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Tuesday Jul 10, 2012 #
Orienteering (Middle Training) 45:00 [3] 5.0 km (9:00 / km) +150m 7:50 / km
Zeleny Dvor.
Jogged up to the start and managed not to get lost by the tapes. Had planned one leg into a line into a control pick into a few race pace legs.
Didn't start well and was off to the right of the first control which was a bit frustrating. Found it then started the line. Find lines really good to learn features but probably even more so for forcing you to look at your map to stay on course. That went pretty well and wiggled down towards the complex landslide area where the controls were.
The map was really good and it was quite easy to pick out features when you read the map but because it was so runnable and visible you wasted a lot of time slowing down to look at it. On the short legs there almost wasn't much point even looking at it as you could just run on a compass and be confident that you would see the control. I found myself easily over shooting on the complex controls then undershooting on the legs though the simpler areas.
After our geeking in the evening I decided that most legs would be a combination of compass and map-reading but was a wary of being too inflexible which had caught me out in in the long training.
The general tactics; Short legs would just be a bearing. On the flat legs I decided to do the first half of the leg on the compass giving time to plan ahead for the more important end of the leg. For uphill legs shortening the distance is probably most important and you are going slower so you have more time to read the map and take a more complex straight line route. On the downhill legs though I knew I could make up good time so decided that I would get a full simplified route decided before I set off and then running at full speed.
Jogged up to the start and managed not to get lost by the tapes. Had planned one leg into a line into a control pick into a few race pace legs.
Didn't start well and was off to the right of the first control which was a bit frustrating. Found it then started the line. Find lines really good to learn features but probably even more so for forcing you to look at your map to stay on course. That went pretty well and wiggled down towards the complex landslide area where the controls were.
The map was really good and it was quite easy to pick out features when you read the map but because it was so runnable and visible you wasted a lot of time slowing down to look at it. On the short legs there almost wasn't much point even looking at it as you could just run on a compass and be confident that you would see the control. I found myself easily over shooting on the complex controls then undershooting on the legs though the simpler areas.
After our geeking in the evening I decided that most legs would be a combination of compass and map-reading but was a wary of being too inflexible which had caught me out in in the long training.
The general tactics; Short legs would just be a bearing. On the flat legs I decided to do the first half of the leg on the compass giving time to plan ahead for the more important end of the leg. For uphill legs shortening the distance is probably most important and you are going slower so you have more time to read the map and take a more complex straight line route. On the downhill legs though I knew I could make up good time so decided that I would get a full simplified route decided before I set off and then running at full speed.