Training Log Archive: Sandy

Putting out a few streamers on the way to the start of the shortened course. Got way to far right in the middle and totally overshot where we were supposed to be but I just kept going since I knew I would recognize the area when we got there. Only we never did. Couldn't believe how far off we were when we finally figured it out.

Modified the last part of the HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 course I designed so that "EAR 2017", which still needed to be streamered, became "HNY 2017".

See Kswede's log for the full course.

(I still have no idea how this entry from Oct. 30 get entered for Dec. 30. I put it in as 1 second.)
Green course at HVO dual event. Had trouble interpreting the map in many places and then got tired and stopped reading the map carefully enough and made several mistakes of many minutes each. But it was a gorgeous day and I was out in the woods so I didn't really care.

My allergies are continuing to be a major issue and my eyes are really itchy and the skin around them is all red and dried out. Doctor put me on some medication; we'll see if does any good.

C • Allergies 2

Well this is weird - this entry popped up today from an event in October. It's still on the Oct. 30 date but somehow got copied to today.

The good news is that in the intervening 2 months I've found a solution to my allergies and have cleared up the rash and am taking some medications that have significantly improved all my symptoms including the tearing.

C • Too funny 4

And this is what I really did today!

Very pretty but very icy and living up to its name Shades of Death Trail.

Putting out some streamers for Sunday.

I'm not particularly interested in social media - I've never tweeted except maybe once when j-man set it up for NAOC and told me to post something; I forget to check Facebook for days or even weeks at a time; and I don't use Instagram or any of the other things that are out there. My kids and nieces and nephews roll their eyes at my novice questions about how a lot of that stuff works. But occasionally I venture out of the dark ages and investigate something or someone and so I know there's a whole other world going on that I'm not plugged into.

There's also some criticism of the US Team members - unwarranted in my opinion but there nonetheless - that they don't "do enough". I wonder if some sort of organized twitter/instagram/something similar campaign by the team members could make a difference in how they are perceived by the broader orienteering public. Writing articles for ONA is a bit of work, but regularly posting a tweet or a picture might not take much time at all and be a reasonable gesture. If every training run or competition elicited a tweet or picture from the athletes, and they could be collected somehow, maybe that would be a good alternative.

My brother-in-law works hard to support track and field and now also trail and ultra runners. He was telling me that how many followers someone has directly feeds into the availability of sponsorship dollars.

I have no idea how something like this might work and for all I know it's already out there!

C • Worth investigating 3