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Thursday Oct 10, 2019 #
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My training has been just "training" indeed, reading what contemporaries are doing. Back & boat these days weigh heavily. The back continues to hold me back. Had to cancel PT and a physiatry appointment Monday for the need to get the boat from Rockland to Portsmouth. The weather has been gale force just to the south of Rockland. Patience is a virtue and, more so, a safety consideration. Driving to ME tomorrow, leaving one car at Portsmouth shore. Then driving the other to Rockland. Back by boat to Portsmouth by Monday dark. OLLI Nottingcook walk Tuesday. I can't cop out on this which has been scheduled for about a year. Wednesday work, Thursday back to Rockland to get the car (no one way Enterprise car rental this time and no extra time to play transport games). Friday work, then UNO's A meet on weekend.
I think back to November '80 when I bought Rhodora . We brought her to Cape Cod from the Chesapeake in November. I missed a Blue Mt. A meet in Peekskill but drove down in December to play catch-up. This is the last dance for this boat for us. I expect to be at the meet but likely still out of breath.
A walk with W to the slough was a most pleasant distraction. The beavers have gone for one reason or another - now only a small pool and the stream that runs through it. I was photographing the pretty fall view and W decided to hop on the only rock as I was doing so. Look for light moments in gray days.
I think back to November '80 when I bought Rhodora . We brought her to Cape Cod from the Chesapeake in November. I missed a Blue Mt. A meet in Peekskill but drove down in December to play catch-up. This is the last dance for this boat for us. I expect to be at the meet but likely still out of breath.
A walk with W to the slough was a most pleasant distraction. The beavers have gone for one reason or another - now only a small pool and the stream that runs through it. I was photographing the pretty fall view and W decided to hop on the only rock as I was doing so. Look for light moments in gray days.
Orienteering 45:00 [3]
Masters’ Champs, Sunday, cold early, OK later. Gray sky, no rain. Brown X, 3.1K, 150m climb. I was pleased with this - no mistake time, went to all directly, if slowly. As physical as yesterday, more climb, less white alternating with yellow ski slope traversing.
Up the path to #1, straight/straightforward to #2 though going slowly in the terrain, #3 pretty much straight also but went left enough to hit the open area on the path and then across the swamp just beyond. Carefully up the slope, saw the boulder triangle in front & rest was history.
To #4 began the climb. Again straight to the second path. The climb to that path seemed endless, traversing up the slope til finally… Then along it to the end of the wall and attacked from there. Could have improved the final approach by using the path to the SW. Straight to #5 which was just about all up. Straight seemed the most error-free route though, for me, the climb was “over the top” physically.
Then the route leveled off & straight to the point. To #6, straight to the yellow, mode my way around the yellow “U”, seeing the boulder, the small RF and finally the larger one, tho it was hidden in green. Then a rocky traverse, but an “animal” path, too, for help. Could see point from 25m away. To #7 (which for all the world looked like a #4 when viewed upside down): back to the same slope I’d come from, down to the jct. marked by rock features and then down the steep slope to the stream, along it a bit and up when the terrain smoothed out. I could see the forest corner, and entered the woods accordingly, finding to the point.
Pretty much straight to #8, sorting out the yellow but some confusion as the white separation lines of forest did not seem quite right. But I could see the lift and the reentrant was supposed to be just beyond that. A moment of breath-holding, then the land dropped and the flag showed itself with a smile. Straightforward the the next as anyone could have noted where it was from the finish area.
Thought I could “run” in but could not. Again pleased but leading times were much faster. But no running equals no “speedy” results. I remember the days where the “battle cry” was beat Sharon C or 10’/k. How far I’ve (we’ve) come.
Great to see old faces & friends. Always regret not getting around enough to visit with as many as possible…the way of A meets. Hans Bengtsson and Oskar spent Friday and Saturday night with us and that was most enjoyable.
UNO made me proud. I wasn’t able to be a meet helper with other demands for my time.
Up the path to #1, straight/straightforward to #2 though going slowly in the terrain, #3 pretty much straight also but went left enough to hit the open area on the path and then across the swamp just beyond. Carefully up the slope, saw the boulder triangle in front & rest was history.
To #4 began the climb. Again straight to the second path. The climb to that path seemed endless, traversing up the slope til finally… Then along it to the end of the wall and attacked from there. Could have improved the final approach by using the path to the SW. Straight to #5 which was just about all up. Straight seemed the most error-free route though, for me, the climb was “over the top” physically.
Then the route leveled off & straight to the point. To #6, straight to the yellow, mode my way around the yellow “U”, seeing the boulder, the small RF and finally the larger one, tho it was hidden in green. Then a rocky traverse, but an “animal” path, too, for help. Could see point from 25m away. To #7 (which for all the world looked like a #4 when viewed upside down): back to the same slope I’d come from, down to the jct. marked by rock features and then down the steep slope to the stream, along it a bit and up when the terrain smoothed out. I could see the forest corner, and entered the woods accordingly, finding to the point.
Pretty much straight to #8, sorting out the yellow but some confusion as the white separation lines of forest did not seem quite right. But I could see the lift and the reentrant was supposed to be just beyond that. A moment of breath-holding, then the land dropped and the flag showed itself with a smile. Straightforward the the next as anyone could have noted where it was from the finish area.
Thought I could “run” in but could not. Again pleased but leading times were much faster. But no running equals no “speedy” results. I remember the days where the “battle cry” was beat Sharon C or 10’/k. How far I’ve (we’ve) come.
Great to see old faces & friends. Always regret not getting around enough to visit with as many as possible…the way of A meets. Hans Bengtsson and Oskar spent Friday and Saturday night with us and that was most enjoyable.
UNO made me proud. I wasn’t able to be a meet helper with other demands for my time.
Wednesday Oct 9, 2019 #
2 PM
Walking 2:00:11 [1] 1.79 mi (1:07:08 / mi) +77m 59:13 / mi
Easement walk with Ken, Martin and Eric checking HNP with proposed new subdivision on lot 100A. Gray, no rain, good fall colors. Blazes easy to find when 4 are looking. Foresters' streamers hung and lot corners marked even tho subdiv has not yet been approved. Watch lost satellites before end.
Auctioneering crew.
Auctioneering crew.
Monday Oct 7, 2019 #
Note
I was looking for a Pawtuckaway map and happened upon this Boojum version from a local meet, 4/24/11. Lots of copyright dates and revision credits even then. At least by 2011, the poem was replaced with one line.
