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Monday Nov 25, 2013 #
Note
(sick)
Hmm., Was going to run a Turkey Trot this weekend but I've been sick for a week, finally starting to get out of it. Ugh. Maybe not the best idea. Thankful for no classes on Wed! 2 more weeks of class and all Masters-level classes are D.O.N.E. forever!! Eggnog season is nigh! Thinking I'll use eggnog season to formulate my new orienteering goals for the new year, although that's probably not very hard since I didn't make my 2013 goal of scoring in the 70's at an A or W meet. Ran that pace at a couple local meets, and probably would have had it at the Flying Pig Sprint if I hadn't blown right pass a control w/o punching it, so that goal is an obvious one. But will have to think about how to fix my recurring drifting issue & improve my fitness without injuring myself if I want to not only get in the 70's once, but consistently in 2014. Also thinking about trying out Ski-O but the price of skate skis are scaring me... maybe I'll go to an event and rent a pair for the race to see if its even something I have a shot at doing well at. Love cross country skiing, but have never done it with skate skis.
Saturday Nov 16, 2013 #
Orienteering race 2:05:46 [5] **** 13.2 km (9:32 / km) +449m 8:09 / km
spiked:13/22c shoes: La Sportiva Wildcat
Challenging course & didn't always meet the challenge, but some good moments and some bad moments. Very rocky footing almost the whole way, very not used to that, tiring! Biggest news is the #4 control that I biffed so badly, 17 min's worth...I actually came within 50 feet of the flag heading dead towards it before I veered off thinking I already flew by it off my left...AAAARRRGGGHHH!!! The GPS track shows I was heading dead towards it from my #7 control AP and I was ALMOST THERE so close I might have seen it with just a few more steps!!... AAAARGGHHHH!!!! So then I flailed around a bit doing lots of extra-curricular running and walking. Had some drift problems and fitness issues. But have to be happy finishing this one, definitely a challenge, but didn't execute as well as I have been the past couple weeks. Here's the leg comments:
1- spike
2- spike, hilltop AP
3- spike, trail corner AP
4- story above...I was heading right to it and was almost there dead on - AAARRRGGHHH!!
5- spike but slow
6- got drawn into wrong control but found real one not long after
7- so-so
8- Drifted way right over to 10 unintentionally...was surprised- that shouldn't happen! Had to backtrack west to #8 - slow- rocks, green, bleh, corner of parking lot as AP
9- paved road to hill as AP, spike
10- sloppy, drifted too far right into mess but got back on track
11- Trail, then cut contouring SW around hill to next trail, slow up hill, terrain intersect with trail as AP, spike
12- beeline, spike
13- should have been easy but wound up past it
14- river/trail AP, spike but had to re-tie shoe on the way there
15- followed river and saw it where expected
16- slog but got it, slow spike
17- ugly find but a find
18- ugly find but a find, slow up hill
19- spike
20- spike
21- spike
F- spike
1- spike
2- spike, hilltop AP
3- spike, trail corner AP
4- story above...I was heading right to it and was almost there dead on - AAARRRGGHHH!!
5- spike but slow
6- got drawn into wrong control but found real one not long after
7- so-so
8- Drifted way right over to 10 unintentionally...was surprised- that shouldn't happen! Had to backtrack west to #8 - slow- rocks, green, bleh, corner of parking lot as AP
9- paved road to hill as AP, spike
10- sloppy, drifted too far right into mess but got back on track
11- Trail, then cut contouring SW around hill to next trail, slow up hill, terrain intersect with trail as AP, spike
12- beeline, spike
13- should have been easy but wound up past it
14- river/trail AP, spike but had to re-tie shoe on the way there
15- followed river and saw it where expected
16- slog but got it, slow spike
17- ugly find but a find
18- ugly find but a find, slow up hill
19- spike
20- spike
21- spike
F- spike
Thursday Nov 14, 2013 #
Orienteering 1:05:31 [3] *** 7.69 km (8:31 / km) +153m 7:45 / km
spiked:11/16c shoes: Vasque Velocity
Ran Jen's excellent streamer course at Peach Mountain. Ran out of time and started running out of light so cut it off after reaching #15. Really enjoyed the pine tree forest parts and also some of the really wide open forest parts. Thinking this is the first time I've ever orienteered here without dropping into that big open bowl! :)
No time for QR but here are my leg comments:
1- Road, then cut over up reentrant hillside / power line, spike
2- Used corner of astronomy complex as AP, then looked for reentrant and hill, spike
3- Ran to road, used trail junction as AP to get me to reentrant tip, but flew past the streamer without seeing it, relocated once I saw the boulder south of it, went back to it.
