Training Log Archive: barb

Ran to the grocery store for breakfast supplies.

Ran with Dave on a bridge figure-8.

Spent a couple hours in the woods with 5 kids. I brought them there to do orienteering training. They agreed to go, I think, because they knew it meant getting to be in the woods. I set 9 envelopes containing puzzle pieces out on a Line-O course. The puzzle told them where to look for their prize. For Keegan, who is 3 (or is he 4?), I made a course on trails, with controls at places where the line-O intersected trails. The older kids took turns going with Keegan from one control to the next, while the other 3 kids did the line-O between those same controls. Keegan asked where the punches were. I explained to him we were just practicing for orienteering, not doing a real course. David and Isabel had recently done a line-O at a NEOC junior training, so they knew how it worked.

As I was setting the line-O, the kids played in the woods, making a fairy house:





This is the well for the fairy house.

Work commute

Rode with David to school. Then back to work.

Local meet, Breakheart. Ran green. Nice weather, cool.

Isabel and David ran white. Then Isabel shadowed her friend Danielle, who's an amazing forward on her soccer team. David and Isabel explained orienteering in the car on the way there. Danielle proceeded to burn up the course (faster than David), and I have new hopes for drawing in another O girl.