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Saturday Aug 12, 2017 #
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Relive my mistakes and loop-de-loops from Sunday's run.
Relive videos don't seem to be useful for much to me at this point, but they're kinda fun.
Relive videos don't seem to be useful for much to me at this point, but they're kinda fun.
Friday Aug 11, 2017 #
4 PM
Walking 36:44 [2] 2.06 mi (17:50 / mi) +19m 17:20 / mi
shoes: Sauc TriumphISO-silver/gr/blue
Easy walk in the 'hood. Humid and threatening but I only felt a couple of sprinkles. About 80F.
Tuesday Aug 8, 2017 #
Pilates class 50:00 [1]
Mary's class at the E.G. Y(!). We stayed over in the Albany area to go to EMPO's score-O in Schenectady Central Park this evening, so decided to see if we could get into the Y for Pilates. Saw several familiar faces. :-)
5 PM
Orienteering race (score O) 58:21 [4] *** 4.7 km (12:25 / km) +33m 12:00 / km
18c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
New map in Schenectady Central Park. Nice work by Phil who got contours from LiDAR. Vegetation was mostly transferred from 25+-year-old fieldwork so there are some places mapped as light--and some medium--green that could be changed to white woods or at least a shade lighter than they are.
Possible 26 controls; I started out heading north to 4 figuring to go counter-clockwise and get easier (more open areas) controls and then if I had time trying for the ones in the lower right/squirrelly mountain bike trails. I probably should have gotten 10 first then gone to 4, but I was still looking at and getting into the map and figured "maybe later." I attacked #20 twice (once from 24) but never found it, though Frank said he did (and obviously Phil knew where it was too). Perhaps it would have stood out more with a more typical O flag as opposed to the small pin flags that were used. And navigationally might have been better if I'd found/used the mapped trails. ;-)
Order visited:
4-16-12-11-15-25-14-23-5-6-1-7-(20)-24-8-21-17-22-13 If I'd had more time here I would have done the out and back to 10.
A great way to use a very public park on a summer evening. Temps were in the mid 70s so very pleasant. The pin flags were not noticeable to regular passers-by, but if you had a map with circles and descriptions you knew where to find them. :-)
Nice to see the EMPO folks! This was a great way to end our week-plus in Canada.
Possible 26 controls; I started out heading north to 4 figuring to go counter-clockwise and get easier (more open areas) controls and then if I had time trying for the ones in the lower right/squirrelly mountain bike trails. I probably should have gotten 10 first then gone to 4, but I was still looking at and getting into the map and figured "maybe later." I attacked #20 twice (once from 24) but never found it, though Frank said he did (and obviously Phil knew where it was too). Perhaps it would have stood out more with a more typical O flag as opposed to the small pin flags that were used. And navigationally might have been better if I'd found/used the mapped trails. ;-)
Order visited:
4-16-12-11-15-25-14-23-5-6-1-7-(20)-24-8-21-17-22-13 If I'd had more time here I would have done the out and back to 10.
A great way to use a very public park on a summer evening. Temps were in the mid 70s so very pleasant. The pin flags were not noticeable to regular passers-by, but if you had a map with circles and descriptions you knew where to find them. :-)
Nice to see the EMPO folks! This was a great way to end our week-plus in Canada.
Sunday Aug 6, 2017 #
Event: Canadian Championships Long
10 AM
Orienteering race (long) 1:45:57 **** 5.86 km (18:05 / km) +100m 16:40 / km
ahr:120 max:159 spiked:7/11c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Foley Mtn CA, 1:10000, 5m; 3.9km course with 100m climb advertised. Mostly clear morning with a breeze and temps in the low 60s.
Took the trail to a safe attackpoint to 1 when I probably could have gone straight, but I found it confidently. On the long leg to 2, I ran the trail and road until just before the OOB buildings' driveway where I headed north and stayed in or alongside yellow/open areas, passed the cliffs, and to the knoll. Good to three, a short leg.
