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Training Log Archive: mikeminium

In the 31 days ending Aug 31, 2015:

activity

time

miles

orienteering

27:19:55

20.42

32.86

243c

mapping - field checking

10:35:00

74c

bicycling - road

4:24:48

65.68

(4:02)

105.7

(2:30)

walking

4:19:00

1.0

1.61

10c

trail running

1:56:30

4.3

6.92

weights / strength

1:00:00

road running

31:10

3.0

(10:23)

4.83

(6:27)

miscellaneous

1:00

Total

50:07:23

94.4

151.92

327c

[1-5]

50:06:23

6:08

0:00

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Sunday Aug 30, 2015 #

orienteering 1:03:00 [4] ***
5c

ARDF 80m course at Peaceful Valley, Elbert CO.
Orienteering A-, Radio C+ Not good enough for a medal, but good enough to edge out K4BRI by about 6 minutes.

Followed by 675 mile driving day.

Saturday Aug 29, 2015 #

orienteering race 2:09:44 [3] ***
5c

ARDF 2 meter course at Peaceful Valley. Not a good run.
Couldn't pick up any signal at all, at least a third of the time. Seems to be a loose connection on my receiver and/or bad earphones.
Finally found two of four controls, then broke an element on my antenna while going to the next one. Hasty field repair sorta worked, but by then I was pretty discouraged and took about five cycles within 100m of my last control. Orienteering from there to the finish gets an A, radio work gets a D-

miscellaneous (snake wrangling) 1:00 [0]

Not very physical, but hey it is worth the story. Came back from dinner to find a snake soaking up the last heat from the gravel parking lot, right by the walkway to the admin building. It was almost completely dark, and the snake was definitely in a place that would soon see a lot of foot and vehicle traffic. So I herded it to the relative safety of some tall weeds nearby.

Friday Aug 28, 2015 #

orienteering race 57:58 [3] ***
10c

Well. That. Sucked.
ARDF Sprint at Peaceful Valley.
It would sure have helped if I had known which frequencies to set on the borrowed radio.
Found 9 controls by luck, then the last one after I finally figured out that I had the frequencies reversed.
Orienteering "B", Radio "F".

Thursday Aug 27, 2015 #

Event: US ARDF Championships (Radio Orienteering)

orienteering race 41:42 [4] ***
10c

Ten control Fox-O at Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch. What this amounted to was a ten control yellow / or range course, with an Easter egg hunt once you got to the circle. The micro transmitters were weak and my receiver was so bad that I could only pick up the signal when I got within 2 to 4 meters. I lost a couple minutes on one control and probably 4 minutes on another, both because of searching for the transmitter, which in at least the one case was actually outside the circle. Probably only one 10 second or so orienteering mistake. I finished third. First place beat me by 58 seconds; second place by 15 seconds. Oh, to have had a decent receiver!

orienteering 20:00 [2] *
3c

Borrowed Dick's Ukrainian receiver and went back out to try it out. Now I could hear the controls from 20-40 meters. That would have saved me at least five minutes on the course.

walking 20:00 [1] *
10c

Control pickup.

Wednesday Aug 26, 2015 #

walking 5:00 [1]

After second consecutive 1000 km driving day.

Monday Aug 24, 2015 #

walking 30:00 [1]

Oxford

Sunday Aug 23, 2015 #

orienteering 30:00 [3] ***
6c

ARDF 80m practice at Mt Airy.

Saturday Aug 22, 2015 #

orienteering race 14:33 [4] *** 1.8 km (8:05 / km)
14c

OLOU Sprint 1 at E P Sawyer State Park

C • KY 1

orienteering race 15:04 [4] *** 2.0 km (7:32 / km)
12c

OLOU course 2 at E P Sawyer.

C • 452 km @ 2 min/k 2

Course 1 - Splits

Course 2 - Splits

Friday Aug 21, 2015 #

orienteering 2:45:00 [1] ***
12c

Checking control sites with naturalist at Miami Whitewater.

mapping - field checking 1:00:00 [1] ***
3c

Miami Whitewater.

Thursday Aug 20, 2015 #

walking 30:00 [1]

Cincinnati downtown.

walking 18:00 [1]

9 holes golf at Neumann. (red course)

bicycling - road 1:03:00 [4] 17.04 mi (3:42 / mi)

Wednesday Aug 19, 2015 #

road running 31:10 [3] 3.0 mi (10:23 / mi)

New paved bike path from downtown Hamilton north. With 400man

walking warm up/down 5:00 [1]

Cool down.

weights / strength 1:00:00 [3]

Yard and garden, mostly digging

Tuesday Aug 18, 2015 #

orienteering 3:00:00 [1] ***
24c

Visiting control sites with park naturalist. Miami Whitewater. The good news seems to be that there are not any real problems. We found one small patch of a rather uncommon wildflower that he wants us to streamer around, but none of the controls we checked were problematic or needed to be moved.

