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Sunday May 31, 2015 #
Event: DVOA Mount Penn - Pagoda
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slept:7.0
Our choices yesterday were the Rochester Map Adventure (which we'd never done before...and we still didn't get downtown), or UNO's Pawtuckaway local meet, each approximately equidistant from where we live. This log post confirms that Rochester was the right decision.
Only one weekend without an organized orienteering event so far since March 21 (Memorial Day weekend).
My "baby" is 27 today...how time flies.
Only one weekend without an organized orienteering event so far since March 21 (Memorial Day weekend).
My "baby" is 27 today...how time flies.
Saturday May 30, 2015 #
11 AM
Orienteering (walking-pavement) 2:57:47 [2] *** 9.67 mi (18:23 / mi) +92m 17:51 / mi
spiked:32/33c slept:7.5 shoes: Sauc.Shad-6000#8-2014H
Fun day at the Rochester Map Adventure starting at the Fleet Feet Sports store near Cobbs Hill Park. Temps in the low to mid 80s and partly sunny, with a short rain shower around the 2 hour mark (3-hour adventure went from 11am-2pm), which was enough to cool me down for a bit. Not excessively humid, either.
First time out with both the new Halo (brand) baseball cap and the new FR220 (whose track you see here).
Miscommunication between organizers and adventurers meant a lot of folks on both the three- and five-hour Foot courses took the combined question sheets for both map sides A and B, not realizing that by doing so we were declaring ourselves "non-competitive." The original intent was to "go on side A as long as you want, come back to S/F and do a map exchange for checkpoints on side B," which didn't sound as fun to me as having all the questions together so you didn't have to do two shorter loops.
I think they decided (since so many people did what we did) to just call us "double" instead of N/C. Not that there were any prizes that I noticed, just a lot of very delicious refreshments (including some home-made snacks) at the finish, thanks in very large part to Dayle Lavine. Nice course and question design with only a few typos affecting some folks' interpretations of things. Very nice map by Dick Detwiler.
There were a total of 97 checkpoints with questions spread over the two maps, plus three electronic checkpoints (they used epunch for start/finish, so why not have a few e-controls in the parks as well?). I was able to get to 31 of the checkpoints plus 2 e-controls, and I think I answered all the questions correctly, though one in particular caused some concern (color of a door and frame on the "E" side of a specified house... when they really wanted the door on the "W" side, which I think was actually a decorative door and frame that led into a yard rather than into the house). I turned on the wrong trail for the e-control in Cobbs Hill Park so took extra time to find it.
I would definitely do this again, and think all clubs in major cities should have Street Scramble type events every year. :-)
First time out with both the new Halo (brand) baseball cap and the new FR220 (whose track you see here).
Miscommunication between organizers and adventurers meant a lot of folks on both the three- and five-hour Foot courses took the combined question sheets for both map sides A and B, not realizing that by doing so we were declaring ourselves "non-competitive." The original intent was to "go on side A as long as you want, come back to S/F and do a map exchange for checkpoints on side B," which didn't sound as fun to me as having all the questions together so you didn't have to do two shorter loops.
I think they decided (since so many people did what we did) to just call us "double" instead of N/C. Not that there were any prizes that I noticed, just a lot of very delicious refreshments (including some home-made snacks) at the finish, thanks in very large part to Dayle Lavine. Nice course and question design with only a few typos affecting some folks' interpretations of things. Very nice map by Dick Detwiler.
There were a total of 97 checkpoints with questions spread over the two maps, plus three electronic checkpoints (they used epunch for start/finish, so why not have a few e-controls in the parks as well?). I was able to get to 31 of the checkpoints plus 2 e-controls, and I think I answered all the questions correctly, though one in particular caused some concern (color of a door and frame on the "E" side of a specified house... when they really wanted the door on the "W" side, which I think was actually a decorative door and frame that led into a yard rather than into the house). I turned on the wrong trail for the e-control in Cobbs Hill Park so took extra time to find it.
I would definitely do this again, and think all clubs in major cities should have Street Scramble type events every year. :-)
Thursday May 28, 2015 #
10 AM
Pilates class (weights) 55:00 [1]
slept:7.0
Back home after a few days visiting with most of my family in Delaware.
