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Monday Apr 20, 2015 #
7 PM
Orienteering 46:27 *** 2.73 mi (17:01 / mi) +87m 15:29 / mi
ahr:124 max:181 9c shoes: Brooks Cascadia 8s
A little scouting around. Unfortunately cut short. Unfortunately iphone switched from video back to photo, so it missed my high effort hill climb.
Found some crazy nice woods, may have to use them.
Found some crazy nice woods, may have to use them.
Sunday Apr 19, 2015 #
Event: 2015 Billygoat Run
Note
Yankee starts:
2015 S: 45
2014 F: 32
2014 S: 33
2013 F: 26
2013 S: 19
Looks like the ads helped (or Saturdays do work better Grand Rapids...or both).
Ad spend for Yankee:
General SMOC ad: $14.00
Yankee specific ad: $11.62
Total: $25.62
If we attribute three of the +dozen starts to ads, the ad spending breaks even.
2015 S: 45
2014 F: 32
2014 S: 33
2013 F: 26
2013 S: 19
Looks like the ads helped (or Saturdays do work better Grand Rapids...or both).
Ad spend for Yankee:
General SMOC ad: $14.00
Yankee specific ad: $11.62
Total: $25.62
If we attribute three of the +dozen starts to ads, the ad spending breaks even.
Saturday Apr 18, 2015 #
Event: SMOC Yankee Springs
Event: OLOU Deam Lake
9 AM
Walking warm up/down 11:40 0.88 mi (13:14 / mi) +27m 12:05 / mi
ahr:139 max:157
10 AM
Orienteering 2:11:07 *** 5.27 mi (24:53 / mi) +190m 22:22 / mi
ahr:142 max:174 spiked:6/8c
Ouch. Visited the super friendly folks of OLOU, and promptly stuffed up the red course. Everything was fine through #1 and #2, then I pulled my new: "run to circle, then head in a random direction if you don't immediately see the flag" at #3. No big deal, just ~8 minutes. Recoverable. Found Bruce heading to #4, got there first, he was faster to #5, I was faster to #6, then I went up the wrong spur, and down the very wrong spur, and mucked around off the map for a long time looking for #7. Many of the features lined up more or less - I should check USGS to see how sane or insane I was. When I did a massive reset and walked a bearing from a solid point, I have two tracks in the circle, still managed not to find it. Since that took 75 minutes, I figured I should pack it in lest my daughter's ride to the D weary of her presence. Went to 9 and 10 on the way out for light control count padding.
I have noticed a disturbing trend of screwing up basic spur gully stuff. Time to do some training at Peach Mountain to sort myself out!
Orocs felt great, although I was disappointed to see the nose rubber peeling already after five miles. Shoe goo to the rescue? :|
I have noticed a disturbing trend of screwing up basic spur gully stuff. Time to do some training at Peach Mountain to sort myself out!
Orocs felt great, although I was disappointed to see the nose rubber peeling already after five miles. Shoe goo to the rescue? :|
Friday Apr 17, 2015 #
12 PM
Orienteering 38:05 *** 2.72 mi (14:01 / mi) +104m 12:31 / mi
ahr:147 max:169 spiked:11/13c slept:8.0 shoes: Brooks Cascadia 8s
Couldn't break 10/km on a yellow course ? Seems I have some running to do...
Taylorsville Lake permanent course.
This time B&W instead of color, but it was white anyway so no worries.
Inlet and then a blue line creek...I guess it rained here? This wasn't supposed to be flooded!
I scared a cool fat little raccoon up a tree.
They have odd cute little ponds randomly on some spurs.
Yeah, car parts!
Taylorsville Lake permanent course.
This time B&W instead of color, but it was white anyway so no worries.
Inlet and then a blue line creek...I guess it rained here? This wasn't supposed to be flooded!
I scared a cool fat little raccoon up a tree.
They have odd cute little ponds randomly on some spurs.
Yeah, car parts!
1 PM
Walking 38:39 1.43 mi (26:57 / mi) +58m 23:57 / mi
ahr:109 max:164 shoes: Brooks Cascadia 8s
Didn't feel like a reverse run or mix matching points, so I thought I would just do a cool down hike for a bit.
I picked a trail that went to a scenic overlook. Then I was stymied by the invasion of the fjords.
That's supposed to be a modest creek crossing, I think. I had to go a couple hundred meters upstream to find a jumpable spot. And by that point I figured I would just walk the creek bed up to another trail - there were lots of dry rocks, and hardly any deadfall. A dream creek to hike.
Finally found the trail, hooray
Then I wasn't sure if I had accidentally eroded anything in my scampering on the o course or cool down hike, so I picked up some litter en route to the car to balance out my park karma.
I picked a trail that went to a scenic overlook. Then I was stymied by the invasion of the fjords.
That's supposed to be a modest creek crossing, I think. I had to go a couple hundred meters upstream to find a jumpable spot. And by that point I figured I would just walk the creek bed up to another trail - there were lots of dry rocks, and hardly any deadfall. A dream creek to hike.
Finally found the trail, hooray
Then I wasn't sure if I had accidentally eroded anything in my scampering on the o course or cool down hike, so I picked up some litter en route to the car to balance out my park karma.
Thursday Apr 16, 2015 #
4 PM
Orienteering 33:37 *** 3.24 mi (10:22 / mi) +37m 10:01 / mi
ahr:160 max:178 spiked:8/10c shoes: Brooks Cascadia 8s
EP Tom Sawyer (Diane Sawyer's dad) state park permanent course.
Going to 1 instead of 10 is helpful.
Fun course, played a lot like a sprint, hammer down and then try seal the deal in the circle. Cool control locations, including two caves. Some creek jumping with my route selection
I made an interesting error - I looked for a pit by one control, since the map had a brown V, however I was headed SSE, which meant earth bank, since pit symbol is map north.
Park was out of maps but luckily an archery lesson was finishing up and one of the staff printed me one. Woo woo
Going to 1 instead of 10 is helpful.
Fun course, played a lot like a sprint, hammer down and then try seal the deal in the circle. Cool control locations, including two caves. Some creek jumping with my route selection
I made an interesting error - I looked for a pit by one control, since the map had a brown V, however I was headed SSE, which meant earth bank, since pit symbol is map north.
Park was out of maps but luckily an archery lesson was finishing up and one of the staff printed me one. Woo woo
5 PM
Walking warm up/down 8:42 0.42 mi (20:39 / mi) +4m 20:04 / mi
ahr:110 max:167 shoes: Brooks Cascadia 8s
Tuesday Apr 14, 2015 #
Note
Thinking of starting Misovski's Highland meet ads approximately now. "Currently" (not a lot of history here!), I switch them immediately after the most recent meet ends.
So instead of running 6 days at $X rate per day, run ~12 days at $X/2 per day, and there would then be some overlap between meets as far as ads running. But it would give a bit more time for new folks to plan.
I extended the generic "Like SMOC page" ads, although the liking rate is currently slightly slower than last week - I'll have to see if it perks up midweek or if needs some freshening.
So instead of running 6 days at $X rate per day, run ~12 days at $X/2 per day, and there would then be some overlap between meets as far as ads running. But it would give a bit more time for new folks to plan.
I extended the generic "Like SMOC page" ads, although the liking rate is currently slightly slower than last week - I'll have to see if it perks up midweek or if needs some freshening.