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Thursday Oct 30, 2014 #
10 AM
Pilates class 55:00 [2]
slept:7.5
Using weights, and body weight. Had to modify anything on knees, and there were a lot of things starting from that position....
Tuesday Oct 28, 2014 #
10 AM
Pilates class 55:00 [2]
Using bands. I stood for the "on hands and knees" things, which were mostly for back (good balance practice too).
Pulldowns (8) and extra stretching after.
Pulldowns (8) and extra stretching after.
3 PM
Hiking 35:28 [3] 2.11 mi (16:48 / mi) +62m 15:24 / mi
shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
At Ooms Conservation Area/Sutherland Pond while Glen ran.
65 and mostly cloudy.
One of the better photos I took at Ooms. More in the album (Fall color) at the link (click the photo or link underneath).
65 and mostly cloudy.
One of the better photos I took at Ooms. More in the album (Fall color) at the link (click the photo or link underneath).
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Monday Oct 27, 2014 #
Note
(rest day)
Icing my knee off and on. It was bothersome enough when it got light put this morning that I couldn't get back to sleep, so got up and made coffee.
No exercise class in Chatham this week but will attempt Pilates tomorrow (but stay off my knees!).
No exercise class in Chatham this week but will attempt Pilates tomorrow (but stay off my knees!).
Sunday Oct 26, 2014 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 57:28 [4] *** 4.35 km (13:13 / km) +154m 11:14 / km
spiked:9/10c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Brown X day 2, SL 3.9 km / 140m
A cooler day today, starting just below 50F and getting to the mid 50s with breeze picking up and clouds coming by later.
Painkillers taken, the knee/thigh felt better than yesterday at least, though definitely not healed. I don't think this one will bother me as long as my right knee when I had swelling under the kneecap. So I was able to move a little faster on the downhills, although I was still going a bit tentatively especially where there was noticeable rock.
Straight to number one, a large rock, then the long leg...I chose to go mostly over the hill taking a line that avoided any steep climb. I hit the yellow ride around the north shoulder of the hill, which was easy running down to the road. On the road I couldn't avoid the gravel so was carefully stepping so I wouldn't fall, maybe a bit slower than I normally would go. Found the trail just before the stream and climbed, attacking from where the trail kicked up a bit, but was 20-30m to the right after skirting several unmapped rootstocks/downed trees below the form-line reentrant. Exited to the NW to pick up the E-W stone wall around the vertical green lines, but then noticed someone running in the yellow ride...oh, I can use that! Nice features leading into the hill above the reentrant, and a number of folks headed to it from various directions helped too.
5-6 I contoured out to the road east of the water drop, then ran to the bend beyond the first stone wall and contoured over, staying below the rocky spur. Careful compass to 7 (again had folks going to it at the same time). No problem to 8, just slow. Fun course, and better design than yesterday, I thought.
Finished 4th in F60, 10 sec behind Sandy, but 3rd overall for the weekend. Prizes were: 1st--headbands with "Love the Lakes", 2nd--mini O flags, 3rd and best--apple cider donuts!! Both Glen and I were 3rd in our age groups, so we gave away a few of the dozen we had between us. :-)
Thanks to HVO, WCOC, and all the other volunteers this weekend! Good job on the weather, too.
A cooler day today, starting just below 50F and getting to the mid 50s with breeze picking up and clouds coming by later.
Painkillers taken, the knee/thigh felt better than yesterday at least, though definitely not healed. I don't think this one will bother me as long as my right knee when I had swelling under the kneecap. So I was able to move a little faster on the downhills, although I was still going a bit tentatively especially where there was noticeable rock.
Straight to number one, a large rock, then the long leg...I chose to go mostly over the hill taking a line that avoided any steep climb. I hit the yellow ride around the north shoulder of the hill, which was easy running down to the road. On the road I couldn't avoid the gravel so was carefully stepping so I wouldn't fall, maybe a bit slower than I normally would go. Found the trail just before the stream and climbed, attacking from where the trail kicked up a bit, but was 20-30m to the right after skirting several unmapped rootstocks/downed trees below the form-line reentrant. Exited to the NW to pick up the E-W stone wall around the vertical green lines, but then noticed someone running in the yellow ride...oh, I can use that! Nice features leading into the hill above the reentrant, and a number of folks headed to it from various directions helped too.
5-6 I contoured out to the road east of the water drop, then ran to the bend beyond the first stone wall and contoured over, staying below the rocky spur. Careful compass to 7 (again had folks going to it at the same time). No problem to 8, just slow. Fun course, and better design than yesterday, I thought.
