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Training Log Archive: mikeminium

In the 31 days ending Aug 31, 2016:

	activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
	walking	13	24:55:00	2.0		3.22			26c
	orienteering	6	12:19:32	3.67		5.9			108c
	weights / strength	6	11:30:00	3.5		5.63
	trail building / maintenance	4	2:15:00
	bicycling - road	2	2:13:49	33.61	(3:59)	54.09	(2:28)
	road running	3	1:01:22	6.61	(9:17)	10.64	(5:46)
	mapping - field checking	1	40:00
	Total	24	54:54:43	49.39		79.48			134c
averages - weight:158.9lbs

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Wednesday Aug 31, 2016 #

orienteering 30:00 [1] *
11c weight:159lbs

setting controls and cameras.

walking 1:00:00 [1] * 2.0 mi (30:00 / mi)
shoes: Starter white

checking on and assisting kids, some light jogging, mostly walking. photos.

Tuesday Aug 30, 2016 #

trail building / maintenance 5:00 [3]
weight:157lbs

weedeater

orienteering 20:00 [1] *
14c

setting controls

Monday Aug 29, 2016 #

bicycling - road 1:05:13 [3] 16.8 mi (3:53 / mi)
weight:158lbs shoes: Bontrager Touring

Saturday Aug 27, 2016 #

Event: Ellicottville Adventure Run & Hike

Event: OCIN - St Patrick's County Park & Madeline Bertrand County Park

Event: Nav-X High Sierra

orienteering 1:04:32 [4] *** 5.9 km (10:56 / km)
12c weight:158lbs shoes: Icebug 2016

Green course at St Patrick's park. Interesting route choices to the first control; I chose going east over the sledding hill and through the park gate. Probably the best choice, but as soon as I hit the woods it became apparent that the burrs were going to be unburrable. By the time I hit the second control, I was covered in what Orunner calls "Mother Nature's Velcro". A few more controls were in woods and overgrown fields, but after that it was mostly running trails and open areas. A fun course, but I could sure have done without the burrs and thorny briars on the first couple controls.

orienteering 50:00 [1] **
10c

Control pickup at St Patricks. The first five were pretty easy, although the Mosquitos were annoyingly vicious. When I went back out for another four, the Mosquitos had organized into squadrons, staging an incessant bombardment. You could not pause long enough to untie a control flag without suffering a dozen or more bites. After getting one control, whilst fleeing this assault through dense thorny underbrush in the general direction of the second control, I realized that I no longer had a map! There was little hope of retracing my steps through the wall of green and the equally dense black cloud of bloodsuckers, so I continued on my way, found the second control, and through perseverance and luck (and maybe a little bit of halfway decent map memory), also managed to find the third and fourth. So, fortunately I did not suffer the embarrassment of having to drive back to the start and get another map! The suffering of additional mosquito bites and briar scratches, however, was an essential part of the experience.

C • Mosquitos 1

walking 45:00 [1] **

Looking for lost control units at St Patrick's. Skyler found one; the second remains in the forest.

OCIN_St_Patricks_Aug_2016_5 Green - Splits

Thursday Aug 25, 2016 #

bicycling - road 1:08:36 [3] 16.81 mi (4:05 / mi)
weight:158lbs shoes: Bontrager Touring

Tuesday Aug 23, 2016 #

orienteering 2:15:00 [1] ***
15c weight:159lbs shoes: Icebug Spirit OLX

Checking controls at Miami Natural Areas with Skyler.

Monday Aug 22, 2016 #

weights / strength 4:00:00 [3] 2.0 mi (1:59:59 / mi)

yard and garden. hauled and spread another 55 wheelbarrow loads of mulch, moved a couple very heavy landscaping rocks, cut and hauled more branches and weeds.

Sunday Aug 21, 2016 #

Event: ICO Annual Paddle-O

orienteering race 3:50:00 [3] ***
18c weight:158lbs

Eagle Creek Canoe O meet. 4 hour score course; 18 of 25 controls, scoring 37 of 46 possible points. Partnered with Brennan Hertel. Mostly canoeing with about an hour of running / walking. Sunny and pleasant temperatures, light to moderate winds early on, that eased off as the day went on. We missed the mass start by a few minutes, due to helping the threesome below back to shore after their first tipping episode, which happened as teams were lining up for the start.

Mpage, Skyler, and Jordan tipped 3 times but still got a few controls, ending up with an unreadable dissolved map.

Priscilla and Salinda started out struggling to control their canoe, but soon became master paddlers, getting several controls and covering a lot of the lake.

