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Tuesday Sep 7, 2010 #
11 AM
orienteering 3:49:09 6.47 mi (35:25 / mi) +686ft 32:11 / mi
ahr:85 max:111 weight:142lbs shoes: saloman
The heels seemed OK during yesterday's joglet, but they started to hurt afterwards, and were quite sore this morning, especially the left one. Discouraging.
So I took some vitamin I and headed off to Sessions to field check points for the WCOC local meet there on Sunday the 19th, not quite two weeks, definitely time to start getting my act together. Tromped around for almost 4 hours, just walking, quite hot and humid. Felt very frail. And quite beat by the end. But a nice outing, and quite a variety of forest and orienteering.
The plan is sort of a score course, except there's no time limit. There will be 30 controls, you get your choice, pick any 10, or 15, or 20, or 25. No bonus for getting more than 25 (since getting them all actually makes it less interesting).
One of the reasons I wanted to do this was it offers a chance to put points where courses don't usually go. And I think I found some spots that no one but George (the mapper) has been in the last decade (or century?).
The other thing I wanted to do was see if anyone could figure out a way to get any advantage from having the GPS coordinates available (and available well in advance). So part of my field checking was to get the coordinates at every point. I think I managed that without screwing it up.
The other reason for field checking is that, it you are doing it right, it usually means tossing out maybe a quarter of the points you were intending to use. Some places just don't look quite right, or the feature is not as distinct as you'd hope. So it's better to pick another spot. I think I moved 8 of the 30 points.
I'll post the coordinates before long. That's not giving anything away. They'll be available on the day before you run, just as the maps (and pre-printed control sites) will be available. If you care to look at it a lot before you run, or a little, or not at all, whatever. It's just a local meet, for training. Hell, you can just click on my globe and see where I went. :-)
Reminds me, for those on the 2000-control quest, better to have the possibility of 25 on your course than some smaller number, plus the chance for bonus controls when you help pick them up.... :-)
I think this will also be a National O' Day event, for which I think we get a few prizes to pass out. I think I wll be biased in favor of any able to use GPS to their advantage.
So I took some vitamin I and headed off to Sessions to field check points for the WCOC local meet there on Sunday the 19th, not quite two weeks, definitely time to start getting my act together. Tromped around for almost 4 hours, just walking, quite hot and humid. Felt very frail. And quite beat by the end. But a nice outing, and quite a variety of forest and orienteering.
The plan is sort of a score course, except there's no time limit. There will be 30 controls, you get your choice, pick any 10, or 15, or 20, or 25. No bonus for getting more than 25 (since getting them all actually makes it less interesting).
One of the reasons I wanted to do this was it offers a chance to put points where courses don't usually go. And I think I found some spots that no one but George (the mapper) has been in the last decade (or century?).
The other thing I wanted to do was see if anyone could figure out a way to get any advantage from having the GPS coordinates available (and available well in advance). So part of my field checking was to get the coordinates at every point. I think I managed that without screwing it up.
The other reason for field checking is that, it you are doing it right, it usually means tossing out maybe a quarter of the points you were intending to use. Some places just don't look quite right, or the feature is not as distinct as you'd hope. So it's better to pick another spot. I think I moved 8 of the 30 points.
I'll post the coordinates before long. That's not giving anything away. They'll be available on the day before you run, just as the maps (and pre-printed control sites) will be available. If you care to look at it a lot before you run, or a little, or not at all, whatever. It's just a local meet, for training. Hell, you can just click on my globe and see where I went. :-)
Reminds me, for those on the 2000-control quest, better to have the possibility of 25 on your course than some smaller number, plus the chance for bonus controls when you help pick them up.... :-)
I think this will also be a National O' Day event, for which I think we get a few prizes to pass out. I think I wll be biased in favor of any able to use GPS to their advantage.
4 PM
biking 43:04 12.21 mi (3:32 / mi) +200ft 3:28 / mi
ahr:133 max:157
I'd brought my bike with me, figured I might as well ride someplace different than usual. At some point while finishing up my field checking it occurred to me that a ride with Charlie might be a possibility, perhaps at one of his usual places, starting at Pleasant Valley. So I called him up when I got back to the car. No answer, so I left a message and headed off to PV.
Headed off on the bike, a mellow route planned up to the state line and back, and after about 7 or 8 minutes the phone rings and it's Charlie. And my immediate thought is, great, I'll turn around, meet him back at PV, will be nice to have company. But he is sick, sounded like he is feeling quite awful, he'd just been to the doctor, and a bike ride was definitely not in the cards.
So I continued on, feeling quite beat, got up to Route 8, decided that was enough, turned around and headed back.
One bit of excitement on the return trip. I had just come down a slight grade, it had flattened out, I looked up and saw a sign saying the speed limit was 25, looked at my speedometer and it said 22. Thought to myself, I know what Alex would do, so without any more thought I mobilized the dozen or so fast-twitch cells in my legs and managed to crank it up to 26. Quite pleased with myself. Though, to be clear, it only stayed at 26 for a moment, but that was enough.... :-)
Had a nice chat with Charlie after I was done.
Quite wasted (probably dehydrated) by the time I got home.
Headed off on the bike, a mellow route planned up to the state line and back, and after about 7 or 8 minutes the phone rings and it's Charlie. And my immediate thought is, great, I'll turn around, meet him back at PV, will be nice to have company. But he is sick, sounded like he is feeling quite awful, he'd just been to the doctor, and a bike ride was definitely not in the cards.
So I continued on, feeling quite beat, got up to Route 8, decided that was enough, turned around and headed back.
One bit of excitement on the return trip. I had just come down a slight grade, it had flattened out, I looked up and saw a sign saying the speed limit was 25, looked at my speedometer and it said 22. Thought to myself, I know what Alex would do, so without any more thought I mobilized the dozen or so fast-twitch cells in my legs and managed to crank it up to 26. Quite pleased with myself. Though, to be clear, it only stayed at 26 for a moment, but that was enough.... :-)
Had a nice chat with Charlie after I was done.
Quite wasted (probably dehydrated) by the time I got home.