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Sunday May 6, 2012 #
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Route from yesterday's middle. Not much to say, in control all the way.
And route on today's long (also M60, GreenX). A little miss on #6, otherwise fine. Definitely helped at 13 and 14 by people just ahead of me. Best move was crossing the wide ride just before #7 on a narrow pice of bare rock, thereby avoiding all the barberry (and its resident ticks, one assumes). Second best move was not getting at all bothered by the wide flat reentrant 1/4 of the way from 9 to 10, mapped as white, actually dark green.
As far as enjoyment, Saturday was much better. Bull Pond has its share of hills and rocks and mountain laurel, but not really much of the knee/waist/chest-high blueberry or whatever else that stuff is. So it is much more runnable. Whereas Turkey Mountain, Sunday's map, has always been much junkier woods, and it seems to have gotten more so. Very few places where the running was fun. Turkey Mountain was just hard work.
And the cadets, as has been the case for the last decade or so (ever since the Campbells really improved the program, and now under the leadership of Mike Hendricks), once again put together an excellent weekend. The days of absurd courses, misplaced controls, and people in tears at the finish are just distant memories. Good for them!
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And route on today's long (also M60, GreenX). A little miss on #6, otherwise fine. Definitely helped at 13 and 14 by people just ahead of me. Best move was crossing the wide ride just before #7 on a narrow pice of bare rock, thereby avoiding all the barberry (and its resident ticks, one assumes). Second best move was not getting at all bothered by the wide flat reentrant 1/4 of the way from 9 to 10, mapped as white, actually dark green.
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As far as enjoyment, Saturday was much better. Bull Pond has its share of hills and rocks and mountain laurel, but not really much of the knee/waist/chest-high blueberry or whatever else that stuff is. So it is much more runnable. Whereas Turkey Mountain, Sunday's map, has always been much junkier woods, and it seems to have gotten more so. Very few places where the running was fun. Turkey Mountain was just hard work.
And the cadets, as has been the case for the last decade or so (ever since the Campbells really improved the program, and now under the leadership of Mike Hendricks), once again put together an excellent weekend. The days of absurd courses, misplaced controls, and people in tears at the finish are just distant memories. Good for them!
9 AM
orienteering 1:13:29 5.07 mi (14:30 / mi) +758ft 12:42 / mi
ahr:149 max:161 shoes: x-talon 212 #2
Got around without any damage to my hamstring, I think, although right hell was hurting some. And a good gash to my right palm, a good bit deeper than my usual skin removal stuff. Did it early, blood all over the place by the time I was done, but it gave the first aid guys something to do. But certainly totally minor compared to what Phil did to himself.
I'm hoping it won't interfere with my grip.
I'm hoping it won't interfere with my grip.
5 PM
biking 50:45 13.58 mi (3:44 / mi) +738ft 3:33 / mi
ahr:125 max:144
A late afternoon bike ride back home, because it was a beautiful afternoon, because it might loosen up the legs, and because of those two huge scoops of ice cream Saturday evening.