Bike-Trail1:15:43 9.39 mi (8:04 / mi) +190m7:35 / mi ahr:123 max:141 shoes: Trek Marlin 7
Green Lane Park. Janet dropped me off at the middle parking area on Knight Rd. so I could play on single track while she rode south on the Perkiomen Trail from parking at Deep Creek Lake. Did Dogwood Loop and the unnamed group of trails further SE along Knight Rd. Trails were just wet enough from earlier rain to be a little slippery with some occasional small puddles. Then the Red Trail and Green Lane Connector Trail to get to the car (about 6.5k with a couple of significant climbs, but also a paved descent which drops about 40m). Upper 70s, humid.
Orienteering race 1:25:28*** 8.87 km (9:38 / km) +143m8:55 / km ahr:140 max:155 spiked:18/22c shoes: VJ Falcons 10
DVOA event at Quail Hill Scout Reservation. Red course, 7.5k, 192m climb, map exchange (actually a map flip) at control 12. Map is 1:5000 with 2.5m contours. Lots of trails and open areas but also plenty of woods with a wide range of vegetation, some of it scratchy). A bit warm (upper 70s) and humid. Nice course by Bob Burg with lots of route choice.
An OK run. No big errors but several small ones. Wrong direction out of the start, quickly corrected but ended up with a sub-optimum route to 1. Lost about 2 minutes on 8 looking for a rootstock among many rootstocks in visibility-limiting vegetation. Overshot 11 by a little bit since the map and terrain didn’t seem to match. 90 degree error out of 11 so ended up with a big arc going to 12. Off to the left on 13 and confused by an unmapped building in the OOB but figured it out pretty quickly. OK the rest of the course. 5-6 minutes errors total.
Bike-Trail1:00:57 6.26 mi (9:44 / mi) +136m9:07 / mi ahr:127 max:152 shoes: Trek Marlin 7
West End Regional Park. Ventured down the steeper part of Beechnut, climbing back up on Down Below, which was doable without any bike pushing. Trails are in great shape. Low 70s, partly cloudy.
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Bike-Trail35:00 3.6 mi (9:43 / mi) +79m9:06 / mi ahr:122 max:142 shoes: Trek Marlin 7
Orienteering2:08:25**** 9.05 km (14:12 / km) +180m12:55 / km ahr:116 max:148 spiked:11/15c shoes: VJ Falcons 10
UsynligO course on Sandy Run map. Adv1 course starting at the north end of the map. 6.9k straight line. Challenging orienteering on a very nice day (70, sunny, dry).
Navigation was OK. Misread features near the control for 3 and 4, which led to some backtracking. Took the road to 5 which was definitely faster and saved about 1.3km of vegetation in the face (the only downside to this area). Overshot 6 a little but recovered quickly. Used the sometimes huge rock features to navigate to 8 but then had trouble figuring out which rock was the actual control feature since there are more mappable rocks in the terrain than the KP map has. Same issue with 11. At 14 I hit the feature right on but the app didn’t register until I visited a second time a minute or so later. Probably lost 10-15 minutes overall but satisfactory for a training run with no flags or streamers. Thanks to SandyF for the course and Sandy and GregA for the map.