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Training Log Archive: mikeminium

In the 31 days ending Oct 31, 2012:

	activity	#	time	miles	km	+m
	mapping - field checking	9	20:20:00				102c
	orienteering	10	10:39:04	18.64	30.0	153	166c
	walking	14	6:23:00	3.5	5.63		25c
	weights / strength	2	1:00:00
	trail running	4	54:02	2.42	3.89
	Total	26	39:16:06	24.56	39.53	153	293c
averages - weight:158.5lbs

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Wednesday Oct 31, 2012 #

mapping - field checking 2:00:00 [1] ***
11c weight:159lbs shoes: Icebugs

McFarlan Woods. Checking control locations for US Relay Champs. A few minor map updates but identified a couple problem areas that need a bit more work. Mostly the existing map is pretty good.

Tuesday Oct 30, 2012 #

mapping - field checking 30:00 [1] **
4c weight:158lbs shoes: Icebugs

checked the final few control sites at Mt Airy for US Night-O Champs and did a few more minor map updates. With all-day rain, it was a better day to get indoor work caught up. Met with rep at Event HQ hotel, printed preview maps and maps for this Saturday's MUNA meet and did a few other errands and appointments.

Monday Oct 29, 2012 #

mapping - field checking 1:30:00 [1] **
22c weight:159lbs shoes: Icebugs

Miami Natural Areas. Checking control locations and making a few very minor map updates.

weights / strength 15:00 [2]

yard and garden - moving and spreading mulch.

Sunday Oct 28, 2012 #

mapping - field checking 6:00:00 [1] ***
26c weight:160lbs

Checking controls at East Fork SP. A few minor map updates and ended up relocating 3 or 4 controls.

Saturday Oct 27, 2012 #

Event: ICO Eagle Creek Halloween Night Orienteering

1 PM

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

Checking controls and minor map updates at Miami Natural Areas.

7 PM

orienteering race 1:50:00 [4] ***
26c weight:160lbs shoes: Jalas hi-top 2010

Halloween Night Score O (2 hour limit) at Eagle Creek East in Indianapolis. Won the course despite a few mistakes. Got 26 of 35 controls. Finished with enough time that I should have been able to pick up one more. And if I had made a smart skip instead of fight-fight-fight to get control 30, then it may well have been possible to end up with 29 or 30 points instead of 26.

Friday Oct 26, 2012 #

mapping - field checking 4:00:00 [1] **

Checking control sites at Mt Airy and minor map updates.

Thursday Oct 25, 2012 #

walking 18:00 [1]

9 holes golf at Hillview.

mapping - field checking 2:00:00 [1] **
9c

Checking control sites at Mt Airy and minor map updates.

Sunday Oct 21, 2012 #

walking warm up/down 10:00 [3]

orienteering 19:36 [3] *** 2.2 km (8:55 / km) +43m 8:07 / km
16c shoes: Jalas hi-top 2010

NAOC Sprint course at PEEC. Around the cabins, with wooded sections. A little gnarlier than you typical campus sprint, but not really a full forest sprint either.

An acceptable race, but not a superb one. Took a hard fall while map reading and going full tilt down a trail. Caught my toe on a root and did at least a 10 meter Superman before a thundering crash and roll. Took a few seconds getting up, willing my body to respond, which it clearly did not want to do. For at least part of the next leg, I was moving a lot more slowly, and my big toe was screaming "I'm broken, don't step on me, Ow, Ow", before adrenaline and determination kicked in enough to say "Quit whining and get your sorry butt moving."

Some hesitation and a short backtrack on another control, when a trail failed to appear where expected. I probably would not have hesitated so much and would have just said "forget the trail" and bolted through the woods, except that this was the leg immediately after my fall, and I think I was still a tad woozy and unsure of myself.

Toward the end, I outran my map reading and overshot one control, costing at least 30 seconds. Bummer. After that, it was crash through the swamp, falling and getting my map so mucky I had to wipe it off to see the next control, then three or four quick turns and a sprint to the finish.

A fun race, but not nearly as clean as it should have been.

As of Monday evening, the toe is complaining, but I don't think it is really broken, just reminding me that I did break it 20 some years ago and that it doesn't particularly like being used as a battering ram. Other than that and a small cut on one knee, I survived the fall with an amazing lack of any real injury.

