Fritz' pre KS Champs 5 days

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As I've found that I run better after a few days of orienteering, and I want to do a bit better this year, I've set up courses for myself for the next 5 days. It may prove too much, and I may skip a day, but here's my plans. Monday Leavenworth (1981) 6K Tuesday Longview (B & W 1978) 7K Wednesday Clinton (Mike's course)10K+ Thursday Woodridge 7K Friday Rockcrusher (1990) 4K

This after completing a tough week of overtraining on the roads last week. We'll see how it goes. (If I get a chance, maybe I can get someone to scan in the maps with courses...)

-- Fritz (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), November 27, 2000

Answers

I'm going to try a cut and paste of the partial commentary and data from day one at Leavenworth...

The map turned out to still be decent.

If it doesn't work, the format is control distance in mm, cumulative dist, time, cumulative time, comments

Leavenworth 5.49 K Monday 27 November 2000 Overcast 50's

1 ruin 7.5mm 0:58.75 112.5 8:42.22 W along trail, then contour. 2 stone wall 17 mm 24.5 mm 4:59.40 5:58.15 255 19:34.12 367.5 E to trail (reentrant was a gully, very steep), then along road. Went too far north on road and had too look S in woods. Used spur. 3 depression 10 mm 34.5 mm 3:11.35 9:09.50 Back to road, then uphill at road/trial jct. W along dirt road around the hill. Pause at the depression. 4 pit 8 mm 42.5 mm 1:31.75 10:41.25 Roads have changed some, I think. NW from depression, to a road that went W. Found a knoll with the pit on the end of it. 5 between rocks 13 mm 55.5 mm 3:47.42 14:28.67 NE along knoll, out to road. Along road through some woods. (along new road to E of mapped roads). Camd back W to find end of marsh. Found all the rock features. Circled W around the knoll and reentrant to find the rocks. 6 earth cliff 4 mm 59.5 mm 0:36.38 15:05.05 Along the northern edge of the loop of road. Came close to the cliff. Saw the dot knoll as I was leaving. 7 reentrant 18.5 mm 78 mm 2:10.70 17:15.75 Back to the road, careful at the road junction. Reentrant was obvious, with a road/path nearby. 8 Between cliffs 38.5 mm 116.5mm 5:48.75 23:04.50 Uphill. Bulldozed clearing. Instead of running to the NE, I ran to just past the N end of a bulldozed cliff, then back S around a patch of woods, afraid I would run into a fence and thinking there wouldn't be a fence on the track that the bulldozers had used. Close to the Bell Point parking lot. Then N along the bulldozer track to the road bend. Along the road, taking a compass bearing. Pace counted from the Road/trail jct. No problems. 9 reentrant jct 25 mm 141.5 m 8:38.89 31:43.39 Decided to run with some abandon to the stream jct. After 60 paces, was there, but wasn't sure I was. Went up the stream to the E, thinking I was going up the reentrant. Passed a reentrant on my left. Relocated and headed in the correct direction. Not really certain I was there, but was close. 10 hunter's stand 28 mm 169.5 m 4:50.22 36:33.61 Dash downhill along the stream to stream/trail jct. Then compass and pace count. No stand, but was there on the spur. (Took some time looking for a stand.) 11 knoll 8 mm 177.5 m 1:30.82 38:04.43 Went more south and had to correct to my right once I had climbed the steep slope. 12 stream bend 82 mm 259.5 m 10:30.43 48:34.86 SE along track to track jct. Then S into woods (probably would have been quicker to run to cross trail.) S through clearing and into woods past the out houses. Out of woods just shy of the trail/road jct. Plunged S into woods. Pause at ditch, trying to find the trail. Then found the first trail, looking for trail bend. Compass bearing. At second trail, MUCH kruft, but dodged around it and ran along the stream. Through small reentrant, and down the reentrant leading to the bend. 13 pit 10 mm 269.5 m 2:35.32 51:10.18 Across the stream, up the spur. Took compass bearing before crossing stream, then after. Pace count ran out and I looked around. Found a pit to my left. Slope seemed to be flatter than mapped. Didn't see the trail. 14 reentrant jct 16.5 mm 286 m 5:23.57 56:33.75 Almost immediately after leaving the pit, bumped into a reentrant. Lead me to think I hadn't found the right pit. Guess the reentrants weren't mapped well. Ran along the stream bottom through a few bends, then figured this was slow. Climb up on spur just before stream jct about 100 m NE of control. Had to cross that side reentrant. Then ran across to tops. No problem. 15 manmade obj 21.5 mm 307.5 m 3:59.61 60:33.36 Uphill to trail, came on trail about 25 m from S bend. Ran to N bend then off trail. Was looking for control too soon. Should have waited until top of the steep slope. Control was to my left. 16 reentrant 22.5 mm 330 m 8:46.14 69:19.50 Uphill to W. (picked some berries) Past road jct. Into woods along clearing of power line. This isn't right. To S just inside the woods to find abandoned track. Along track. Detour around junk to N track. N into woods near track jct. Confused. E to top of knoll, then realized this was the stone wall. Then to reentrant. 17 ruin 12 mm 342 m 13:56.16 83:15.66 Ack. N across one reentrant. Then another. Followed the second reentrant up to the track. No luck. NW along track, then back and into woods. SW, then NW, then NE through thickets and back to the track. NW to track bend again. Back SE along track to ditch. Not there. Move on. 18 march S side 15 mm 357 m 2:40.00 85:55.66 Downhill, with too many pauses, along the edge of the clearing, then cross the marsh to the south side and the reentrant. finish trail jct 9 mm 366 m 0:58.11 86:53.77 5490 15:49.68 Out to clearing and along clearing. Was going to run along a track, but changed course at the last second as the track went steeply downhill, through muck.

