didn't spend much time searching.

-- Had a really hard time reading the map, could extract only minimal info on the run, many many times had to stop and then still really struggled to read it. I assumed it was just the 1:15, hardly ever get that these days for the courses I run. But then back home I pulled out the 1983 version, offset printed, and it was substantially better, especially the contour lines.

And then the good....

-- A beautiful day, nice and cool, and the legs had some energy. Ran up a lot of hills. Started getting a little heavy-legged the last 25 minutes, but even that was not so bad. Really happy about that, given I was out for two hours. Still struggling with the rocky areas and the hemlock deadfall, but that is a given these days.

-- If there is going to be a bad control, a local meet is the place to do it. Not stressed at all about it, just moved on. So nice not to have any reason to be bummed or pissed or obnoxious. :-)

-- Compared splits with Greg. He was killing me early on, getting me by a normal margin in the middle, and I got him by a little on the last three. Guess the course was just too short.

Are there results anywhere from 1972? Would be interesting to see.

Today's map (click on map for a larger version) --



And the 1983 map (click on map for a larger version). Notice, for example, just east of #9 on the hillside, how much sharper the contours are. Both maps were scanned and condensed the same way.

C • quailty 8

C • USOC'72 map & courses 1

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