Finished 4th in F60, 10 sec behind Sandy, but 3rd overall for the weekend. Prizes were: 1st--headbands with "Love the Lakes", 2nd--mini O flags, 3rd and best--apple cider donuts!! Both Glen and I were 3rd in our age groups, so we gave away a few of the dozen we had between us. :-)
Thanks to HVO, WCOC, and all the other volunteers this weekend! Good job on the weather, too.
Hiking 13:47 [1] 0.76 km (18:08 / km) +13m 16:42 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
walk to start day 2
Saturday Oct 25, 2014 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:01:52 [3] *** 4.68 km (13:12 / km) +208m 10:48 / km
spiked:10/12c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Day 1 brown X classic at Mountain Lakes Park, N. Salem, NY
SL 3.8km, 180m climb...1:7500 / 5m map
Weather was delightful with sunny skies and rising temps (from mid 30s this morning when we left home, to low/mid 60s when we left mid-afternoon). Woods were quite open with occasional downed logs (some of them big, but mapped) and very little undergrowth, so it should be fun to come back here sometime. Map is a bit flaky* in places but contours are good.
I made a couple of poor decisions, the most serious resulting in my falling in the gravel road between 3 and 4 where I swung to avoid a couple of other Brown competitors on the beeline. Didn't save me any time (relative to Sue, anyway); once I hit the road I tripped and whacked my right palm (fleshy part below thumb; maybe I need some of those gloves PG uses...and kneepads) and left kneecap on large gravel bits. I don't have the swelling under the kneecap I got 2.5 months ago on the other knee (thank goodness) but it was quite tender on downhills later In the race and slowed me down there. Bummer... And the woods were great for running downhill in, just wish I could have done it. Tomorrow should be interesting.
Otherwise, found all the controls with no extra searching, though I was off to the right on 7 (boulder, 141), and 9 (boulder, 126). Also, I think the wide right route to 5 is better than the down/up I did to hit the trail east of 6. I went left of the lake 6-7, and around on the road 7-8 as far as the reentrant across from the park office. I noted 10's being against a tree near the road, giving near invisibility from the southern approach, but had two fellows going to it ahead of me anyway.
Without errors, and at normal speed, I think I would still have been 3rd/F60 behind Mary Jo and Janet F, who had a good run after her apparent mistake to 1.
11/26 overall
*besides being a bit cluttered with things you wouldn't note at speed or use as control points, I think a bigger problem is the size of some features...certainly some of the point features (and the small pipeline near parking, though not on the course), are undersized for a 1:7500 map, especially the rocky ground dots. The large boulder symbol used to represent the "2m" rock at 7 is almost as big as some of the buildings northwest of Hemlock Lake, when in reality it wasn't that big of a boulder (and not 2m high). And where are the index contours?
SL 3.8km, 180m climb...1:7500 / 5m map
Weather was delightful with sunny skies and rising temps (from mid 30s this morning when we left home, to low/mid 60s when we left mid-afternoon). Woods were quite open with occasional downed logs (some of them big, but mapped) and very little undergrowth, so it should be fun to come back here sometime. Map is a bit flaky* in places but contours are good.
I made a couple of poor decisions, the most serious resulting in my falling in the gravel road between 3 and 4 where I swung to avoid a couple of other Brown competitors on the beeline. Didn't save me any time (relative to Sue, anyway); once I hit the road I tripped and whacked my right palm (fleshy part below thumb; maybe I need some of those gloves PG uses...and kneepads) and left kneecap on large gravel bits. I don't have the swelling under the kneecap I got 2.5 months ago on the other knee (thank goodness) but it was quite tender on downhills later In the race and slowed me down there. Bummer... And the woods were great for running downhill in, just wish I could have done it. Tomorrow should be interesting.
Otherwise, found all the controls with no extra searching, though I was off to the right on 7 (boulder, 141), and 9 (boulder, 126). Also, I think the wide right route to 5 is better than the down/up I did to hit the trail east of 6. I went left of the lake 6-7, and around on the road 7-8 as far as the reentrant across from the park office. I noted 10's being against a tree near the road, giving near invisibility from the southern approach, but had two fellows going to it ahead of me anyway.
Without errors, and at normal speed, I think I would still have been 3rd/F60 behind Mary Jo and Janet F, who had a good run after her apparent mistake to 1.
11/26 overall
*besides being a bit cluttered with things you wouldn't note at speed or use as control points, I think a bigger problem is the size of some features...certainly some of the point features (and the small pipeline near parking, though not on the course), are undersized for a 1:7500 map, especially the rocky ground dots. The large boulder symbol used to represent the "2m" rock at 7 is almost as big as some of the buildings northwest of Hemlock Lake, when in reality it wasn't that big of a boulder (and not 2m high). And where are the index contours?
