Lake York, 10/31/2010

OK,

I am going to try this one last time, that is, keep up with my blogging.

This one goes way back to the yearly trip to Kings Mountain, Lake York in 2010. It was an Orange course that I took 1st place out of 19 runners:

http://www.carolina-ok.org/results/season_2009-2010/2009-10-31/index.php









On this one, I was way off to the right on point 1 and had to work my way back west to get the point. 2, 3 and 4 were really easy. I don't remember 5-8. I remember when I got to 9, how close I was to the finish, but still had to get the points to the south. 10 was also easy, right down the valley. I took the easy way around on the trail to 11 and on to the finish!

DuPont State Forest Orienteering 5/14/11

It has been a while since I have posted. I have to catch up!

The whole family made the trek to the DuPont State Forest for the last meet of the year.

Mark Jr., Jennifer and Darwin did the White Course and finished 1st out of 1, Joey ran Yellow and finished 2nd out of 11 and to keep it short, I ran Orange and finished 3rd out of 9. All the courses were pretty long and the green is already grown in.

I continued my crazy start process and wandered around to find point number 1, then it was through the first very green gully to #2. I took the easy way down the trail up to point 3. 4, 5 and 6 were all easy in a line. Had to break heavy brush to get to 7,needed a machete!. 8 was a little hard. I had been losing a lot of elevation and was about to make it up. Point 9 was difficult to get to because of the steep valley, so I opted to jog the trail all the way around. That cost me the win. The remainder of the points was easy and it was back to the finish.

Track:

Results:

http://www.carolina-ok.org/results/season_2010-2011/2011-05-14/index.php

Morrow Mountain Orienteering-4/2/2011

Scan of Map and my estimated track


Track from the GPS


Jennifer, Joey, Darwin and I headed into the wilds of the Uhwarrie for this weekend's meet.

Jennifer, Joey and Darwin did the white course, while I volunteered to pick up controls and run Red.

Great day for running in the woods.

From the start to point one was 150 meters, good way to start. Point 2 was an easy find. Point 3 started the fun off with a foray into the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain. Instead of going up and over to 4, I contoured around to the flag. Then I was off on a 1200 meter jaunt to point 5. I was way left as usual. Off to point 6 which was easy to find due to the howling boy scout standing at point 6. 7 was another easy find. I used an attack point off the trail for 8, but now it was getting steep.

Some great views of the lake, but I had to detour around a cliff to get to point 9. Point 10 was the last real steep climb, but I again opted to go around vs. over the hill. Then down the trail to a creek to scoop up 11 and finished up on the trail getting to 12. Jennifer and Joey also had 12 on their course. It was in a pit and a little hard to find from the trail. Then it was off to the finish for 2 hours 21 minutes for 7.7K. I am slowing down.

Everyone had worked up an appetite, so we stopped at the Fresh House.

We stopped here last year as well, funny how we are establishing routines! All home cooked food, an old country store and home made treats for dessert.

Results

Georgia Navigator Cup 2011 Day 2

Joey and I were much less hurried today.

After having breakfast with the Duke baseball team, we were off to the park.

Joey started 10 min ahead of me. My foot was feeling pretty good, better than expected and it was 20 degrees cooler than Saturday with a nice breeze.

On the red course again, 7.7km today and 12 points.

Point 1 was only 100 meters from the start (?) and point 2 was an easy find as well. I ran into Joey between my point 2 and 3. 3 was another eash find and the legs were starting to get longer. Point 4 was a hike up and down hills and over a swamp and it was buried pretty deep in a gully. I came out right on top of it, but had to go down deep to find it.

Point 5 was 900 meters away, but also an easy find. 6 took me down the same trail I came out yesterday and back to the same swamp. The legs were getting longer now. 7 had me going back past the rangers house, across the road, down a trail and using a boulder cluster as an attack point. Point 7 was very deep in a gully, fun getting in, more fun getting out.

Point 8 was another 2K trek but easy to find. For 9 I ran down the road and used an attack point to go directly to it. I also used an attack on point 10 and then it was down and around to 11 and 12 and the Georgia event was over for this year.

Great meet and courses. Joey came in 2nd in his age group. I came in 3rd (out of 3 )

Maybe next year, Jennifer will come?

Day 1-Georgia Navigator Cup

GAOC accomodated us by giving us a late start time so we could leave early Saturday Morning. I fat fingered the GPS in the car, so we ended up near the park, but not quite. At least we got to test out the off-road capability of the Jeep!

We arrived in a hurry and then had a 10min jog to the start. It was hot, like Africa hot.

Joey scooted off and I went a few minutes later. On the Red course, 7.3km and 11 points. The first point was no problem, over the creek and along the hill. The 2nd point gave me fits. I tried to stay high over all the gullies and ended up South of the point. Ended up looking for it for 41 min, that would come back to haunt me.

Once I recovered, 3 was easy enough. 3 to 4 was straight up hill, luckily 4 was a water point! 5 was easy to find, but I had to sneak past the rangers house and his dogs. 6 was an easy shot down the trail and over the swamp, but off to 7, 1.5kms away, down the road and some trails.

Point 8 and 9 were straight forward, I used the trail to get to 10 and 11 was down by the finish point. A short jog (yea right) up to the finish, and for the first time ever I was overtime by 3 min. Ouch!

Joey and I made our way to the hotel for Temple Basketball, Outback and Battle LA at the movies.