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Sunday Oct 7, 2012 #
10 AM
Trail/Off-road Running race (Orienteering) 1:49:05 [3] 11.7 km (9:19 / km) +175m 8:40 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280
Ontario Champs Long Course. Definitely felt lack of conditioning, but really enjoy running and orienteering in Hilton Falls.
Really enjoyed the course, but took a few scenic routes. Running to one on the longer trail, and still manged to overshoot one, but coming back for two was fairly clean. Went cross country to the trails to then attack 3 from the north end of the cliffs (easy).
Bearing through the lovely woods over to 4, using the trail/bridge to cross the water/re-orient. Over to the trails and then took the trails to 5, and cross-country through 5-6-7. Followed by the long trail run back to 8.
Used the thick vegetation to orient off of to cross over to 8, but in some mindless/low blood sugar moment overran 8 and then somehow followed people up the hill (ouch). Doubling back to 8, it was a fairly straightforward run through 9, trail to 10, and off trail through 11-12.
I'm sure I took the trail to the north, going around the finger lake, and taking the main trail over to 13. 13-14-15 was pretty clear, although for whatever reason when I turned to leave 15 I got disoriented... looked at the compass and took its advise and was quickly back on the main trail to 16.
Somehow leaving 17 I must of taking an incorrect bearing to the north of 17, got a bit lost in there but after looking at the field and the features made a guess to the correct way to 17 and saved myself.
Took the trail around to attack 18 from the other side (not really a great choice) and then cross country through the remaining controls, trail to finish.
Wasn't the best run of my life, but I finished :-) ... and handled the terrain just fine. It was a great day in the woods.
[Dist map string, remember most of it. Climb is good enough, just looked at other logs rather than count contours... doesn't matter too much at this point]
Really enjoyed the course, but took a few scenic routes. Running to one on the longer trail, and still manged to overshoot one, but coming back for two was fairly clean. Went cross country to the trails to then attack 3 from the north end of the cliffs (easy).
Bearing through the lovely woods over to 4, using the trail/bridge to cross the water/re-orient. Over to the trails and then took the trails to 5, and cross-country through 5-6-7. Followed by the long trail run back to 8.
Used the thick vegetation to orient off of to cross over to 8, but in some mindless/low blood sugar moment overran 8 and then somehow followed people up the hill (ouch). Doubling back to 8, it was a fairly straightforward run through 9, trail to 10, and off trail through 11-12.
I'm sure I took the trail to the north, going around the finger lake, and taking the main trail over to 13. 13-14-15 was pretty clear, although for whatever reason when I turned to leave 15 I got disoriented... looked at the compass and took its advise and was quickly back on the main trail to 16.
Somehow leaving 17 I must of taking an incorrect bearing to the north of 17, got a bit lost in there but after looking at the field and the features made a guess to the correct way to 17 and saved myself.
Took the trail around to attack 18 from the other side (not really a great choice) and then cross country through the remaining controls, trail to finish.
Wasn't the best run of my life, but I finished :-) ... and handled the terrain just fine. It was a great day in the woods.
[Dist map string, remember most of it. Climb is good enough, just looked at other logs rather than count contours... doesn't matter too much at this point]
Saturday Oct 6, 2012 #
4 AM
Road/City Trail Running race (Orienteering) 22:57 [5] 4.0 km (5:44 / km) +40m 5:28 / km
shoes: Saucony Peregrine 2 (BlackRed)
Ontario Champs Sprint. Solid enough run, felt the lack of conditioning quite a bit. Re-examining the route choices I noted that the alternate route choices were just slightly shorter, not really enough to be costly, but saving 10 meters here and there can add up.
Getting into the residences though made a big error not paying attention to the map and returning to the wrong set of stairs to get to 16, doubled back to the best original route, which was also likely costly as I should have then just continued around to the southern stairs.
It was a lot of fun. An excellent course by Mick!
Getting into the residences though made a big error not paying attention to the map and returning to the wrong set of stairs to get to 16, doubled back to the best original route, which was also likely costly as I should have then just continued around to the southern stairs.
It was a lot of fun. An excellent course by Mick!