Training Log Archive: mikeminiumIn the 31 days ending Jul 31, 2015:
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Friday Jul 31, 2015 #
Event: WOC 2015 & Scottish 6 days
orienteering 20:00 [1] *
13c
checking controls at Butler County (Ohio) Fair. Skyler and Jordan put them out, and all were ok except that Jordan hadn't checked descriptions and one had to be moved a couple meters from a small building to an adjacent tree.
While hanging the OUSA banner from the metal roof supports of the barn where we were set up, some little rust shards fell in my face - one got in an eye. Attempted to wash it out with tap water, then the local EMT's tried to flush it out with a squirt bottle of saline, but no luck. So I ended up having to go off to the eye doctor and leave the boys in charge for a couple hours - they did great until I got back - none the worse for wear. Eye seems good - still a bit dilated and watery, but still planning to do the GCM 6 hour day-night rogaine Sat evening.
We got quite a few young participants; I hope that a few will come back for regular events and TROL season.
Goals for next year: 1. Arrange to stay open later in the evening (there were still a lot of people coming in). 2. Arrange to have a competitive course for fair awards / ribbons (and all of the fair award winners get listed in the local paper, so that would be good for promo too), in addition to having the educational / recreational exhibit and demo course. 3. Maybe print maps at a smaller scale. I got two 1:5000 scale maps on each 8.5 by 11 sheet, which saved printing costs, but I think a more blown-up version would be good for demo course and explanation of the map. Competition could still be at 5000.
While hanging the OUSA banner from the metal roof supports of the barn where we were set up, some little rust shards fell in my face - one got in an eye. Attempted to wash it out with tap water, then the local EMT's tried to flush it out with a squirt bottle of saline, but no luck. So I ended up having to go off to the eye doctor and leave the boys in charge for a couple hours - they did great until I got back - none the worse for wear. Eye seems good - still a bit dilated and watery, but still planning to do the GCM 6 hour day-night rogaine Sat evening.
We got quite a few young participants; I hope that a few will come back for regular events and TROL season.
Goals for next year: 1. Arrange to stay open later in the evening (there were still a lot of people coming in). 2. Arrange to have a competitive course for fair awards / ribbons (and all of the fair award winners get listed in the local paper, so that would be good for promo too), in addition to having the educational / recreational exhibit and demo course. 3. Maybe print maps at a smaller scale. I got two 1:5000 scale maps on each 8.5 by 11 sheet, which saved printing costs, but I think a more blown-up version would be good for demo course and explanation of the map. Competition could still be at 5000.
Thursday Jul 30, 2015 #
mapping - field checking 3:20:00 [1] ***
Updating Miami Whitewater. Quite a few minor adjustments, most old rootstocks are getting eliminated and a few new ones are getting added. Lots of changes to white and light green areas, so far a bit more going from green to white than the other way.
Wednesday Jul 29, 2015 #
bicycling - road 43:20 [3] 11.24 mi (3:51 / mi)
Tuesday Jul 28, 2015 #
walking 4:50:33 [1] 12.3 mi (23:37 / mi)
Wolf Creek Trail from Causeway to the midway power line crossing and back. A few places overgrown and in need of a few new blazes. Very buggy. Got so many spiderwebs stuck to me that I actually caught a pesky deer fly in them! Miles 4 and 5 were slower mainly due to finding trail.
Miles out: 21:28, 19:01, 25:33, 29:13, 31:46, 27:51.
Miles in: 24:19, 18:23, 24:12, 22:17, 20:18, 21:14.
Miles out: 21:28, 19:01, 25:33, 29:13, 31:46, 27:51.
Miles in: 24:19, 18:23, 24:12, 22:17, 20:18, 21:14.
Monday Jul 27, 2015 #
road running 37:55 [3] 3.7 mi (10:15 / mi)
bicycling - road 15:10 [3] 3.7 mi (4:06 / mi)
orienteering race 1:04:00 [3] **
5c
ARDF training course at Sharon Woods. Knocked out 4 controls in under 30 minutes. Then royally fouled up number 5. It didn't help that the transmission sequence was wacky: 1-5-4-2-3. Found in order 1-3-2-4. Got a good start to number 5 and on the next cycle should have been pretty close. But somehow ended up listening to 4 again, doing a 180, going through really nasty woods and eventually ending up at 4 again. At that point I figured out what I had done, and got back close enough to 5 to hit it on the next cycle.