Thursday Oct 23, 2014 #
10 AM
Pilates class 55:00 [2]
slept:7.0
Using rings. Lunges were hard especially with left leg out front and right leg dropping, as I feel it in my hamstring more on that side.
11 AM
Walk/Jog intervals 22:01 1.64 mi (13:26 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad-6000#8-2014H
Jogging / walking with a few 2-lap hard-running intervals thrown in, where each lap is about 0.068mi. (14.5 laps to a mile) A total of 23.75 laps. Started out too fast jogging to warm up and got slower from there. It's been over a year since I did much of any intervals so I have to start somewhere so I'm happy nothing really hurt.
Then some adductors, pulldowns, and leg presses on the machines, and more stretching.
Then some adductors, pulldowns, and leg presses on the machines, and more stretching.
Wednesday Oct 22, 2014 #
Exerc. Class 55:00 [1]
In Chatham. Movement and stretching are good.
Now sitting at car dealer getting 20000 mi service (car is 11 months old) and state inspection. Since it's a Toyota, the service is free up to 2 years or 25000 miles, whichever comes first. I won't make it to two years so I'll have to keep track of mileage to get the next one free before it hits 25000 miles. :-)
Now sitting at car dealer getting 20000 mi service (car is 11 months old) and state inspection. Since it's a Toyota, the service is free up to 2 years or 25000 miles, whichever comes first. I won't make it to two years so I'll have to keep track of mileage to get the next one free before it hits 25000 miles. :-)
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Saturday Oct 18, 2014 #
Event: EMPO - Cole Hill
11 AM
Orienteering race (Green) 1:27:27 [3] *** 6.2 km (14:06 / km) +146m 12:37 / km
spiked:9/10c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Green course at Cole Hill in East Berne, 5 km SL. Temps in the mid to upper 50s with threats of showers but not really much action until we were done and about to leave.
Silly error to 2 where I should've known I hadn't gone far enough (to hit the stone wall!) and turned right instead of left when the hill started to drop off.... (I "lost" the race there, as 1st place was less than a minute ahead of me.) Good though slow to 2 (uphill), fine to 3, and then tentative to four as I wasn't sure of trails, or which stonewall I was on, but it worked out. Out to road and off stonewall corner to 5 where it wasn't obvious what was mapped as a thicket; then I angled across the road and followed another stonewall toward the marshy area intending to head south to bit the big trail to cross at a bridge. But I must have been angling more SW than I thought because it took much longer than I expected to hit the trail, having found an unmapped stone wall and losing confidence. I did eventually find the trail I wanted, but I'm sure if I had just gone up the road to the trail jct and down from there I would have been minutes faster. Good from there on in, choosing near the end to cut straight across some iffy light green rather than run way around on the trail...in the end I took about the same time as Janet F who ran the trail (and is a faster runner). Sluggish on the uphill run in.
I wish hills were my friends....
Map with route
Silly error to 2 where I should've known I hadn't gone far enough (to hit the stone wall!) and turned right instead of left when the hill started to drop off.... (I "lost" the race there, as 1st place was less than a minute ahead of me.) Good though slow to 2 (uphill), fine to 3, and then tentative to four as I wasn't sure of trails, or which stonewall I was on, but it worked out. Out to road and off stonewall corner to 5 where it wasn't obvious what was mapped as a thicket; then I angled across the road and followed another stonewall toward the marshy area intending to head south to bit the big trail to cross at a bridge. But I must have been angling more SW than I thought because it took much longer than I expected to hit the trail, having found an unmapped stone wall and losing confidence. I did eventually find the trail I wanted, but I'm sure if I had just gone up the road to the trail jct and down from there I would have been minutes faster. Good from there on in, choosing near the end to cut straight across some iffy light green rather than run way around on the trail...in the end I took about the same time as Janet F who ran the trail (and is a faster runner). Sluggish on the uphill run in.
I wish hills were my friends....
Map with route
Friday Oct 17, 2014 #
Note
(rest day)
Spent the day at the quilting hall (actually a VFW hall that we use often, for meetings and quilt weekends and such), sitting on my butt at the sewing machine.
O (local) tomorrow, so I don't feel like too much of a slacker.
O (local) tomorrow, so I don't feel like too much of a slacker.
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Thursday Oct 16, 2014 #
10 AM
Pilates class 55:00 [2]
Stretchy bands (Mary's favorite Pilates tool).
8 pulldowns after
8 pulldowns after
4 PM
Walking 29:58 [3] 2.0 mi (14:59 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
Alb Tpk to community center and back. Temps around 70 but breezy which kept the humidity at bay.
