Discussion: Bulging Oregon

At the US Champs I felt like I was much more tired than I should have been for the distance and climb. Now I know why. I don't think the course-setters took into the account the added climb due to the "bulge."

Oregon's Bulge

Huh. I was surprised that I felt less tired than usual, and felt recovered enough on Sunday to hop in a car and drive 8 hours without even falling asleep once. Maybe the bulge has therapeutic effects for older orienteers.

I suppose with all that magma so close underfoot, it might be working like those magical magnets that people wear in their shoes or on bracelets. So now, in additional to "sleep high, train low," we could have "sleep high on magnets, train low."

I believe it's "climb high, sleep low."

At WOC, half the Russian team, including Alexei Kuzmin (the "coach"), was wearing those funny magnets. They explained it was nuclear science.

I'm pretty sure it is "climb as much as possible, while enjoying the thought that the less well trained competition is suffering big time" and then sleep soundly that night afterwards.

Maybe it's just a giant subterrannean pizza being baked under the Twin Sisters. It's easy to see how that could bulge a little bit, and it would probably also make some people feel better.

What magnets are these? I wanna get one. Nuclear science on my shoe!

If my calculations are correct, and if we fit j-man "Power" McGrath with some of these...

Magnetic insoles...

wrap him in copper wire and get him run really really fast...

We could power all the epunch remote download stations in the US for 1kW*hr.

Is it just me or has Attackpoint gone unusually silly today?

Just you.

It's the magnetic field. It's muddled up our tenuous homeostasis.

Ow. Actually, I think I sprained my tenuous homeostasis out in the woods today. Or maybe it was my medial necrosis.

Watch out for that necrosis. Even digestives are ineffective for that!

Magnetic soles! That's what's been screwing my compass up.

Great terrain, great map (except around noon Saturday - much improved by Sunday), and now its going to explode - what luck!

I wouldn't mind spraining my necrosis. It just postpones the inevitable.

I wouldn't mind spraining my necrosis. It just postpones the inevitable.

Hmm, Bend sounded like a nice place until I saw this.
If you ever visited Mt St Helens, this would scare you..
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"A magnitude 5.1 earthquake on May 18 (8:32 a.m. PDT) shook loose the steepened -bulge- on the volcano's north flank, resulting in the largest known landslide in historic time, 2.3 cubic km (0.56 cubic miles). The entire north flank was described by an aerial observal as "rippling" and "churning" moments before "the north side of the summit began sliding north along a deep-seated slide plane.".

CNN article on the bulge today.