4- Beeline, spike
5- Used trail passing by radar facil, then trail junction to spur...except I took one spur too early, so had to drop down and back up to get to top of hillttop/spur just north of me, a bit of a waste but had the right idea.
6- Used the depression north of 5 as my reference, then saw the beat up car (pretty cool, wonder how it got there), but lots of hesitation on this leg, grrrr
7- up and over hill, spike
8- just like 7, spike
9- Opted to trail run it using trail south of 8, then contoured along the steep hill drop, turned a bit too early but quickly corrected
10- Hesitated coming off of 9 and a bit sloppy, but finally decided on a great route choice that took me through the pine forest avoiding a big climb, running along hte south side of the big hill dumping me onto the trail south of 9, then cut the trail corner , then contoured the hillside approaching 10 until big reentrant caught me, then used smaller rentrant past the big one as my AP, spike
11- Ran towards trail to my east, then up trail, up hill and over, spike
12- Used boulder by trail on north of big bowl as AP, spike
13- Got real sloppy here, wound up way far west over at the T trail junction, so then ran back east on the trail to pick up #13
14- Good plan, hesitation, but for the good cause of not blowing past it, which I didn't, was a bit farther down the hill than I though I was so that threw me but keeping my scan going helped as I saw it just up the reentrant to my left
15- So-so. Wasn't great but wasn't bad either, ran to trail, trail corned as AP, spike, but a slower than necessary spike.
F- went straight through all the nasty green, very slow and snaggy! But afterburner when hit the trail.
Very nice course, very nice day for it, and very nice to have a thumb compass again, what else can you ask for? Thank you Jens!!
No time for QR but here are my leg comments:
1- Road, then cut over up reentrant hillside / power line, spike
2- Used corner of astronomy complex as AP, then looked for reentrant and hill, spike
3- Ran to road, used trail junction as AP to get me to reentrant tip, but flew past the streamer without seeing it, relocated once I saw the boulder south of it, went back to it.
4- Beeline, spike
5- Used trail passing by radar facil, then trail junction to spur...except I took one spur too early, so had to drop down and back up to get to top of hillttop/spur just north of me, a bit of a waste but had the right idea.
6- Used the depression north of 5 as my reference, then saw the beat up car (pretty cool, wonder how it got there), but lots of hesitation on this leg, grrrr
7- up and over hill, spike
8- just like 7, spike
9- Opted to trail run it using trail south of 8, then contoured along the steep hill drop, turned a bit too early but quickly corrected
10- Hesitated coming off of 9 and a bit sloppy, but finally decided on a great route choice that took me through the pine forest avoiding a big climb, running along hte south side of the big hill dumping me onto the trail south of 9, then cut the trail corner , then contoured the hillside approaching 10 until big reentrant caught me, then used smaller rentrant past the big one as my AP, spike
11- Ran towards trail to my east, then up trail, up hill and over, spike
12- Used boulder by trail on north of big bowl as AP, spike
13- Got real sloppy here, wound up way far west over at the T trail junction, so then ran back east on the trail to pick up #13
14- Good plan, hesitation, but for the good cause of not blowing past it, which I didn't, was a bit farther down the hill than I though I was so that threw me but keeping my scan going helped as I saw it just up the reentrant to my left
15- So-so. Wasn't great but wasn't bad either, ran to trail, trail corned as AP, spike, but a slower than necessary spike.
F- went straight through all the nasty green, very slow and snaggy! But afterburner when hit the trail.
Very nice course, very nice day for it, and very nice to have a thumb compass again, what else can you ask for? Thank you Jens!!
Wednesday Nov 13, 2013 #
Abs and/or arms 5:00 [1]
Legs and/or sprints 10:00 [1]
Note
New thumb compass arrived just in time for another race! But I miss my old Jet Spectra 6, wherever it is, may it RIP...or better yet reappear. this one is similar but no colors, but it will do for now.