Sunday Jul 26, 2015 #
walking 4:40:00 [1] 11.0 mi (25:27 / mi)
shoes: NB Minimus
Brookville Lake: Midway Trail and portions of Wolf Creek. Mileage is estimated minimum, actual could be a little higher. At least 20 minutes trying to find the trail at one point where it made a sharp turn and was poorly blazed and maintained.
trail building / maintenance 10:00 [2]
Minor clearing of deadfall and overhanging branches
trail running 10:00 [3] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
shoes: NB Minimus
Ran about the last mile of Midway Trail as distant thunder heralded an approaching storm.
Saturday Jul 25, 2015 #
orienteering race 57:47 [4] *** 4.0 km (14:27 / km)
18c
ICO meet at Skiles-Test.
Thursday Jul 23, 2015 #
mapping - field checking 1:00:00 [1] **
Butler County Fairgrounds
miscellaneous 2:00:00 [2]
Finished seal coating the driveway.
walking 1:10:00 [1] 3.6 mi (19:27 / mi)
Eagle Trail section at Brookville Lake.
trail building / maintenance 5:00 [2]
Pulled a few small honeysuckle, tossing fallen branches off the trail.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2015 #
miscellaneous 3:30:00 [2]
Patching blacktop and sealing. Alex helped for a couple hours.
Tuesday Jul 21, 2015 #
Event: OLOU Sprint #12 2015
orienteering race 16:04 [5] *** 2.2 km (7:18 / km)
15c
OLOU sprint at Waterfront Park.
Monday Jul 20, 2015 #
walking 30:00 [1]
Scouting an undisclosed location for future mapping potential.
walking 50:00 [2] 4.5 km (11:07 / km)
Midway Trail at Brookville Lake.
Sunday Jul 19, 2015 #
Event: O-Ringen 2015
trail running race 59:34 [5] 5.3 mi (11:14 / mi)
A very muddy edition of the annual East Fork Backpack Trail Run (counterclockwise, start at Indian Mound). Normally a mile or so of horse trail is muddy. This year, everything was. I was pretty beat from the ARDF and hash run yesterday to start with, and this run had it all: mud, heat, mud, humidity, mud, puddles, mud, slippery wooden bridges, and did I mention mud?
Miles:
9:57,
10:56,
11:31 (walked most of last big uphill before mtn bike parking lot)
12:22 (took at least 20-30 seconds trying to drink a small cup of water, which my body absolutely did not want - might have needed it, but sure didn't want it! Into the horse trail section and the worst slop of the race)
12:28 (walked part of a few of the uphills in the last mile)
37th / 110, 2nd in 55+, 5th 50+
33rd / 110 in age - gender graded results
last did this race in 20:11 with a time of 54:40 (27 / 61)
Miles:
9:57,
10:56,
11:31 (walked most of last big uphill before mtn bike parking lot)
12:22 (took at least 20-30 seconds trying to drink a small cup of water, which my body absolutely did not want - might have needed it, but sure didn't want it! Into the horse trail section and the worst slop of the race)
12:28 (walked part of a few of the uphills in the last mile)
37th / 110, 2nd in 55+, 5th 50+
33rd / 110 in age - gender graded results
last did this race in 20:11 with a time of 54:40 (27 / 61)
Saturday Jul 18, 2015 #
orienteering race 1:11:00 [4] ** 4.0 km (17:45 / km)
5c
ARDF training race at Garr Hill.
hashing 1:00:00 [4]
Setting trail in Miami natural areas and through campus.
Friday Jul 17, 2015 #
weights / strength 2:00:00 [3]
Loppers and weedeater.
miscellaneous 15:00 [3]
Shooting baskets and kicking soccer ball with Alex.
