Training Log Archive: LOST_Richard

Day 1 of the US Orienteering Champs. The Area was just 10km East of Laramie in Wyoming, really nice area of rock and runnable Ponderosa Pine. I was 2nd M55 by 20 sec but wasted around 2 minutes in the middle of the course I was heading straight to the control then turned right for some reason I think I picked up a bit of rock that I think was un mapped, but really lost a bit of concentration. I also lost just under a minute on the first control which you could see from the map boxes and should really have been the triangle and I could not see the number so thought it was all too easy to be mine! I also think the Triangle was 50m out so the control was too close to the start as it should have been 100m but was really only 50m. There were M50, M60 and M18 on the course and some of all of them also were ahead of me and I was 9th overall ? not sure what 3 minutes would do for the placing but it would maybe have been 4th or something. I caught one guy who was M60 who kept running away from me after every control but he was not good in the circle.

The race was at around 8,500 ft and whilst the up hills were not the fastest and some walking did happen it was not as hard as I thought it would be and I might try and push a bit harder tomorrow ? hopefully not with the consequence of completely losing the plot on the navigation.

The area was somewhat of a Peterdine area with lots of open and scatter rock and subtle contours so nothing that was too much of a surprise. Really nice low ponderosa pine trees and never too steep.

Straight line was 5.89km GPS had 6.31km
Looking forward to tomorrow.

US Champs Green X - Splits