Tuesday Nov 12, 2013 #
Note
Starting thinking seriously about doing the Dec Chill, until I saw the outrageous prices for both registration and canoe, $110 total. Really!!??
Orienteering 46:00 [2] ***
shoes: Vasque Velocity
Night-O field checking (sorta) for Badlands course.
Didn't realize the park closes at 10pm, so my arrival at 8:45 pm didn't give me much time. But picked out a few of the more intricate controls and tried those out. That's ok because I had already ran the area when we were checking in the summer and still remembered it.
Wow- I could tell its been a very long time since I've orienteered at night as I was really struggling to stay on top of it. Even made a 180 error too! Doesn't help that I'm using old school orienteering compass temporarily since I lost my thumb compass, but the main thing is I better spend some more time doing orienteering at night because I'm totally not proficient at all.
It was so awesome out there at night and must say Badlands will be a perfect night-O venue! It should be very enjoyable... and some challenges too.
Didn't realize the park closes at 10pm, so my arrival at 8:45 pm didn't give me much time. But picked out a few of the more intricate controls and tried those out. That's ok because I had already ran the area when we were checking in the summer and still remembered it.
Wow- I could tell its been a very long time since I've orienteered at night as I was really struggling to stay on top of it. Even made a 180 error too! Doesn't help that I'm using old school orienteering compass temporarily since I lost my thumb compass, but the main thing is I better spend some more time doing orienteering at night because I'm totally not proficient at all.
It was so awesome out there at night and must say Badlands will be a perfect night-O venue! It should be very enjoyable... and some challenges too.
Monday Nov 11, 2013 #
Legs and/or sprints 15:00 [1]
Quads
Abs and/or arms 5:00 [1] 0.0 mi
Note
Trying to figure out a way to be able to still make it to the Relays in Dec. But imagine the SMOC team is already full by now.
X-cntry running 5:00 [2] 1.0 km (5:00 / km)
Sprint across campus to make it to class on time.
Saturday Nov 9, 2013 #
Event: SMOC Maybury State Park
Orienteering race 1:06:03 [4] *** 9.1 km (7:15 / km) +62m 7:01 / km
spiked:17/22c shoes: La Sportiva Wildcat
My first "Goat" orienteering race, had a blast! Near-perfect running weather, scenic forest with excellent visibility but still a lot of nice colors on the trees, and feeling good for a lot of the run. New venue at Maybury was very fun too, and of course Igor always puts on a good course. The Goat run really felt like running like a goat, galloping over logs and climbing hills, but speedy!
Taught the Civil Air Patrol cadets about orienteering before the race. Wondering how they did.
Here's the QR, comments below it:
Here's how it went for me:
* forgot to start my GPS logging until on my way to #3
1- Pretty inefficient here as it took me a good minute or so to get my head into it. Alex and I were running pretty close.
2- Spike
3- Spike but got some snags that slowed me down
4- A little hesitation but used the tree as an AP and that took me right to it
5- coming off of 4 got a little messed up w/ the map contact but quickly corrected
6- Kinda slow, was still having some map reading issues here with thinking I was on the big trail, not the small trail to the south of big trail.
7- Spike
8- Spike
9- Just used the hill joining the trail as my AP then a simple contour from there, spike.
10- Spike but probably should have gone faster
11- Horse rider hollared out to me a bit obtusely (despite that I was nowhere near them), but still deviated east a bit to run farther behind their group...lots of people converging on 11, pretty easy once I saw the clearing, spike.
12- Got messed up a little coming off of 11 with the trails and map... for some reason I thought I made a mistake and started going south, but I was actually going the right way, then had some vegetation issues...probably my weakest leg of the whole course, really inefficient. Should have just popped back up to the paved trail to pick up speed. But it was at this leg that I realized my initial plan to skip #17 was probably not as good as skipping #14, so that helped make up for it a bit. Hill at #12 scared me so I liked the possibility of the little bit of white crossing the stream and then the shallower ascent around the hill and that worked out well, but the hill wasn't as big as I thought it was going to be because I didn't read the map carefully enough to see many of the contours were just half-contours.
13- Since the hill turned out not so bad I just ran the remaining top of the hill and then dumped down onto the paved path to 13, spike.
14- SKIP!! Just seemed to make more sense to head straight to 15.
