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Saturday Aug 6, 2011 #
Event: Canal Cities Challenge
10 AM
Orienteering 1:01:13 [4] *** 3.28 mi (18:41 / mi) +411ft 16:42 / mi
spiked:11/14c shoes: Montrail Mt Masochist Mar 2011
Green Y Middle at Sprague Brook Park. As seems to be my usual, I had two bad controls, although bad controls at this venue are nowhere near as bad as bad controls at Happy Valley. I think I lost 3 minutes on #5 and 5 minutes on #10. Lost a little bit on #9 from a non-optimum "micro" route choice (I knew where to go, I just went further left than I needed to).
On #10, I knew I had to descend a very steep bank, and for some reason, I headed straight down the bank, instead of angling on a compass bearing right for the control, which both Stina and Peter D. assured me was a moderately easy way down. To make it worse, after going down the steep bank, grabbing for any little tree I could to prevent a free-fall, I attempted to re-group and figure out where to go next. I realized I didn't have the map in my possession! I looked back, and I saw that I had dropped it at the very top of the embankment. D'oh!! So I got to climb the nice steep 4-contour line slope, and have the adventure of descending again. By that time, I really didn't have a good idea where I was, and I went the wrong direction, finally got straightened out, but it still took a while to navigate to the control.
I think I finished around the middle of everyone doing Green Y, but near the bottom of my age group.
On #10, I knew I had to descend a very steep bank, and for some reason, I headed straight down the bank, instead of angling on a compass bearing right for the control, which both Stina and Peter D. assured me was a moderately easy way down. To make it worse, after going down the steep bank, grabbing for any little tree I could to prevent a free-fall, I attempted to re-group and figure out where to go next. I realized I didn't have the map in my possession! I looked back, and I saw that I had dropped it at the very top of the embankment. D'oh!! So I got to climb the nice steep 4-contour line slope, and have the adventure of descending again. By that time, I really didn't have a good idea where I was, and I went the wrong direction, finally got straightened out, but it still took a while to navigate to the control.
I think I finished around the middle of everyone doing Green Y, but near the bottom of my age group.
2 PM
Running warm up/down 6:45 [1] 0.69 mi (9:44 / mi) +59ft 9:00 / mi
shoes: Asics GT-2130 Trail
Warmup before the Sprint.
Orienteering 15:38 [5] ** 1.54 mi (10:09 / mi) +65ft 9:46 / mi
spiked:17/17c shoes: Asics GT-2130 Trail
Sprint 2 at Sprague Brook. For once, I didn't mess up, but the orienteering was pretty easy. I had a few micro-route choice bobbles that might have cost 5-10 seconds each, but the AP split analysis said I had no lost time, which is certainly a first. I was running pretty hard the whole way, except I backed off just a bit on some of the middle controls (3, 5, 6, 8) that, while not particular hard, were potential screw-ups if I was paying no attention at all.
If I were to re-run the course, I don't think I could do more than 30 seconds or so faster, in my current state of conditioning, anyway.
I think I may have won my age group, which is another first. I was something like 16th out of 70 people on the course.
Still, I was a good 3 minutes behind PG. On the one hand, that's the closest I've ever been to him percentage wise, so that's good (but having very easy orienteering sure helps). On the other hand, it was humbling to run a clean race, and push about as hard as I could, but be about 25% slower than him. Still, I'm pretty happy with the result.
If I were to re-run the course, I don't think I could do more than 30 seconds or so faster, in my current state of conditioning, anyway.
I think I may have won my age group, which is another first. I was something like 16th out of 70 people on the course.
Still, I was a good 3 minutes behind PG. On the one hand, that's the closest I've ever been to him percentage wise, so that's good (but having very easy orienteering sure helps). On the other hand, it was humbling to run a clean race, and push about as hard as I could, but be about 25% slower than him. Still, I'm pretty happy with the result.