To 4 I took the slight left route, crossing the marshy/wet area where it wasn't too green; didn't really see the ride but found the trail through the pine woods which I followed to the open area which looked a lot like the Barrens near Carp. Hooked into it from the north, not quite a spike.
Not careful on my bearing to the next one, and I believe I crossed the stream at the cliffs WNW of the ones before my control and investigated the rises and open areas behind them for too long. Should have backtracked to the stream sooner, and made sure of the cliffs. At least 10 minutes lost.
Okay for about two-thirds of the next leg, checking features, getting into the area of our control 2 from the middle yesterday, then I lost contact and confidence and checked several other dot-knoll-y thngs with flags but didn't find the right number. I eventually came to yesterday's first control (just outside the control circle) and found it from there. Ugh. Then on the short leg to 7 I think I went by the top of the correct rocky reentrant and looked down, but did not see a flag (and didn't want to climb down the rocks), and so I continued to check other reentrants before circling back to it from below. I'm sure it was just out of sight from above, but I lost about 7 min here.
To 8 I wanted to get off that hill so I angled down to the trail to run it past the junction near Saturday's start. Went as far as the spur near trail before I crossed the marshy stream and crossed the N end of the clearing to the control. SW to the road, hitting it near the bend and crossed the stream on it before heading west to find the reentrant on the hillside which several others were also headed for making it easy to find. Then straight to 10, mostly straight (on trails) to the final control, and then was just happy we didn't have the same uphill climb we had yesterday (thank you, course designer!).
Kitty Jones is remarkable to make it around that course in ~54 minutes! Such confidence in navigation and woods speed. And Janet F did well too, getting around in ~1:10 for silver!
Relive my mistakes and loop-de-loops.
Relive videos don't seem to be useful for much to me at this point, but they're kinda fun.
Took the trail to a safe attackpoint to 1 when I probably could have gone straight, but I found it confidently. On the long leg to 2, I ran the trail and road until just before the OOB buildings' driveway where I headed north and stayed in or alongside yellow/open areas, passed the cliffs, and to the knoll. Good to three, a short leg.
To 4 I took the slight left route, crossing the marshy/wet area where it wasn't too green; didn't really see the ride but found the trail through the pine woods which I followed to the open area which looked a lot like the Barrens near Carp. Hooked into it from the north, not quite a spike.
Not careful on my bearing to the next one, and I believe I crossed the stream at the cliffs WNW of the ones before my control and investigated the rises and open areas behind them for too long. Should have backtracked to the stream sooner, and made sure of the cliffs. At least 10 minutes lost.
Okay for about two-thirds of the next leg, checking features, getting into the area of our control 2 from the middle yesterday, then I lost contact and confidence and checked several other dot-knoll-y thngs with flags but didn't find the right number. I eventually came to yesterday's first control (just outside the control circle) and found it from there. Ugh. Then on the short leg to 7 I think I went by the top of the correct rocky reentrant and looked down, but did not see a flag (and didn't want to climb down the rocks), and so I continued to check other reentrants before circling back to it from below. I'm sure it was just out of sight from above, but I lost about 7 min here.
To 8 I wanted to get off that hill so I angled down to the trail to run it past the junction near Saturday's start. Went as far as the spur near trail before I crossed the marshy stream and crossed the N end of the clearing to the control. SW to the road, hitting it near the bend and crossed the stream on it before heading west to find the reentrant on the hillside which several others were also headed for making it easy to find. Then straight to 10, mostly straight (on trails) to the final control, and then was just happy we didn't have the same uphill climb we had yesterday (thank you, course designer!).
Kitty Jones is remarkable to make it around that course in ~54 minutes! Such confidence in navigation and woods speed. And Janet F did well too, getting around in ~1:10 for silver!
Relive my mistakes and loop-de-loops.
Relive videos don't seem to be useful for much to me at this point, but they're kinda fun.
Hiking warm up/down (to start) 8:00 [2] 0.5 km (16:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
I didn't have my watch on, but this was a physical climb to start, about as much as yesterday's walk to start. Glad I got there early enough to chill for awhile; it gave me time to see where other F55s were starting before and after me, which may or may not have been a good thing.