15- Trail run and control visible from trail if you were looking and I was, yay! spike.
16- Spike
17- Decided to use the trail that took me south right to another trail passing beside a ditch and use that as my AP, and caught a glimpse of the control from the AP, spike.
18- Was worried I would miss if I went on a beeline so went to 11 as my AP and then up, a bit of fight that slowed me down, so spike but a slow spike.
19- Slow and a bit sloppy coming off of 18 but got it under control and hit the right trails thereafter...but more horses to deviate around a bit. spike.
20- Hmmm... went to the top of a hill, but turned out I went to the top of the wrong hill, looked west and saw the control sitting on top of the next hill over. Not good.
21- Spike but too slow
22- so-so, lots of hesitation and such.
F- spike
Oh yeah, lost my Brunton Spectra thumb compass so used a rental for this one...missing my compass!
My legs were thrashed by some pickers and tried out these O-pants they gave our Armed Forces team, but the pants are way too weak for some of those pickers and burrs, so will probably just use those for sprint races in the future. Front of thighs felt on fire from all the scratches, but I learned from Igor that "pain is good, it helps you". :)
Taught the Civil Air Patrol cadets about orienteering before the race. Wondering how they did.
Here's the QR, comments below it:
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| From Orienteering |
Here's how it went for me:
* forgot to start my GPS logging until on my way to #3
1- Pretty inefficient here as it took me a good minute or so to get my head into it. Alex and I were running pretty close.
2- Spike
3- Spike but got some snags that slowed me down
4- A little hesitation but used the tree as an AP and that took me right to it
5- coming off of 4 got a little messed up w/ the map contact but quickly corrected
6- Kinda slow, was still having some map reading issues here with thinking I was on the big trail, not the small trail to the south of big trail.
7- Spike
8- Spike
9- Just used the hill joining the trail as my AP then a simple contour from there, spike.
10- Spike but probably should have gone faster
11- Horse rider hollared out to me a bit obtusely (despite that I was nowhere near them), but still deviated east a bit to run farther behind their group...lots of people converging on 11, pretty easy once I saw the clearing, spike.
12- Got messed up a little coming off of 11 with the trails and map... for some reason I thought I made a mistake and started going south, but I was actually going the right way, then had some vegetation issues...probably my weakest leg of the whole course, really inefficient. Should have just popped back up to the paved trail to pick up speed. But it was at this leg that I realized my initial plan to skip #17 was probably not as good as skipping #14, so that helped make up for it a bit. Hill at #12 scared me so I liked the possibility of the little bit of white crossing the stream and then the shallower ascent around the hill and that worked out well, but the hill wasn't as big as I thought it was going to be because I didn't read the map carefully enough to see many of the contours were just half-contours.
13- Since the hill turned out not so bad I just ran the remaining top of the hill and then dumped down onto the paved path to 13, spike.
14- SKIP!! Just seemed to make more sense to head straight to 15.
15- Trail run and control visible from trail if you were looking and I was, yay! spike.
16- Spike
17- Decided to use the trail that took me south right to another trail passing beside a ditch and use that as my AP, and caught a glimpse of the control from the AP, spike.
18- Was worried I would miss if I went on a beeline so went to 11 as my AP and then up, a bit of fight that slowed me down, so spike but a slow spike.
19- Slow and a bit sloppy coming off of 18 but got it under control and hit the right trails thereafter...but more horses to deviate around a bit. spike.
20- Hmmm... went to the top of a hill, but turned out I went to the top of the wrong hill, looked west and saw the control sitting on top of the next hill over. Not good.
21- Spike but too slow
22- so-so, lots of hesitation and such.
F- spike
Oh yeah, lost my Brunton Spectra thumb compass so used a rental for this one...missing my compass!
My legs were thrashed by some pickers and tried out these O-pants they gave our Armed Forces team, but the pants are way too weak for some of those pickers and burrs, so will probably just use those for sprint races in the future. Front of thighs felt on fire from all the scratches, but I learned from Igor that "pain is good, it helps you". :)
Tuesday Nov 5, 2013 #
X-cntry running 23:00 [4] 5.0 km (4:36 / km) +25m 4:29 / km
shoes: Vasque Velocity
Nice mild temp run. Felt sluggish, thinking of doing a 5k Turkey Trot this year since its been so long since I've done one of those and since its my last Thanksgiving in Michigan for a while. Time to go looking for a good one. Maybe that will help get my 5k speed back closer to where it should be.
