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Sunday May 3, 2009 #
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]
Running on campground roads, including a few uphills. At first hard to get heartbeat above 125. Felt good at start.
Orienteering race 1:23:08 [4]
Still raining at 9 AM when team trialers went out. Zan and I went back to coffee shop - and 1/2 hour later - the SUN! What a beautiful day to orienteer.
Much steadier run. Very challenging course! Leaving start, looked at map, "Wow, 1 & 2 are really hard! BE CAREFUL!"
#1: Woods to trails then 'hopped' 3 rock piles - worked well!
#2: Cautious but used rides very well.
Lots of people lost big times on these 2 legs. Except for #6, rest of legs were well-planned and executed - very good map contact. Very consistent.
#6. Leaving #5 was very ugly - I left reentrant push me down and away from best route choice (redline to trail bend). I got down to lower trail (still a good route), running hard til U-turn which never came. Oops, I'm on the road paralleling the triail but lower (no wonder it looked like a road; no wonder it had two extra 'unmpped' bends). Okay, I'm not now sure where I am leaving road, but will climb uphill - attack from top if needed. Walking south on good but unmapped ride - that's weird. Kept going - 2nd half WAS mapped - it's 'my' ride - left to control. Lost 3-4 minutes.
3rd on M55 - Joel Thomson and I flip-flopped on the 2 days. He lost time early, got within 3 minutes of me after #6; but I had enough pace to hold him off.
Zan ran very strong both days - including Green on Sunday. She beat me by 19 minutes, but I won 1 leg! and close on two others. I told Zan that we might not run the same course again until wea e both on Brown:).
Much steadier run. Very challenging course! Leaving start, looked at map, "Wow, 1 & 2 are really hard! BE CAREFUL!"
#1: Woods to trails then 'hopped' 3 rock piles - worked well!
#2: Cautious but used rides very well.
Lots of people lost big times on these 2 legs. Except for #6, rest of legs were well-planned and executed - very good map contact. Very consistent.
#6. Leaving #5 was very ugly - I left reentrant push me down and away from best route choice (redline to trail bend). I got down to lower trail (still a good route), running hard til U-turn which never came. Oops, I'm on the road paralleling the triail but lower (no wonder it looked like a road; no wonder it had two extra 'unmpped' bends). Okay, I'm not now sure where I am leaving road, but will climb uphill - attack from top if needed. Walking south on good but unmapped ride - that's weird. Kept going - 2nd half WAS mapped - it's 'my' ride - left to control. Lost 3-4 minutes.
3rd on M55 - Joel Thomson and I flip-flopped on the 2 days. He lost time early, got within 3 minutes of me after #6; but I had enough pace to hold him off.
Zan ran very strong both days - including Green on Sunday. She beat me by 19 minutes, but I won 1 leg! and close on two others. I told Zan that we might not run the same course again until wea e both on Brown:).
Saturday May 2, 2009 #
Walking warm up/down 25:00 [2]
2.5K all uphill walk (bit of a jog) to start in rain - took umbrella. Didn't want to "warm-up" by getting cold and wet for 25-35 minutes preceing the race. Worked well. Stayed warm enough on course.
Orienteering race 59:20 [3]
Satisfied with result on very challenging course, some steep slopes, heavy rain. Visor & headband worked well.
Overall stayed in contact or 'nearly in' contact with map on all controls but #11. Several times when uncertain, I paused and considered 'where have I just been' - I rarely do that:) - it worked well - instead of drifting, I recognized a likely feature and pursued it.
Often cautious early - but it was tough terrain to find a pace anyway.
Splits showed I lost more time than expected on #4 (-3) and #11 (-6) - on the other hand several legs were better than expected - a bit of hesistancy leading to accuracy is okay.
Weird error on #4 - found trail, then could not find a non-existent trail junction - climbed up ugly reeentrant and hillside instead of turning left on trail and using it. ????
#11 was one of few controls I looked ahead to. These is NO easy route or attack point. I thought I had a good plan (use reentratn on left) and trie dot be cautious, but I moved right way too low to check a couple rock piles - drifted up ready to bail to top - found it. Gavin used yellow successfully.
No pace on even gradual uphills - but great last three legs downhill!
4th of 8 on M55
Overall stayed in contact or 'nearly in' contact with map on all controls but #11. Several times when uncertain, I paused and considered 'where have I just been' - I rarely do that:) - it worked well - instead of drifting, I recognized a likely feature and pursued it.
Often cautious early - but it was tough terrain to find a pace anyway.
Splits showed I lost more time than expected on #4 (-3) and #11 (-6) - on the other hand several legs were better than expected - a bit of hesistancy leading to accuracy is okay.
Weird error on #4 - found trail, then could not find a non-existent trail junction - climbed up ugly reeentrant and hillside instead of turning left on trail and using it. ????
#11 was one of few controls I looked ahead to. These is NO easy route or attack point. I thought I had a good plan (use reentratn on left) and trie dot be cautious, but I moved right way too low to check a couple rock piles - drifted up ready to bail to top - found it. Gavin used yellow successfully.
No pace on even gradual uphills - but great last three legs downhill!
4th of 8 on M55
Friday May 1, 2009 #
Orienteering 1:40:00 [2]
Walked and jogged Boggs Model event in poncho in pouring rain. It really helped to get a sense of the vegetation:
white was wide open pine forest; light green was very passable, low visibility, brush; medium green, slash green, and dark green were worth avoidiing.
No way am I camping here in pouring rain. Zan's friend's let me join her on cabin floor - Sam, Ross, Eddie, Clem, Christina, and Melissa were in the beds. Very comfortable, good company, next to deli, coffee house, and Bick Oven. Clothes got dried every night.
white was wide open pine forest; light green was very passable, low visibility, brush; medium green, slash green, and dark green were worth avoidiing.
No way am I camping here in pouring rain. Zan's friend's let me join her on cabin floor - Sam, Ross, Eddie, Clem, Christina, and Melissa were in the beds. Very comfortable, good company, next to deli, coffee house, and Bick Oven. Clothes got dried every night.