Wednesday Oct 15, 2014 #
Exerc. Class 55:00
slept:8.0
Slept late the morning so only enough time for banana and part of a cup of coffee this morning before I had to leave. We actually did some stepping today! Good class. Skipped push-ups since I'd done a few yesterday and my shoulder is achy; did bench presses with 10 lb free weights instead.
Tuesday Oct 14, 2014 #
10 AM
Pilates class 55:00 [2]
slept:7.4
Warm (mid 60s) and humid outside so room was on the humid side too. I sweated quite a bit which I normally don't do in Pilates! We used the large balls today, and hamstring curls from bridge were torture! Attempted some side planks/mermaids (I guess a side plank is on the elbow, where the same move on extended arm is mermaid, at least according to Mary. Another instructor says mermaid is when you keep hips down and just use obliques to move arms up and over alternating sides). Back of right hip is achy from the V sits and boat pose holds...
After, I did a few pulldowns and adductors, just to get that PT in.
After, I did a few pulldowns and adductors, just to get that PT in.
Monday Oct 13, 2014 #
9 AM
Walk/Jog warm up/down (to start) 20:00 [2] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
Jogged and walked along the trail along the Madawaska River to start overlooking the dam, picking up a warm-up map and checking out some of the mapping for the sprint.
10 AM
Orienteering race (sprint course 2) 19:53 [5] *** 2.55 km (7:48 / km) +29m 7:23 / km
spiked:13/14c slept:7.0 shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
Sprint in downtown Arnprior. SL 2.3 km, 20 m climb
50s to low 60s, breezy
Our course moved out of the residential section fairly quickly, with just two controls in the woods (Gillie's Grove) before heading back to Simpson Park where the arena was.
Passed by eventual F55 winner Jane Rowland (FWOC) going to number 4, the first in the woods; and Marion on the way to 9 after I had bobbled 6 (went beyond, got stopped by the trail, doubled back, losing a minute). Passed Candice on the way to 3 and Nancy somewhere (never saw her after she started a couple minutes ahead of me...maybe she took a different route to 3?). I went to the right of the line around the houses, cut in on the small trail to the parking lot and yellow then around the building and into the tennis court, having read that it was on the inside corner of the fence.
Very nice sprint course with a tricky detailed area near the finish where you really had to pay attention to know which controls were on your own course.
Afterwards we stayed to watch the sprint relay which was super exciting and fun, especially with USA taking both the BK and FC Cups. :-D
50s to low 60s, breezy
Our course moved out of the residential section fairly quickly, with just two controls in the woods (Gillie's Grove) before heading back to Simpson Park where the arena was.
Passed by eventual F55 winner Jane Rowland (FWOC) going to number 4, the first in the woods; and Marion on the way to 9 after I had bobbled 6 (went beyond, got stopped by the trail, doubled back, losing a minute). Passed Candice on the way to 3 and Nancy somewhere (never saw her after she started a couple minutes ahead of me...maybe she took a different route to 3?). I went to the right of the line around the houses, cut in on the small trail to the parking lot and yellow then around the building and into the tennis court, having read that it was on the inside corner of the fence.
Very nice sprint course with a tricky detailed area near the finish where you really had to pay attention to know which controls were on your own course.
Afterwards we stayed to watch the sprint relay which was super exciting and fun, especially with USA taking both the BK and FC Cups. :-D
Sunday Oct 12, 2014 #
11 AM
Walk/Jog warm up/down (to start) 12:00 [2] 1.0 km (12:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Around field and through the woods to start, much closer to the arena/parking today.
Orienteering race (Course 5) 40:20 [5] *** 3.62 km (11:08 / km) +22m 10:48 / km
spiked:7/7c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
NOTE: Track includes some extra 10 minutes after I finished, hanging out around the arena. I've adjusted the total time and distance.
SL 2.9, 65m climb ... Really? I figured the woods would be atrocious if they expected a 45-50 minute winning time on a 2.9 km course. But they weren't bad, and there were a lot of trail running routes to take, and Natalia won F55 in under 35 minutes. Course setting fail; guess they were too focused on the elite courses. I was prepared for about a 60 minute run, so it could probably have been closer to 4.2 km or so.
Missed a turn on the way from 1-2 and stood puzzled for a bit on top of a bare rock hill with a cliff on the side (and a flag), but quickly figured out where I needed to go, through the lovely white woods. On the long leg I went back out toward the marshy stream crossing and found trails near the leg line that took me very close to 5.
