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Monday Aug 20, 2018 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 28:58 [4] *** 3.4 km (8:31 / km) +110m 7:20 / km
spiked:11/12c
NAOC relays. Structure for this for the non-elite teams was a three-person relay in three different categories of which ours was the highest (although we would in fact have been eligible for both the others). I ran the third, longest, leg; Anna and Liggo ran first and second for 2.2km apiece.
Didn't have much of a warm-up after doing commentary early (especially once it became apparent that the leg times were short - Anna and Liggo did 16 apiece), but felt good in such warm-up as I had, a rarity of late. Went out in second but didn't expect to stay there, this leg being where a lot of the good elites not in the US or Canadian national teams ended up.
The course itself was in a ski/biathlon area, with lots of tracks which weaved around a bit, and generally slow forest in between, so the trick was to link the tracks and gaps between them in the most logical way. The first leg was quite long and Nick Barrable burned past me. The running side didn't go quite as well as it promised to beforehand (and there was a bit of a stumble on the start line when Liggo gave me the wrong map before correcting), but hit the controls OK with only one 15-seconder.
Turned around at the finish to see Timo Sild behind me - he'd given me 11 minutes' start and had made up 10 1/2 of them. (I'd actually thought he was in front of me, after seeing him out there and thinking he was on the way to 7 when he was actually on the way to 1). His first runner was Daniel Antonio Pereira from Hong Kong, whose name I remember for mispunching in all four events at a past JWOC. We ended up 5th; a team of the Falck Weber brothers and Annija Bjork won.
Didn't have much of a warm-up after doing commentary early (especially once it became apparent that the leg times were short - Anna and Liggo did 16 apiece), but felt good in such warm-up as I had, a rarity of late. Went out in second but didn't expect to stay there, this leg being where a lot of the good elites not in the US or Canadian national teams ended up.
The course itself was in a ski/biathlon area, with lots of tracks which weaved around a bit, and generally slow forest in between, so the trick was to link the tracks and gaps between them in the most logical way. The first leg was quite long and Nick Barrable burned past me. The running side didn't go quite as well as it promised to beforehand (and there was a bit of a stumble on the start line when Liggo gave me the wrong map before correcting), but hit the controls OK with only one 15-seconder.
Turned around at the finish to see Timo Sild behind me - he'd given me 11 minutes' start and had made up 10 1/2 of them. (I'd actually thought he was in front of me, after seeing him out there and thinking he was on the way to 7 when he was actually on the way to 1). His first runner was Daniel Antonio Pereira from Hong Kong, whose name I remember for mispunching in all four events at a past JWOC. We ended up 5th; a team of the Falck Weber brothers and Annija Bjork won.