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Friday Sep 19, 2008 #
Walking in the woods 7:00:00 [2]
5 hours of control placing and pickup; a couple hours of walking and running during the event.
Things generally went really well. I have a list of things to do differently if they let me do it again next year. The big excitement was a girl stepping on a bees' or hornet's nest and being stung multiple times. I was on the other side of the map, and got a few phone calls about it. The teacher with the girl decided that we should call for an ambulance, so I did that while jogging toward them. Then I got another girl from the team on the phone so that she could tell me exactly where they were. She used a landmark control number to communicate her location; they'd gone south from it along a fence. I was able to get right to them. The girl who was stung is fine; no allergic reaction. Her teacher says she doesn't think the girl will come to the woods again.
The full set of photos is here. A few:
If you click on this one you'll see a larger image and might be able to read one of the team worksheets they filled out ahead of time with ground rules. My dad is in this photo too:
Chris and Sarah - half of the amazing junior high teaching team:
Steve, the math teacher:
The junior high and grade 1/2 teams exchanged tickets for stickers when they met. Here a grade 1/2 team eagerly approaches a junior high team:
Counting stickers:
At the Finish, the chaperones set up a store where kids could exchange tickets they retrieved from the woods for knick-knacks and candy. Here was one of the displays of goods:
The chaperones were awesome:
Things generally went really well. I have a list of things to do differently if they let me do it again next year. The big excitement was a girl stepping on a bees' or hornet's nest and being stung multiple times. I was on the other side of the map, and got a few phone calls about it. The teacher with the girl decided that we should call for an ambulance, so I did that while jogging toward them. Then I got another girl from the team on the phone so that she could tell me exactly where they were. She used a landmark control number to communicate her location; they'd gone south from it along a fence. I was able to get right to them. The girl who was stung is fine; no allergic reaction. Her teacher says she doesn't think the girl will come to the woods again.
The full set of photos is here. A few:
If you click on this one you'll see a larger image and might be able to read one of the team worksheets they filled out ahead of time with ground rules. My dad is in this photo too:
Chris and Sarah - half of the amazing junior high teaching team:
Steve, the math teacher:
The junior high and grade 1/2 teams exchanged tickets for stickers when they met. Here a grade 1/2 team eagerly approaches a junior high team:
Counting stickers:
At the Finish, the chaperones set up a store where kids could exchange tickets they retrieved from the woods for knick-knacks and candy. Here was one of the displays of goods:
The chaperones were awesome:
Bicycling 1:30:00 [3]
To and from Boojum for Jr High O.
Thursday Sep 18, 2008 #
Note
Found on politicalirony.com:
Is the presidential campaign becoming long and frustrating to you? I find it helps to just stare at this photo for a few minutes.
Is the presidential campaign becoming long and frustrating to you? I find it helps to just stare at this photo for a few minutes.
C • Nice 2
Note
Tomorrow is the big day: the orienteering field trip!
I spent a couple hours this morning meeting with the teachers and some of the chaperones. This is going to be fun. Here are some numbers:
103 students ranging from age 6 to 13.
9 teachers (including assistants).
27 adult chaperones.
32 different courses (each student will do 2 or 3).
84 controls (including regular punch, epunch, and hidden envelopes).
Still need to make some maps (4 courses plus chaperone overview maps), map walk narrations, instructions, posters, checklists, envelopes filled with tickets, etc.
Plus place all the controls.
Plus work today.
I spent a couple hours this morning meeting with the teachers and some of the chaperones. This is going to be fun. Here are some numbers:
103 students ranging from age 6 to 13.
9 teachers (including assistants).
27 adult chaperones.
32 different courses (each student will do 2 or 3).
84 controls (including regular punch, epunch, and hidden envelopes).
Still need to make some maps (4 courses plus chaperone overview maps), map walk narrations, instructions, posters, checklists, envelopes filled with tickets, etc.
Plus place all the controls.
Plus work today.
Walking in the woods 1:00:00 [1]
Setting controls for tomorrow's jr high O
Tuesday Sep 16, 2008 #
Walking in the woods 1:15:00 [1]
Peter gave me and my bike a ride to Boojum via Dunkin Donuts this morning around 6. I walked most of the legs that the 1st & 2nd graders will travel on Friday, and flagged them.
Bicycling 35:00 [3]
Fun ride home from Boojum in traffic.
Note
Oh man I am so tired.
Work is a little stressful; could not figure out some IT stuff today. Feeling kind of inept. Founders are coming in tomorrow. I'm not at work that much. Friday is the O field trip. Craziness.
Work is a little stressful; could not figure out some IT stuff today. Feeling kind of inept. Founders are coming in tomorrow. I'm not at work that much. Friday is the O field trip. Craziness.
Monday Sep 15, 2008 #
Running 10:00 [1]
Near the Tallinn airport hotel... Aborted when back hurt and it started to rain.
Sunday Sep 14, 2008 #
Rogaining 11:55:00 [3]
(Not sure of our exact finish time.)
The Estonian organizers did a fantastic job.
The map was awesome - built from a number of O maps but altered to work well at 1:40000.
The weather was perfect: cool, not rainy. Few bugs; none that bothered me.
There were swamps and bogs and marshes and "wet forests" but most of the time we were walking on dry land. I wore the light hiking shoes an Australian sold me in Banff earlier this summer. I also wore O gaiters plus ankle gaitors over the top of those. This system worked really well at keeping the water out - just a little got in but my feet stayed mostly dry even when I stepped in water up to my ankles. No blisters. Feet were really sore the last few hours as usual.
The rogaine only sucked for a couple of hours (because of the painful feet), which is pretty good!
My back held up OK, helped by all the ibuprofen.
The Estonian organizers did a fantastic job.
The map was awesome - built from a number of O maps but altered to work well at 1:40000.
The weather was perfect: cool, not rainy. Few bugs; none that bothered me.
There were swamps and bogs and marshes and "wet forests" but most of the time we were walking on dry land. I wore the light hiking shoes an Australian sold me in Banff earlier this summer. I also wore O gaiters plus ankle gaitors over the top of those. This system worked really well at keeping the water out - just a little got in but my feet stayed mostly dry even when I stepped in water up to my ankles. No blisters. Feet were really sore the last few hours as usual.
The rogaine only sucked for a couple of hours (because of the painful feet), which is pretty good!
My back held up OK, helped by all the ibuprofen.