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Wednesday Jul 31, 2019 #
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Lac des Mille Lacs (about an hour west of Thunder Bay) to Manitoba/Saskatechwan Border.
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019 #
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Temiskaming Shores to Lac des Mille Lacs (about an hour west of Thunder Bay).
Monday Jul 29, 2019 #
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Montreal to Temiskaming Shores, with a stop in Ottawa at the O-Store to pick up some medals & silent auction items to be transported out west for next year's COCs.
Sunday Jul 28, 2019 #
Running warm up/down 7:00 [1]
11 AM
Orienteering 2:14:31 14.0 km (9:37 / km) +420m 8:21 / km
ahr:153 max:175
COC 2019 Long in Rawdon.
Routegadget: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&a...
I was really happy with this race. Still had crazy accommodation and other factors wrecking havoc on the mental end of things - but was able to focus up before the race well. Didn't do much of a physical warm-up, but just the good old 7 minute injury prevention special...
Started 3 minutes behind Graeme, and 3 minutes ahead of Robbie. I took the first control really slow and safe, and met Graeme right around #2 where we both overshot. Robbie caught up to us there as well. Ran a leg and a half with Robbie, before I took a subpar control entrance into 4 and then latched onto Graeme for the next control. Our routechoice involved a nice swim surprisingly, with a crossable creek ending up involving me going in so deep that my heart-rate monitor chest strap was submerged. Good thing we had sealed map bags.
Caught up to Robbie at the water control, and Robbie led us for a few controls before Graeme got dropped/took a different routechoice on the long leg up the hill. I took a difference routechoice to 13 (I think) and lost Robbie there. Saw Graeme a few more times on a few legs around 15 and 16 when he caught back up, but Robbie was long gone.
Was really feeling it around the last loop of 17 onwards, but managed to keep it fairly clean with only one really bad mistakes of a couple of minutes when I overshot 21.
Ended up in 6th place - happy with that.
Routegadget: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&a...
I was really happy with this race. Still had crazy accommodation and other factors wrecking havoc on the mental end of things - but was able to focus up before the race well. Didn't do much of a physical warm-up, but just the good old 7 minute injury prevention special...
Started 3 minutes behind Graeme, and 3 minutes ahead of Robbie. I took the first control really slow and safe, and met Graeme right around #2 where we both overshot. Robbie caught up to us there as well. Ran a leg and a half with Robbie, before I took a subpar control entrance into 4 and then latched onto Graeme for the next control. Our routechoice involved a nice swim surprisingly, with a crossable creek ending up involving me going in so deep that my heart-rate monitor chest strap was submerged. Good thing we had sealed map bags.
Caught up to Robbie at the water control, and Robbie led us for a few controls before Graeme got dropped/took a different routechoice on the long leg up the hill. I took a difference routechoice to 13 (I think) and lost Robbie there. Saw Graeme a few more times on a few legs around 15 and 16 when he caught back up, but Robbie was long gone.
Was really feeling it around the last loop of 17 onwards, but managed to keep it fairly clean with only one really bad mistakes of a couple of minutes when I overshot 21.
Ended up in 6th place - happy with that.
Saturday Jul 27, 2019 #
9 AM
Running warm up/down 18:20 1.32 km (13:52 / km) +36m 12:13 / km
ahr:107 max:136
10 AM
Orienteering 1:06:46 6.07 km (11:01 / km) +173m 9:38 / km
ahr:154 max:180
COC Middle in Rawdon
Routegadet: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&a...#
Very unhappy with how I performed in this race. A lot of various distracting factors with accommodation and other stuff that impacted sleep and mental function. I didn't do a good job of clearing my head before the race.
I also really struggled to understand some of the mapping, and found that my brain was somewhat more on a being critical of the mapping rather than actually trying to use it properly. I found the lack of interplay of contours and cliffs challenging to interpret. But mostly I just mentally didn't get in the game like I should have.
Over-ran and got off on the bearing to #2, and the race kind of just went downhill from there. Lots of hestitations and small and big mistakes.
Mostly just walked everything after the spectator control - I was struggling in the heat and the green on the south slope.
They held onto the maps and didn't give it back until after the long distance the next day.
Routegadet: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&a...#
Very unhappy with how I performed in this race. A lot of various distracting factors with accommodation and other stuff that impacted sleep and mental function. I didn't do a good job of clearing my head before the race.
I also really struggled to understand some of the mapping, and found that my brain was somewhat more on a being critical of the mapping rather than actually trying to use it properly. I found the lack of interplay of contours and cliffs challenging to interpret. But mostly I just mentally didn't get in the game like I should have.
Over-ran and got off on the bearing to #2, and the race kind of just went downhill from there. Lots of hestitations and small and big mistakes.
Mostly just walked everything after the spectator control - I was struggling in the heat and the green on the south slope.