We spent several hours on Tuesday at the DuPont Nature Center near the Delaware Bay (east of Milford if anyone knows Delaware geography), looking both at the birds outside and the exhibits inside. May is the time of year that a sandpiper-like bird called the red knot stops on its way from Brazil and southern South America to the Arctic (northern Canada) on both sides of Delaware Bay where horseshoe crabs spawn. They only eat the protein-rich horseshoe crab eggs. In recent years numbers of birds were down because of over-collection of the crabs, and the birds couldn't make it to the Arctic to nest. Efforts have been made to control the hsc harvest and their numbers as well as red knot numbers are on the rebound. My best photos (10x zoom camera) are pretty fuzzy because they were across the inlet from us, so here's a website about them...
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red_Knot/id
We spent several hours on Tuesday at the DuPont Nature Center near the Delaware Bay (east of Milford if anyone knows Delaware geography), looking both at the birds outside and the exhibits inside. May is the time of year that a sandpiper-like bird called the red knot stops on its way from Brazil and southern South America to the Arctic (northern Canada) on both sides of Delaware Bay where horseshoe crabs spawn. They only eat the protein-rich horseshoe crab eggs. In recent years numbers of birds were down because of over-collection of the crabs, and the birds couldn't make it to the Arctic to nest. Efforts have been made to control the hsc harvest and their numbers as well as red knot numbers are on the rebound. My best photos (10x zoom camera) are pretty fuzzy because they were across the inlet from us, so here's a website about them...
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red_Knot/id
C • HSCs 2
11 AM
Walking (indoor track) 33:54 2.2 mi (15:24 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad-6000#8-2014H
Followed by adductors, pulldowns, and leg presses.
Sunday May 24, 2015 #
Event: WCOC Pond Mountain
Walking 35:00 [1]
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
Part of this was on the Schuylkill Bike Trail in Conshohocken (after tasting a few brews at Conshohocken Brewery, after grave-hunting nearby [one found, one not]). We detoured around the Riverwalk apartments to see the river and avoid a few of the bikers and hikers on the trail. Probably not enough to burn off the calories consumed, though.
Then went to REI and spent some money.
Then went to REI and spent some money.
Friday May 22, 2015 #
Note
(rest day)
(Maybe the first of several rest days as we visit family over the weekend.)
Pat Dunlavey posted a link to his brother's blog post about illustrating children's books. I remember some cartoons and illustrations he did for US orienteering (ONA) early in my O career. Nice work.
Pat Dunlavey posted a link to his brother's blog post about illustrating children's books. I remember some cartoons and illustrations he did for US orienteering (ONA) early in my O career. Nice work.
Thursday May 21, 2015 #
10 AM
Pilates class (weights) 55:00 [1]
slept:7.0
Good class using weights for some exercises.
11 AM
Walking (indoor track) 33:18 2.2 mi (15:08 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad-6000#8-2014H
A bit more peppy stride than on Tuesday, even though my knees are still achy. Worked on keeping momentum up. Trying to stay ahead of an older gentleman on the inside lane didn't hurt, either.
Pulldowns, and a few leg presses at lighter weight than I'd used before to try to work the quads without stressing knees.
Pulldowns, and a few leg presses at lighter weight than I'd used before to try to work the quads without stressing knees.
Wednesday May 20, 2015 #
Exerc. Class 55:00 [1]
Warmup, aerobics, strength, and abs. Avoided doing lunges as my knees still aren't happy with that move, esp. the right one.
Edit: also did a 1 min high plank, 20-sec low plank (hurts shoulders more than high), and another high plank, for 30-sec
Edit: also did a 1 min high plank, 20-sec low plank (hurts shoulders more than high), and another high plank, for 30-sec
Tuesday May 19, 2015 #
10 AM
Pilates class (rings) 55:00 [1]
No lunges, again, for which my knees thank Mary (they still aren't quite recovered from Sunday's O).
11 AM
Walking (indoor track) 33:50 2.2 mi (15:23 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad-6000#8-2014H
14:59 and 15:10 for the miles.
Pulldowns, adductors, and more stretching after.