Legs and/or sprints 5:00 [1]
Quads
Saturday Nov 2, 2013 #
Orienteering 2:00:00 [2] *** 7.0 km (17:09 / km)
shoes: Vasque Velocity
Putting out controls, and taking them down.
I kinda liked the online pre-registration thing for the Scramble at the Arb, I guess now I'm spoiled. But being a scatter-brain I guess I like having something that makes everything organized for me.
Speaking of scatter-brained, totally forgot to print the clue sheets. I left the door with that feeling like I was forgetting something despite re-checking "everything" three times... being a pilot I should have known, "ALWAYS USE THE CHECKLIST!!"
So fun to introduce a new map to everyone, so thankful for all the help from Igor & everyone else, so cool to see a good showing of orienteers from all over including CAOC, OI, and MVOC. Nice that the rain stopped after I got all the controls out, and didn't start again until almost everyone was done (sorry Barb, I tried to stop the rain!)
Cool to run into Jan again after meeting him at an O-Utah meet in July! Also great to see the OI guys out here enjoying some Michigan terrain... which made me really wish I would have had enough time here at U of M to start a student appendage to SMOC... if only there was enough time, argh!!
Speaking of time, meet directing two days, on two new maps, dealing with 3 bureaucracies to get it all done, was a heck of a lot of work, but the results were totally awesome and well worth it all.
I slept for 13 hrs Saturday night and unwittingly slept through church the next morning. Hoping God is also an orienteer...looking at these forests He created I think He is! :)
I kinda liked the online pre-registration thing for the Scramble at the Arb, I guess now I'm spoiled. But being a scatter-brain I guess I like having something that makes everything organized for me.
Speaking of scatter-brained, totally forgot to print the clue sheets. I left the door with that feeling like I was forgetting something despite re-checking "everything" three times... being a pilot I should have known, "ALWAYS USE THE CHECKLIST!!"
So fun to introduce a new map to everyone, so thankful for all the help from Igor & everyone else, so cool to see a good showing of orienteers from all over including CAOC, OI, and MVOC. Nice that the rain stopped after I got all the controls out, and didn't start again until almost everyone was done (sorry Barb, I tried to stop the rain!)
Cool to run into Jan again after meeting him at an O-Utah meet in July! Also great to see the OI guys out here enjoying some Michigan terrain... which made me really wish I would have had enough time here at U of M to start a student appendage to SMOC... if only there was enough time, argh!!
Speaking of time, meet directing two days, on two new maps, dealing with 3 bureaucracies to get it all done, was a heck of a lot of work, but the results were totally awesome and well worth it all.
I slept for 13 hrs Saturday night and unwittingly slept through church the next morning. Hoping God is also an orienteer...looking at these forests He created I think He is! :)
Friday Nov 1, 2013 #
Orienteering 1:00:00 [1] * 4.0 km (15:00 / km)
shoes: Vasque Velocity
Putting out controls.
Just being here orienteering is awesome. Did a lot of reflection from Mary Jo's comments she posted earlier regarding University of Michigan orienteering and how it all started right here in 1980. Seemed like everyone really enjoyed the course and good to see the Sprint-O experience was new for a few of them. The visibility got a ton better just in the past week. ROTC turnout was an epic FAIL despite my repeated efforts to reach out. But CAP cadets are coming to Maybury next week and I'll be able to do some instruction for them, so looking forward to that.
Best moment of the night was seeing Alex screaming into the finish...I'm not sure I've ever seen that fast a finish before!!
Just being here orienteering is awesome. Did a lot of reflection from Mary Jo's comments she posted earlier regarding University of Michigan orienteering and how it all started right here in 1980. Seemed like everyone really enjoyed the course and good to see the Sprint-O experience was new for a few of them. The visibility got a ton better just in the past week. ROTC turnout was an epic FAIL despite my repeated efforts to reach out. But CAP cadets are coming to Maybury next week and I'll be able to do some instruction for them, so looking forward to that.
Best moment of the night was seeing Alex screaming into the finish...I'm not sure I've ever seen that fast a finish before!!