They held onto the maps and didn't give it back until after the long distance the next day.
Friday Jul 26, 2019 #
10 AM
Running warm up/down 21:34 1.98 km (10:54 / km)
ahr:123 max:171
Did too long of a warm-up and tired myself out a bit considering my current fitness level.
11 AM
Orienteering 20:48 4.08 km (5:06 / km) +19m 4:59 / km
ahr:180 max:223
COC 2019 Sprint Laval
Routegadget: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&a...#
A frustrating sprint that I did not enjoy from many perspectives. I knew coming in that the terrain was going to be fairly bland and got almost exactly what I expected. We started slightly further north than I was expecting, and skipped the little village which was probably the most the technical area on the map.
I was happy with the first three controls - and then I started to feel really tired from the last weekend and the trainings during the week. I also just don't have the top end running speed to do well in this sort of race right now because of a serious lack of speed training. Anyways - was pretty much just hurting a lot for the entire rest of the race. A couple of stupid bobbles of 20s and 30s otherwise pretty clean. Those mistakes were both me not interpreting the map and terrain in the same way where I would have mapped things differently then they were mapped. That's not saying the mapper was outright wrong - that's saying I need to do better to think of alternate ways to map things.
I really do not like this new sprint standard. A large portion of the run was me trying to figure out if I could or could not run through various shades of green. Trying to figure out if I am allowed to run through stuff or not is not the fun part of sprint orienteering in my opinion. The map and terrain should be very clear whether you can or not - and the new sprint standard is a large step in the wrong direction on that front.
Course 6 was pretty boring with a lot of just pick a tree and run to it legs especially the middle chunk of the course and the last few legs.
It looked like course 5 was a much better course design - better routechoice decisions and less tree picking/dead running.
Also: Need to remeber to tighten the heart rate strap before starting/check it. It fell down twice during the first three controls before I gave up pulling it back up to my chest and just let it flop around my stomach for the rest of the race.
Routegadget: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&a...#
A frustrating sprint that I did not enjoy from many perspectives. I knew coming in that the terrain was going to be fairly bland and got almost exactly what I expected. We started slightly further north than I was expecting, and skipped the little village which was probably the most the technical area on the map.
I was happy with the first three controls - and then I started to feel really tired from the last weekend and the trainings during the week. I also just don't have the top end running speed to do well in this sort of race right now because of a serious lack of speed training. Anyways - was pretty much just hurting a lot for the entire rest of the race. A couple of stupid bobbles of 20s and 30s otherwise pretty clean. Those mistakes were both me not interpreting the map and terrain in the same way where I would have mapped things differently then they were mapped. That's not saying the mapper was outright wrong - that's saying I need to do better to think of alternate ways to map things.
I really do not like this new sprint standard. A large portion of the run was me trying to figure out if I could or could not run through various shades of green. Trying to figure out if I am allowed to run through stuff or not is not the fun part of sprint orienteering in my opinion. The map and terrain should be very clear whether you can or not - and the new sprint standard is a large step in the wrong direction on that front.
Course 6 was pretty boring with a lot of just pick a tree and run to it legs especially the middle chunk of the course and the last few legs.
It looked like course 5 was a much better course design - better routechoice decisions and less tree picking/dead running.
Also: Need to remeber to tighten the heart rate strap before starting/check it. It fell down twice during the first three controls before I gave up pulling it back up to my chest and just let it flop around my stomach for the rest of the race.
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019 #
7 AM
Running 1:40 [3] 0.17 km (9:45 / km)
10 AM
Orienteering 19:55 [2] 3.75 km (5:19 / km)
M21E sprint training at Algonquin College with unmapped construction and artificial fences not in the terrain.
Orienteering 14:26 [1] 2.52 km (5:43 / km)
M20E Sprint Training at Algonquin College.
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019 #
11 AM
Orienteering 1:03:11 [1] 2.87 km (22:00 / km) +110m 18:28 / km
Easy training mostly walking at P19 of Gatineau Park.
Running 11:02 [1] 1.14 km (9:40 / km) +20m 8:54 / km
Walk/jog to start of the training from the parking lot.
12 PM
Orienteering 52:15 [1] 2.78 km (18:47 / km) +59m 16:59 / km
Hotter, really tired training and more walking at P17 of Gatineau Park with Lillian.
Off to the beach later in the afternoon.
Off to the beach later in the afternoon.
Monday Jul 22, 2019 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 23:27 [4] 3.79 km (6:11 / km) +10m 6:06 / km
O-Fest HPP Relay
3rd Place
3rd Place
Running warm up/down 9:50 [1] 1.17 km (8:24 / km)
11 AM
Orienteering 43:51 [1] 4.15 km (10:33 / km)
Picking up controls
Sunday Jul 21, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:47:29 [4] 13.44 km (8:00 / km) +49m 7:51 / km
O-Fest Long
Couple of big mistakes at controls 2 and 12. Most of the rest was fairly smooth though.
