From left to right – Sandy, Valerie, Kris – we rode the chair lift about halfway up Mount Bachelor (about 20 miles from Bend, Oregon). This is the area where the US Championships are going to be held over the next two days. We did the model event first. Beautiful area! More pictures available on Flickr.
Today’s event was a three person relay. Gail, Sandy (on the right) and I (on the left with the bloody legs) made up a novelty team of women who won gold at the Night-O. I probably should have reconsidered the route choice through the green since I didn’t have anything covering my legs. Photo courtesy of Eddie Bergeron.
I flew into Redmond, Oregon yesterday for five orienteering events being held in and near Bend, Oregon. Today, I ran in two events. The first was a “sprint” race of 2.2 km. I ran it in 18:24, 2nd woman and 15 out of 50 overall. A very satisfying result. Sprint photo courtesy of Eddie Bergeron.
Today’s second event was a 4 km course held on the Arnold Ice Cave map. The footing was the hardest I have ever encountered – soft sand, lava rocks, and scrubby bushes. Otherwise, it was a fun event with a chase start and butterfly loops. Here is my map with the route that my Garmin Forerunner 301 picked up. Much to Roger’s disappointment, I did not go to see the actual ice cave.
The front of my house – before and after I trimmed the bushes – in the early morning and in mid-afternoon.
I took a hundred or so pictures of hummingbirds while I was in Colorado. You can check out more pictures on my Flickr site.
Sunflower with bonus bees. I don’t remember planting the miniature one… Judy admiring the sunflower in front of the house.
The picture on the left is from August 2004 – Roger got hit by a red light runner. The one on the right is from today – a Jeep backed into my car in the parking lot at work. Ironically, my car was the only other car in the whole parking lot.
Bernie stopped by with Ginny. They had been by the dog park first where Bernie enjoyed a dip in Four Mile Run.
Roger’s turtle was out by the mulch pile the other day. Roger rushed right out and feed it a bunch of grapes (claimed they had gone bad). Turtle is happy, Roger is happy!