Orienteering race (Middle Red) 1:02:22 [3] *** 3.7 km (16:51 / km)
shoes: Icebugs Sky Blue
Out early (9:15) a couple of minutes after Cliff (meet director). Beautiful morning, and I enjoyed being out int he woods.
I had about 8 minutes in error/stop time. Stop time included 1:20 to untie a bag and turn it right side out. Not sure if it had been hung that way, or it had been tampered with since it was by a trail,but it was bent and flat against the tree. There was also a control on the rocks which was hung too high up the hill and was moved afterwards. And, finally, a missing control unit which I spent a little time looking for. Flags and holder were there, but the unit had been stolen. :(
Came back and got the download set up and worked fast and furious for the next 4 hours. Lots of mental energy since many people were doing two courses, and things had to be fiddled with to allow the reuse of the SI cards. It all went well with two computers going, and excellent assistance from Jon P, Van and Heidi.
Orienteering race (Hemlock Sprint) 14:43 [4] *** 1.8 km (8:11 / km)
shoes: Salomom XT Wings 10
Working all day yesterday and then more hours today, then getting ready in a rush, and going out when it was hotter, are not good race prep, or maybe they are... I did take off my watch, so that I wouldn't obsess on how long it was taking me. My disadvantage of going out first this morning was made up for by going out last on this course in the afternoon, at least for one control. By then, I knew all about the now infamous #9, so I nailed that one, but I also did better than I expected to for the rest of the course.
I fumbled the first two controls by looking in front of each building, instead of behind, and the fence ones both got me a little, but it was really a solid run even if you take out my advantage to #9.
There was a brief discussion on throwing out the control, but the results stood. If you want to see the standings without the control, here they are.
Place Name Time Rev Pl Rev Time Places +/-
1 Torrance, Jon 9:20 1 8:39 0
2 Walker Jr, Ken 10:50 2 9:58 0
3 Bjorgul, Petter 11:27 3 10:06 0
4 Britton, Andy 12:02 5 11:12 -1
5 Ahmed, Nadim 12:31 7 11:36 -2
6 Bjorgul, Ane 13:20 8 11:51 -2
7 Hamal, Cliff 13:22 10 12:24 -3
8 Hauver, Dave 13:28 12 12:37 -4
9 Beecroft, Kris 13:32 10 12:24 -1
10 Onkst, David 13:50 13 12:50 -3
11 Matveev, Mikhail 14:34 17 13:29 -6
12 Sirbu, Mihai 14:35 6 11:28 6
13 Porter, Corinne 14:36 9 12:10 4
14 Meyer, Valerie 14:43 18 13:30 -4
15 Garman, Tony 14:50 20 13:52 -5
16 Davis, Don 15:40 19 13:51 -3
17 Dickison, Peggy 15:49 15 13:16 2
18 Bjorgul, Kristian 17:05 4 10:21 14
19 Enson, Roman 19:12 14 13:04 5
20 Schaefer, William 19:13 25 17:31 -5
21 Allaband, Billy 19:15 26 17:59 -5
22 Bjorgul, Astrid 20:30 27 18:16 -5
22 Bjorgul, Hege 20:30 28 18:20 -6
24 Smith, Gary 20:32 21 14:55 3
25 Barker, Zack 21:08 16 13:27 9
26 Mace, Patricia 21:55 31 18:43 -5
27 Nolan, Tom 22:31 22 16:13 5
28 Lennon, Max 22:36 33 20:17 -5
29 Minar, Petr 22:57 23 16:52 6
30 Chang, Jason 23:44 38 22:35 -8
31 Onkst, Heidi 23:46 24 17:04 7