Pulldowns, adductors, and more stretching after.
Monday May 18, 2015 #
Exerc. Class 55:00 [1]
5-5-5 (x2) with step bench, aerobics, and weights. Right knee decided to act up today (as punishment, I suppose, for 300m of climb yesterday), with sharp pains below the kneecap on certain steps of the stepping portion, so I did those moves on the floor.
Walking 27:50 [1]
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
Strolled to the PO and back to mail a couple of envelopes. Not pushing the pace.
Sunday May 17, 2015 #
Event: NEOC: Mt. Tom
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I apparently didn't read my compass much today, at least on those controls where I made the largest mistakes (4 and 8).
11 AM
Orienteering race 2:02:55 [3] *** 6.0 km (20:29 / km) +302m 16:22 / km
spiked:9/12c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Green course at Mt Tom, set by Phil Bricker--thanks, Phil. Nominal stats are 4.8 km, 250 m climb. For me, in this terrain it was slow going. Mostly sunny and about 80 (and buggy!).
Fine through the first three controls, but then after leaving trail bend on the way to four I drifted too far right. Fortunately there was someone punching a control on the formline knoll 150m south of #4, and he was kind enough to let me know where we were. [If I'd gone straight to 4, though, I wouldn't have seen the 4-5 pink lady slipper flowers blooming on that other spur. :-)] Stayed pretty close to the line to 5 and got to what I figured was the end of the cliff line, but didn't see a flag, so looked around a bit before spotting it on the other side of a tree from where I had been standing...d'oh.
Left of big cliffs to 6, and carefully dropped down the hill to 7 trying not to go too far. Then 8. I'm not sure exactly where I crossed the stream (I was hoping to hit close to the stream junction, but was probably a bit lower*), and I saw a huge chunk of rock 50 m or so away (5 contours high?), but nothing on the map jumped out at me as "huge rock/cliff" perhaps because of simplification??? (cliffs just shown as lines are actually huge in the terrain) so I wandered a bit before getting to a small reentrant (with a streamer! But no flag) 100 S of the saddle. Then I headed north in hopes of seeing the large cliff pointing up toward the saddle. Which I did, and others in the area, so I figured I was close. I'm sure it was on top of that huge hill/chunk of rock I'd seen earlier. Figure I lost at least 10 minutes, probably more...
Okay on the rest, though I was getting tired of the climb-down-to-climb-up-again by that point (10). Good climbing exercise (which I'm not getting enough of otherwise). The mosquitoes were annoying (I had used repellent with deet on neck, ears, and arms), trying to bite through my gloves and socks, but I survived mostly unscathed.
*The bland hillside SW of 7 had a number of cliff faces large enough to be mapped but perhaps glossed over when the map was redone for the last A meet?
Map
QuickRoute:
Fine through the first three controls, but then after leaving trail bend on the way to four I drifted too far right. Fortunately there was someone punching a control on the formline knoll 150m south of #4, and he was kind enough to let me know where we were. [If I'd gone straight to 4, though, I wouldn't have seen the 4-5 pink lady slipper flowers blooming on that other spur. :-)] Stayed pretty close to the line to 5 and got to what I figured was the end of the cliff line, but didn't see a flag, so looked around a bit before spotting it on the other side of a tree from where I had been standing...d'oh.
Left of big cliffs to 6, and carefully dropped down the hill to 7 trying not to go too far. Then 8. I'm not sure exactly where I crossed the stream (I was hoping to hit close to the stream junction, but was probably a bit lower*), and I saw a huge chunk of rock 50 m or so away (5 contours high?), but nothing on the map jumped out at me as "huge rock/cliff" perhaps because of simplification??? (cliffs just shown as lines are actually huge in the terrain) so I wandered a bit before getting to a small reentrant (with a streamer! But no flag) 100 S of the saddle. Then I headed north in hopes of seeing the large cliff pointing up toward the saddle. Which I did, and others in the area, so I figured I was close. I'm sure it was on top of that huge hill/chunk of rock I'd seen earlier. Figure I lost at least 10 minutes, probably more...
