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Friday Mar 16, 2012 #
Orienteering 2:00:00 [1]
Hung tapes at Beaumont, then explored Laumeier's mapped and unmapped trails. Cool and cloudy to rain to hot and humid to nice sunny day.
Thursday Mar 15, 2012 #
Running 28:30 [2]
TG Park run. Nice lightening in west but last batch of heavy rain and hail stayed north of us.
Monday Mar 12, 2012 #
Orienteering 50:00 [2]
Still at Cat's Meow in Kettle Morraine.
More of a no-brain map hike. Tried Green Day 1 US Champs course.
Even error on short S-1. Then veered well right on 2. Recovered both okay.
Tried optimal ridge route on 3 - got close then way off. 4 fine. Began to rain.
5-6: Sort of curious where I was. For 3 & 5, I navigated 1/3 of way - then got careless - never got to AP.
Walked due west to road. Wow, there's a lot of good places to walk/run along saddles, edge of depressions, and ridges! I just can't find them on the map. Since I'm relying on other features, can't take advantage of the good running.
More of a no-brain map hike. Tried Green Day 1 US Champs course.
Even error on short S-1. Then veered well right on 2. Recovered both okay.
Tried optimal ridge route on 3 - got close then way off. 4 fine. Began to rain.
5-6: Sort of curious where I was. For 3 & 5, I navigated 1/3 of way - then got careless - never got to AP.
Walked due west to road. Wow, there's a lot of good places to walk/run along saddles, edge of depressions, and ridges! I just can't find them on the map. Since I'm relying on other features, can't take advantage of the good running.
Orienteering 1:18:00 [4]
Ate and drank in car. Rain letting up. Let's try that again. Fortunately it was warm.
Much better! Kept in map contact throughout - pace counting really helped build confidence and helped not stop short.
Still struggled with 5 & 10 - two controls 'in the flats'. Well not really flat - a maze of small ups and downs which I still can't keep track of. I need really good AP's - which were not obvious.
Slow pace due to tired legs and no controls (required more precise map reading to be 'sure') but energy was still pretty good even at end.
Rust shows - no A-meets in past 18 months. Two very good days of training. Getting ready for Pig and Georgia.
Much better! Kept in map contact throughout - pace counting really helped build confidence and helped not stop short.
Still struggled with 5 & 10 - two controls 'in the flats'. Well not really flat - a maze of small ups and downs which I still can't keep track of. I need really good AP's - which were not obvious.
Slow pace due to tired legs and no controls (required more precise map reading to be 'sure') but energy was still pretty good even at end.
Rust shows - no A-meets in past 18 months. Two very good days of training. Getting ready for Pig and Georgia.
Sunday Mar 11, 2012 #
Orienteering 1:00:00 [3]
On way from Green Bay, with record breaking 65 degree weather stopped at Kettle Morraine. This time, ran Fran's US Champs Brown Course (sort of). Wide-open woods; no snow there; very muddy trails (which still should be CC ski trails this early in March).
My map reading and map contact felt stronger than usual for this venue. Yet, on 2 of the 3 longer legs, I veered far left - not knowing quite where or how. First time, a field caught me (-3 minutes); next time much worse.
So after #8, I walked to #1. I reran 1-2; walked to 6 and reran 6-7-8 and finished course. All made sense (that felt good) but still can't deduce my two big errors.
With so many features, I 'shouldn't ' need pace-counting. But the couple times I tried it, it helped my feel for where I was on-route.
Depending on rain, I hope to run Kettle Morraine &/or Devil's Lake Monday before heading home.
My map reading and map contact felt stronger than usual for this venue. Yet, on 2 of the 3 longer legs, I veered far left - not knowing quite where or how. First time, a field caught me (-3 minutes); next time much worse.
So after #8, I walked to #1. I reran 1-2; walked to 6 and reran 6-7-8 and finished course. All made sense (that felt good) but still can't deduce my two big errors.
With so many features, I 'shouldn't ' need pace-counting. But the couple times I tried it, it helped my feel for where I was on-route.
Depending on rain, I hope to run Kettle Morraine &/or Devil's Lake Monday before heading home.
Orienteering 35:00 [1]
Some map hiking mixed in on same map.