Training Log Archive: barb

Includes a 15 second sprint. :-)

I have a story for you. About Mad Tracker. Sometime soon want to tell it. If didn't already.

If ice fishing gets into the Olympics before orienteering, I am going to be very disappointed in the IOF.

C • Ice fishing 4

I love the 2nd photo: Mike Minium took it; it's Gian from BAOC, orienteering in the snow in the desert.

C • Snow pic (2nd) 4

Daniel from BAOC at Tucson's B meet



Ludwig and Mike studying a map. Mike was awesome - helped out in so many ways. Ludwig is a TOC guy; he provided us with training maps, advised on trianing, picked up B meet controls, and perhaps best of all, took everything back to the storage locker after the meet was over on Monday. (Otherwise I'd have had to.)



People from all over helped. Deb + boyfriend organized the epunches after the meet.

Wild outrageous day of beauty.



Gian (BAOC); made it past Border Patrol.



Rogaining terrain to die for. (Blizzard coming in from the left.)

First we high-tailed it out of the excellent Sonoita Inn, to get to the Greaterville map before the rumored blizzard. So incredibly beautiful there. Soon there were flakes flying, in a hard wind. After picking up some of the controls intended for a longer training today, we headed north to Tucson, and to the Ironwood map, which was originally not on the agenda. Mike Minium picked up a last-minute order of maps and met us there. It was raining - but that switched to snow! Soon big huge Disney flake clusters were falling, and the cactus garden was covered in snow, and finding Mike's white control markers was hard but fun.

Event: Winter Training in the Sun
 

Pleasurable terrain. Training on the Greaterville map.

Didn't orienteer today, but it was a great meet anyway.
Had really really good help.

Green course at the Tucson B meet. Fun.
A good day. Erin had a good talk with Clare Durand, and also with Allen Hubsch, yesterday, so that was awesome. Isabel won green again, then went out in mass start format on brown with Will and Dan, and they were super fast. She said it was painful trying to run as fast as Will.
Erin did a second day of beginner training at 9:30 with the boy scouts and AHG girls, maybe 16 or 20 kids. I took on 6 little kids and their adults for beginner training.
Erin did course review with the advanced juniors.
Then after lunch, once again the advanced juniors volunteered their time to take local juniors out to teach them about how to navigate on advanced courses. Will, Dan and Isabel each took a group, as did Erin and I. (Yesterday it was similar but Cristina also took a group.) It's great to see these juniors stepping up and giving back to the community like that.
I was all flattered because the AHG leader told me today that the girls who went with me and with Izzy (two different groups) on the training yesterday were excited and learned a lot, so she wanted us again today.
A couple of the JROTC kids from Phoenix were out a long time and had their leader worried.
Tomorrow I'm meet director; hopefully I'll have enough volunteers.

C • AHG... 13

Event: Southwest Spring B-Meet in the Sun
 

Tucson B meet
Did part of a green course but my heart wasn't in it. Lots of other things to think about. For example, I thought about Mikell Platt and how I suspected he might not like how much cactus there was. I didn't see him after, but it looks as though he didn't finish the course. People generally found it hard today, I think.
Isabel had so much trouble she was very angry for a while afterward (just with me). However, she won green. She had to stop to pull a cholla off of her, and this distracted her so much she had to relocate.
In the afternoon, I went out for about 90 minute with three girls (7th, 8th, 9th grade) from Tucson who were learning to orienteer. Isabel, Will, Erin, Dan and Cristina also took kids out. That was pretty neat.

C • Jumped by a cholla 2

Got a query today from a woman at Friends of Morse School. They used to put on an annual Book Festival, and for some reason that tradition is ending. Now they're thinking of doing an annual orienteering event instead! They don't know much about orienteering, and I'm not sure how the idea came up, but I said I'd help them. Sometime in the spring. Maybe we could use the new Magazine Beach ISSOM map that Giovanni and Ed are making happen. Plus the neighborhood. Basically an urban score-O. And then we can tell families who come about all the other opportunities to orienteer...

And Alex is putting on an urban rogaine in Cambridge area 3/31, hopefully. Maybe I can get some crossover...

C • 3/31/13... 29

work, school, home

To grocery store to get dinner and later to class.
I wore my "Mardi Gras" helmet to the grocery store, and my reindeer horns helmet (pedestrian in comparison) to Harvard.

Today I made a training exercise for the CSU crowd that I saw on o-training.net. It's supposed to help you practice getting quickly to the first few sprint controls. There were 6 small maps stapled together, each with about 4 short legs. You stand in the start triangle (sidewalk outside my house), then look at the first map and orient it (by features; there are no North lines) as fast as you can, and run the legs. When you get to the finish, you take a breather and then flip to the next map, whose start is at the finish of the previous map. Some of the maps were a bad orienteering map I made of Magazine Beach for the kids at the school (also on the map), and the rest were open street map maps.

Dinner with the crowd afterward was chicken, quinoa, mashed potatoes, salad, green beans, and chocolate cake to celebrate 3 CSU birthdays! Ian's was celebrated in absentia. Isabel found CSU-colored birthday candles. I like this train-then-dinner tradition.

C • Train-then-dinner 3

Dreamed that I found a piece of wood, like a part of a chair with two legs and a bar across. I tried running with it and found I could run 3 steps, then use this thing like crutches or hiking poles to sail through the air for a ways, then come down and run 3 more steps and so on. I thought it would be great for orienteering. I showed it to Mom but she fell asleep during the demonstration.

Orienteering is to geocaching as... soccer is to bowling?

http://tinyurl.com/wcoc-jr-training-2013

Today's goals

• Collect info about who's likely to go to Europe; contact travel agent; coordinate with Allen H; contact Radek in Czech Republic; pay for JWOC entry fees; ask Radek re payment for JWOC week for JST members who are not on JWOC team.
  
• ONA articles: Junior news; rankings; JST members & other advanced juniors; rogaining
  
• Rogaining email...
  
• AZ PR, housing, meet workers
  
• JST selection phone call arrange; contact references (references contacted Monday)
  
• prep for meeting with Glen on Tuesday about grants & sponsorship
  
• start planning campaign for high-tech sponsors
  
• WCOC training announcement. Done (eventually)
  
• Write to Eero and Frida
  
• declutter the house a bit. Nope
  
• Harvard Extension homework. Nope
  
• Take Izzy as my date to my company party. Check
  
• Attend physical therapy appointment, so much for 3 hours of the day. Check, but more like 5 hours
  
• try to do a pull-up
  

C • Good thing... 1

We're working with a practitioner of the Schroth method. It involves moving the different sections of our trunks to correct the scoliosis curves, then breathing into the newly expanded areas and doing isometric exercises. There is also a component of choices to make about how to sit, stand, reach, carry, as we go through our everyday lives.