I caught Nancy (who had started 2 minutes ahead) at #2 and couldn't shake her the rest of the way (and there weren't really any distinct routes choice options that might have separated us), so she kept me running as much as I could. Thanks, Nancy! ;-)
6th F55 of 30+
SL 2.9, 65m climb ... Really? I figured the woods would be atrocious if they expected a 45-50 minute winning time on a 2.9 km course. But they weren't bad, and there were a lot of trail running routes to take, and Natalia won F55 in under 35 minutes. Course setting fail; guess they were too focused on the elite courses. I was prepared for about a 60 minute run, so it could probably have been closer to 4.2 km or so.
Missed a turn on the way from 1-2 and stood puzzled for a bit on top of a bare rock hill with a cliff on the side (and a flag), but quickly figured out where I needed to go, through the lovely white woods. On the long leg I went back out toward the marshy stream crossing and found trails near the leg line that took me very close to 5.
I caught Nancy (who had started 2 minutes ahead) at #2 and couldn't shake her the rest of the way (and there weren't really any distinct routes choice options that might have separated us), so she kept me running as much as I could. Thanks, Nancy! ;-)
6th F55 of 30+
Saturday Oct 11, 2014 #
11 AM
Walking warm up/down (to start) 25:00 [1] 2.0 km (12:30 / km)
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
With Judy K. (Time is an estimate.) Picked up a warmup map and checked out a few of the controls near the start.
12 PM
Orienteering race (NAOC middle) 36:47 [4] **** 2.95 km (12:27 / km)
spiked:11/11c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
SL 2.3 km, 35m climb on Carp Ridge North map
Except for the fact that I could've taken a better route from 2-3, I was very happy with this run. Saw Sandy here and there from 2-6 and got past her when I left the trail just a bit sooner to 6 and spiked the control. Lots of fast runners in our class; I was happy to be in the top 10 which was my goal for the weekend (I managed 9th today).
Took a slightly longer but ultimately safer route, I think, to 9, taking the big trail past the marshy area and attacking from between the spur and the dot knoll...came back out the same way to head to 10.
Now why couldn't I have put it all together like this last weekend at the US Champs?
Except for the fact that I could've taken a better route from 2-3, I was very happy with this run. Saw Sandy here and there from 2-6 and got past her when I left the trail just a bit sooner to 6 and spiked the control. Lots of fast runners in our class; I was happy to be in the top 10 which was my goal for the weekend (I managed 9th today).
Took a slightly longer but ultimately safer route, I think, to 9, taking the big trail past the marshy area and attacking from between the spur and the dot knoll...came back out the same way to head to 10.
Now why couldn't I have put it all together like this last weekend at the US Champs?
Friday Oct 10, 2014 #
2 PM
Orienteering 37:15 [2] **** 2.28 km (16:19 / km) +12m 15:53 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Model map at Carp Ecowellness Centre. 48F and partly sunny.
Dry in the woods and hard to see the contours under the leaves (2.5m...really hard to see the form line wiggles on this map!). Also visited a couple of locations that gave me trouble during the April training weekend here.
Much care will be needed the next two days.
Dry in the woods and hard to see the contours under the leaves (2.5m...really hard to see the form line wiggles on this map!). Also visited a couple of locations that gave me trouble during the April training weekend here.
Much care will be needed the next two days.
Thursday Oct 9, 2014 #
Walking 1:00:00 [0]
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
Traveled through the Adirondacks on the way to the Norh Americans, staying over in NY before crossing the border this morning.
We stopped at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake on a cold, raw, damp day (mid 40s, no rain while we were there but rain had passed through). Probably walked around more than logged but since it's intensity 0 it doesn't really count anyway.
I'd been here once before when they exhibited over 100 quilts from their collection, but Glen hadn't. Nice exhibits. They had a sample 1%er's rail car that we could walk through, similar to the kind the rich traveled in from the City to the mountains over a hundred years ago.
Impressed/disturbed by the coat and gun racks made from deer *hooves*.
We stopped at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake on a cold, raw, damp day (mid 40s, no rain while we were there but rain had passed through). Probably walked around more than logged but since it's intensity 0 it doesn't really count anyway.
I'd been here once before when they exhibited over 100 quilts from their collection, but Glen hadn't. Nice exhibits. They had a sample 1%er's rail car that we could walk through, similar to the kind the rich traveled in from the City to the mountains over a hundred years ago.
Impressed/disturbed by the coat and gun racks made from deer *hooves*.
