Orienteering race 13:15 [4] ** 2.62 km (5:04 / km) +33m4:46 / km 16c
Prelim/setup @ Franklin Park. A decent race, but a couple small (5s) mistakes overrunning 3 and 14; also 10s on 8 when I momentarily transmogrified 7-8 into 8-9. This is a really fun venue for sprinting; it's difficult to be completely clean in such a tricky forested park with lots of rock and such around.
10 AM
Orienteering race 16:13 [4] ** 2.89 km (5:37 / km) +33m5:19 / km 15c
Final @ Franklin Park. Uff da lol @ 8. This race I was akin to a guy who jumps out a 10th story window to see if he can fly, says to himself "so far so good" all the way down. I hit the ground at 8.
Running warm up/down 7:27 [2] 0.77 mi (9:41 / mi) +10m9:18 / mi
1 PM
Running warm up/down 14:15 [2] ** 0.81 mi (17:35 / mi) +10m16:56 / mi 5c
Orienteering11:32 [2] ** 2.1 km (5:30 / km) +10m5:22 / km 19c
Morning warm-up course
11 AM
Orienteering19:17 [2] ** 1.92 mi (10:03 / mi) +10m9:53 / mi 4c
About half of a one-way Street-O
Orienteering intervals 6:00 [4] ** 1.2 km (5:00 / km) +15m4:42 / km 25c
O-tervals
6 PM
Orienteering race 12:59 [4] ** 3.11 km (4:10 / km) +10m4:06 / km 19c
Evening race @ North Point Park. Not a good race for me; I was caught by one trap for ~30s, even though I thought I had figured out which corner to go to. Also lost ~25s on a couple poor route choices. Michael got me by 7s, and Giacomo ran 12:08 but it turned out he had reached across a impassable barrier (which saved at least 30s) so was DQ'd and naturally we ridiculed him without mercy.
Really fun course and I felt good physically. Finally starting to emerge from the post-TT lazy hangover / rest-on-laurels phase and feel like racing and competing again.
Orienteering20:00 [2] ** 2.0 km (10:00 / km) +100m8:00 / km 30c
12 PM
Orienteering race 9:04 [4] ** 1.9 km (4:46 / km) +40m4:19 / km 13c
5 PM
Orienteering race 21:53 [4] ** 4.4 km (4:58 / km) +90m4:31 / km 24c
Two-man relay @ Nahanton Park. On my final lap I did one of those where you trip and fall halfway, then take three or four wild strides trying to recover before crashing to the ground like a sack of overripe grapefruits.
Orienteering24:12 [2] *** 2.02 km (11:59 / km) +48m10:42 / km 12c
Did some goofing around in the fabled Harriman SP today. First was a little control pick course from the training camp last November. Presumably one is supposed to do this type of training at high speed; I did it at low speed.
Running warm up/down (hiking) 12:00 [2] 0.5 mi (23:59 / mi) +75m16:22 / mi
Climbing to start
3 PM
Orienteering1:08:11*** 6.05 km (11:16 / km) +159m9:58 / km 16c
Then did a contours-only course, also from the training camp. Found and collected four or five pink streamers at control sites, including one in the middle of a very thick patch of mountain laurel. Some course designer was mean. I could have sworn I came across orienteering-style elephant trails in two places, though I don't see how that could make sense.
Saw two big turkey-looking birds that clucked or gobbled or whatever, and a big scary black snake that freaked the living gazoobies out of me. Was too busy yelling to see whether it was a king cobra or a black mamba; didn't see a hood so I guess must've been a mamba. Frequent flies buzzing around my head and face were an unexpected annoyance; also, there be a lot of ticks in those woods and now I probably have Lyme and a host of other horrible diseases.
Other than that it was good times! Navigated well, but then I was moving at a leisurely pace. The forest is quite nice, though mountain laurel and blueberry are certainly thick at times. The nicer parts reminded me of the oak forests of Morgan Territory or Joe Grant Park in the Bay Area, but without the interspersed yellow areas. And with more rock. Overall it is indeed quite an impressive O'ing venue but think I prefer the pine forests of the PNW (i.e. Dutchman Flats and environs). I'm biased, of course.