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Sunday Apr 27, 2008 #
Running warm up/down 8:00 [1]
shoes: Walshes
After waking up at 4:15, eating a bit (2 granola bars), and sorting myself out to race!
Jogged around a bit, then pranced around for awhile in the handoff area. I felt fine and awake at the beginning, but after being in the handoff area for a bit started to feel sleepy... Woke up for sure when I went out though!
Jogged around a bit, then pranced around for awhile in the handoff area. I felt fine and awake at the beginning, but after being in the handoff area for a bit started to feel sleepy... Woke up for sure when I went out though!
Orienteering race 1:18:42 [4] *** 9.6 km (8:12 / km)
20c shoes: Walshes
Leg 6 at Tio Mila!
9.6k during the day
244th place on my leg (6th leg of men's relay)
That was way fun. Some bobbles during the first loop, but altogether a good race and I really, really enjoyed it. I definitely found the terrain easier than Lunsen and some of the other areas we trained at for the varsity match around Uppsala- I think the mix of bigger hills and paths were what made it easier. Could look for bigger features instead of little ones, so simplification was, well, simpler.
My messiest leg was probably to #2- a path error right from the start, then was hesitant making my way north to the east of a big hill, when I didn't need to worry about much besides following the bottom of the hill and hitting the large track at the other end. Also confused 2 black-'O'-things (not even sure what these were? wells? they were obvious though) on the way into the control, which made me look the other side of the wrong hill for a bit.
Recovered from all that silliness fairly quickly and things were mostly smooth the rest of the way around. Bashed my knee real hard on the way to 4 though, ouchie for sure, and probably slowed that leg down significantly as I had to walk it off for a bit. Some hesitation to 5 and 10 as well, but not too horrible, I don't think.
It was also just a blast to be there, spectate, chat, and surprisingly, get some sun in! And met other American orienteers (CSU team plus Sandra from OK Tyr), which is way cool- hopefully teammates sometime in the not-too-far future... =)
9.6k during the day
244th place on my leg (6th leg of men's relay)
That was way fun. Some bobbles during the first loop, but altogether a good race and I really, really enjoyed it. I definitely found the terrain easier than Lunsen and some of the other areas we trained at for the varsity match around Uppsala- I think the mix of bigger hills and paths were what made it easier. Could look for bigger features instead of little ones, so simplification was, well, simpler.
My messiest leg was probably to #2- a path error right from the start, then was hesitant making my way north to the east of a big hill, when I didn't need to worry about much besides following the bottom of the hill and hitting the large track at the other end. Also confused 2 black-'O'-things (not even sure what these were? wells? they were obvious though) on the way into the control, which made me look the other side of the wrong hill for a bit.
Recovered from all that silliness fairly quickly and things were mostly smooth the rest of the way around. Bashed my knee real hard on the way to 4 though, ouchie for sure, and probably slowed that leg down significantly as I had to walk it off for a bit. Some hesitation to 5 and 10 as well, but not too horrible, I don't think.
It was also just a blast to be there, spectate, chat, and surprisingly, get some sun in! And met other American orienteers (CSU team plus Sandra from OK Tyr), which is way cool- hopefully teammates sometime in the not-too-far future... =)