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Sunday Sep 2, 2018 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:21:43 *** 5.91 km (13:50 / km) +178m 12:01 / km
ahr:124 max:147 spiked:9/11c shoes: 2017 Inov8 ArcticClaw 300
Throw away day?? (Results based on best 2 / 3)
Classic stage 2, Twin Boulders map (1:10000), Brown 4.2 150m climb. Temp around 60 (cooler start to the day today, even with our later starts) and sunny.
Lost at least 5 minutes and probably a bit more heading to 3 as I mistakenly thought the water cup symbol was my control when it was actually beyond, on the hillside. I might have tried to stay low, and found the cowpath that others said they followed along the marshy stream. But as I crossed the first stream (after finding a place narrow enough that I could jump) I saw another Brown runner, Belgian Linda V, heading up to the open spots and I went that way too. It was a long night time before I realized I was heading the wrong direction, and that my control really *wasn't* in that reentrant where the cup was. I then corrected and found the huge rocky spur to use as my Attackpoint. Got to the top of a reentrant but it was in the next one SE, for another few seconds lost (beyond the wide detour). Dave Yee was there; Soupbone passed me along the way out toward 4.
Fine to 4. Planned to go to the right side of the aspens and then pick my way N along various boulders and hills, crossing two roads before the control (forest corner???). Managed to catch a toe on a sage bush and fall forward jarring my already sore shoulder and right knee...ouch. Felt sorry for myself until I got up, then slowly continued. By the time I got to 5 I barely noticed anything. Nancy L. was coming into it from my right.
Ser bearing to the next one and promptly headed off in the wrong direction! until I noticed the N arrow on my compass was pointed wrong and the hill was dropping off. Turned around and went past 5 again, then headed off in the correct direction. Slowly picked my way through the boulders to find the 6m one at the edge of the yellow.
To 7 a tall thin fellow in white caught up, but checked various other rock features along the way while I continued confidently to my hill/cliff. Then it was down the hil, cross another stream (managed to just get a muddy shoe rather than a wet one), and slog up 5 contours. Fellow in white was going my speed so a bit of a distraction. Got a bit off line and confused by a rocky area that didn't seem to be mapped, so wandered above and beyond #9 for awhile before correcting and finding the correct bare rock and rocky ridge.
Then it was just find a tree on a shallow spur (flag was hung on wrong tree), and a "reentrant junction"/ foot of spur before slogging up,the hill to finish. I saw no need t run since I'd made so many mistakes already.
The F65s whose times were posted when I finished were both faster (73 min for Virginia, 80 for Leslie M). I wasn't slowest on the course, but only about four or five times were slower.
5-7 min error on #3, 8-9 on #9.
Classic stage 2, Twin Boulders map (1:10000), Brown 4.2 150m climb. Temp around 60 (cooler start to the day today, even with our later starts) and sunny.
Lost at least 5 minutes and probably a bit more heading to 3 as I mistakenly thought the water cup symbol was my control when it was actually beyond, on the hillside. I might have tried to stay low, and found the cowpath that others said they followed along the marshy stream. But as I crossed the first stream (after finding a place narrow enough that I could jump) I saw another Brown runner, Belgian Linda V, heading up to the open spots and I went that way too. It was a long night time before I realized I was heading the wrong direction, and that my control really *wasn't* in that reentrant where the cup was. I then corrected and found the huge rocky spur to use as my Attackpoint. Got to the top of a reentrant but it was in the next one SE, for another few seconds lost (beyond the wide detour). Dave Yee was there; Soupbone passed me along the way out toward 4.
Fine to 4. Planned to go to the right side of the aspens and then pick my way N along various boulders and hills, crossing two roads before the control (forest corner???). Managed to catch a toe on a sage bush and fall forward jarring my already sore shoulder and right knee...ouch. Felt sorry for myself until I got up, then slowly continued. By the time I got to 5 I barely noticed anything. Nancy L. was coming into it from my right.
Ser bearing to the next one and promptly headed off in the wrong direction! until I noticed the N arrow on my compass was pointed wrong and the hill was dropping off. Turned around and went past 5 again, then headed off in the correct direction. Slowly picked my way through the boulders to find the 6m one at the edge of the yellow.
To 7 a tall thin fellow in white caught up, but checked various other rock features along the way while I continued confidently to my hill/cliff. Then it was down the hil, cross another stream (managed to just get a muddy shoe rather than a wet one), and slog up 5 contours. Fellow in white was going my speed so a bit of a distraction. Got a bit off line and confused by a rocky area that didn't seem to be mapped, so wandered above and beyond #9 for awhile before correcting and finding the correct bare rock and rocky ridge.
Then it was just find a tree on a shallow spur (flag was hung on wrong tree), and a "reentrant junction"/ foot of spur before slogging up,the hill to finish. I saw no need t run since I'd made so many mistakes already.
The F65s whose times were posted when I finished were both faster (73 min for Virginia, 80 for Leslie M). I wasn't slowest on the course, but only about four or five times were slower.
5-7 min error on #3, 8-9 on #9.