Training Log Archive: barb

yeah some orienteering

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Event: USA & Canada - WOC/JWOC Team Trials OUSA National 3 day meet
 

In preparation for a two-day school training next week, the teachers asked the students what pace they would like to go, in order to form teams of kids who want to travel at a similar speed. Here are the results:

Dropped my iPhone on the way to work and did not even notice. Got a call from a kind stranger who found it.

I'm all in on orienteering business (OUSA, NEOC, CSU, Navigation Games) until my three-year OUSA term is up in 2019. Some people contribute by being a steady presence for decades. I am better suited to shorter more intense bursts of effort. This is the time for me to contribute to orienteering, and after 2019, I will be moving to different endeavors. I hope that by then I will have been able to contribute to junior orienteering in the US, and to making orienteering more sustainable in this country, with more people involved. Although, I guess by 2019 I'll have put in 7 years of sustained effort starting with the crazy and wonderful Junior Team Administrator time.

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A very good weekend at West Point for the Cambridge team. Nobody broke their arm; the closest was a banged up knee that took Theo out on the second day. We took first place in both of the categories (F14 and M16), and Keegan blew away the competition. Our other M16 runners had some really good legs; it was quite encouraging. Maybe this weekly training thing pays off.

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Saturday - Brown - Splits

Sometimes I find myself wondering how different stories are related. The milk lobby is claiming that immigration raids could raise the price of milk. And Trump is blaming Canadian dairy industry for US dairy industry losses.

I've also been wondering whether anyone is tallying the income to Trump industries from the presidency, specifically income to Trump properties from visits by Trump, his entourage, secret service, and foreign and domestic persons meeting with administration officials. Presumably that dwarfs his presidential income, which was donated to National Park Service, cuts to which also dwarf that income.

Will the latest Trump directive to the State Department about foreign worker visas affect our hypothetical H1B mappers? Regardless, let's move on this while we still have the status quo.

Grace Ralston, my ex-grandmother-in-law, whom I visited recently in Albuquerque, and is 103, is doing poorly.

Navigation Games hosted an introduction to orienteering at a small park in Cambridge today. We served about 20 kids, mostly pre-school, but some in primary grades. Our teens helped (Sophia, Keegan), and brought additional helpers (Derek, Jack). They taught their friend/brother and then those kids helped with the little ones. We had maze-O and animal-O with and without maps.

I met a 2 1/2 year old named Nick who can read numbers like 10 and 39, and count up to 1000. :O
So, he's my latest prospect. On the podium, JWOC 2034, BTA.
Also, maybe we can get a local team going with him, Diego, and Lukas.

Today I met by phone with our main contact at Newton Country Day School to start planning for our May 4-5 program with 61 9th grade girls. Also she thought they could do something for WOD.

We will be teaching 12 PE classes for WOD at CSUS!

Also biked to the high school for a recruitment fair for the summer program. Ethan did the bulk of this work, setting up a table and collecting names. Our high school orienteers helped out. I made contact with 3 other programs that we might be able to work with for one day during the summer.

I found out Tuesday that we are accepted as a worksite for the summer again - which means the city will pay the teens' wages for 6 weeks, and provide a counselor who works with us to teach kids general career skills. Unfortunately, we did not get the $3000 grant we got last year to pay for staff. So we will need to be raising that money, probably via an online donation drive. Stay tuned.

We have made progress with a sponsor organization to bring Isak over on a J-1 visa to work as a counselor at our summer orienteering camp. The paperwork has been submitted to the State Department.

Over the past few days we've arranged to work with all 7 PE classes at a middle school (6th-8th) in Cambridge for World Orienteering Day. Presumably that's around 140 kids. Our contact is the Phys Ed teacher; I've worked with him before, offering an elective on orienteering.
Also, it still sounds like there will be a preschool orienteering on WOD, and I'm still hoping for another middle school, possibly a Community School, and then of course there is a CSU park-O!

A very successful day today: the first NEOC/Navigation Games/CSU Boston Area Youth Orienteering Series event. We had 80-100 kids plus parents. It was super busy. The weather was good. The ground was slush muddy. Ed brought his big display setup.

The kids had fun. We had animal O, maze O, and a pretty gnarly string-O. Plus regular courses. All with ePunch. We broke out the new Navigation Games e-punches.

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