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Training Log Archive: mikeminium

In the 31 days ending Oct 31, 2014:

	activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
	orienteering	14	29:21:37	9.69		15.6		185	247c
	walking	12	9:30:00	7.66		12.33			66c
	trail building / maintenance	5	3:55:00
	weights / strength	5	3:45:00
	road running	4	1:10:04	6.96	(10:04)	11.2	(6:16)
	trail running	3	53:17	2.7		4.34			10c
	Total	26	48:34:58	27.01		43.47		185	323c
averages - weight:163.7lbs

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Friday Oct 31, 2014 #

trail building / maintenance 45:00 [3]
weight:162lbs

Honeysuckle removal

Thursday Oct 30, 2014 #

8 AM

road running 7:18 [2] 1.2 km (6:05 / km)

5 PM

weights / strength 40:00 [2]
weight:164lbs

Yard and garden. Lopping and hauling branches, digging, etc.

6 PM

trail running 27:17 [3] 2.7 mi (10:06 / mi)
shoes: Starter Kratos

Miami Natural Areas

Wednesday Oct 29, 2014 #

orienteering 4:00:00 [1] **
34c weight:162lbs

Setting controls at Camp Stonybrook.

Tuesday Oct 28, 2014 #

weights / strength 1:20:00 [3]
weight:162lbs

Yard and garden. Digging and wheelbarrow.

trail building / maintenance 40:00 [3]

Honeysuckle removal.

walking 1:00:00 [1] 3.0 mi (20:00 / mi)

Half trail and woods, half road.

Monday Oct 27, 2014 #

walking 25:00 [1] *
27c weight:163lbs

verifying controls at Hueston Woods.

UC orienteering team training - 18 kids today. About half did 2 of the courses; the rest just did 1.

road running 12:54 [3] 1.25 mi (10:19 / mi)
shoes: Starter Kratos

Sunday Oct 26, 2014 #

trail building / maintenance 45:00 [2]
weight:162lbs

Honeysuckle removal and lopping.

orienteering 1:15:00 [1] ***
10c

Checking more control sites at Stonybrook. A couple more minor map edits.

weights / strength 15:00 [3]

Yard and garden: digging and wheelbarrow.

Saturday Oct 25, 2014 #

weights / strength 30:00 [2]
weight:163lbs

Yard and garden. Digging and wheelbarrow.

orienteering 1:54:30 [4] ***
22c

ICO 2 hour night score O at Eagle Creek (east side). Got 22 of 24 controls for 668 of 697 possible points, good enough for 3rd place. Mattias cleared the course in about 1:30.

A decent race. A couple mistakes due to tiredness, and a good decision to skip 7 point number 20. The 5.5 minutes or so that I had left might have been good enough to get 22 point number 5, but it would have been very close, and any bobble could easily have put me overtime and cost me my highest 50 point control. As it turned out, getting 5 would not have moved me any higher, but blowing it would certainly have knocked me off the podium. Not that ICO had a real podium, of course.

Alex and Jordan teamed up for the 2 hour version, while Skyler soloed on the 1 hour.

C • sounds really fun 2

Friday Oct 24, 2014 #

orienteering 4:00:00 [1] **
33c weight:166lbs

Checking control locations at Stonybrook. Several map updates.

trail building / maintenance 1:00:00 [2]

Loppers. Trimming honeysuckle, multiflora rose, etc.

Thursday Oct 23, 2014 #

orienteering 1:00:00 [1] *
31c weight:165lbs

Flagging control sites at Hueston Woods for next couple weeks of practices. A few minor map updates. I hate it when the mountain bikers block off a perfectly good connecting trail. I guess they are afraid somebody might shortcut in a race. Temporary race day flagging would be just as effective. Bah...

road running 12:17 [3] 1.25 mi (9:50 / mi)

Monday Oct 20, 2014 #

walking 40:00 [1]

Setting up compass exercise on school grounds. Got drenched by a brief but heavy rain shower. Of course, it was the rare day that I did not have an extra change of clothes in the car.

O' club today we worked mainly on compass skills. Had a featureless map (blank paper) with a very short (250-280 m or so) course of 6 controls. The first 3 or so legs were 25 to 35 meters; later legs increased to 50+ meters. Controls were a number (utility marking paint) on the grass - visible when you got close, but not from very far away. Pretty much an open field, but a couple of the tougher courses had to go through (or around) a copse of trees and shrubs.

attendance: 16 from the middle school, plus Jamie, Alex and Nathan from the high school.

Sunday Oct 19, 2014 #

orienteering 15:00 [2] *
6c

ran around 2/3 of the white course, checking on kids.

trail running 20:00 [3] *

running part of yellow course with Eric and Matt.

walking 50:00 [3] *

remainder of yellow course with Eric and Matt.

Saturday Oct 18, 2014 #

walking 30:00 [2] *

did most of the yellow course with Eric, Noah P, and Brady.

orienteering 20:00 [2] *
11c

Picking up controls at East Fork, including the remote water control, All four jugs had been opened, although 3 still were about half full, so I just had empty jugs and garbage to carry out.