Thursday Jul 16, 2015 #
miscellaneous 20:00 [1]
Spread another bucket of blacktop sealer on more cracked parts of the access road. I need to buy another bucket to tar and feather GuyO. David_Waller will be invited to help with that task. :-)
miscellaneous 1 [0]
Collecting honeysuckle leaves to use in place of feathers in the aforementioned tarring. And no GuyO, I won't say where I collected them.
walking 18:00 [1] 1.0 mi (18:00 / mi)
9 holes of golf at Neumann.
weights / strength 20:00 [3]
Chainsaw and hauling - cutting up old wooden fence rails and hauling them to wood pile.
trail running 40:00 [2]
Mix of jogging and walking. With Jeremy. Peffer and Miami Univ.
Wednesday Jul 15, 2015 #
miscellaneous 1:10:00 [2]
Applied 3 buckets of blacktop sealer to some of the worst parts of the driveway. Plan to do a complete coating eventually but want to give the bad areas a coating first.
trail running 15:00 [2]
Peffer Woods
walking 50:00 [1]
Tuesday Jul 14, 2015 #
walking 2:00 [1] *
2c
Putting out controls at Indian Creek for group from Imago Adventure Camp. Alex, Jamie, Skyler, Jordan, and Ryan did almost all the work putting out all remaining controls, and getting everything picked up.
walking 30:00 [1]
Trails at Indian Creek
Monday Jul 13, 2015 #
12 PM
weights / strength 30:00 [2]
Light yard and garden work. Weeding and digging. Alex trimmed all of the larger bushes while I was on OUSA conference calls, then helped me turn over a couple unplanted segments of the garden.
3 PM
orienteering 1:00:00 [2] *
17c
Setting controls at Indian Creek.
5 PM
walking 2:00:00 [1] 5.6 mi (21:26 / mi)
Scouting hash trail with Droopy and Gimp
Sunday Jul 12, 2015 #
Event: Canoe / Kayak Pirate O
walking 1:45:00 [1]
Brookville Lake - Scenic Overlook to buzzard tree and back.
trail building / maintenance 45:00 [3]
Mostly honeysuckle removal.
Saturday Jul 11, 2015 #
walking 2:15:00 [1]
Brookville Lake. Garr Hill to "buzzard tree" and back. Immature turkey vulture in the best cavity.
trail building / maintenance 45:00 [3]
Honeysuckle removal.
orienteering race 50:55 [4] *** 3.9 km (13:03 / km)
11c
MVOC Night orienteering - orange course at Englewood Metropark. Really blew control number 8 - 11:34 looking for the small depression on what should have been a 2 minute leg at most.
Friday Jul 10, 2015 #
trail building / maintenance 2:30:00 [3]
Honeysuckle removal
Tuesday Jul 7, 2015 #
walking 18:00 [1]
Nine holes golf at Aston Oaks.
mapping - field checking 2:00:00 [1]
At Miami Whitewater. Added about a mile of new horse trail and a few other updates.
Following a 2 hour meeting with park management and rangers. All is looking pretty good for Flying Pig XX.
Following a 2 hour meeting with park management and rangers. All is looking pretty good for Flying Pig XX.
Monday Jul 6, 2015 #
orienteering 20:00 [1] *
5c
Setting controls at Story Woods. Helpers: Brennan, Jordan, Ryan. Matthew Robbins on the computer. About 50 young kids for a Delhi Township parks program. All did an easy white course and most did part of an easy yellow, but only one group managed to get all controls on the yellow.
walking 10:00 [1] *
3c
Walked with Ryan to a control that he and Jordan missed, then picking up a couple controls.
weights / strength 30:00 [3]
Yard and garden.
Sunday Jul 5, 2015 #
weights / strength 30:00 [3]
Yard and garden
walking 2:00:00 [1]
Scouting hash trail with Gimp and Droopy.
Saturday Jul 4, 2015 #
weights / strength 30:00 [3]
Yard and garden
Thursday Jul 2, 2015 #
Note
940 mile driving day - Wall SD to Urbana IL
(overnight stop at David Williams)
(overnight stop at David Williams)
Wednesday Jul 1, 2015 #
walking 1:30:00 [1]
Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse, "Fairgrounds" tour at Wind Cave National Park
(overnight camp: Badlands National Park - Wilderness Area - Wall SD)
(overnight camp: Badlands National Park - Wilderness Area - Wall SD)