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Sunday Apr 7, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (middle) 44:21 *** 3.41 km (13:01 / km) +127m 10:58 / km
ahr:164 max:177 shoes: Inov8 xtalon 212 B
Flying Pig Middle at Ransburg Scout Camp. Another pretty clean race. Accidentally stopped my watch at number 3, so some of the track is missing. One big error at number 3. Lost about 2:20. This was my worst error of the weekend and it was all from rushing to the meet site.
I always try to read the event info before running on the morning of each race. Today I was running a little later because of trip to church before the meet. So, even though I had skimmed today's event notes previously, I never really read them in depth. On the way to number 3, my attackpoint was a building on the top of a long hill. I got up there and was right next to a small shelter. I looked at it, thought "Hmm, I wonder if this is mapped as a building. It doesn't have any walls." I looked around and didn't see any other building, so I decided this must be it. Had I read the event notes I would have known that it WASN'T mapped and would have looked harder for the real building. The outcome was that I took a pretty careful attack from the wrong spot. Ended up where there was not any control. I then saw the control a ways away to my left, but it was far enough away and didn't look like it matched the terrain the way I expected, so I spent a while scratching my head before going over there to check it out.
Lesson: Don't forget to read the event info on the morning of the race!
Nice open woods again, by the end of the race I was feeling tired, but given the amount of climb over the weekend, I think my preparation over the winter really paid off. Once again the course was not as technical as I would have liked. Not a lot of opportunities to make big mistakes. Most of it was more like a wooded sprint than a middle.
Overall, a successful pig weekend. Third overall in F-50+ which shows I still need to figure out how to get faster. Time for more intervals and off-trail running practice. Too bad we don't have enough actual woods out here.
I always try to read the event info before running on the morning of each race. Today I was running a little later because of trip to church before the meet. So, even though I had skimmed today's event notes previously, I never really read them in depth. On the way to number 3, my attackpoint was a building on the top of a long hill. I got up there and was right next to a small shelter. I looked at it, thought "Hmm, I wonder if this is mapped as a building. It doesn't have any walls." I looked around and didn't see any other building, so I decided this must be it. Had I read the event notes I would have known that it WASN'T mapped and would have looked harder for the real building. The outcome was that I took a pretty careful attack from the wrong spot. Ended up where there was not any control. I then saw the control a ways away to my left, but it was far enough away and didn't look like it matched the terrain the way I expected, so I spent a while scratching my head before going over there to check it out.
Lesson: Don't forget to read the event info on the morning of the race!
Nice open woods again, by the end of the race I was feeling tired, but given the amount of climb over the weekend, I think my preparation over the winter really paid off. Once again the course was not as technical as I would have liked. Not a lot of opportunities to make big mistakes. Most of it was more like a wooded sprint than a middle.
Overall, a successful pig weekend. Third overall in F-50+ which shows I still need to figure out how to get faster. Time for more intervals and off-trail running practice. Too bad we don't have enough actual woods out here.
WU/CD warm up/down 11:57 0.69 mi (17:20 / mi)
ahr:135 max:163 shoes: Inov8 xtalon 212 B