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Training Log Archive: mikeminium

In the 31 days ending Mar 31, 2010:

activity # timemileskm+m
  orienteering15 25:39:48 28.66 46.13 1392221c
  mapping - field checking10 17:30:00 5.97 9.6110c
  walking12 11:35:00 7.15 11.510c
  trail building / maintenance2 3:20:00
  trail running3 2:21:00 5.59 9.035c
  weights / strength3 1:05:00
  Total22 61:30:48 47.37 76.24 1392276c
averages - weight:158.1lbs

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Wednesday Mar 31, 2010 #

orienteering 4:00:00 [1] ***
22c weight:157lbs

Course setting at East Fork. A couple minor map corrections. A little minor trail work. mostly walked, but jogged a little. Couldn't resist taking a short run after a deer (not the albino one, which I have not seen again, but I haven't been in that immediate area either), since she was going my direction.

Monday Mar 29, 2010 #

orienteering 34:42 [3] ** 3.6 km (9:38 / km) +100m 8:28 / km
13c weight:155lbs shoes: A W Journey 2

yellow course at Hueston Woods, setting paper controls for UCMS kids who started 2-5 minutes behind me.

trail running 30:00 [3] * 4.0 km (7:30 / km)
11c shoes: A W Journey 2

mix of trail and terrain, with a little road. more or less running the course backwards, keeping an eye out for the kids.

Sunday Mar 28, 2010 #

Event: OCIN - Easter Egg Orienteering - Gov Bebb Metropark
 

walking 16:00 [1] * 1.2 km (13:20 / km)
10c weight:155lbs shoes: Starter Carson 2

Setting last few control units at Gov Bebb, walked white course dropping off the buckets of Easter eggs at each control.

Saturday Mar 27, 2010 #

orienteering race 1:17:47 [4] *** 5.9 km (13:11 / km) +210m 11:12 / km
13c weight:157lbs shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes

OLOU German Ridge - steep terrain. No major mistakes, but never could get really good speed due to steepness, rocks, deadfall and greenbriar. But, a fun meet.

trail running 1:00:00 [2] **
24c shoes: Starter Carson 2

putting out control stands and control units at Gov. Bebb. mix of trail and terrain, easy to moderate running.

walking 20:00 [1] **

Control setting at Gov. Bebb.

Red - Splits

Friday Mar 26, 2010 #

orienteering 3:00:00 [1] ***
23c weight:157lbs

Control placement at East Fork. Total of about 7 hours in the woods today.

mapping - field checking 1:30:00 [1] ***
10c

a couple minor updates in competition area, and checked control sites for North practice area, a few minor map updates there.

walking 1:30:00 [1] *

East Fork

Wednesday Mar 24, 2010 #

orienteering 1:30:00 [1] ***
28c weight:158lbs

Gov Bebb - checking controls for event this Sunday. Visited all controls, placed 12 of them.

mapping - field checking 30:00 [1] ***

Gov Bebb - minor map updates.

walking 30:00 [1]

Gov Bebb

Tuesday Mar 23, 2010 #

orienteering 1:00:00 [1] ***
20c weight:158lbs

control checking / placement at East Fork.

weights / strength 45:00 [3]

carrying control stands into remote parks of East Fork.

mapping - field checking 1:00:00 [1] ***

minor map updates at East Fork

walking 1:00:00 [1] *

East Fork. Total of 5 or 6 hours in the woods today. Saw several wild turkey.

Sunday Mar 21, 2010 #

orienteering 3:00:00 [1] ***
weight:156lbs

East Fork - checking control locations. about 6 hours in the woods total.

High point of the day was seeing a mostly albino deer. Mostly brown head and a couple brown patches on side, but otherwise almost all white. Cool. I hope lots of Flying Pig competitors will get to see the "Ghost Deer".

mapping - field checking 1:00:00 [1] ***

minor map updates at East Fork.

walking 1:00:00 [3] *

East Fork

Saturday Mar 20, 2010 #

Event: OCIN - Hueston Woods
 

orienteering race 1:21:34 [5] *** 7.5 km (10:53 / km) +285m 9:08 / km
17c weight:156lbs shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes

Hueston Woods. Published course length was 7.2 km, but that included connection lines going straight across uncrossable lake & out-of-bounds river. Lines adjusted to shortest allowable route bumped the length up to 7.5 km. Disappointed not to hit 10 min / km. Seemed like there was enough road running and I was working really hard the whole time, that it should have been quicker. Won the coures handily, didn't make any really big navigation mistakes, although I drifted quite a bit off my intended line on 10-11 and 11-12, which might have cost me a minute on each. Also lost up to a minute on 5 descending hill too far east and being slow to figure out that the control (foot of earth bank) was on an unmapped earthbank around the corner.

C • Psychological disadvantage? 5

walking 10:00 [1] *

control pickup. Mostly got them from the car, just had to walk to a couple. Thanks to David Waller for a fun event! I was TIRED!

Friday Mar 19, 2010 #

trail building / maintenance 3:00:00 [3]
weight:158lbs

East Fork. Loppers and pulaski. Mostly eliminating honeysuckle and some mutltiflora and Russian olive to open up a couple hundred meters of an indistinct path for Flying Pig white and yellow courses.

walking 1:30:00 [1] *

trails and terrain. East Fork - checking trails and a few control locations.