Okay on the rest, though I was getting tired of the climb-down-to-climb-up-again by that point (10). Good climbing exercise (which I'm not getting enough of otherwise). The mosquitoes were annoying (I had used repellent with deet on neck, ears, and arms), trying to bite through my gloves and socks, but I survived mostly unscathed.
*The bland hillside SW of 7 had a number of cliff faces large enough to be mapped but perhaps glossed over when the map was redone for the last A meet?
Map
QuickRoute:
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Thursday May 14, 2015 #
10 AM
Pilates class (bands) 55:00 [1]
slept:7.0
Stretchy bands in use. Muscles in upper body still tired (not so much sore as fatigued and needing rest), whether from Tuesday's class or yesterday's extended plank I'm not sure. Sore from ribs to neck. I limited upper body band use. Legs tired too. I don't think I'm coming down with anything but will monitor this tiredness.
11 AM
Walking (indoor track) 25:49 [2] 1.5 mi (17:13 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad-6000#8-2014H
Not really in the mood to walk but Glen wanted to swim so I walked moderately around the track (not a slow stroll but not pushing it either).
10 pulldowns
10 pulldowns
Wednesday May 13, 2015 #
Exerc. Class 55:00 [1]
slept:7.0
This felt hard for some reason (no energy)...maybe too close to breakfast (8am) and body was still digesting?
Held a high plank for 1:45, then an elbow plank for 0:25 and another high plank for 0:30.
Hips were very tight during stretching (from yesterday?).
Held a high plank for 1:45, then an elbow plank for 0:25 and another high plank for 0:30.
Hips were very tight during stretching (from yesterday?).
3 PM
Walking 36:00 [2]
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
Tuesday May 12, 2015 #
10 AM
Pilates class (weights) 55:00 [1]
slept:7.0
Nice workout with weights thrown in, and good side leg torture too.
11 AM
Walking (indoor track) 33:34 2.0 mi (16:47 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad-6000#8-2014H
Miles in 14:57 and 15:02
Then a dozen quick pulldowns.
Then a dozen quick pulldowns.
3 PM
Walking 18:30 [2] 1.0 mi (18:30 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
To a neighbor's yard and back to visit the old cemetery behind their house (gravestones from 1777 to 1842) and take photographs to upload to FindAGrave. I actually hadn't noticed this cemetery before this spring even though we've lived here over 30 years.
I have filled photo requests by others, added some not requested (because I was there), and made a couple of photo requests myself, for cemeteries in Pennsylvania. Fun.
I have filled photo requests by others, added some not requested (because I was there), and made a couple of photo requests myself, for cemeteries in Pennsylvania. Fun.
Monday May 11, 2015 #
Exerc. Class 55:00 [1]
Warm class today (fans going but no A/C). Part of the aerobics section involved us picking a piece of paper with a particular movement written on it, then she called on us one by one to say what it was, and she cobbled it all into a routine. We made it a bit more interesting by demonstrating rather than telling her our particular move (all of us being old timers around The Firm exercise studio).
Sunday May 10, 2015 #
Event: WCOC Mashamoquet State Park
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:14:38 [3] *** 5.56 km (13:25 / km) +120m 12:07 / km
spiked:9/10c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Green course at Mashamoquet Brook SP, Pomfret, CT (Wolf's Den map). Temps in low to mid 80s, slight breeze here and there; wide open woods where mapped as white (unlike last weekend at West Point :-) ). Some laurel; some climb but today mostly it was in the first half of the course (there was a short steep-ish climb to 8 after crossing a stream).
Wasn't jogging much but did some for the first few controls though there was a net 15 contour climb 1-2-3. The only one I had a bit of trouble with was 7 where the map and reality didn't agree in my mind and I hadn't gone quite far enough; checked some other boulders, then checked the right one.
Some hesitation at 10, described as SE side of a pond; there was a dammed pond with a stream exiting it, oriented NW-SE and the flag was on the S side of the stream exiting the dam. I approached from the trail to the south and checked out the dam and was about to climb down to cross it when I saw the flag just a bit to the S of the dam. Took the trail around from there, over the new (2007) bridge and in to the finish.
