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Sunday Apr 21, 2013 #
9 AM
Orienteering 3:56:01 28.09 km (8:24 / km) +210m 8:06 / km
ahr:142 max:166 shoes: Inov8 Oroc 280
Giant's Rib Raid
Awesome fun with D-Bag and Sarah. They were great team mates, both very strong and confident off-trail.
Defo worst navigation performance from me in a Raid. Time lost on #3, #9, #13 and #16, but the blame can be split equally between me and the map (relying too much on trail features that were hard to see or the waterline of the numerous swamps), but an awful one on #21 coming off the trail too early and the controlled blast was a disaster.
Firstly, I got cocky since I updated the map to 1:5000 in Fall of 2011 - but it was a different, totally dry, obvious trail world back then, so I didn't take the time to really get into the map. I was not confident we'd got #24 right (we hadn't) soon after punching it, so then was very, very cautious and slow to #25 after relocating.
I should have done my pre-race plan that if it looked advantageous, to skip the controls and take the penalty - I didn't take the time before the race to see if that was a viable option. I think it definitely would have been.
Shoes fell apart on the final butterfly, thank god for D-Bags first aid tape! Amazed at how quickly they went from totally fine beforehand to simultaneous disintegration - sole pulling off and all the stitching breaking
RIP Inov-8 Oroc's, got 800km out of them - can't complain!
Awesome fun with D-Bag and Sarah. They were great team mates, both very strong and confident off-trail.
Defo worst navigation performance from me in a Raid. Time lost on #3, #9, #13 and #16, but the blame can be split equally between me and the map (relying too much on trail features that were hard to see or the waterline of the numerous swamps), but an awful one on #21 coming off the trail too early and the controlled blast was a disaster.
Firstly, I got cocky since I updated the map to 1:5000 in Fall of 2011 - but it was a different, totally dry, obvious trail world back then, so I didn't take the time to really get into the map. I was not confident we'd got #24 right (we hadn't) soon after punching it, so then was very, very cautious and slow to #25 after relocating.
I should have done my pre-race plan that if it looked advantageous, to skip the controls and take the penalty - I didn't take the time before the race to see if that was a viable option. I think it definitely would have been.
Shoes fell apart on the final butterfly, thank god for D-Bags first aid tape! Amazed at how quickly they went from totally fine beforehand to simultaneous disintegration - sole pulling off and all the stitching breaking
RIP Inov-8 Oroc's, got 800km out of them - can't complain!