Training Log Archive: boyle

There's not much left of those shoes. I can feel every pebble.

In the long distance championships, I did what I could (8 of 14 controls) before it was time to start control pickup. I was the final start. I thought things were going fine through the eight controls and I tried very hard to find an attack on control 9 but I'm in over my head.

control pickup and trail-tape take down

Event: Ottawa O-Fest - 2015 Ontario Orienteering Championships
 

That is now three consecutive orienteering meets that I have been unable to complete. Let's see how Sunday turns out.

It's difficult to tell if I actually fell off the southern portion of the map. Unable to find controls 6 (67) or 7 (70), I eventually encountered a single remnant of fence and began a NE safety bearing seeking hydro-electric corridor. When I finally reached corridor, I was more than 500m from control 10 (79). However, I did not know where I was on the corridor until I finally met a competitor standing still, seeking control 10 as I entered that area. Heading NE kept me or got me on the map. Following the published NW safety bearing would have taken me off map if I failed to recognize terrain I had already been on.

6b Middle - Splits

Borutski travels toward Kinburn Side Road in rural west Ottawa while texting his brother, Art Borutski, who lives in the area.

2:30 p.m.: Ottawa police officers, with the help of an OPP helicopter, arrest Borutski in the woods at Becks Road and Kinburn Side Road “without incident.” Police were able to locate him by triangulating his cellphone signal.

I spent the morning in my sick bed again.