Wednesday Oct 8, 2014 #
Exerc. Class 55:00 [1]
slept:7.5
Legs felt better than Monday; right upper arm getting better but triceps fatigued early. Should be back to normal by the weekend. :-)
2 PM
Walk/Jog 46:11 [3] 3.02 mi (15:17 / mi) +97m 13:54 / mi
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
This is the walk I didn't do yesterday (legs still tired) with some jogging bits thrown in.
Tuesday Oct 7, 2014 #
10 AM
Pilates class 55:00 [2]
slept:6.5
Ouch. Right upper arm still sore from a fall on Saturday and today's upper body/plank/push-up workouts didn't help the situation much. Makes you stronger though, right?
Only adductors (70#) and extra stretching after. A walk later, perhaps?
Only adductors (70#) and extra stretching after. A walk later, perhaps?
Monday Oct 6, 2014 #
Exerc. Class 50:00 [1]
slept:8.0
Good shake-out class and hip stretches were really needed.
Note
I had a nice chat and drink (Brown's new batch of Pumkin Ale) with a few of the redheads at this event last Wednesday.
I'm not sociable enough to talk to everyone, but did chat with a few ladies (including the tall one with the yellow/gold scarf, Molly). Fun times. (I did leave after the toast and photos, to have dinner elsewhere.) Gingers rule!
:-)
I'm not sociable enough to talk to everyone, but did chat with a few ladies (including the tall one with the yellow/gold scarf, Molly). Fun times. (I did leave after the toast and photos, to have dinner elsewhere.) Gingers rule!
:-)
Sunday Oct 5, 2014 #
9 AM
Walking warm up/down 20:16 [2] 1.61 km (12:33 / km) +58m 10:39 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Walk to start of US Middle Champs, Letchworth S.P. East
Temps in the upper 40s/lower 50s, partly sunny
After Glen left to head down the hill to the start I (starting 6 minutes after him) ran to the portajohns and then back, then descended the hill, arriving at the line 30 seconds before my arrive-at-start time. :-)
Temps in the upper 40s/lower 50s, partly sunny
After Glen left to head down the hill to the start I (starting 6 minutes after him) ran to the portajohns and then back, then descended the hill, arriving at the line 30 seconds before my arrive-at-start time. :-)
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:10:51 [4] *** 4.37 km (16:12 / km) +201m 13:10 / km
12c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Brown (Y) Middle Champs at Letchworth East. SL 2.9 km, 130m climb; course by Rob Holmes
Ah, I wish I had younger eyes. Or better glasses. And a better process for fixing mistakes would be nice too.
I had a good run up through 5, then knew I had to carefully count reentrants to 6, but as I neared the circle I neglected to notice that the lower part of the target reentrant (under the circle and line to 7) was just a small wiggle in the index contour and not a sharp distinct contour like the rest of the lines above the index contour. I think I noticed the small wiggle in the terrain but was expecting a sharper indentation and was thrown off mentally. So I kept going, checking the next stream valley well beyond, up to the wide path (Finger Lakes Trail), down the wrong spur, back up to the FLT again, farther south on the FLT this time (but still went down a wrong spur) and down the spur south of the control, noticing it had the shape of the one south of 6, so down and up again. This time when I noticed the small wiggle in the hillside I climbed up to the sharper reentrant and found the flag. 30 minutes had passed, just on that one leg!!!
That took the wind out of my sails and I didn't push hard the rest of the way in knowing I was well out of medal contention. I'm very happy that they changed the rules about how many races count for ranking...this will undoubtably be a throwaway race.
FWIW, I took the low route around the gully from 2-3, having no problem counting reentrants there. To 8, I was befuddled about the shape of the reentrant, not noticing the part under the circle until I had my good glasses on after the race, but I didn't have any trouble with that or any other control besides 6.
On to the next races! Many thanks to ROC and all their helpers who put on this great series of events.
Ah, I wish I had younger eyes. Or better glasses. And a better process for fixing mistakes would be nice too.
I had a good run up through 5, then knew I had to carefully count reentrants to 6, but as I neared the circle I neglected to notice that the lower part of the target reentrant (under the circle and line to 7) was just a small wiggle in the index contour and not a sharp distinct contour like the rest of the lines above the index contour. I think I noticed the small wiggle in the terrain but was expecting a sharper indentation and was thrown off mentally. So I kept going, checking the next stream valley well beyond, up to the wide path (Finger Lakes Trail), down the wrong spur, back up to the FLT again, farther south on the FLT this time (but still went down a wrong spur) and down the spur south of the control, noticing it had the shape of the one south of 6, so down and up again. This time when I noticed the small wiggle in the hillside I climbed up to the sharper reentrant and found the flag. 30 minutes had passed, just on that one leg!!!
