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Saturday Sep 7, 2013 #
12 PM
orienteer race 1:19:18 5.8 km (13:40 / km) +143m 12:10 / km
ahr:158 max:197
Day One, LAOC at Barton Flats. Nice to be in beautiful open woods, with cool temperatures. Not nice to be at altitude (7500 feet) and to make bone head mistakes. Courses were easy, due to so many trails. The map was very general, but I understand the club members had to step in at the last minute to update an inferior product from a paid mapper.
I was a little confused looking for clearings on my way to 1, and got suckered into looking at another control. Learned right away not to use clearings for navigation,as they were unreliable. Moved well for the next few controls, except for some momentary confusion on the way to 5, when I came upon the start and thought I was on the wrong road.
Did not see the easy route choice to 6 (down to first trail, follow trail to east). Instead I tried to go straight down and read off the trail junctions. Turned out to be a big mistake. The trails were hard to identify (saw more that I would have mapped) so I got very confused. Ended up near 9 (saw the marker, but never checked it since it obviously wasn't mine). Took WAY TOO LONG to relocate here; need to stop sooner and relocate. Not until I followed the trail to the west and saw the road did I finally figure out where I was. Lost about 12 minutes here :( But, on the other had, I had one of the fastest splits from 8 to 9, because I knew exactly where I was going :)
Tried really hard on the run in, but was beaten by 1 second (by two men). Some day....
Great location for the event, nice camp and social arrangements. Had a good long visit with disorienteer as we drove up to the camp on Friday, and lots of fun meeting new folks after the run on saturday. Good conversations all around.
route
I was a little confused looking for clearings on my way to 1, and got suckered into looking at another control. Learned right away not to use clearings for navigation,as they were unreliable. Moved well for the next few controls, except for some momentary confusion on the way to 5, when I came upon the start and thought I was on the wrong road.
Did not see the easy route choice to 6 (down to first trail, follow trail to east). Instead I tried to go straight down and read off the trail junctions. Turned out to be a big mistake. The trails were hard to identify (saw more that I would have mapped) so I got very confused. Ended up near 9 (saw the marker, but never checked it since it obviously wasn't mine). Took WAY TOO LONG to relocate here; need to stop sooner and relocate. Not until I followed the trail to the west and saw the road did I finally figure out where I was. Lost about 12 minutes here :( But, on the other had, I had one of the fastest splits from 8 to 9, because I knew exactly where I was going :)
Tried really hard on the run in, but was beaten by 1 second (by two men). Some day....
Great location for the event, nice camp and social arrangements. Had a good long visit with disorienteer as we drove up to the camp on Friday, and lots of fun meeting new folks after the run on saturday. Good conversations all around.
route
Thursday Sep 5, 2013 #
stretch 1 [0]
erg 15:00 [2]
Squeezed in a bit of rowing between a hectic day at work (stayed late) and packing for the LAOC trip. Excited about orienteering in this cool area. And it's been a long time since I stayed in the camp on the map, which should be a nice relaxing weekend. Mike's not coming (I have more vacation time than him) so I'm looking forward to hanging out with disorienteer this weekend.
Tuesday Sep 3, 2013 #
stretch 1 [0]
weights 30:00 [3]
Monday Sep 2, 2013 #
12 PM
stretch 1 [0]
cycle 25:00 [1]
Just a short easy spin today.
Sunday Sep 1, 2013 #
9 AM
stretch 1 [0]
run/walk 2:00:00 12.19 km (9:51 / km) +48m 9:39 / km
ahr:153 max:203
walk warm up/down 15:00 1.14 km (13:07 / km) +25m 11:50 / km
ahr:123 max:156
Waited for the thunderstorms to pass through before I headed out for my weekly long run. I pushed up my 2 hour run by one week (since I'll be at the LAOC event next Sunday) so I decided to give myself a break and run on the river trail today. It's flatter than Clinton, with no rocks.
Had to stop often to clear branches from the trail. Passed one or two that I could not move. Another runner helped me move one. At the half way point, I ran into some bikers (who go in the opposite direction) and they said they had cleared for me. They obviously moved some big things, but they left plenty of things on the trail that I needed to move. I guess runners and bikers see branches differently :)
Ran into Mike, as he was mountain biking on the same trails, but started later.
I thought this would be easier than Clinton, but it was pretty tough. Maybe I was running faster on the smoother surface? Maybe I pushed too hard yesterday? Legs started to get really tired by 80 minutes. The last nine minutes of running were especially tough. And I was not yet at the end of the loop! I decided to walk back to the car instead of running some more, which took an extra 15 minutes.
Had to stop often to clear branches from the trail. Passed one or two that I could not move. Another runner helped me move one. At the half way point, I ran into some bikers (who go in the opposite direction) and they said they had cleared for me. They obviously moved some big things, but they left plenty of things on the trail that I needed to move. I guess runners and bikers see branches differently :)
Ran into Mike, as he was mountain biking on the same trails, but started later.
I thought this would be easier than Clinton, but it was pretty tough. Maybe I was running faster on the smoother surface? Maybe I pushed too hard yesterday? Legs started to get really tired by 80 minutes. The last nine minutes of running were especially tough. And I was not yet at the end of the loop! I decided to walk back to the car instead of running some more, which took an extra 15 minutes.