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Friday Feb 21, 2020 #
11 AM
Walking 1:03:51 4.1 km (15:34 / km) +10m 15:22 / km
ahr:98 max:123
With friends at the outlets. We only made a purchase at Starbucks. ;-)
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020 #
Note
Tucson dinners:
Fri - Chipotle
Sat - Magpie pizza downtown on 4th (not as good as we remembered)
Sun - taco party
Mon - Growler microbrew pub (100 taps), on Oracle, Oro Valley
Tue - Casa Molina on Speedway
Fri - Chipotle
Sat - Magpie pizza downtown on 4th (not as good as we remembered)
Sun - taco party
Mon - Growler microbrew pub (100 taps), on Oracle, Oro Valley
Tue - Casa Molina on Speedway
10 AM
Orienteering 1:50:11 *** 7.1 km (15:31 / km) +250m 13:12 / km
ahr:119 max:171 shoes: 2019 Altra LP4.0 9 rspb
Street-O on an aerial map of Bisbee, AZ, same control locations as before (Feb 2018) for the most part (maybe one or two different questions). Didn't try for 13 or 8 up on the trail. Counter-clockwise, vs clockwise last time. I remembered a couple of answers but went to check them out to be sure (for the most part).
18 correct answers (21 total control sites)
18 correct answers (21 total control sites)
Monday Feb 17, 2020 #
9 AM
Walking warm up/down 19:26 1.41 km (13:48 / km) +10m 13:21 / km
ahr:95 max:105 shoes: 2017 Inov8 ArcticClaw 300
To start of Cholla Chaser at Catalina SP. Sunny and temps in mid to upper 60s
Orienteering race 53:52 *** 4.81 km (11:12 / km) +54m 10:37 / km
ahr:142 max:173 spiked:9/9c shoes: 2017 Inov8 ArcticClaw 300
Mass start Cholla Chaser with a window to begin with (my age/sex group had to visit 2 out of 7 controls in the window), with a return to the start location and then a 6-control standard course. I finished 21st.
Visited C and D in the window, but didn't take the "best" route to the first one though I found it just fine because I saw where people were coming out of it. Glen (who had 4 controls in the window) caught up and passed me between 3-4. I only passed (as far as I know) Faye (on the downhill trail leaving the window) and Reta (near #1).
Pushed where I could, particularly when running on trails. Avoided most of the cacti today, but have a small thorn in one of my toes that I was only able to remove part of. It must have been in my shoe already because I can't see how it could come through the toe cover of the shoe. (Sole is starting to detach from the upper, which is sad because these are my favorite O shoes and I can no longer get them. I'll wear trail shoes tomorrow.)
Visited C and D in the window, but didn't take the "best" route to the first one though I found it just fine because I saw where people were coming out of it. Glen (who had 4 controls in the window) caught up and passed me between 3-4. I only passed (as far as I know) Faye (on the downhill trail leaving the window) and Reta (near #1).
Pushed where I could, particularly when running on trails. Avoided most of the cacti today, but have a small thorn in one of my toes that I was only able to remove part of. It must have been in my shoe already because I can't see how it could come through the toe cover of the shoe. (Sole is starting to detach from the upper, which is sad because these are my favorite O shoes and I can no longer get them. I'll wear trail shoes tomorrow.)
Sunday Feb 16, 2020 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (Brown) 1:34:40 **** 6.01 km (15:45 / km) +107m 14:27 / km
ahr:127 max:168 spiked:9/12c shoes: 2017 Inov8 ArcticClaw 300
Brown classic at Catalina SP, 4.3 km, 130m climb. Sunny and 60s to low 70s.
Two bigger errors, which moved me down the list a bit. But there were two MPs and 4 DNFs too at that point.
Start-1
Found the trail heading south and started up the one towards the out-of-bounds (native American settlement) hoping to contour above the mapped green but decided I couldn't go that way and turned back, for a small time loss. Went up the wash instead.
Getting out of the wash is mapped as light green but it was worse, thicker and prickly, and extended farther up the reentrant sides than mapped. Eventually got to a relatively open area and moved along to 2.
Did fine the rest of the way to 2 and 3. On the leg to 3 I saw a jackrabbit (I saw one yesterday too), and an unusual bird which was just sitting on a rock. It might have been a roadrunner but I'll need to see what size their bodies are and what they look like when resting. EDIT: it *was* a roadrunner...first wild sighting of one! Its crest was flattened which made it harder to identify.
3-4
Had "runnable" terrain 2/3 of the way there, then terrain didn't match what I was expecting and I saw a wash bend to my left when I expected one to the right. So I dropped to the wash and determined I was too far left and was looking at another wash bend where the wash is wider. Found it from there. This was when I realized that the north lines were at an angle to the sides of the paper (but the control numbers were not), which might explain why terrain didn't appear as i expected it to.
Fine to 5-6. But then I got over-confident about moving through this terrain.
6-7
Attempted to do this leg on a bearing, but I was pushed around by rocks and vegetation more than I thought and I ended up too far to the right of the line and checked up a reentrant well beyond the control. Eventually turned south to relocate. Didn't have to go all the way to the trail because I started seeing people and then a flag, which was mine.
The rest went well but slowly for the most part because of the rocks and vegetation. Somewhere in the last section I hit a prickly pear which left some spines above my left ankle, but not too many and they didn't irritate much so I left them there until I finished.
I had the only key to the car so was happy to see Glen wasn't back from his red course yet (and mad at me for being locked out) when I finished, considering the extra time I'd taken on 4 and 7 (at least 8 minutes between the two, maybe more).
Two bigger errors, which moved me down the list a bit. But there were two MPs and 4 DNFs too at that point.
Start-1
Found the trail heading south and started up the one towards the out-of-bounds (native American settlement) hoping to contour above the mapped green but decided I couldn't go that way and turned back, for a small time loss. Went up the wash instead.
Getting out of the wash is mapped as light green but it was worse, thicker and prickly, and extended farther up the reentrant sides than mapped. Eventually got to a relatively open area and moved along to 2.
Did fine the rest of the way to 2 and 3. On the leg to 3 I saw a jackrabbit (I saw one yesterday too), and an unusual bird which was just sitting on a rock. It might have been a roadrunner but I'll need to see what size their bodies are and what they look like when resting. EDIT: it *was* a roadrunner...first wild sighting of one! Its crest was flattened which made it harder to identify.
3-4
Had "runnable" terrain 2/3 of the way there, then terrain didn't match what I was expecting and I saw a wash bend to my left when I expected one to the right. So I dropped to the wash and determined I was too far left and was looking at another wash bend where the wash is wider. Found it from there. This was when I realized that the north lines were at an angle to the sides of the paper (but the control numbers were not), which might explain why terrain didn't appear as i expected it to.
Fine to 5-6. But then I got over-confident about moving through this terrain.
6-7
Attempted to do this leg on a bearing, but I was pushed around by rocks and vegetation more than I thought and I ended up too far to the right of the line and checked up a reentrant well beyond the control. Eventually turned south to relocate. Didn't have to go all the way to the trail because I started seeing people and then a flag, which was mine.
The rest went well but slowly for the most part because of the rocks and vegetation. Somewhere in the last section I hit a prickly pear which left some spines above my left ankle, but not too many and they didn't irritate much so I left them there until I finished.
I had the only key to the car so was happy to see Glen wasn't back from his red course yet (and mad at me for being locked out) when I finished, considering the extra time I'd taken on 4 and 7 (at least 8 minutes between the two, maybe more).