That took the wind out of my sails and I didn't push hard the rest of the way in knowing I was well out of medal contention. I'm very happy that they changed the rules about how many races count for ranking...this will undoubtably be a throwaway race.
FWIW, I took the low route around the gully from 2-3, having no problem counting reentrants there. To 8, I was befuddled about the shape of the reentrant, not noticing the part under the circle until I had my good glasses on after the race, but I didn't have any trouble with that or any other control besides 6.
On to the next races! Many thanks to ROC and all their helpers who put on this great series of events.
Saturday Oct 4, 2014 #
Note
Dinner tonight was at Rorhbach's brewpub on the west side of Rochester. Recommended! Beer was great (I had a sampler of their fall-type brews), and food was good too (I had the Park Ave Panini, a nice blend of flavors). Worth a trip if you're in the area.
11 AM
Orienteering warm up/down 9:06 [3] 0.61 km (14:52 / km) +76m 9:10 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Walk to start from bus drop-off; meet notes said 1.1 km with 70m climb. They got the climb right, but it was only half the distance so I didn't need to hurry as much as I thought.
Temp when we woke up was in the upper 50s, probably mid 50s by the time we raced, then dropped as the afternoon wore on. 46F by the time we left the park around 4:45!
Temp when we woke up was in the upper 50s, probably mid 50s by the time we raced, then dropped as the afternoon wore on. 46F by the time we left the park around 4:45!
Orienteering race 1:15:00 [4] 5.57 km (13:27 / km) +128m 12:04 / km
spiked:9/10c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
US Champs Long, SL 4.2 km, 90 m climb
Well, except for number 1 which I botched by over 11 minutes, I had a pretty good race. I would have been happy with my time having those 11 minutes back. AP's error finder says I had an error at 3 but it was just in the execution of the leg, not finding the control (after having been in the green on my first attempt to #1, I wanted to avoid it from 2-3 so I swung wide right before crossing the stream and hitting the trail, then it was fine). Error from 6-7 was from not climbing immediately to run the ridge; instead I side-hilled. Again I found it without trouble, but not the ideal way to get there.
To 4 I went west, around the marsh and then up the hill to the trails, then cut in at the water-drop along the trail. 7-8 I managed to stay in the white woods SSW from the control back to the intermittent trail. When Charlie saw me I was going up and over the little spur and east of the green blob. Cristina went zooming -- and I mean zooming! -- past me here, in her recently re-acquired US Team uniform. There was a crowd on the trail heading toward 8 so I dropped down the hillside early and caught everyone coming in from above to easily spot the flag. Then it was zoom-as-much-as-possible from there to the finish.
Like others I was surprised at the non-green thicket for the Go control. I went right by the large mapped tree in the white woods N of the thicket and then came out into the field and saw the flag to my right and not my left as expected.
Marion Owen (Canada) again had a splendid run and won F60 again by a lot, with a time of not quite 53 minutes (to PG's not quite 37). Sandy was 1st US, with Mary Jo not too far behind and me about 5 minutes behind Mary Jo (who also had a lot of trouble with #1).
Well, except for number 1 which I botched by over 11 minutes, I had a pretty good race. I would have been happy with my time having those 11 minutes back. AP's error finder says I had an error at 3 but it was just in the execution of the leg, not finding the control (after having been in the green on my first attempt to #1, I wanted to avoid it from 2-3 so I swung wide right before crossing the stream and hitting the trail, then it was fine). Error from 6-7 was from not climbing immediately to run the ridge; instead I side-hilled. Again I found it without trouble, but not the ideal way to get there.
To 4 I went west, around the marsh and then up the hill to the trails, then cut in at the water-drop along the trail. 7-8 I managed to stay in the white woods SSW from the control back to the intermittent trail. When Charlie saw me I was going up and over the little spur and east of the green blob. Cristina went zooming -- and I mean zooming! -- past me here, in her recently re-acquired US Team uniform. There was a crowd on the trail heading toward 8 so I dropped down the hillside early and caught everyone coming in from above to easily spot the flag. Then it was zoom-as-much-as-possible from there to the finish.
Like others I was surprised at the non-green thicket for the Go control. I went right by the large mapped tree in the white woods N of the thicket and then came out into the field and saw the flag to my right and not my left as expected.
Marion Owen (Canada) again had a splendid run and won F60 again by a lot, with a time of not quite 53 minutes (to PG's not quite 37). Sandy was 1st US, with Mary Jo not too far behind and me about 5 minutes behind Mary Jo (who also had a lot of trouble with #1).
Friday Oct 3, 2014 #
Event: 2014 US Nationals
Note
For future reference, we had dinner with a group at Papaya's Asian Kitchen in the Marketplace Mall not far from where we were staying. Nice dinner and a good group.