Friday Oct 17, 2014 #

orienteering 5:00:00 [1] **
35c weight:165lbs

Setting controls at East Fork. Carried four gallons of water to one off trail control. Set out two stealth cameras.

Wednesday Oct 15, 2014 #

walking 50:00 [1] *
19c weight:165lbs

Setting controls for orienteering practice. (school grounds). 16 of the middle school kids showed up plus Jamie from the HS. Courses were 1.1 to 1.4 km long, and most of the kids did two.

trail running 6:00 [2] *
10c

Control pickup. Jordan and Riley got 3 and Noah M got 6, while I got the remainder.

Monday Oct 13, 2014 #

orienteering race 23:58 [4] ** 4.1 km (5:51 / km)
20c

Arnprior Sprint. Very clean navigation, just physically slow.

C • Length of Sprint 6

walking 20:00 [1] 2.0 km (10:00 / km)

To and from breakfast, 1 km walk to start.

Sprint - Course 5b - Splits

Sunday Oct 12, 2014 #

walking warm up/down 30:00 [1] 2.5 km (12:00 / km)

To and from breakfast, walk to start.

orienteering race 1:15:12 [4] *** 5.2 km (14:28 / km) +120m 12:58 / km
9c

NAOC Long. Same thick woods, same rough footing, but a lot more opportunities to run trails. Even though trail routes were sometimes much longer, they were safer and faster.

Pretty clean run except for the cataclysmic mistake of mispunching control 1. And didn't realize until after I finished. Enough said.

Finger still aches, ankle still hurts a little. Unintentionally startled Matej with a loud yelp when I jammed the ankle with a hard landing. (sorry, dude).

walking 1:00:00 [1]

Central Ottawa. Visited Parliament, National Gallery, etc with starlight, runner99, and bugaboospire.

Long - Course 7A - Splits

Saturday Oct 11, 2014 #

walking warm up/down 30:00 [1] 3.0 km (10:00 / km)

To / from breakfast at event center, 1.8 km walk to start

orienteering 1:08:01 [4] **** 3.9 km (17:26 / km) +65m 16:06 / km
17c

NAOC Middle Distance. Subtle contours, rough uneven footing, generally medium to low visibility through the woods. Mostly pretty clean, but one real bomb that I had to attack the control 3 times, which cost me 4 to 5 minutes. Felt like forever.

Did a superman on an ankle high wire fence going to number 3, OUCH!, then had to spend another 10 or 15 seconds extracting my leg from the fence (again felt like forever).

Crossing a beaver dam on the 10-11 leg, I looked across the pond at the guy (not The Guy :-) who was taking pictures from a knoll on the far side, smiled for the camera, and promptly did another face plant, jamming a finger in the process. It was numb for quite a while but is beginning to feel better now. Further along the same leg, I did a really fine roll of my left ankle, which left me thrashing on the ground. Had to take things pretty gingerly for a ways, but managed to pick it up a bit for the last few controls.

C • The Guy 1

walking 30:00 [1] **
4c

Walking in the middle / long model area. Probably would have elected not to do this at all, and just rest the ankle, but runner99, starlight, and bugaboospire all wanted to get in some more practice, so I just did an easy walk, mostly on trail, while they went out for some more serious training. Interesting area with very abundant wildlife, and I was moving slowly enough to enjoy the birds, squirrels, and chipmunks, in a really beautiful piece of forest.

Middle - Course 7a - Splits

Friday Oct 10, 2014 #

Event: NAOC2014 (North American Champs/Ottawa O-Fest)

Wednesday Oct 8, 2014 #

trail building / maintenance 45:00 [2]
weight:165lbs

Honeysuckle removal.

weights / strength 1:00:00 [3]

Yard and garden. Shovel and wheelbarrow.

Monday Oct 6, 2014 #

walking 55:00 [1] *
16c weight:164lbs

Union County O Club. Set out a 1.7 km, 13 control course. Picked up 3 controls while the kids got the others. Attendance was 16 from the middle school plus Sam and Jamie from the HS.

Sunday Oct 5, 2014 #

walking 30:00 [2] *

Last minute checks on start setup and other details.

Saturday Oct 4, 2014 #

orienteering 2:30:00 [2]

Checking remaining middle distance controls and rechecking 4 long controls.

walking 1:00:00 [2]

Checking walk to start and warm up area on the long course, then hiking to and from a control to get action shots of the women's elite (plus a few others). Sorry that I gave Angelica one heck of a scare when she didn't see me, until a step before she would have stepped on me.

Friday Oct 3, 2014 #

Event: 2014 US Nationals

orienteering race 19:56 [5] ** 2.4 km (8:18 / km)
19c

US Sprint Championship, Rochester NY.

Sprint Green - Splits

Thursday Oct 2, 2014 #

orienteering 6:00:00 [2] ***

Checking long WRE controls at Letchworth, plus a bit less than half of the middle controls.

C • That's a full day's work! 3

Wednesday Oct 1, 2014 #

road running 37:35 [3] 3.71 mi (10:08 / mi)
shoes: Starter Kratos

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