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Monday Sep 26, 2016 #
Note
All tracks (with a fixed sprint file to fix watch oops) up on the route gadget, for anyone curious.
Valerie's site, look for NAOC
Red X all three days
Valerie's site, look for NAOC
Red X all three days
7 PM
Walking 1:09:36 3.99 mi (17:26 / mi) +3m 17:23 / mi
ahr:103 max:164
walking warmup and 4 x 400 jog + 400 walk and 1 x 800 jog + walk home w/ spouse
Sunday Sep 25, 2016 #
7 AM
Orienteering 22:32 1.2 mi (18:47 / mi) +14m 18:07 / mi
ahr:101 max:123 4c
walk to the start via a few model controls.
If I have not mentioned it previously, I love models.
En route to dinner on Friday, I saw a recessed area, and thought "they should put one down there!" and then it was on the model. Great minds!
If I have not mentioned it previously, I love models.
En route to dinner on Friday, I saw a recessed area, and thought "they should put one down there!" and then it was on the model. Great minds!
Orienteering 14:31 1.4 mi (10:22 / mi) +48m 9:23 / mi
ahr:159 max:173 spiked:19/23c
First half of the sprint. I didn't lock my watch, and if you bend your wrist you can squeeze the button to trigger, " do you want to stop gps?" then the default is "yup" if you should bend your wrist again.
Maybe I'll get a backup tracker to carry...
Maybe I'll get a backup tracker to carry...
Orienteering 10:30 0.86 mi (12:13 / mi) +32m 10:57 / mi
ahr:157 max:182
Sprint finish, from the spectator leg (which AP shows as a mistake while I futz with my watch). Here I would make two minor bobbles:
En route to #19, I went down two cliffs and since the clue was "lower cliff", I saw a flag, wtf? checked, wrong code. I should have used the 8 other clues that I was still too high!
Then my big blunder - super short leg, I went towards the building instead of right at the little cliff, +30 sounds like a lot but time flies in a sprint.
En route to #19, I went down two cliffs and since the clue was "lower cliff", I saw a flag, wtf? checked, wrong code. I should have used the 8 other clues that I was still too high!
Then my big blunder - super short leg, I went towards the building instead of right at the little cliff, +30 sounds like a lot but time flies in a sprint.
Saturday Sep 24, 2016 #
Event: Adventure Rage
11 AM
Orienteering 2:24:39 *** 7.67 mi (18:52 / mi) +348m 16:32 / mi
ahr:160 max:254 spiked:12/15c shoes: Roclites 295 2
This is why I like orienteering - just so much cool stuff on this course - from saddles lined with boulders/cliffs to marshes that didn't even get your feet wet, to huge terrain, to zero scratches!
I am pretty sure La Baguette was the tiny Canadian woman who destroyed me up the creek I took to my #7. She moves so fast and just flew up the hill, relentlessly forward.
Igor caught me shortly after 6, but I had nothing to chase him with. Any spurts of power to conquer boulders were a huge hit - I took a few breaks esp. on the leg to 7.
Mistakes:
Lazily headed to #6, read cliffs wrong, took wrong spur, which I quickly corrected. In my defense, I wanted a spur with a marsh behind it, and this also had it!
I exactly did my intended route to #7, right up until I hit the bare rock right by it, then I went on a nice scavenger hunt, couldn't place myself, eventually found....JJ? more or less recovering the same way I wanted to try.
Slightly helped on 8 by a USA team looking person, just as I was going to hesitate a bit, he got it.
Otherwise okay, just so beat that I was very sluggish to 10.
At times, I could read the map and terrain with perfect clarity. A few times...no, not so much at all.
Fun day other than the fitness!!
EDIT: Thanks watch for missing half the race. Kudos! Anyone selling a 305 with a good battery?
I am pretty sure La Baguette was the tiny Canadian woman who destroyed me up the creek I took to my #7. She moves so fast and just flew up the hill, relentlessly forward.
Igor caught me shortly after 6, but I had nothing to chase him with. Any spurts of power to conquer boulders were a huge hit - I took a few breaks esp. on the leg to 7.
Mistakes:
Lazily headed to #6, read cliffs wrong, took wrong spur, which I quickly corrected. In my defense, I wanted a spur with a marsh behind it, and this also had it!
I exactly did my intended route to #7, right up until I hit the bare rock right by it, then I went on a nice scavenger hunt, couldn't place myself, eventually found....JJ? more or less recovering the same way I wanted to try.
Slightly helped on 8 by a USA team looking person, just as I was going to hesitate a bit, he got it.
Otherwise okay, just so beat that I was very sluggish to 10.
