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Sunday May 28, 2006 #
orienteering race 31:00 [5] 3.3 km (9:24 / km)
I don't have my maps with me here at work. I feel guilty enough doing stuff on attackpoint without draping a map across my desk in a blatant show of "I'm not doing anything at all".
Anyways, the races on Sunday were really fun trainings. I didn't have a compass or o-shoes, and the highest level of course that they were offering was an orange. I quickly found that the terrain was extremely steep, and the slopes weren't particularily helpful for my slick sneakers. The course was fairly straight forward even without a compass, but that just meant that I needed to be running harder. It felt like a longish steepish sprint, but with a slower time. I chose a bad route to 5, and while executing this route decided that the other way would have been faster... and because I was worried about having made that mistake I messed up the control anyways, getting onto the wrong road, and having to cut back up the slope.
The vegetation around 8 had changed a lot since mapping, and without a compass I was second guessing myself. And then leaving 8, I didn't read the contours or vegetation very well and ending up climbing a steep hillside of tall brush. the rest of the course was just trying to stay sharp in the heat.
Anyways, the races on Sunday were really fun trainings. I didn't have a compass or o-shoes, and the highest level of course that they were offering was an orange. I quickly found that the terrain was extremely steep, and the slopes weren't particularily helpful for my slick sneakers. The course was fairly straight forward even without a compass, but that just meant that I needed to be running harder. It felt like a longish steepish sprint, but with a slower time. I chose a bad route to 5, and while executing this route decided that the other way would have been faster... and because I was worried about having made that mistake I messed up the control anyways, getting onto the wrong road, and having to cut back up the slope.
The vegetation around 8 had changed a lot since mapping, and without a compass I was second guessing myself. And then leaving 8, I didn't read the contours or vegetation very well and ending up climbing a steep hillside of tall brush. the rest of the course was just trying to stay sharp in the heat.
orienteering race 19:56 [5] 2.4 km (8:18 / km)
Sprint at Eastman Dunham-
we did the sprint after waiting a bit after the orange course. The sprint was E-punch which Sam and I thought was very high class. The whole event was super-well run, especially the e-punch ( no rental fee, excellent finish/download proceedure).
We had done some of the controls on the sprint already because they were shared on the orange course. I was having a good flow race ( no compass can help flow, because you have to maintain an idea of exit direction from all controls) and was cruising until #9 I cut into the woods on the trail, and decided to stay high on the slope while cutting back to the proper spur. Lucky that I did, because the control was accidently hung one spur too early, and I saw it as I climbed up the hill. I didn't think very hard about it, and assumed that I had just come upon it quicker than anticipated, and headed off to #10. Because I was thinking that I was coming from a different spur than I really was, I managed to get into a parallel error on 10. I would have figured it out with a compass, but without one, I just tried to use the wrong field corner as my attackpoint. opps. I lost time on that one to Sam. 11, was swift except climbing the hill, and same to the last control. I was really tired though in the finish chute though, and it shows since Sam had the same finish split as I did.
we did the sprint after waiting a bit after the orange course. The sprint was E-punch which Sam and I thought was very high class. The whole event was super-well run, especially the e-punch ( no rental fee, excellent finish/download proceedure).
We had done some of the controls on the sprint already because they were shared on the orange course. I was having a good flow race ( no compass can help flow, because you have to maintain an idea of exit direction from all controls) and was cruising until #9 I cut into the woods on the trail, and decided to stay high on the slope while cutting back to the proper spur. Lucky that I did, because the control was accidently hung one spur too early, and I saw it as I climbed up the hill. I didn't think very hard about it, and assumed that I had just come upon it quicker than anticipated, and headed off to #10. Because I was thinking that I was coming from a different spur than I really was, I managed to get into a parallel error on 10. I would have figured it out with a compass, but without one, I just tried to use the wrong field corner as my attackpoint. opps. I lost time on that one to Sam. 11, was swift except climbing the hill, and same to the last control. I was really tired though in the finish chute though, and it shows since Sam had the same finish split as I did.
Friday May 26, 2006 #
biking 30:00 [3] 6.5 mi (4:37 / mi)
So nice a morning, just a tiny threat of rain. Which I missed on the way in. But ho boy it was coming down when I left work. We needed to drive to Rochester after work, so I kept the bike in the cage at work, and hopped the T home, thinking that I would be less gritty when I got home, and thus would be ready to leave quicker.
Thursday May 25, 2006 #
biking 1:00:00 [3] 13.0 mi (4:37 / mi)
I've been pretty bad about posting training and races huh? I'll start working my way backwards and putting them in, but I'm posting today just to get the flow started again.
well, this morning was splendid, very pretty for biking to work. Sun was good, and just warm enough outside to feel like summer. I biked a section with a real cyclist up a hill, and I was hanging with him for a bit, even though he had clip-in pedals and such. Makes me wonder if I'd be noticably faster with my foot attached to the bike :)
sam got me a bike mirror for my birthday, and it's really fun to play with. I adjust the angle mostly for fun, since I don't normally get run over from behind by cars on my typical ride to work.
I'm headed out the door to bike home now....
well, this morning was splendid, very pretty for biking to work. Sun was good, and just warm enough outside to feel like summer. I biked a section with a real cyclist up a hill, and I was hanging with him for a bit, even though he had clip-in pedals and such. Makes me wonder if I'd be noticably faster with my foot attached to the bike :)
sam got me a bike mirror for my birthday, and it's really fun to play with. I adjust the angle mostly for fun, since I don't normally get run over from behind by cars on my typical ride to work.
I'm headed out the door to bike home now....
Wednesday May 24, 2006 #
Event: CSU Pine Hill
biking 1:00:00 [3] 16.5 mi (3:38 / mi)
I biked to work, and then left early to try to get to the Park-O in time to help Sanne with the timing and the registration. I got really lost in sommerville. Plus it takes forever to bike on city streets, always waiting for stupid lights to change. the CSU page was down, so I didn't get directions before I left, I just biked up towards Medford.... not the best way to ensure a timely arrival. I threw my bike in the back of Sam's car after the sprint, and hung out with the peeps in Cambridge. They were suitably impressed by my bloodied legs... I could tell because they uttered phrases like "eww" and " do you want to clean up in the bathroom" and " are you sure you don't want to get some of the dirt out"