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Sunday May 24, 2009 #
Event: Club Champs Return to Mt Tom
Note
Mt. Tom
Orienteering race 1:22:20 ** 7.7 km (10:42 / km) +260m 9:09 / km
shoes: Spring 2009 Integrators
NEOC 2008 Club Champs at Mt. Tom.
We should have gone to the basketball museum or played golf. This was a lousy time.
There are two lessons I can take from this:
1) I am destined to have two good races and one terrible one (that has been the pattern at three race weekends all year.
2) That I should never orienteer at Mt. Tom. After "racing" there I feel like my orienteering regresses.
With all apologies to any interested parties, that map is just not good. Granted, who am I to judge? But it really isn't good. But, many better orienteers than me have negotiated it fine over the years. I am obviously just a prima donna.
A couple notes:
It was a hot day and I didn't have any drink on the course. I don't feel like it affected me physically or mentally, but who knows.
I really don't know where I was pior to 7 and 9. Well, I know I was pretty darn close, but given what I was using to get to the control and failing to do so, I just can't piece things together.
I gave up after 10 and jogged the rest of the course. I don't know how I should feel about that. (I had seen the best time was 75 minutes before setting out, which seemed easily doable until I was wallowing in the green after 10 and realizing that it wasn't easily doable for me.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18115983@N00/35635846...
We should have gone to the basketball museum or played golf. This was a lousy time.
There are two lessons I can take from this:
1) I am destined to have two good races and one terrible one (that has been the pattern at three race weekends all year.
2) That I should never orienteer at Mt. Tom. After "racing" there I feel like my orienteering regresses.
With all apologies to any interested parties, that map is just not good. Granted, who am I to judge? But it really isn't good. But, many better orienteers than me have negotiated it fine over the years. I am obviously just a prima donna.
A couple notes:
It was a hot day and I didn't have any drink on the course. I don't feel like it affected me physically or mentally, but who knows.
I really don't know where I was pior to 7 and 9. Well, I know I was pretty darn close, but given what I was using to get to the control and failing to do so, I just can't piece things together.
I gave up after 10 and jogged the rest of the course. I don't know how I should feel about that. (I had seen the best time was 75 minutes before setting out, which seemed easily doable until I was wallowing in the green after 10 and realizing that it wasn't easily doable for me.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18115983@N00/35635846...