Saturday Aug 20, 2016 #

Event: CNYO Regaine - Letchworth State Park East

weights / strength 1:30:00 [2] 1.5 mi (1:00:00 / mi)

Shovel and wheelbarrow. Moved and spread 30 loads of mulch.

Friday Aug 19, 2016 #

road running 10:04 [3] 1.0 mi (10:04 / mi)

weights / strength 2:30:00 [3]
weight:159lbs

Yard and garden. Chainsaw - cut down several dead ash trees and a honeysuckle bush, and a couple other low hanging branches. Then hauling to burn pile. Dug out an ash tree stump, transplanted a baby walnut tree.

Thursday Aug 18, 2016 #

trail building / maintenance 1:00:00 [3]
weight:159lbs

Assisted by Brennan. Cleared trails at Union County. Mix of lopping, dragging off cut branches (left from chainsaw work a couple days ago) and weedeater.

weights / strength 1:00:00 [3]

Yard and garden. Weedeater, digging, etc.

Wednesday Aug 17, 2016 #

road running 9:54 [3] 1.0 mi (9:54 / mi)
weight:159lbs

weights / strength 2:00:00 [3]

Yard and garden. Shovel, pulaski, loppers, a couple minutes of chainsaw. Wheelbarrow and hauling branches to brush pile and burn pile. Cut and dug out two bushes that had gotten too big, transplanted a few plants and a small tree, trimmed lots of low hanging tree branches.

road running 18:01 [3] 2.0 mi (9:00 / mi)

Tuesday Aug 16, 2016 #

walking 1:00:00 [1] *
weight:159lbs

Harbin. Went looking for two controls that were stolen at the Harbin meet two weeks ago. Found one in the first five minutes, tossed in a copse only a few dozen meters from its original location. Searched extensively for the second and finally found it, within 20 meters of its original location, but it had been thrown up on top of the copse and was barely visible from only one angle. Took a few minutes to find a branch long enough and sturdy enough to hook it and bring it back down to earth.

Bottom line, both controls successfully recovered.

C • Vandals 3

trail building / maintenance 1:00:00 [3]

Nature trail at Union County schools. Chainsaw and weedeater.

Sunday Aug 14, 2016 #

Event: North Chagrin Reservation - score

walking 1:00:00 [1]
weight:160lbs

hiking. moderate to heavy rain for most for the second half hour.

trail building / maintenance 10:00 [2]

honeysuckle removal

mapping - field checking 40:00 [1]

checked the Union County schools map for updates. a few minor path / vegetation changes, and two large metal shipping containers have appeared (I'll have to find out if they are permanent additions).

C • Nice ONA cover! 3

Saturday Aug 13, 2016 #

Event: RMOC Wild Goat at Florissant Fossil Beds

weights / strength 30:00 [2]
weight:160lbs

Yard and garden: raking, weedeater.

Friday Aug 12, 2016 #

walking 1:00:00 [1] **
26c

Setting remaining controls

walking 2:00:00 [1] **

About an hour monitoring participants and another hour or so picking up control points they missed.

Thursday Aug 11, 2016 #

orienteering 3:30:00 [1] **
28c weight:160lbs

Setting controls for leadership training program at Deer Creek. Much of the time was setting 15 compass bearing bonus points, and setting the 8 "challenge" controls. (Each team has to figure out how to retrieve the control which is 12 to 16 feet up in a tree).

walking 1:00:00 [1]

Wednesday Aug 10, 2016 #

Note
(rest day)

I think the cold itself is over, but still having enough drainage, that I didn't think doing anything too strenuous would be a good idea.

Tuesday Aug 9, 2016 #

Note
weight:160lbs (sick) (rest day)

Cold seems to be pretty much over and reduced to a little lingering drainage. Still pretty tired - didn't sleep well the last 3 nights in Paris. Did a little easy walking and yard work today but plan to take it easy at least one more day.

Monday Aug 8, 2016 #

walking 1:00:00 [1]
(sick)

Airports: CDG, CLT, CVG. Back in the USA! Fortunately unaffected by today's Delta computer fiasco. When are the airlines going to figure out that they need redundant backup systems?

C • Welcome Home! 2

walking 40:00 [1]

Walking. Airports SOU and ORY. Short evening walk in Paris.

Tuesday Aug 2, 2016 #

walking 2:00:00 [1]

Kristiansand Norway

road running 23:23 [3] 4.2 km (5:34 / km)

Marina track

Monday Aug 1, 2016 #

walking 4:00:00 [1]

Oslo, Norway

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