Training Log Archive: barb

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.