Training Log Archive: GlenT

PNWOF Day 4. Short(er) Advanced course, 4.7k, 240m. Mostly open with medium high grass (which quickly developed herd paths), many rock features, and plenty of climb. Sunny, about 70F.

A good run. Only real time loss was on 12 due to a bad route choice where I climbed a steep rocky spur rather than do the same elevation change on a more gradual trail. Lost time at 5 because the flag was placed on a rock feature at the edge of the circle (and covered by the circle) rather than on the much less prominent rocky ground at the center of the circle - still counted it as a spike since I would've seen the flag had it been in the correct spot.

Short Advanced - Splits

PNWOF, Day 3. Sprint at University of Montana. Long course, 3.2k, minimal climb. Distance is straight line. Weather was interesting - upper 50s with off and on showers ranging from sprinkles to downpour (and a few reports of hail). It was mostly sprinkles while I ran.

A pretty straightforward campus sprint with enough detail that you had to keep paying attention. Had a good run and hit all the controls well, including the few that required careful reading of what was going on in the circle. Route choices were mostly deciding which way to go around things, but I don't think I lost anymore than 5-10 seconds where I didn't get it quite right.

Thanks to Boris and the entire Griz-O team for another fine event and a great weekend of orienteering.

Long - Splits

PNWOF Day 2. Long at Lubrecht Experimental Forest. Green, 5.7km, 205m. Another good course by Boris in very nice terrain. In the 50s with some very light rain.

Navigation was OK. Overshot the first control but recovered pretty quickly. - lost a minute. Off to the left heading to three, saw the top of the reentrant I was looking for but continued on without checking it - came back to it 3+ minutes later. Lost another couple minutes on 7 when I hit the road exactly where I expected to but things didn't look right and I headed the wrong way on the road for 70m or so.

I thought the 8-9-10 legs were a bit odd from a course design perspective. 8-9 was quite short and involved crossing a barbed wire fence. The leg to 10 was also fairly short (250m) and offered a route choice (through or around som medium green) but involved crossing the same fence as from 8-9. I'm not a fan of barbed wire fence crossings, a feeling reinforced by my finding the second fence by running into it (yes, the barbs can cut you). Otherwise I quite enjoyed the course.

Green Long - Splits

Event: GrizO Lubrecht Two-Day and Sprint
 

Event: Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival
 

PNWOF, Day 1. Brown course at Lubrecht Experimental Forest near Missoula, MT. Middle distance, 3.1k, 70m, NRE. Pine forest with a range of openness but generally pretty fast running. Subtle contour detail, moderate trail network. Excellent course, with a transition about halfway through into lower visibility after a bunch of wide open stuff.

Some pretty sloppy navigating on my part. Off on bearings to 2, 3, 5, 8, and 10, costing me about a minute each time. On the positive side, in most cases I was able to read the terrain and get back on track fairly quickly. Stopped short going to 7 (a very short leg) an relocated back at 6 - another 2 minutes. Third in M65, fifth overall on Brown.

Brown NRE - Splits

Gate C13 to F14 at MSP. Our incoming plane arrived at the gate 9 minutes before our connection's scheduled departure, so time to hustle. I walked about as fast as I could while Janet mostly kept up by jogging. They were paging us as I approached the gate and we were able to get on the plane. Kudos to Delta for balancing customer satisfaction with the "on time departure" measurement. (Distance is a guess, as is the time - too focussed on the objective to remember to start my watch. Likely we were at about 14min/mile pace.)