Thanks to Rich Nietupski and Jim Henderson for a fine course and a start/finish location in the shade and breeze. :-)
Quick Route:
Wasn't jogging much but did some for the first few controls though there was a net 15 contour climb 1-2-3. The only one I had a bit of trouble with was 7 where the map and reality didn't agree in my mind and I hadn't gone quite far enough; checked some other boulders, then checked the right one.
Some hesitation at 10, described as SE side of a pond; there was a dammed pond with a stream exiting it, oriented NW-SE and the flag was on the S side of the stream exiting the dam. I approached from the trail to the south and checked out the dam and was about to climb down to cross it when I saw the flag just a bit to the S of the dam. Took the trail around from there, over the new (2007) bridge and in to the finish.
Thanks to Rich Nietupski and Jim Henderson for a fine course and a start/finish location in the shade and breeze. :-)
Quick Route:
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Saturday May 9, 2015 #
12 PM
Orienteering race (green) 1:35:32 [4] *** 5.97 km (16:01 / km) +112m 14:38 / km
spiked:9/10c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Green course, nominally 5Km at Partridge Run WMA near Berne; set by Phil and run by Phil and Sue (who tested the course yesterday). Temps in the upper 70s so a bit warm, and buggy but I had some bug spray.
The only problem I had with the temperature was during the second half of the course where most of the climb was (we counted 16 contours spread over a about 1.3 km, not a big deal to most green runners), and my eyes filled with sweat after control 7 such that I had to stop dead to wipe them with my shirt.
The only control I had trouble on was due to my misreading of the map; I was probably near the edge of the circle when I decided I didn't know where I was so headed to a trail 150m away to relocate. Ran down the trail a bit until I figured out where I was on it, reattacked, and ended up at the same spot...so I just kept going a little bit more and there it was. D'oh. Lost ~8 min.
I didn't have time to really look at the features just west of 5 (mapped as an X and an O -- Phil says the O is a fire ring, and the X looked like a three-sided stone wall foundation, about 4' high and probably no more than 6' square. I would have gone by to check on the way out except I wanted to head 90 different so didn't waste the time. Maybe next time... Quick route:
The only problem I had with the temperature was during the second half of the course where most of the climb was (we counted 16 contours spread over a about 1.3 km, not a big deal to most green runners), and my eyes filled with sweat after control 7 such that I had to stop dead to wipe them with my shirt.
The only control I had trouble on was due to my misreading of the map; I was probably near the edge of the circle when I decided I didn't know where I was so headed to a trail 150m away to relocate. Ran down the trail a bit until I figured out where I was on it, reattacked, and ended up at the same spot...so I just kept going a little bit more and there it was. D'oh. Lost ~8 min.
I didn't have time to really look at the features just west of 5 (mapped as an X and an O -- Phil says the O is a fire ring, and the X looked like a three-sided stone wall foundation, about 4' high and probably no more than 6' square. I would have gone by to check on the way out except I wanted to head 90 different so didn't waste the time. Maybe next time... Quick route:
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Friday May 8, 2015 #
Note
slept:7.0 (rest day)
Haven't had a day off in a couple of weeks so took a rest day. Made cookies to take to EMPO meet and annual meeting tomorrow (so any club folk who want homemade cookies better be there).
Thursday May 7, 2015 #
10 AM
Pilates class (large exercise balls) 55:00 [1]
Small enough class (~25?) that we could use the limited number of balls today. Hamstrings are tight from the exercise (can't remember its name) where you start in a shoulder bridge with legs extended and then roll the ball towards you until feet are flat...that's always a hard one to do.
Pulldowns and adductors after.
Pulldowns and adductors after.
4 PM
Walking (Paved) 32:16 [3] 2.0 mi (16:08 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
MB to church community center and back.
Wednesday May 6, 2015 #
Exerc. Class 55:00 [1]
5-5-5 (x2) type workout circuit.
While the others were setting up, doing, and changing positions for high and low planks (I don't do the low ones on forearms anymore as they tend to stress my shoulders) I looked at the clock and noted I held my high plank for 1:30. Shoulders were the first to fatigue.
While the others were setting up, doing, and changing positions for high and low planks (I don't do the low ones on forearms anymore as they tend to stress my shoulders) I looked at the clock and noted I held my high plank for 1:30. Shoulders were the first to fatigue.
