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Sunday May 28, 2023 #
Event: DVOA Colonel Denning
10 AM
orienteering 2:21:25 [4] *** 5.3 km (26:41 / km) +240m 21:45 / km
12c shoes: Inov8 O-roc 280 Red Threedux
DVOA Colonel Denning - Green
This was about half ok and half horrible. I blew the first control, apparently walking within feet of it according to my Garmin track, but the area did not look right to me at all and I went partway back down the hill and attacked again. Then I blew the second control, hitting the right reentrant but too high and then going higher (off the map!) into a really rocky area. When I finally found it I swear the "boulder" was about 3 inches tall. I was pretty uncertain on the way to 3, ended up above it but luckily looked down at the right time.
The control itself was fine on 4 but I went through a lot of rocky crap on the way there and my right leg went way down into a hole at one point. I was to the point of pretty much crying for the rest of the leg and wondering if I should just give up, especially when I saw a nice bench between 4 and 5. But the flattish area here was a bit refreshing and I saw a bunch of people and somehow kept on going. And then 5 and 6 were okay and in super nice woods.
7 was the same control as 3, approached from a different direction, and I still got pulled left (at least I realized which direction). The rest of it was mostly ok except a bobble on 11 when I saw a control above me and started going that way before realizing it was way too high andddd... it was 9 where I'd already been. Also 12 was down the reentrant way more than mapped, but this was in sight of the finish so I just kept going down.
Bleh, at least it was a nice day and not super hot.
This was about half ok and half horrible. I blew the first control, apparently walking within feet of it according to my Garmin track, but the area did not look right to me at all and I went partway back down the hill and attacked again. Then I blew the second control, hitting the right reentrant but too high and then going higher (off the map!) into a really rocky area. When I finally found it I swear the "boulder" was about 3 inches tall. I was pretty uncertain on the way to 3, ended up above it but luckily looked down at the right time.
The control itself was fine on 4 but I went through a lot of rocky crap on the way there and my right leg went way down into a hole at one point. I was to the point of pretty much crying for the rest of the leg and wondering if I should just give up, especially when I saw a nice bench between 4 and 5. But the flattish area here was a bit refreshing and I saw a bunch of people and somehow kept on going. And then 5 and 6 were okay and in super nice woods.
7 was the same control as 3, approached from a different direction, and I still got pulled left (at least I realized which direction). The rest of it was mostly ok except a bobble on 11 when I saw a control above me and started going that way before realizing it was way too high andddd... it was 9 where I'd already been. Also 12 was down the reentrant way more than mapped, but this was in sight of the finish so I just kept going down.
Bleh, at least it was a nice day and not super hot.