Wednesday Mar 17, 2010 #

orienteering 2:00:00 [1] ***
weight:158lbs shoes: Starter Carson

East Fork - checking control sites.

mapping - field checking 2:00:00 [1] ***
shoes: Starter Carson

East Fork - minor mapping updates.

walking 1:30:00 [1] *

East Fork - field checking and minor map updating, a little light trail work (clearing debris off trails). a very little light jogging. Total of 6+ hours in the field today.

weights / strength 15:00 [3]

changing flat tire on my car when I returned from fieldwork. delightful way to finish a long day in the woods.

Tuesday Mar 16, 2010 #

orienteering 3:00:00 [1] ***
weight:158lbs shoes: A W Journey 2

control checking at East Fork. 7+ hours in the forest today. Logging it as 3 hours of orienteering, 2 of mapping, 2 of walking.

mapping - field checking 2:00:00 [1] ***
shoes: A W Journey 2

walking 2:00:00 [1] *
shoes: A W Journey 2

trail building / maintenance 20:00 [2]
shoes: A W Journey 2

East Fork - lopping some honeycuckle, pulaski to drain a big wet spot in trail to start.

Monday Mar 15, 2010 #

orienteering 15:00 [3] ** 2.0 km (7:30 / km)
14c weight:159lbs shoes: Starter Carson 2

Union County MS. Set paper tags at each control. The kids mass-started 2 minutes behind me. It'll be more fun when they get good enough (and enough endurance) to have a real shot at catching me. Two of them are fast enough to outrun me in a short sprint, but for anything over a few hundred meters they don't have the stamina.

Saturday Mar 13, 2010 #

Event: MVOC - Junior Champs & Shamrock Hunt
 

trail running 51:00 [2] 5.0 km (10:12 / km)
weight:160lbs shoes: A W Journey 2

shadowing on yellow course, mix of trail and terrain, mix of walking and running. very wet conditions. raining with flooded streams. Woodland Trails.

orienteering 40:00 [2] *** 2.5 km (16:00 / km)
7c

control pickup at Woodland Trails.

weights / strength 5:00 [3]

helping push Adam's van out of the mud.

Wednesday Mar 10, 2010 #

mapping - field checking 2:00:00 [3] ***

East Fork

Tuesday Mar 9, 2010 #

mapping - field checking 3:00:00 [1] ***
weight:160lbs shoes: A W Journey 2

East Fork SP - checking control locations and minor map updates.

Monday Mar 8, 2010 #

walking 1:34:00 [1] 5.4 mi (17:24 / mi)
weight:161lbs shoes: Starter Carson 2

rural roads, Ithaca, OH

Sunday Mar 7, 2010 #

orienteering race 2:49:57 [4] *** 16.1 km (10:33 / km) +615m 8:52 / km
24c shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes

Hawn State Park - The "Gateway Grunt" (goat style race).

Saturday Mar 6, 2010 #

orienteering race 36:36 [5] *** 3.83 km (9:33 / km) +105m 8:24 / km
13c shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes

Middle distance course at Hawn SP.

walking warm up/down 15:00 [1] 1.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes

walk to start, warm-up.

orienteering race 15:10 [5] *** 2.15 km (7:03 / km) +20m 6:44 / km
12c shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes

US Team fundraiser sprint race at Hawn State Park. Missed control 9 which was on a straight line from 8 to 10 (just didn't see it on the map). Otherwise, would have been a very good run.

Friday Mar 5, 2010 #

Event: A-meet and 2nd Annual Gateway Grunt & Runt - Hawn
 

orienteering race 19:02 [5] *** 2.55 km (7:28 / km) +57m 6:43 / km
15c weight:160lbs shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes

Sprint race at Forest Park - Kennedy Woods, St. Louis. Mostly a forest sprint, with a network of trails, but sometimes necessary to cut thru some medium green, so it was not super-fast.

Wednesday Mar 3, 2010 #

mapping - field checking 30:00 [3] *** 1.0 mi (30:00 / mi)
weight:160lbs

Hueston Woods. Checking new firsbee golf course. Its not yet completed and adding the detail will require some intense mapping.
The bad: Part of the course is an area of highly runnable forest with a network of trails that is often used for white / yellow. The extra paths will make it more complex for beginners to follow the main paths thru the area.
The good: Across the road, part of the course cuts through medium green and dark green areas with lots of honeysuckle, autumn olive and briars. They've removed a lot of underbrush, an old ruined fence, and the fairway paths create lots of possibilities to now navigate thru this area (which has typically been a place for a "take the road around" route choice). The new network looks like it will have very nice potential for sprint and middle use, at least at times when there are not too many frisbee golfers on the course.
There must have been close to 200 turkey vultures hanging around the lodge, with what appeared to be a few black vultures mixed in. Awesome spectacle, actually a little intimidating. It would have made a great shot for a horror movie (think "The Birds").

Tuesday Mar 2, 2010 #

mapping - field checking 4:00:00 [1] ** 8.0 km (30:00 / km)
weight:160lbs

checking control locations at East Fork and minor mapping updates. Physical level was generally pretty low, although crusty snow & soggy ground made the going pretty difficult at times.

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