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Saturday Aug 6, 2011 #
Event: Canal Cities Challenge
10 AM
Orienteering race (Middle) 1:05:04 *** 4.4 km (14:47 / km) +112m 13:07 / km
ahr:151 max:166 spiked:7/14c shoes: Inov8 XTalon 212
Middle Green-Y at Sprague Brook Park BFLO A-meet. Technically felt pretty good today with not too many mistakes. Biggest problem for me was fatigue, especially near the end of the course. I think it was too long for a middle course. Although based on Jeff Saeger's time it might not be as far off as I originally thought. At any rate, I was really pooping out toward the end.
#1 - Planned to take major trail and had gone a little ways before I realized I hadn't done that. Re-planned and attacked from the small trail/stream junction. Hills were quite what I expected, so a few seconds of wandering.
# 2 - Small piece of trail, then left of marsh and into the control.
# 3 - Down spur to stream junction as attack point
# 4 - Up spur to trail, ran trail to the right, then in to the marsh
# 5 - took the trail a little then down the spur to stream junction. Up and past the marsh to ride with trail. Took this to the streams and missed the trail. Went up the second stream to the marsh, which was rather yellow and I thought the control should be there. Saw other people off to the right and went that way to find control. Lost about 1:30
# 6 - A bad habit I noticed today. I have a tendency to ignore excessively straight lines on the map. Like that ride. It was a perfect handrail for this leg and when I made my plan, it was like I didn't even see it on the map. Luckily, when I hit it, I said "duh" and had a nice clean leg. But I know this is a common problem for me. It happens a lot with fences out west.
# 7 - I didn't like the undefined out-of-bounds boundary, so to be extra safe, I took the ride and trail and then meant to attack along the vegetation. This was not distinct to me, however, and I drifted toward the lake. Slow approach from there. I was having difficulty seeing due to foggy glasses. Another fellow in the area found it first.
# 8 - Straight across to catching trail and then down the reentrant
# 9 - Straight across. A little hesitation trying to figure out the detail near the circle. What is that squiggly brown thing?
# 10 - Trail along top of slope to the bend, down to marsh and control
# 11 - Aimed off but hit much farther left than expected. followed marsh to control. Didn't really notice the trail approach until too late. Lost a few seconds here.
# 12 - Again didn't like the out-of-bounds boundary. Stayed below it, then up to playground equipment down into the control. Lots of other orienteers around at this point.
# 13 - Nice easy handrail of the road.
# 14 - Went too low - then through crap vegetation to lower tree, past upper tree and to control. Very inefficient line. Possibly lost a full minute.
Total estimated time lost: 2:30
#1 - Planned to take major trail and had gone a little ways before I realized I hadn't done that. Re-planned and attacked from the small trail/stream junction. Hills were quite what I expected, so a few seconds of wandering.
# 2 - Small piece of trail, then left of marsh and into the control.
# 3 - Down spur to stream junction as attack point
# 4 - Up spur to trail, ran trail to the right, then in to the marsh
# 5 - took the trail a little then down the spur to stream junction. Up and past the marsh to ride with trail. Took this to the streams and missed the trail. Went up the second stream to the marsh, which was rather yellow and I thought the control should be there. Saw other people off to the right and went that way to find control. Lost about 1:30
# 6 - A bad habit I noticed today. I have a tendency to ignore excessively straight lines on the map. Like that ride. It was a perfect handrail for this leg and when I made my plan, it was like I didn't even see it on the map. Luckily, when I hit it, I said "duh" and had a nice clean leg. But I know this is a common problem for me. It happens a lot with fences out west.
# 7 - I didn't like the undefined out-of-bounds boundary, so to be extra safe, I took the ride and trail and then meant to attack along the vegetation. This was not distinct to me, however, and I drifted toward the lake. Slow approach from there. I was having difficulty seeing due to foggy glasses. Another fellow in the area found it first.
# 8 - Straight across to catching trail and then down the reentrant
# 9 - Straight across. A little hesitation trying to figure out the detail near the circle. What is that squiggly brown thing?
# 10 - Trail along top of slope to the bend, down to marsh and control
# 11 - Aimed off but hit much farther left than expected. followed marsh to control. Didn't really notice the trail approach until too late. Lost a few seconds here.
# 12 - Again didn't like the out-of-bounds boundary. Stayed below it, then up to playground equipment down into the control. Lots of other orienteers around at this point.
# 13 - Nice easy handrail of the road.
# 14 - Went too low - then through crap vegetation to lower tree, past upper tree and to control. Very inefficient line. Possibly lost a full minute.
Total estimated time lost: 2:30
2 PM
Orienteering race (sprint) 22:05 ** 2.4 km (9:12 / km) +20m 8:50 / km
ahr:148 max:163 shoes: Barefoot
Sprint 2 course at Sprague Brook Park. Although this was a sanctioned course, I decided to keep it easy to save myself for tomorrow, so I just enjoyed a nice barefoot jog. The rocky trails were a little tough though. My ranking for this year is likely to suck because of stuff like this :-)