GreenX - Sprint - Splits

Saturday Oct 20, 2012 #

orienteering race 1:25:15 [4] *** 7.3 km (11:41 / km)
15c shoes: Jalas hi-top 2010

NAOC Long Course at Delaware Water Gap. Of the three days of NAOC, I was happiest with my perfomance on this one, finishing 14th out of 43 in M50, having a generally clean run, running most of the time, and managing to stick with Upnorthguy for several legs, even when we chose slightly different routes.

walking warm up/down 10:00 [1]

GreenX Long - Splits

Friday Oct 19, 2012 #

walking 20:00 [1]
shoes: Jalas hi-top 2010

warm up and cool down; walk to arena and start.

orienteering race 57:10 [4] 3.9 km (14:39 / km) +110m 12:51 / km
17c shoes: Jalas hi-top 2010

NAOC Middle Disatnce Course. Green vegetation and continuous rain made the navigation extra difficult.

Middle - GreenX - Splits

Thursday Oct 18, 2012 #

Event: 2012 North American Orienteering Championships

orienteering 45:00 [1] ***
3c

Model area for NAOC. Shadowed and coached Sam and Brennan on several controls.

walking 10:00 [1]

Monday Oct 15, 2012 #

trail running 24:02 [3] 2.42 mi (9:56 / mi)
weight:159lbs shoes: Icebug 2012

Whitewater SP Memorial Loop with Jeremy.

Saturday Oct 13, 2012 #

Event: OCIN East Fork State Park

7 AM

trail running 5:00 [3]
weight:160lbs

putting up "runners crossing" warning signs on the mountain bike trail

4 PM

orienteering 10:00 [2] **
2c

control pickup at East Fork

5 PM

walking 15:00 [1]

trail hike with Mintos and cedarcreek looking for an SI control unit that dropped off during control pickup. Recovery successful.

Friday Oct 12, 2012 #

weights / strength 45:00 [3]
weight:160lbs

Hauling 18 gallons of water to remote controls. By the way, it was all used. Every drop.

C • Wow! 13

orienteering 1:00:00 [3] **
30c

setting controls.

trail running 15:00 [2]

walking 1:00:00 [1]

Wednesday Oct 10, 2012 #

orienteering 1:00:00 [1] **
12c weight:159lbs shoes: Brooks Accel

Setting controls at East Fork.

mapping - field checking 20:00 [3] ***

A couple minor map updates at East Fork.

Monday Oct 8, 2012 #

walking 20:00 [1]

Checking start and finish areas for night and relay champs with Cedarcreek.

walking 30:00 [2]

Moving several wheelbarrow loads of mulch.

Sunday Oct 7, 2012 #

orienteering race 1:56:04 [4] *** 8.6 km (13:30 / km)
20c shoes: Jalas hi-top 2010

Ontario Champs long course in rocky terrain at Hilton Falls, Milton ON.

C • Hilton Falls... 3

walking warm up/down 40:00 [1] 2.0 mi (20:00 / mi)

Helping flag the walk to start then hiking to start (1.5 km), them returning from finish to parking (1 km).

Saturday Oct 6, 2012 #

Event: 2012 Ontario Orienteering Championships

orienteering race 52:00 [4] *** 4.9 km (10:37 / km)
25c shoes: Jalas hi-top O' shoes

Middle Distance Course at Ontario Championships

orienteering race 23:59 [5] 3.1 km (7:44 / km)
shoes: Icebugs

Univ of Waterloo Sprint

walking warm up/down 30:00 [1] 1.5 mi (20:00 / mi)

To start of middle distance and to/from sprint venue.

Friday Oct 5, 2012 #

walking 10:00 [1]
weight:157lbs

Easy stroll around downtown Kitchener.

Thursday Oct 4, 2012 #

walking 1:00:00 [1] *
25c weight:157lbs

Control setting for school program. Got drenched by an unforecasted pre-dawn shower but then it cleared up nicely for the kids.

trail running 10:00 [3]

Checking on kids during school O program.

Wednesday Oct 3, 2012 #

mapping - field checking 3:00:00 [1] ***
20c shoes: Brooks Accel

East Fork - planning courses for Oct 13 event. Several map updates to trails, vegetation, and reshaped a few questionable contour segments. This is the oldest portion of the EF map and a few things definitely show the age of the mapping and how much less skilled of a mapper I was back in the day ...

C • East Fork Lidar? 2

Tuesday Oct 2, 2012 #

walking 20:00 [1]
weight:157lbs

Moving more mulch. The rain stopped for long enough that I was able to finish a couple areas.

Monday Oct 1, 2012 #

walking 30:00 [1]
weight:156lbs

Yard and garden. Moved and spread several wheelbarrow loads of mulch.

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