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Saturday Nov 26, 2016 #
orienteering 45:00 [2]
I planned to take a day off running and ride my MTB, but when Mary mentioned Rockcrusher, I changed my mind. I designed a little corridor course for Mary and decided it looked about right. So, I shuffled around the corridor. I took it easy - my left calf felt mostly normal today and my right Achilles is still a little sore. The Archilles is just annoying. It isn't a tendon injury, just a spot that got scraped by a thorny branch a few days ago. The skin is irritated (even once I pulled the thorrn) and it rubs on the shoe when I go downhill.
The course was fun, but I went through some junky forest.
Around 8, I stepped on a thorn that went through the sole of my shoe and into my foot. It only went a little bit into my foot and I was able to remove the shoe and then pull the thorn out of the sole of the shoe.
Warm out there - warm enough that it was comfortable standing around and waiting for Mary to finish in short sleeves.
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The course was fun, but I went through some junky forest.
Around 8, I stepped on a thorn that went through the sole of my shoe and into my foot. It only went a little bit into my foot and I was able to remove the shoe and then pull the thorn out of the sole of the shoe.
Warm out there - warm enough that it was comfortable standing around and waiting for Mary to finish in short sleeves.
4
Friday Nov 25, 2016 #
running 1:15:00 [2]
Jogging around on trails at Skyline Park/Burnett Mound in Topeka. This is the area Shawnee County Parks wants to use for a permanent orienteering course. The trail network is nice - around 5 miles squeezed in a small area. The forest is thick - like dark green for all of the forest. The open areas are rough open with vertical green (so also thick).
I guess it'll be ok as a place to have a simple permanent course. We can use the trail marker signs as control locations. I think that'll work.
Mary remarked on how good the karttapullautin map was. It really is good. I think the combination of recent data and higher density of points helped.
My right Achilles felt uncomfortable I got a thorn right on top of the tendon yesterday. I could remove the thorn, but there's still some irritation and it rubs on the shoe occasionally. Also, my left calf was tight. No idea where that came from.
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I guess it'll be ok as a place to have a simple permanent course. We can use the trail marker signs as control locations. I think that'll work.
Mary remarked on how good the karttapullautin map was. It really is good. I think the combination of recent data and higher density of points helped.
My right Achilles felt uncomfortable I got a thorn right on top of the tendon yesterday. I could remove the thorn, but there's still some irritation and it rubs on the shoe occasionally. Also, my left calf was tight. No idea where that came from.
1
Thursday Nov 24, 2016 #
11 AM
orienteering 15:00 [2] ***
4c
Including checking the 4 points that I put out for practice a few weeks ago. I was glad to see that the markers were all still in place. All 4 are very visible to trail users, so I wasn't sure if they'd still be there. I'm not sure anyone has used the the course. Hopefully, the course will get some use before I got out and take down the controls.
running 45:00
Trails at Rockhaven, including 2 x HU/HE/ML.
Nice day to be out at Rockhaven. I saw more deer than usual (including a dead buck next to a trail). I only saw 2 horse riders.
I ran in my new shoes. They felt ok, but it probably would have been easier to run the trails around Rockhaven in orienteering shoes instead of trail shoes.
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Nice day to be out at Rockhaven. I saw more deer than usual (including a dead buck next to a trail). I only saw 2 horse riders.
I ran in my new shoes. They felt ok, but it probably would have been easier to run the trails around Rockhaven in orienteering shoes instead of trail shoes.
3
Wednesday Nov 23, 2016 #
cycling 45:00 [1]
Work commute.
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1
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016 #
cycling 45:00 [1]
Work commute. Some wet roads, but I managed to avoid any rain.
running 20:00 [2]
Easy headlamp run on West Campus. My legs still feel a bit tired from Sunday.
I got some new shoes today. A short, easy jog was good for a first run in the new shoes.
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I got some new shoes today. A short, easy jog was good for a first run in the new shoes.
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Monday Nov 21, 2016 #
cycling 45:00 [1]
Work commute. My legs were tired, but felt better as the day went on. My left foot is a bit sore. I twisted the foot near the 5th control yesterday. It is a little swollen and sore, but nothing too bad.
I might just take another rest day tomorrow.
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I might just take another rest day tomorrow.
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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.
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