-- Fritz (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), November 27, 2000.


Fritz,

The easiest way to make this easier to read, is to use the html paragraph tag to add some paragraph breaks. The tag is a less-than- sign (<) a "p" and a greater-than-sign (>). At the place you want a pragraph break (maybe the end of each control's comments), you type a less-than-sign, the letter P, and a greater than sign.

-- Michael (mike-eglinski@kcmo.org), November 28, 2000.


This is all fine and interesting, but I suspect that I'm not the only one a bit puzzled about the definition of "kruft"... I couldn't find much about the word that makes sense in the context Fritz used it. There is a city in Germany by that name, but I can't find the word in an English dictionary. It's a bit puzzling. Could it be a Yiddish term?

I eventually gave up. I think I'll go home tonight and bake some nice warm kruft cakes. I need to practice my kruft cookery if I'm going to make kruft cakes for guests. Now I'm not going to promise nice warm kruft cakes at Late Night, but then I'm not going to rule them out either!

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), November 28, 2000.


Bullar for Late Night!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess Fritz will be DQ'ed for violating the 2 week embargo rule at Clinton. He really should read the fine print.

-- Snorkel (danielmeenehan@aol.com), November 28, 2000.

I think "kruft" translates into Hash lingo as "shiggy". Most often seen in its adjectival form "krufty", used by people whose eyeglasses are held together between the lenses with adhesive tape. I don't off the top of my head know of a Talk Four equivalent. Perhaps "crud".

-- J-J (jjcote@juno.com), November 28, 2000.


OKers should know that Fritz has apparently broken down and skipped out of today's training session at Clinton SP because of a "scratchy throat"... or is that the real reason?

Spike, you are all probably aware by now, is becoming quite a proficient user of GIDEON --- software used to diagnose all manners of disease... type in the symptoms and patient's history and out pops a diagnosis!

Spike reports that Fritz's condition is likely a common cold with influenza and enterovirus infections as possibilities. There are also some more unusual, if improbable, possibilities: bubonic plague and Legionaire's Disease!!!

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), November 29, 2000.


I hear Mook is going to skip the Kansas Champs in order to make a bid at smashing the test loop record, thus leaving the Kansas Champs wide open for....................Herb Fletcher.

-- Snorkel (danielmeenehan@aol.com), November 29, 2000.

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