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Sunday Nov 20, 2016 #
9 AM
orienteering 2:29:30 [4] 18.72 km (7:59 / km) +362m 7:17 / km
31c
Possum Trot at Longview.
Mostly satisfied with my run. I lost a little bit at a few controls and probably should have skipped 21 instead of 22.
At the mass start I managed to pick my route to the first control quickly and lead the race (briefly). I think I've spent at least a few steps in the lead of most, if not all, of the Possum Trots (including when I walked the entire course with my bum leg).
I finished 3rd, but really I should have been 4th. Tom Carr skipped 2 consecutive controls when the rule was to skip any 2 non-consecutive. If he'd have done that, I'm sure he'd have been ahead of me.
Joe Barrett was at the race and finished a couple of minutes behind me. I saw him out in the forest a few times, but didn't recognize it was Joe. He's studying at OU and I haven't seen him in several years.
The terrain was not very pleasant. Longview has gotten rougher than it was just a few years ago. Some of the fields that used to be reasonable are now deep vegetation mixed with thorns. The woods are a bit thicker, too. All in all, a great Possum Trot venue, but not really a very pleasant place to orienteer.
The weekend seemed to be a success. We had a decent turnout both Saturday and Sunday. It is always fun to have Tom and Lisa visiting. The Trot also drew a good crowd from MNOC and a few from SLOC and Sharon from RMOC.
We had two from NW Arkansas. Ted Holland, who I'd never met but had done a bunch of orienteering in OCIN and is now working at the University of Arkansas. I think that part of Arkansas could be an interesting area for O' to develop. Maybe with Tom H. and Ted H. we are getting closer to a NW Arkansas orienteering group becoming viable.
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Mostly satisfied with my run. I lost a little bit at a few controls and probably should have skipped 21 instead of 22.
At the mass start I managed to pick my route to the first control quickly and lead the race (briefly). I think I've spent at least a few steps in the lead of most, if not all, of the Possum Trots (including when I walked the entire course with my bum leg).
I finished 3rd, but really I should have been 4th. Tom Carr skipped 2 consecutive controls when the rule was to skip any 2 non-consecutive. If he'd have done that, I'm sure he'd have been ahead of me.
Joe Barrett was at the race and finished a couple of minutes behind me. I saw him out in the forest a few times, but didn't recognize it was Joe. He's studying at OU and I haven't seen him in several years.
The terrain was not very pleasant. Longview has gotten rougher than it was just a few years ago. Some of the fields that used to be reasonable are now deep vegetation mixed with thorns. The woods are a bit thicker, too. All in all, a great Possum Trot venue, but not really a very pleasant place to orienteer.
The weekend seemed to be a success. We had a decent turnout both Saturday and Sunday. It is always fun to have Tom and Lisa visiting. The Trot also drew a good crowd from MNOC and a few from SLOC and Sharon from RMOC.
We had two from NW Arkansas. Ted Holland, who I'd never met but had done a bunch of orienteering in OCIN and is now working at the University of Arkansas. I think that part of Arkansas could be an interesting area for O' to develop. Maybe with Tom H. and Ted H. we are getting closer to a NW Arkansas orienteering group becoming viable.
5
Friday Nov 18, 2016 #
cycling 45:00 [1]
Work commute. Some season appropriate temps (low 40sF) and some crazy wind.
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Thursday Nov 17, 2016 #
running 40:00 [2]
Headlamp jog on West Campus. I saw a surprisingly large buck.
When I got home, I had a nice chat with one of our neighbors who was out grilling hot dogs on this warm summer evening (record high today of something like 77F). He had some nice things to say about the City Manager failing to get rid of my job. The silver lining of that whole hassle was that I've had a lot of good feedback from people like our neighbor.
Also, I was just watching a little bball on TV. Fun to see three KU players on the floor at the same time - Embiid, Wiggins and Aldrich.
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When I got home, I had a nice chat with one of our neighbors who was out grilling hot dogs on this warm summer evening (record high today of something like 77F). He had some nice things to say about the City Manager failing to get rid of my job. The silver lining of that whole hassle was that I've had a lot of good feedback from people like our neighbor.
Also, I was just watching a little bball on TV. Fun to see three KU players on the floor at the same time - Embiid, Wiggins and Aldrich.
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Wednesday Nov 16, 2016 #
cycling 45:00 [1]
Work commute. The weather is annoying. The high was 80F today. That's just stupid.
rowing 20:00 [1]
Row, row.
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Note
We got an email from Shawnee County Parks and Rec about helping them create a permanent course in one of their parks. That's cool. They don't really have very good parks for orienteering, but it'll still be worth creating a map for them.
Tuesday Nov 15, 2016 #
cycling 45:00 [1]
An uneventful work commute.
running 30:00 [2]
An uneventful, slow jog on West Campus.
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Monday Nov 14, 2016 #
cycling 45:00 [1]
Work commute.
Also, helped out with Geo Awareness Week at KU. We didn't get a great turnout. I think the TAs didn't push it. We'll do better next year. On the other hand, everything else with GAW went really well. Perfect weather and help from Dick, Gene and Sandy (Mary was the director). It was also fun to see George McCleary. We'll need to get him to push the event a bit next year.
After the orienteering controls were retrieved, Mary, Dick, George and Marilyn went dinner at Bigg's BBQ. Fun to hear various tales of the McCleary's adventures in China and George's travels to Antarctica.
Home in time to watch the NY Giants game (I didn't, Mary did).
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Also, helped out with Geo Awareness Week at KU. We didn't get a great turnout. I think the TAs didn't push it. We'll do better next year. On the other hand, everything else with GAW went really well. Perfect weather and help from Dick, Gene and Sandy (Mary was the director). It was also fun to see George McCleary. We'll need to get him to push the event a bit next year.
After the orienteering controls were retrieved, Mary, Dick, George and Marilyn went dinner at Bigg's BBQ. Fun to hear various tales of the McCleary's adventures in China and George's travels to Antarctica.
Home in time to watch the NY Giants game (I didn't, Mary did).
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