Walking 24:48 [2] 1.35 mi (18:22 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
To post office and back to mail stuff.
Tuesday May 5, 2015 #
10 AM
Pilates class (weights) 55:00 [1]
slept:7.5
Weights used mostly for triceps and chest flies.
Pulldowns and adductors
Pulldowns and adductors
Monday May 4, 2015 #
Exerc. Class 55:00 [1]
Except for having to drop my step down from one rise to none (making it about 2-3" high instead of twice that), I made it through the class today and enjoyed the stretching afterwards. Quads are somewhat sore from the unexpected climb this weekend, but I seem to be in good shape otherwise.
I used my Active Ankle on the left side both days, and took prophylactic ibuprofen to minimize soreness in both knees, knowing the terrain would be brutal.
I used my Active Ankle on the left side both days, and took prophylactic ibuprofen to minimize soreness in both knees, knowing the terrain would be brutal.
Sunday May 3, 2015 #
Note
Quick Route Day 2 - I put my Garmin track on Quick Route, exported the image file, and then edited that file with a photo editor to add the approximate route (red line) from Start to #3 that was missing.
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9 AM
Walking warm up/down 23:11 [1] 1.6 km (14:29 / km) +96m 11:08 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Trail to start of Day 2, mostly on jeep roads but the last bit up the hill (to get to the top, of course). Temps in the 70s today, mostly sunny.
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:27:49 [4] *** 4.7 km (18:41 / km) +152m 16:05 / km
spiked:10/12c slept:7.0 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Brown X day 2 on western portion of Black Rock Forest map. Nominally 4.0 km, 90m climb (but of course it was really more; first count got me to 140).
Another slogfest, with a bit less blueberry and a few more of the awakening blackflies. And plenty of boulders and rocks to scramble around, but that's West Point. We climbed to the top of the hill west of Wilkins Pond (NW of Round Pond) to start, and then the first leg took us through (or around) mountain laurel, down 3-4 contours and then back up at least five to a huge bare rock spur that could be seen from a good distance. Punched about the same time as Geof Connor who started two minutes ahead and who I would see often around the course (though I thought M75 was on the other Brown); he said he'd made an error there. Having him and Bill Shannon approaching 2 might have been an advantage as the saplings made visibility difficult.
Down 9 contours to 3 avoiding the steeper rockier hillside; then down another 10 before contouring north of the vertical green (barberry) on the way to 4. 6 was another uphill slog to a knoll between two hilltops. Missed left on 7 and relocated off the trail to the south that I saw runners from other courses walking up... Probably a few minutes lost. 8 okay, 9 looked scary (either contour on shelves through a steep rocky hillside, or drop below into the marsh and then climb several contours close to the control--I chose option 1 and did just fine), 10 okay, attacking through the reentrant instead of going around the big cliff. I was a bit low to 11, less than a minute lost, though. Downhill scramble to 12 and into the finish.
Mary Jo had a bad day and Janet F didn't go out so I ended up winning F60. I was 7 minutes behind MJ and less than a minute ahead of Janet after Saturday. Prizes this year were fancy black ribbons with gold ruffles. Not very many people hung around until 2 PM; some had picked theirs up ahead of the awards.
FR track will be incomplete; I turned it off accidentally at the start box (after tuning it on at the whistle) instead of pushing the lap button, and didn't realize it was stopped until I was at 3, I think.
Another slogfest, with a bit less blueberry and a few more of the awakening blackflies. And plenty of boulders and rocks to scramble around, but that's West Point. We climbed to the top of the hill west of Wilkins Pond (NW of Round Pond) to start, and then the first leg took us through (or around) mountain laurel, down 3-4 contours and then back up at least five to a huge bare rock spur that could be seen from a good distance. Punched about the same time as Geof Connor who started two minutes ahead and who I would see often around the course (though I thought M75 was on the other Brown); he said he'd made an error there. Having him and Bill Shannon approaching 2 might have been an advantage as the saplings made visibility difficult.
