Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: 2007 Western States Orienteering Championships
 

Day 1 at Western States Champs in Cobb, CA, Boggs Mtn Demonstration Forest. "Not too steep" by Calif. standards, but still pretty steep in a few areas (including one where I messed up, near control 4). Otherwise I was pretty successful at reading the terrain, the vegetation, and my compass, for the most part. 1st F50 (of 5--two of whom I'd never heard of; one of whom I met at the start who said she's a runner but hasn't orienteered for very long).

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Green Day 1 - Splits

Will add distance later when I get home; we hiked at the Corte de Maderos Creek Open Space area west of Palo Alto, CA. The redwoods there were impressive, as were the sandstone formations; the "vista point" needs some pruning or it will soon no longer have a vista. :-)

Later that day we drove down to Santa Cruz and walked out the municipal wharf (and watched sea lions at rest lying on the crosspieces under the wharf at low tide) and back, and then to the nearby lighthouse off whose point surfers were having preliminary heats for a competition this past weekend.

[Note: added distance]

Green course at local Columbus Day event at Grafton. FR measured 7.71 km covered distance, but that includes 3 controls where I either overshot or had to look around (one was mis-labeled on the description sheet). Still, I managed to finish 1st on the course. (Can anyone say "lack of competition"?)

It was a cloudy day with threat of showers, which hit when I was at just about the farthest point away from the start (at the far end of Long Pond); I debated whether to dnf and jog back to start via the park road, or keep on going. It looked like there were several trail route choices in the second half, so I kept on going. I predicted my time, too.

Phil/Gabor's SI crew used e-punch on the advanced courses (yay!), so I have splits.

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Since I was already wet and they didn't have a lot of volunteers, I collected most of the white and yellow controls that were around Shaver Pond. I predicted it would take me about an hour, and it did. More trails available, but I was tired and slowed down on root-y/rocky areas.

Taking it easy after the race yesterday (my quads are a little sore), intending to go to our local O event tomorrow at Grafton.

Instead I went to the 25th and final Berkshire Quilt Festival in Pittsfield MA. Great quilts and vendors; too bad it's ending.

Results for the Race for the Cure.

I was 849/1322 women (there were also 510 men in the race), 52/86 age 50-54, and my official time was 33:26 (10:46/mi). They used chips that you attached to your shoe which looked like Exxon/Mobil's Speedpass devices with extra armature. :-) First time I ever used this kind of timing chip at a race (SI sticks don't count).

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