At times, I could read the map and terrain with perfect clarity. A few times...no, not so much at all.
Fun day other than the fitness!!
EDIT: Thanks watch for missing half the race. Kudos! Anyone selling a 305 with a good battery?
Friday Sep 23, 2016 #
12 PM
Orienteering 39:26 1.77 mi (22:17 / mi) +160m 17:24 / mi
ahr:104 max:133 slept:10.0 shoes: Roclites 295 2
After a glorious morning sleeping without an alarm, we went to the middle. I was 30 minutes ahead of Igor start-time wise, so I headed up.
A bad omen was that I was a little confused by the warmup controls...this cannot be a good sign. Seems like that should have told me: take it easy, concentrate!
A bad omen was that I was a little confused by the warmup controls...this cannot be a good sign. Seems like that should have told me: take it easy, concentrate!
Orienteering 1:19:11 *** 4.43 mi (17:53 / mi) +190m 15:47 / mi
ahr:148 max:191 spiked:19/22c shoes: Roclites 295 2
tl;dr dumb mistakes @ three c = 20 minutes
Well it started well.
Until #4, where I somehow drifted over to the wrong cliff, then lost three minutes relocating...yeee argh.
Then it went mostly alright (other than wobbling a little) until 11, where I should have taken the high trail, ended up on the low trail, and misread the clearings vs trails vs who knows what....plus five minutes yeee argh.
Then I got my mojo back, and did well until 14. I picked what looked to be a climb-minimized route to #15, and then I executed it terribly. I somehow lost count of which trail was which, then ended up going the wrong way, then went back down the hill, finally relocated using a yellow or white control ARGH and then make a sloppy but effective assault on 15, sloppy in the sense that I more or less got there from that yellow c, but not without shooting a bearing to the start tent and using that to correct in the circle.
Somehow I was super slow to 18, although it didn't feel like it. Then I ran the last few on pure hate and didn't lose any more time to Igor.
I didn't realize it was a no punch finish, so I hesitated for a quarter of a second in the chute, managing to make that the 3rd finish chute I've done imperfectly.
Kind of not pleased, feel dumb, being in last place in M40 and all. I may just go "all out" (whatever that means in my current configuration) to see if I can't lose less than six minutes to my roomie.
Well it started well.
Until #4, where I somehow drifted over to the wrong cliff, then lost three minutes relocating...yeee argh.
Then it went mostly alright (other than wobbling a little) until 11, where I should have taken the high trail, ended up on the low trail, and misread the clearings vs trails vs who knows what....plus five minutes yeee argh.
Then I got my mojo back, and did well until 14. I picked what looked to be a climb-minimized route to #15, and then I executed it terribly. I somehow lost count of which trail was which, then ended up going the wrong way, then went back down the hill, finally relocated using a yellow or white control ARGH and then make a sloppy but effective assault on 15, sloppy in the sense that I more or less got there from that yellow c, but not without shooting a bearing to the start tent and using that to correct in the circle.
Somehow I was super slow to 18, although it didn't feel like it. Then I ran the last few on pure hate and didn't lose any more time to Igor.
I didn't realize it was a no punch finish, so I hesitated for a quarter of a second in the chute, managing to make that the 3rd finish chute I've done imperfectly.
Kind of not pleased, feel dumb, being in last place in M40 and all. I may just go "all out" (whatever that means in my current configuration) to see if I can't lose less than six minutes to my roomie.
Thursday Sep 22, 2016 #
2 PM
Orienteering 35:58 *** 1.35 mi (26:34 / mi) +88m 22:06 / mi
ahr:112 max:156 spiked:3/5c slept:4.0 shoes: Roclites 295 2
Sampled the model terrain....very slowly and deliberately.... It was not my finest performance but I think I had the hang of it by the end.
I have now been within 5 m of the master! He was talking to someone near our parking spot.
I have now been within 5 m of the master! He was talking to someone near our parking spot.
3 PM
Orienteering 44:19 *** 1.7 mi (26:01 / mi) +56m 23:36 / mi
ahr:114 max:140 spiked:5/6c shoes: Roclites 295 2
Slowly took in rocky-by-my-standards long model. Boulders that would be signature features on a SMOC map don't even rate inclusion. After a while I started to get the hang of what would make the map and what wouldn't, and got some insight into things I should and shouldn't use to get around (trails were solid and findable...marshes were harder to discern for me).
Woods were quite open, although footing will be a challenge. Hopefully I don't roll anything and wish I'd brought a brace!
I saw the master starting off! Just as I was getting back.
Woods were quite open, although footing will be a challenge. Hopefully I don't roll anything and wish I'd brought a brace!
I saw the master starting off! Just as I was getting back.