Training Log Archive: Swampfox

i stopped by the Forest Service office while I was out biking, and met briefly with my point of contact there, and it looks like a permit will be approved for an orienteering event over Labor Day weekend (Labor Daze). My tentative plans were for 4 days of racing plus a training event to kick things off with, with the dates being Aug 31 - Sept 4.

The timing might not be what some would prefer, but for those who can come, I think it's the best weekend of the year for O' in the Laramie area with everything considered. It's late enough in the season that the odds of a bad thunderstorm are pretty small, and it's too early for any bad winter weather (though not by much!) That said, one year that weekend we had a race at Pelican Bay where we got flat out drubbed by a hail storm.

Now I need to put up some information and details at the LROC web site.

C • Labor Daze 1

Orienteering at Remarkable Flats, 10.9 kms, gray, fog here and there, good amounts of south breeze, and weather threatening to get much worse (but never did, until the very, very end.) I printed out a map at 1:12500 and made out everything okay save for three control locations where my eyes just could not quite make out all the objects distinctly. Maybe if the sun had been out it would have been enough, but either way I've had plenty of indications that my eyes aren't as good as they were just a year ago.

I reckon I got lucky with the weather today both for biking and O', and good to get an O' run in today because tomorrow is looking worse/wetter waetherwise.

I was listening to the radio as I was pulling on O' shoes and gaiters, and was quite surprised to hear the news Comey had been fired. I guess a lot of people were.

When I got home after running, I discovered I had a hitchhiker on me--first tick of the year. I did not make it feel like a welcome guest.

C • Tick 5