Training Log Archive: barb

I think you run around the circle and when the leader calls "STOP" then you orient the map and point to where you are.

Gave it a 1 instead of 0 because it was hot.

Dealt with the fly traps, cleaned the chicken coop, pulled bolted lettuce (gave to chickens); planted new seeds; gave plant food to the lower garden. The bean plants will blossom this week, and so we should have beans the following week. We are starting to get Sun Gold cherries and a couple small plum tomatoes; we are a couple weeks away from ripe large tomatoes. The peppers are big (Carmens) but not yet reddening. Herbs doing well.

C • Seeds 2

Going through my head the whole way: "JOEY HADORN!!!"

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Today the teens taught three classe and worked on projects. The projects are laying the groundwork for an Interscholastic league in the Boston area, a couple of videos, kits for schools, and making maps.

Watched the Nav Games employees teach the lesson plans they'd developed the previous day. Talked with them about their projects.

Today the teens in the Nav Games program will meet with Kristin Hall and Julia Bishop for two hours to review last week's lessons and plan this week's, and then talk for 2 hours about their orienteering projects for the summer. Possibilities include videos, starting interscholastic league, O-kits for schools, permanent course, map-making and posters.

I have a new bike (as of last week). The last one was pretty much totaled, in that cost-of-repair sense, in that little accident I had that time. I've been riding it ever since, but the back wheel was out of alignment, and the brakes were always on; all the repairs it needed were over $300... It's so nice to not be fighting the bike to make it go.

Very very sad news. Leif Lundquist's wife Margot passed away yesterday. She hosted us often when we came to Tucson. Leif has been the driving force behind the February meets in Tucson. They spent part of the year in the USA and part of the year in Sweden. They hosted Isak when we were there this year. I visited them in Sweden once, in the Stockholm archipelago. Our placemats at our dining room table are O maps Leif made of the island they lived on.

Margot was lovely. She was a scientific editor. So kind, so loving. She always made us feel at home and happy.

C • Sad to hear that. I only me... 2

Today Ed Despard will run a mapping clinic for the Navigation Games orienteering summer program. Also, the kids will do some Pokemon Go with an eye toward thinking how that might somehow be leverageable into getting kids into traditional orienteering.

C • Pokemon Go 4

Mondays are woods day.
Re-used the IS champs training from Week 2: star exercise (attackpoints -> controls), then did a team Score-O. Teams had 3 people: an advanced person, and two beginners. The beginners had to stay together. The advanced people could go on their own. They got a few minutes to strategize. Fun. We got two new people today.