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Sunday May 1, 2011 #
8 AM
Orienteering race 1:51:33 11.9 km (9:22 / km) +450m 7:53 / km
ahr:156 max:175 shoes: Inov8 Oroc 280
West Point Long.
Weird race. Right off the bat felt exhausted and tired - moving through the terrain like a sloth, tripping and stumbling over everything. Suddenly after 45 minutes, everything clicks and I feel awesome and ramp it up for the rest of the race.
Was a good long course with a nice variety of legs and some very fun bits of terrain.
1-2: Drop down, loose contact and climb back up to early. Starting to feel the pinch already and Ross came through me here. There was no way I was going to be able to stick with him.
3-8: Exhausted. Walking the hills and getting pissy with the vegetation. Considering DNFing. Had a gel and a lot of water at 6.
8-11: Downhill legs - feeling a little better. Spend a lot of time at #11 searching for the correct fallen tree.
12: Spend a long time picking a route. Decide to go left and take the trail as much as possible.
Without warning, I feel great. I'm running uphill, my HR drops and I speed up! Awesome! Decide the race is too far gone for a good result, so just enjoy it. I fold the map, put the head down and drop the clutch.
As I near the circle, I start planning the next leg. Hmmm, that's weird, why is the number of my next control lower than the one I'm going to now.
Oh, no. In my heady joy of being able to run again, I've navigated to #14!.
Damn. Luckily, #12 isn't that far away - but it's still about another 7 minutes wasted...
12-18: A few small mistakes. But who cares, the forest was so awesome in this section. Still feeling strong.
19-F: Pretty straightforward. I should not be feeling this good this late in a long - though apart from #20, my splits still aren't awesome.
Weird race. Right off the bat felt exhausted and tired - moving through the terrain like a sloth, tripping and stumbling over everything. Suddenly after 45 minutes, everything clicks and I feel awesome and ramp it up for the rest of the race.
Was a good long course with a nice variety of legs and some very fun bits of terrain.
1-2: Drop down, loose contact and climb back up to early. Starting to feel the pinch already and Ross came through me here. There was no way I was going to be able to stick with him.
3-8: Exhausted. Walking the hills and getting pissy with the vegetation. Considering DNFing. Had a gel and a lot of water at 6.
8-11: Downhill legs - feeling a little better. Spend a lot of time at #11 searching for the correct fallen tree.
12: Spend a long time picking a route. Decide to go left and take the trail as much as possible.
Without warning, I feel great. I'm running uphill, my HR drops and I speed up! Awesome! Decide the race is too far gone for a good result, so just enjoy it. I fold the map, put the head down and drop the clutch.
As I near the circle, I start planning the next leg. Hmmm, that's weird, why is the number of my next control lower than the one I'm going to now.
Oh, no. In my heady joy of being able to run again, I've navigated to #14!.
Damn. Luckily, #12 isn't that far away - but it's still about another 7 minutes wasted...
12-18: A few small mistakes. But who cares, the forest was so awesome in this section. Still feeling strong.
19-F: Pretty straightforward. I should not be feeling this good this late in a long - though apart from #20, my splits still aren't awesome.