Training Log Archive: Spike

Event: GNC 2017: Georgia Navigator Cup
 

Sprint at McIntosh. We flew to Atlanta on the morning of the race and that usually makes it hard to orienteer well. The course was straightforward without anything tricky. That's probably a good thing for my travel-addled mind and body.

After the race, a USMAOC runner came up to me and said, "are you from Kansas?" It turns out he is from Meriden and is in his first year at West Point. He had no idea there was any orienteering in Kansas. Meriden is only about a 30-minute drive from Lawrence. He grew up about 7 miles from an orienteering map. He discovered orienteering at W.P. during some sort of navigation training.

Here's his log: http://www.attackpoint.org/userprofile.jsp/user_16...

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C • Excellent... 2

Sprint - Green - Splits

Row, row.

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Work commute. Almost forgot to log it. Then I realized I needed something to get ahead of Cristina.

Head lamp run on West Campus. This was the first test of my latest pants. I was happy with how they worked.

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Work commute. Warm - maybe low 50s? - on the trip to the office. I also had a steady tail wind. I figured that'd be a chore going home...but, during the day the wind shifted and I had a tail wind for the trip home (and cooler, more pleasant, temperatures).

Put on my head lamp and shuffled around West Campus a bit.

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With the recent travel and lack of exercise, I noticed that Cristina had more training time than me for the last 7 days. That's not good. It motivated me to get out the door for a bit of a jog when I also need to do some stuff around the house and finish up my O' pants project.

C • Never fear 6

Orienteering training at Bayfront Park using a BAOC permanent course. Fun.

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After running at Bayfront, we stopped by the Stanford campus and ran a bit of sprint-lile orienteering. The map we had was 1:7500 and not really sprint standard or non-sprint standard. It was also a bit old. Mary had some info about sections of the map that were out-of-date. We avoided those areas. There were still some changes, but nothing too big.

The campus reminded me of JCCC. I bet I'm the only person who would say that.

Some rain fell and some of the payement was pretty slick.

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Pat's 90th Birthday lunch.