More orienteering, this time in Pornainen. Much less paths, roads, and other signs of urban life compared to central park in Helsinki. Finding our way based more on compass heading, and many times slowing down to a walk through terrain where it is hard or impossible to run. Searched quite a bit for nr 7, and even longer for nr 10 on the side of the wrong rock-face...
Did a 7km "iltarasti" orienteering course starting from Laakso. 16 controls in total, one and two were easy, then we stumbled on 19 when going for 3, then more or less ok on 4-8, a big miss on nr 9 (just at the top of the map) which features three almost identical 3-road intersections and we mistook the third one for the second one... then again mostly OKish towards the end, with maybe a bit too much walking/searching on 15. The gps shows 9.8km in 1h 45min, so not exactly fast going...
On Wednesday I had a Garmin Edge 800 (red line in the pics) on my bike while Risto was using a Nokia N900 (blue line). Here are a few comparisons of the GPS-traces. Our bikes were obviously not exactly following the same route, so that accounts for some of the differences. The Edge800 seems to take GPS-samples a more often than the N900.
At the eastern tip of the vuosaari harbor there's a cool vista-point called 'horisontti'. A slight minus is that on the final 1-2 km before the vista point the road is sand and gravel which isn't ideal for 25mm wide roadbike tyres.
In other news, the latest 64bit-deb install of google earth on a reasonably fresh Ubuntu 11.04 results in monospaced fonts which look less than great:
This is a once a month bike-ride through the city centre to raise awareness for bikers. It is nice to ride in the middle of the street with police escort and all other traffic just standing by 🙂
Pics from one month earlier on 10 May.
After physical exercise one must take care of re-hydration:
Update: here's some more detail on the navigation (or lack thereof):
Trying to follow the ring-road around Helsinki for most of the route, but took a shortcut home towards the end...
It's been possible to run over the Crusell-bridge (just before 3 km) for some time now, but yesterday I found a new walk/bike path under the lauttasaari bridge (just after 4 km), east along the motorway (4-5 km) connecting to the usual lap around the old cemetary and the hietsu-beach. Did 11 km at a pace just under 6 min/km.
Shot using poor-mans-macro-objective: extension tubes + 70-200/4L