Down 9 contours to 3 avoiding the steeper rockier hillside; then down another 10 before contouring north of the vertical green (barberry) on the way to 4. 6 was another uphill slog to a knoll between two hilltops. Missed left on 7 and relocated off the trail to the south that I saw runners from other courses walking up... Probably a few minutes lost. 8 okay, 9 looked scary (either contour on shelves through a steep rocky hillside, or drop below into the marsh and then climb several contours close to the control--I chose option 1 and did just fine), 10 okay, attacking through the reentrant instead of going around the big cliff. I was a bit low to 11, less than a minute lost, though. Downhill scramble to 12 and into the finish.
Mary Jo had a bad day and Janet F didn't go out so I ended up winning F60. I was 7 minutes behind MJ and less than a minute ahead of Janet after Saturday. Prizes this year were fancy black ribbons with gold ruffles. Not very many people hung around until 2 PM; some had picked theirs up ahead of the awards.
FR track will be incomplete; I turned it off accidentally at the start box (after tuning it on at the whistle) instead of pushing the lap button, and didn't realize it was stopped until I was at 3, I think.
Saturday May 2, 2015 #
Event: West Point A-Meet
Note
I counted 205m climb (if I counted correctly) on the route I took on the course today. We'll see what the Garmin/AP interface comes up with tomorrow (or the next day) when I download the watch.
Quick Route Day 1
Quick Route Day 1
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10 AM
Walking warm up/down 8:38 [1] 0.74 km (11:36 / km) +39m 9:12 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
West Point Classic day 1. Took bus from registration back to the drop off along the road to cut some distance. This is from the road to the Brown start (collocated with White and Yellow).
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:55:06 [4] *** 6.87 km (16:46 / km) +271m 14:00 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Black Rock Forest map, starting from NE of Round Pond. Long for a Brown course, nominally 5km and supposedly 105m of climb.
"White" woods were really almost entirely covered in blueberry bushes, ranging from shin to knee high (or higher) and so it was slow going all around. AP shows me with mistakes on more than #7 which I overshot, but I think the others are smaller and likely due to slowness on climbs.
EDIT: (added) Went north of the swamp to #4 but then misidentified the mapped long rock face in the terrain causing me to be too low on the hill and having to loop around a bit. Probably lost a couple minutes vs doing it correctly.
Number 7 was a silly error because I was relying on the green to be mapped correctly and it wasn't. From 6 I headed out to the road and took it and then the trails. Saw a control on the large boulder S of the trail just ESE of 7, and should have just attacked from there, but I figured "just take the trail through the green and then use the white corridor." Green was mtn laurel and there was no white corridor, so went too far and was S of the next large cliff (SSW of 7) before turning back.
Yes, Eagle's Nest (#8) was a nice viewpoint, but getting up on top of it to punch was more arduous (for us Brown competitors, anyway) than necessary. Unless that was the course designer up top offering water, I hereby apologize to the cadet to whom I made a comment about "did they really need to make Brown course climb up here?"
"White" woods were really almost entirely covered in blueberry bushes, ranging from shin to knee high (or higher) and so it was slow going all around. AP shows me with mistakes on more than #7 which I overshot, but I think the others are smaller and likely due to slowness on climbs.
EDIT: (added) Went north of the swamp to #4 but then misidentified the mapped long rock face in the terrain causing me to be too low on the hill and having to loop around a bit. Probably lost a couple minutes vs doing it correctly.
Number 7 was a silly error because I was relying on the green to be mapped correctly and it wasn't. From 6 I headed out to the road and took it and then the trails. Saw a control on the large boulder S of the trail just ESE of 7, and should have just attacked from there, but I figured "just take the trail through the green and then use the white corridor." Green was mtn laurel and there was no white corridor, so went too far and was S of the next large cliff (SSW of 7) before turning back.
Yes, Eagle's Nest (#8) was a nice viewpoint, but getting up on top of it to punch was more arduous (for us Brown competitors, anyway) than necessary. Unless that was the course designer up top offering water, I hereby apologize to the cadet to whom I made a comment about "did they really need to make Brown course climb up here?"
Friday May 1, 2015 #
2 PM
Walking (paved) 32:10 [3] 2.0 mi (16:05 / mi)
shoes: Sauc.Shad.6000#7-2012H
South on 66. Temp about 60F and very comfortable.