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Friday Sep 23, 2016 #
orienteering race 38:09 [4]
NAOC 2016 Middle - Storrs Pond
After helping Max with his math homework, made the long trek up to the start. Was feeling ready and reasonably focused.
Made several errors but it was good enough for 2nd NA in F60+. First error was totally forgetting about the 1st control after punching it (it was just a control on a trail junction to get you away from the start triangle) so that when I cleanly navigated to my #2 I looked at the code for #1 and it didn't match. I couldn't imagine what I had done wrong but decided perhaps I was a little too far right and headed off to the left. But something kept niggling and I finally checked the code again and saw that it was my #2 and then it all clicked but lost about a minute. Good to 3, 4 and 5 but then missed 6 and had to climb back up to it (anther minute) and then took a not very fast route to 7. I also fumbled in the control circle trying to understand what I should have been seeing and finally turned around to find the flag behind me about 10 feet. My glasses were really fogging up by this time so it was hard to read the map but simplified things enough to not make any errors in the final section and only slowed down a little. So not a clean race but pretty decent. Was surprised by the placing.
After helping Max with his math homework, made the long trek up to the start. Was feeling ready and reasonably focused.
Made several errors but it was good enough for 2nd NA in F60+. First error was totally forgetting about the 1st control after punching it (it was just a control on a trail junction to get you away from the start triangle) so that when I cleanly navigated to my #2 I looked at the code for #1 and it didn't match. I couldn't imagine what I had done wrong but decided perhaps I was a little too far right and headed off to the left. But something kept niggling and I finally checked the code again and saw that it was my #2 and then it all clicked but lost about a minute. Good to 3, 4 and 5 but then missed 6 and had to climb back up to it (anther minute) and then took a not very fast route to 7. I also fumbled in the control circle trying to understand what I should have been seeing and finally turned around to find the flag behind me about 10 feet. My glasses were really fogging up by this time so it was hard to read the map but simplified things enough to not make any errors in the final section and only slowed down a little. So not a clean race but pretty decent. Was surprised by the placing.
Thursday Sep 22, 2016 #
orienteering 1:00:00 [3]
Middle model and Long model, just moseying around and trying to get used to the mapping.
Tuesday Sep 20, 2016 #
4 PM
hiking 54:36 [3] 2.72 mi (20:05 / mi) +108m 17:52 / mi
Meadow loop with Sandy.
Sunday Sep 18, 2016 #
orienteering race 1:00:19 [3]
More of the same - sloppy and slow.
Driving down to Seaside and then back to the event on Saturday afternoon/evening probably didn't help.
Driving down to Seaside and then back to the event on Saturday afternoon/evening probably didn't help.
Saturday Sep 17, 2016 #
orienteering race 1:07:18 [3]
Sloppy and slow. Still feeling really tired, my knees are pretty achy and my hip/butt injury has resurfaced. Still, no excuse for wandering a bit at a few controls.