2 PM
Orienteering race (sprint champs) 20:29 [5] *** 2.73 km (7:30 / km)
spiked:16/16c slept:6.0 shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
See entry below for FR track.
Brown sprint at SML Champs, Genesee Valley Park in Rochester. SL 1.9 km, 45m climb. Temp in the low to mid 70s with a breeze (headwind was pretty strong during our drive west from Albany area, gusting in places). Nice course by Mike Lyons with some good tests of concentration.
Finished 6th F60 of ~14(?), 4th US behind Patty Lyons, Diana Todd and Mary Jo...Diana and MJ tied! 29th of 81 finishers on Brown. Marion Owen (mbo, from Canada) was FAST at about 15:34, only about a minute and a half behind the Brown course winner. She'll probably be one of the ones to beat in F55-64 next weekend at North Americans, too.
AP lists me with 31 sec of error, and I think I could have made up most of that taking the right-hand/western-most bridge from 5 to 6. At first it looked like a wash to me to use either bridge, but as I topped the bridge I realized I'd have to zig and zag under the highway, up and over a footbridge, and then back under the highway, though from there I could see the tree and flag easily. Coming via the other bridge would have involved two straight lines running then just swinging around the green so maybe a bit faster. I lost time to other stronger hill-climbers going from 12-13 (under the bridge south of the pavilion near finish to the tree east of the green blob). Someone came down that way into the control so rather than look more at the map and think about it I just headed up the hill. It would probably have been just as steep going around the green to the field or up the white woods, routes I never really considered on the fly.
Some specifics:
1--south from start triangle and around the green blob instead of through
3--I saw this was the underpass symbol so figured it would be down the hill
7--took the left/southern fence break because I hadn't seen the right/northern one until after punching
8--saw someone heading toward the break (George Hawes?) and went that way
9--rather than try to find the small path I ran around the green and into the veg corner I'd seen when punching 6. Dennis zoomed past me to punch and then headed through the woods to the western bridge so I followed him out
11--around the veg (rather than through)
13--up the loose slope from the path keeping along the guiderail
14--such a cute building! Ex-guardhouse???
Brown sprint at SML Champs, Genesee Valley Park in Rochester. SL 1.9 km, 45m climb. Temp in the low to mid 70s with a breeze (headwind was pretty strong during our drive west from Albany area, gusting in places). Nice course by Mike Lyons with some good tests of concentration.
Finished 6th F60 of ~14(?), 4th US behind Patty Lyons, Diana Todd and Mary Jo...Diana and MJ tied! 29th of 81 finishers on Brown. Marion Owen (mbo, from Canada) was FAST at about 15:34, only about a minute and a half behind the Brown course winner. She'll probably be one of the ones to beat in F55-64 next weekend at North Americans, too.
AP lists me with 31 sec of error, and I think I could have made up most of that taking the right-hand/western-most bridge from 5 to 6. At first it looked like a wash to me to use either bridge, but as I topped the bridge I realized I'd have to zig and zag under the highway, up and over a footbridge, and then back under the highway, though from there I could see the tree and flag easily. Coming via the other bridge would have involved two straight lines running then just swinging around the green so maybe a bit faster. I lost time to other stronger hill-climbers going from 12-13 (under the bridge south of the pavilion near finish to the tree east of the green blob). Someone came down that way into the control so rather than look more at the map and think about it I just headed up the hill. It would probably have been just as steep going around the green to the field or up the white woods, routes I never really considered on the fly.
Some specifics:
1--south from start triangle and around the green blob instead of through
3--I saw this was the underpass symbol so figured it would be down the hill
7--took the left/southern fence break because I hadn't seen the right/northern one until after punching
8--saw someone heading toward the break (George Hawes?) and went that way
9--rather than try to find the small path I ran around the green and into the veg corner I'd seen when punching 6. Dennis zoomed past me to punch and then headed through the woods to the western bridge so I followed him out
11--around the veg (rather than through)
13--up the loose slope from the path keeping along the guiderail
14--such a cute building! Ex-guardhouse???
Orienteering race (sprint) 1 [5]
spiked:16/16c shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
Thursday Oct 2, 2014 #
10 AM
Pilates class 55:00 [2]
Using the big balls. Some weight work at the end for arms. Some tough stuff!
Adductors (18 only @75#) and pulldowns (9) plus extra stretching. And a bit of one-leggedness on a convenient Bosu ball.
Adductors (18 only @75#) and pulldowns (9) plus extra stretching. And a bit of one-leggedness on a convenient Bosu ball.