C • Very early 2

mapping - field checking 2:00:00 [1] ***
7c

Miami Whitewater.

bicycling - road 1:08:14 [3] 17.04 mi (4:00 / mi)

Monday Aug 17, 2015 #

Event: ONB Ocean Floor Sprint, HPP fun raiser, Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park, NB

bicycling - road 54:25 [3] 12.9 mi (4:13 / mi)

Saturday Aug 15, 2015 #

walking 45:00 [1]

Robert H Jackson Center and Roger Tory Peterson Institute. (Jamestown, NY). Nice nature trail at the RTP.

C • Jamestown, NY? 4

Friday Aug 14, 2015 #

Event: 2015 Canadian Orienteering Championships

orienteering 55:00 [1]
20c

Setting remaining "controls" at Deer Creek.
(Leadership Dayton)

trail running 1:00:00 [2] **

Deer Creek. Observing, assisting, and clean up.

Thursday Aug 13, 2015 #

orienteering 2:00:00 [1] **
26c

Setting controls at Deer Creek

walking 1:00:00 [1]

Setting compass bearing exercises (32) and pace count measuring line.

trail running 50:30 [3] 4.3 mi (11:45 / mi)

Rolling Hills Trail from lodge to pipeline ROW and back, then a loop around Lakeview Trail (Deer Creek)

Wednesday Aug 12, 2015 #

walking 18:00 [1] 1.0 mi (18:00 / mi)

9 holes golf at Neumann. (a rare chance to play the blue course)

bicycling - road 39:19 [3] 9.3 mi (4:14 / mi)

Oxford errand.

Monday Aug 10, 2015 #

mapping - field checking 1:45:00 [1] **
30c

Deer Creek.

Sunday Aug 9, 2015 #

orienteering race 1:20:00 [3] ***
5c

ARDF 80m practice at England-Idlewild. Set by cedarcreek.

Saturday Aug 8, 2015 #

Event: OCIN - OLOU Sprint Challenge (Stage One) - Miami University

orienteering 45:00 [1] *
31c

putting out the SI control units for OCIN / OLOU sprint.

orienteering race 16:59 [5] 2.5 km (6:48 / km)

Sprint Challenge - course 1

orienteering race 21:33 [5] 2.9 km (7:26 / km)

Sprint challenge - Course 2

orienteering 1:36:00 [3] ***
5c

ARDF practice at Miami Natural Areas. Course set by K4BRI.

C • K4BRI 3

trail running 6:00 [3]

picking up one ARDF radio control.

OCIN_MUCQ_Aug_2015_Course 1 - Splits

OCIN_MUCQ_Aug_2015_Course 2 - Splits

Friday Aug 7, 2015 #

orienteering 1:30:00 [1] *
31c

setting controls at Miami Central Quad

Wednesday Aug 5, 2015 #

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

Miami Whitewater

walking 18:00 [1]

9 holes golf at Neumann.

Tuesday Aug 4, 2015 #

Note

I figured it would be interesting to count changes from a session of map updating. So I kept a little tally of changes as I drafted them. From the mapping last Thursday at MWW (a little over 3 hours of fieldwork), I spent about 2 hours working in OCAD. It's a little hard to quantify some changes, such as edits to vegetation or trails, but I came up with a number - I made approximately 121 edits to the map. The vast majority were rootstocks (delete / add / move) (44), vegetation adjustments (30) and adjustments to a new horse trail (most of the trail had previously been roughly drawn in) (23). Other changes included a few adjustments to topographic features (1 new depression, 1 new knoll, a few tweaks to contours and ditches), a few cultural features, and an adjustment to the edges of a marshy area.

bicycling - road 15:50 [3] 4.2 mi (3:46 / mi)

To Miami Univ

mapping - field checking 1:30:00 [1] ***
6c

Updating Central Quad map, checked the final few control locations, plus many more general map updates.

bicycling - road 24:00 [3] 5.2 mi (4:37 / mi)

Return from Miami U.

Monday Aug 3, 2015 #

mapping - field checking 2:20:00 [1] ***
28c

Miami Univ Central Quad. Lots of updates.

Note: drafting time a little over 2 hours. Not including adjustments to courses and planned control locations.

Sunday Aug 2, 2015 #

walking 10:00 [1]

Hopewell Cultural Center Nat'l Historic Park. Guided tour by Joe Ratermann (he's working there as an NPS interpretive ranger). With Aragorn, Mintore, Skyler and Jordan. And then the boys got their chance to try throwing atlatls. Look out down range!

C • atlatls 10

C • Hopewell 6

orienteering 1:14:52 [3] ***
5c

ARDF practice - Hueston Woods Mountain Bike Area.

Saturday Aug 1, 2015 #

Event: OLOU Bike and/or Foot 2 or 4 Hour Score O

Event: Green Corn Moon Rogaine

orienteering race 5:23:30 [4] *** 14.7 mi (22:00 / mi)
19c

Green Corn Moon day/night 6 hour rogaine at Great Seal State Park. Very hilly.

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