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Sunday Aug 8, 2010 #
10 AM
Orienteering 18:08 [3] 2.9 km (6:15 / km) +110m 5:15 / km
shoes: VJ twisters
It was a long run down from the warm up and -12mjn pre start to the -3min start. You could hear the commentary getting louder so I prepared myself for a spectator friendly start. Finally we made it to the start and there was a short run to the start triangle where Hubmann, who started with me went straight ahead. It took a lot mental energy to ignore him and turn hard left run up the track and found the first control on a small side path. I heard my name called plenty of times so I expected there must be spectators throughout the course.
The 2nd leg had a bit of route choice and headed left rather than climbing I've over the hill. I stayed on the path too long and lost a bit of time by going back around the right of the building. I saw Hubmann again but was punching different controls so I again refocussed on my own course. The next 3 were fairly easy and I was starting to settle in. On the longer leg to 6 I started to relax a little and took a few deep breaths. 6-11 were short and complex thru some old buildings which involved a few legs thru open doorways which were tricky.
Despite it being an obvious feature of the old map, I failed to plan my excite thru the impassable fence but recovered before loosing much time. I felt tired running up the hill into the forest and was passed by Russian Tsvetkov. I left the track heading to 12 and just misjudged the distance- an obvious mistake of limited training at this scale. I watched the Russian punch a control but I tried to run past it and had a big stop before checking the control and finding it was mine.
13 was a short downhill leg and I saw the Russian leaving the control but I was too messy for the nest few that involved dangerous labyrinths of small trails. On retrospect I think I missed an easy alternative to 15 on the road to the left.
16 to 22 were quite straight forward and I just lacked the required running speed. I was relieved to get the last control and make it to the finish.
The 2nd leg had a bit of route choice and headed left rather than climbing I've over the hill. I stayed on the path too long and lost a bit of time by going back around the right of the building. I saw Hubmann again but was punching different controls so I again refocussed on my own course. The next 3 were fairly easy and I was starting to settle in. On the longer leg to 6 I started to relax a little and took a few deep breaths. 6-11 were short and complex thru some old buildings which involved a few legs thru open doorways which were tricky.
Despite it being an obvious feature of the old map, I failed to plan my excite thru the impassable fence but recovered before loosing much time. I felt tired running up the hill into the forest and was passed by Russian Tsvetkov. I left the track heading to 12 and just misjudged the distance- an obvious mistake of limited training at this scale. I watched the Russian punch a control but I tried to run past it and had a big stop before checking the control and finding it was mine.
13 was a short downhill leg and I saw the Russian leaving the control but I was too messy for the nest few that involved dangerous labyrinths of small trails. On retrospect I think I missed an easy alternative to 15 on the road to the left.
16 to 22 were quite straight forward and I just lacked the required running speed. I was relieved to get the last control and make it to the finish.
Running 35:00 [3] 7.0 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: VJ twisters
warm up, jog to start and cool down