Training Log Archive: barb

Cortisone injection in the shoulder today.

Picked up controls at Nobscot, because it got dark before the team could retrieve them last night. Doing this alone and for the 2nd time and having the map to myself made it go much faster.

Two classes. First day of the spring session. Ethan is gone. He went to Andrew's wedding. I did the animal orienteering with the children. First I had them run around until I blew the whistle. Then they went and looked for all the cones in the park. Then they went to see if they could find all of the cones with an animal cheat sheet. Then I gave them courses that they had to do in order using pictures of animals in order. There was at least one kindergarten student who could not read a number that had two digits. So I was glad to have the animal pictures.

One of the girls was very good at it. She said her father does computers and he would be interested to hear about our activity.

Hanging controls while talking with Max, who is a celestial navigation teacher for the Royal Yacht Club.

On Needham town forest map with isabel. Lots of trails but still a good map for epunch courses I think.

What about the nearby unmapped land ridge he'll reservation. Is that accessible to us?

C • Ridge Hill 15

Spending the morning working on auditing the team funds. I prepared over the week by collecting our starting points, and rewriting some code to analyze the data we have.

Hung streamers for today's team training at Boojum. 3 kids went out on a control pick set by Ethan. Now they are looking at Erin's armchair training from Junior National Program (week 1 of 2017). The focus is on the 5 key skills - rough & precise compass; rough & precise map reading; distance estimation.

Agua Caliente hill

Box Canyon map, AZ. Swept behind Keegan & Degan and later hung streamers. This was a good training day for them, I think - quite a few km of serious contour reading.

Event: Tucson Orienteering Training Camp
 

Hiking with Peg Davis in the Catalina mountains. Sabino Canyon.

C • Sabino Canyon 2

On my way to Tucson to direct a local meet and support a small training camp with at least one JDT member, Ethan, some JROTC kids and some random people.

Kissy is good in meetings

Shadowed for orienteering team training at Hammond Pond in the snow.
Afterward, we had a dinner meeting with parents. It was nice to meet all the people, and for them to get to know the people their kids are spending so much time with. Mind you, Ethan was absent - but we showed a short video of him so he could talk to the parents about himself and the training and the upcoming events.

Walked and jogged to work. Wore icebugs because ice.

Enjoyed a birthday celebration. February is busy for birthdays around here; at the Superbowl party 5 of about a dozen people had Feb birthdays.

C • Superbowl 2

After orienteering practice, three of the team members came back and helped me with PR for the Tucson training camp and did some blogging.

I will visit a physician's assistant today about my shoulder. It has been getting worse. I wrench it painfully several times a day just doing things like putting a shirt on. It pops and cracks frequently. There is a dull ache most of the time, and I can't reach my head to shampoo or behind my back, and putting the seatbelt on is dicey.

I'd prefer to see a doctor, not an assistant who will just prescribe physical therapy. I'd like to know if there is something torn that could be repaired. I'd like to know whether using it is bad or good.

C • shoulder 4

I went to Chicago over the weekend to visit my parents, for whom travel is harder. Mom has some medical complaints that are not yet diagnosed; various tests upcoming. We walked along the lake, and I taught Mom how to Uber, and we did some research into the time when they were taking the Siberian railroad across from China through Mongolia, through Siberia, to Moscow. They got their visas at the Soviet embassy in Beijing around 8/15/91, and in between then and when they took the train out, well, I'll let you read the version of the story that Dad wrote and I edited. We pored over his journals from that time, along with googling the events. Pretty fun, though Dad got tired and discouraged by the end of our session.

C • Great story! 3

Hanging controls for kids' training.

With Mom and Dad in Hyde Park

Happy to see Ethan's article in ONA about one approach Navigation Games has developed for teaching orienteering to children in a fun way. I like his writing. I like how strongly he makes the point that having fun is the #1 goal - you want kids to associate orienteering with fun. And I like the fact that this approach introduces various elements of orienteering in a different order than normally done. Often we start with explaining the map. But here, with young chidren, all of the following are introduced before even looking at the map:

1. Finding controls


2. Running around in terrain


3. E-punching


4. Seeing how much time it takes you to find controls


5. Checking control codes


6. Looking for controls in a specific order


7. And of course, having fun

C • looking at the map 1

C • ONA - got yours? 23