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Friday Jul 31, 2015 #
Event: WOC 2015 & Scottish 6 days
10 AM
Running 2:36 [1] 0.27 mi (9:40 / mi) +3m 9:20 / mi
Orienteering 18:06 [2] 1.8 mi (10:04 / mi) +39m 9:26 / mi
5 PM
Running 7:29 [1] 0.97 mi (7:41 / mi) +3m 7:37 / mi
Drills 2:25 [1] 0.2 mi (12:09 / mi)
6 PM
Orienteering race 13:40 [4] 3.4 km (4:01 / km) +10m 3:58 / km
Sprint Quali @ Forres West
Woo, 6th! So made it through. But nearly a minute behind the leader of my heat, so room for improvement for sure.
I ran how I wanted to. Fully focused, keeping contact with the map. The course basically was two different zones of detailed housing estates where you really needed to stay in contact, but there weren't many traps, so little punishment for not planning ahead. To be honest, I wasn't great at planning ahead, mostly seeing the direction I needed to leave so I could flow through controls (SI Air!).
In between the two zones of housing estates was a big route choice with a left-middle-right route choice. The middle route choice featured temporary hay bale stair cases over otherwise uncrossable walls. I saw the left choice and the right choice, but not the middle. So I started on the right choice, but then I saw other women going over the hay bales, panicked, turned around to go back to them and then executed the middle choice. Not fast. I definitely lost time on that turn-around maneouver and it turns out the right hand choice was course-setters preference anyways. Will have to look at splits to see how much it cost!
Sprint Quali Play-by-Play
To the start with Portugal and Switzerland. No extreme nerves, didn’t have that over-anxious twitchiness. Noted that we’d be heading S to the start triangle from the release, so was ready to look for start in SE corner of map and then orient immediately.
1) Calm, just cruising behind Portugal and Switzerland until they went ways I didn’t want to go. Comparing with Greg, he had a slightly smoother more southerly arc than I did.
2) A choice to use the passages to the left of the line or the wider opening to the right. I chose the passages because it looked a little more direct and I could flow through 2 to 3 easily. A car nestled very close to a wall impeded progress at one point.
3) Easy, planned to flow through.
4) Left route to correct passage to series of open awkward courtyards. Used the same way as I left them to #1, because I recognized it and it helped flow through 4.
5) Went left and then ducked in first passage to sweep by it and leave by the other. Greg again had a better arc heading right into the car park that the control was in.
6) Easy, flowed through.
7) Picked my way out of the housing estate and found the right passage (an earlier one I glanced at didn’t go through, happy to know it didn’t).
8) Route choice! I was definitely affected by seeing other runners coming at me as I went into 7. It made it easier to make the choice to go wide right, which I saw definitely went through. I was executing that route when eep! I saw other runners in a field. Look at map again- oh! There are hay bales, yep you can go that way. Does it look ok? Yes. Change mind turn around, lose time. Bah. Still don’t have splits, so unsure how much it cost me.
9) Chasing down Niamh, helpful.
10) Passage-road-passage, made the call to turn around and go the way I came to 11. (Gotta make these decisions early with SI Air!)
11) Retraced, cut right and through 11.
12) Right of the line, diagnoling through fields and parking lots as much as possible. Saw the next route choice to 13, liked the look of going left and it let be flow through 12.
13) Ooh, heading into spectatorness! Told myself to just keep reading the map as much as I needed to, ignore how it looks. Read the fences just fine for a good route to 13.
14) Right of fence route.
15) Just heading in, checked the code anyways to make totally sure.
Finish) Strong, but not a level that would cook my legs, I felt like I’d had a good enough race to make it without contesting every last second. Luckily was true!
Woo, 6th! So made it through. But nearly a minute behind the leader of my heat, so room for improvement for sure.
I ran how I wanted to. Fully focused, keeping contact with the map. The course basically was two different zones of detailed housing estates where you really needed to stay in contact, but there weren't many traps, so little punishment for not planning ahead. To be honest, I wasn't great at planning ahead, mostly seeing the direction I needed to leave so I could flow through controls (SI Air!).
In between the two zones of housing estates was a big route choice with a left-middle-right route choice. The middle route choice featured temporary hay bale stair cases over otherwise uncrossable walls. I saw the left choice and the right choice, but not the middle. So I started on the right choice, but then I saw other women going over the hay bales, panicked, turned around to go back to them and then executed the middle choice. Not fast. I definitely lost time on that turn-around maneouver and it turns out the right hand choice was course-setters preference anyways. Will have to look at splits to see how much it cost!
Sprint Quali Play-by-Play
To the start with Portugal and Switzerland. No extreme nerves, didn’t have that over-anxious twitchiness. Noted that we’d be heading S to the start triangle from the release, so was ready to look for start in SE corner of map and then orient immediately.
1) Calm, just cruising behind Portugal and Switzerland until they went ways I didn’t want to go. Comparing with Greg, he had a slightly smoother more southerly arc than I did.
2) A choice to use the passages to the left of the line or the wider opening to the right. I chose the passages because it looked a little more direct and I could flow through 2 to 3 easily. A car nestled very close to a wall impeded progress at one point.
3) Easy, planned to flow through.
4) Left route to correct passage to series of open awkward courtyards. Used the same way as I left them to #1, because I recognized it and it helped flow through 4.
5) Went left and then ducked in first passage to sweep by it and leave by the other. Greg again had a better arc heading right into the car park that the control was in.
6) Easy, flowed through.
7) Picked my way out of the housing estate and found the right passage (an earlier one I glanced at didn’t go through, happy to know it didn’t).
8) Route choice! I was definitely affected by seeing other runners coming at me as I went into 7. It made it easier to make the choice to go wide right, which I saw definitely went through. I was executing that route when eep! I saw other runners in a field. Look at map again- oh! There are hay bales, yep you can go that way. Does it look ok? Yes. Change mind turn around, lose time. Bah. Still don’t have splits, so unsure how much it cost me.
9) Chasing down Niamh, helpful.
10) Passage-road-passage, made the call to turn around and go the way I came to 11. (Gotta make these decisions early with SI Air!)
11) Retraced, cut right and through 11.
12) Right of the line, diagnoling through fields and parking lots as much as possible. Saw the next route choice to 13, liked the look of going left and it let be flow through 12.
13) Ooh, heading into spectatorness! Told myself to just keep reading the map as much as I needed to, ignore how it looks. Read the fences just fine for a good route to 13.
14) Right of fence route.
15) Just heading in, checked the code anyways to make totally sure.
Finish) Strong, but not a level that would cook my legs, I felt like I’d had a good enough race to make it without contesting every last second. Luckily was true!