A couple of weird places on the map where things were greener than expected and map printing wasn't all that great at 1:15000. Really weird with black and brown things looking really blotchy when within green or yellow areas.
Routegadget: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&a...
Couple of big mistakes at controls 2 and 12. Most of the rest was fairly smooth though.
A couple of weird places on the map where things were greener than expected and map printing wasn't all that great at 1:15000. Really weird with black and brown things looking really blotchy when within green or yellow areas.
Routegadget: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&a...
Running warm up/down 12:02 [1] 1.09 km (11:00 / km) +5m 10:45 / km
Warm-Up
12 PM
Running warm up/down 2:07 [1] 0.3 km (7:05 / km)
Rocking the two minute cool down.
Saturday Jul 20, 2019 #
Event: Ottawa O-Fest
Orienteering race 41:56 [4] 4.5 km (9:19 / km)
20c
Ottawa O-Fest middle. Fourth place - 6 minutes back, but two MP by people who were running faster than me.
Super duper crazy hot.
Pretty clean race - no big mistakes but around 3 minutes or so of small little routechoice things that added up. Mostly just impossible to run at a high speed in the heat.
Straight line distance - Garmin didn't start up properly - its been having some issues lately.
Super duper crazy hot.
Pretty clean race - no big mistakes but around 3 minutes or so of small little routechoice things that added up. Mostly just impossible to run at a high speed in the heat.
Straight line distance - Garmin didn't start up properly - its been having some issues lately.
Running warm up/down 10:00 [1]
Friday Jul 19, 2019 #
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Over in Ottawa now.
Crazy hot here - crazy humid.
First race tomorrow in the afternoon heat - gonna be about survival and not about time.
Crazy hot here - crazy humid.
First race tomorrow in the afternoon heat - gonna be about survival and not about time.
Note
Website still under development - but this is the soft launch.
https://teamtrials.sageorienteering.ca/
Might get a bit more up in the next 2 days, but then wait a month to get the rest of the details - since I'll be camping and then driving back across the country.
https://teamtrials.sageorienteering.ca/
Might get a bit more up in the next 2 days, but then wait a month to get the rest of the details - since I'll be camping and then driving back across the country.
Thursday Jul 18, 2019 #
5 PM
Running 26:26 [3] 4.7 km (5:37 / km) +3m 5:37 / km
Refer to Emma's Log: https://attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_1017/peri...
Only a lot more painful for me.
Only a lot more painful for me.
Running 22:48 [1] 3.82 km (5:58 / km)
Running 14:43 [1] 2.29 km (6:26 / km) +10m 6:18 / km
Tuesday Jul 9, 2019 #
6 AM
Running 1:17:38 [1] 10.75 km (7:13 / km) +358m 6:11 / km
Morning run in South Canoe with Dad and Phil. There has been a bunch of new trail construction (will need to update a few chunks of the map) which was really nice for adding in some new running routes.
Friday Jul 5, 2019 #
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(rest day)
Back in Salmon Arm - lots of card and board games today.
Thursday Jul 4, 2019 #
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(rest day)
Finishing up mapping and travel back to Salmon Arm day.
Wednesday Jul 3, 2019 #
Event: Hidden Lakes
Mapping 4:30:00 [0]
Last day of fieldwork. Bit more drafting to do tomorrow and then some exporting to OCAD work for a final tidy-up.
Tuesday Jul 2, 2019 #
Mapping 6:30:00 [0]
Monday Jul 1, 2019 #
9 AM
Mapping 6:08:02 7.77 km (47:23 / km) +11m 47:03 / km
Crazy smokey up here in Whitehorse right now. When I'm in the forest, I can see the haze looking through the trees. You can totally forget about trying to look across the valley at Grey Mountain, visibility is way less than that. Still really hot, and was at 95% humidity this morning. Tons of mosquitoes today too.
One more day of fieldwork on Porter Creek, and one more day on Yukon College and then its just more drafting tidy-up work.
One more day of fieldwork on Porter Creek, and one more day on Yukon College and then its just more drafting tidy-up work.
6 PM
Running 16:10 [3] 1.4 km (11:35 / km) +52m 9:46 / km
7 PM
Orienteering 39:52 [3] 4.88 km (8:10 / km) +112m 7:20 / km
Mock Middle Distance at Red Squad training on Chadburn Lake map.
Splits added earlier, apparently just one click to assign them to a pre-made course if you hit the lap button during the run. Awesome little things hidden in Attackpoint!
GPS viewable by everyone, so you should be able to compare Forest's routes and mine.
Splits added earlier, apparently just one click to assign them to a pre-made course if you hit the lap button during the run. Awesome little things hidden in Attackpoint!
GPS viewable by everyone, so you should be able to compare Forest's routes and mine.