Training Log Archive: Spike

Orienteering training at Bayfront Park using a BAOC permanent course. Fun.

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After running at Bayfront, we stopped by the Stanford campus and ran a bit of sprint-lile orienteering. The map we had was 1:7500 and not really sprint standard or non-sprint standard. It was also a bit old. Mary had some info about sections of the map that were out-of-date. We avoided those areas. There were still some changes, but nothing too big.

The campus reminded me of JCCC. I bet I'm the only person who would say that.

Some rain fell and some of the payement was pretty slick.

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Pat's 90th Birthday lunch.

Shovelling snow from the driveway and sidewalk in the early morning and then again when I got home.

Headlamp jog on West Campus. Temp was chilly, 10F, but it felt colder because there was a bit of wind.

I wore my lobster mitts. I thought that'd be too much. It turned out to be just right.

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Work commute. Chilly in the morning - about 10F with a light breeze.

Row, row. Feeling kind of tired.

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A day off. I drove to work (and stopped for gas).

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The folks at Heartland gave Paul C some orienteering stuff that they had. He passed some of it on to me. Some interesting stuff, like a 1979 map by Pat Dunlavey:

https://twitter.com/okansas/status/816441859094495...

and the book "World Class Orienteering":

https://twitter.com/okansas/status/816444849545216...

Pat made the map as part of the Orienteering Resouce Agency. I don't know all of the details or ORA, but my understanding was that there was some grant money that was used to make lots of small maps (small parks and school yards) all around the St Louis area.

The book was state of the art orienteering knowledge as of 1980. Most of it would hold up fine today. I remember reading it soon after I started orienteering (along with the author's other book "Modern Orienteering Training").

Went out to Rockhaven with Mary to pick up the mini-markers that were out for some OK practice. I made a point of taking unusual approaches to each control. That meant I ran through some junky (and even some nice) forest that I wouldn't have run through if I were trying to take the controls on the best route.

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Lots of fog along the lake. I stopped to take a snapshot:

A photo posted by @okansas on Jan 2, 2017 at 4:01pm PST

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Picking up some controls. I got 8 and 9 and was interested in seeing the area again. MeOS' printout said I lost some time on that leg and I couldn't figure out how. When I was picking up the controls I think I figured it out. I think I just picked a bad line through some junky vegetation. When I picked up controls, I spotted a bit of a deer trail that would have been quicker. Some of the time I lost was probably just not pushing/fighting through some thorns.

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OK's annual New Year event at Woodridge. Gene set the course and updated the map. The vegetation is a mix of field checking and 2015 lidar run through KP.

I was mostly satisfied with my race, though my orienteering wasn't feeling as sharp as I'd like. Still, I turned in my best race of the year.

I was about a minute behind Dean H. and maybe 15 seconds behind Tom H. It is fun to have such tight competition.

We always get a good (for Lawrence/OK) turnout on this event. I think we had 38 starts (several were teams and couples with kids, so the total number of people was probably a bit over 50 people). On a per-resident basis, that'd be about the equivalent of an event in the Seattle MSA drawing 1500 starts.

Matt Q and Kara P helped with registration. That was a big help. When they started, I tried to do it all alone and got a bit overwhelmed trying to handle both registration and download. It all worked out, but it sure was nice to have Matt and Kara's help.

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