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Saturday Nov 1, 2008 #
Event: Nottingcook Forest
trail running 5:00 [3]
shoes: saloman
A little warm-up.
orienteering 56:16 [3] 5.3 km (10:37 / km)
shoes: saloman
UNO local meet at Nottingcook Forest, site of an A meet last fall and the Billygoat next spring. Last fall lots of people had not so clean runs -- the forest is not so easy for orienteering, a combination of a reasonably complicated topography and varied vegetation. It's not really thick, it's not really nasty, it just isn't all that fast and the visibility isn't all that good. And it keeps changing, little bits quite open, little bits thick, always changing. So there's a continual conflict between wanting to run a straight line and wanting to find the best running. And the result is that it is easy to make mistakes.
I had a decent run, one bad control, a couple of minutes, and maybe another minute total on a couple of others. Wasn't moving great, legs a little less than fresh, but still would have taken a clean run to be 10 minutes per km. Which was about what I was doing last fall. As I said, not a fast forest.
My routes and a few comments --
Note: Master maps and pin punching today, but an interesting forest (i.e. if you can't have everything, a good forest easily beats high tech).
3. Too far left leaving 2, and then couldn't convince myself to go look where the control was until I'd spent quite a while circling a very small area. 3:20 for a leg less than 100 meters. :-(
8. The "crossable" marsh looked totally unappealing (deep water, green slime...).
9. Past the edge of the knoll, southwest, after a bit saw the control way back to my right. There was no clear end of the marsh. I actually stopped for a moment after I punched to check the bearing back to the knoll and it was due east. So something was a little fishy, but no big deal.
10. Quite thick in the last 100 meters, also lots of rock, all sorts of boulders almost big enough to be mapped. Getting confused, saw the cliff, found it on the map and was ok. Lost maybe 45 seconds.
11. Caught up to a guy in a red hat, punched together, never saw him again.
12. Moving much better, visions of a guy in a red hat beating me to the control.
14. Trouble reading the map as I started down the last steep hill. I remember thinking, just go down a couple lines from the bottom and figure it out. Got lucky, spotted the control right ahead of me when I couldn't have said exactly where I was.
15. Little teeny knoll just before the last up told me right where I was.
16. Moving really good, passed Hans Bengtsson, patron saint of NEOC, sort of knew where I was all the time, back in control at the end and spiked it. And then in.
Thanks to Bob Lux and the UNO folks for a nice day in the woods.
I had a decent run, one bad control, a couple of minutes, and maybe another minute total on a couple of others. Wasn't moving great, legs a little less than fresh, but still would have taken a clean run to be 10 minutes per km. Which was about what I was doing last fall. As I said, not a fast forest.
My routes and a few comments --
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Note: Master maps and pin punching today, but an interesting forest (i.e. if you can't have everything, a good forest easily beats high tech).
3. Too far left leaving 2, and then couldn't convince myself to go look where the control was until I'd spent quite a while circling a very small area. 3:20 for a leg less than 100 meters. :-(
8. The "crossable" marsh looked totally unappealing (deep water, green slime...).
9. Past the edge of the knoll, southwest, after a bit saw the control way back to my right. There was no clear end of the marsh. I actually stopped for a moment after I punched to check the bearing back to the knoll and it was due east. So something was a little fishy, but no big deal.
10. Quite thick in the last 100 meters, also lots of rock, all sorts of boulders almost big enough to be mapped. Getting confused, saw the cliff, found it on the map and was ok. Lost maybe 45 seconds.
11. Caught up to a guy in a red hat, punched together, never saw him again.
12. Moving much better, visions of a guy in a red hat beating me to the control.
14. Trouble reading the map as I started down the last steep hill. I remember thinking, just go down a couple lines from the bottom and figure it out. Got lucky, spotted the control right ahead of me when I couldn't have said exactly where I was.
15. Little teeny knoll just before the last up told me right where I was.
16. Moving really good, passed Hans Bengtsson, patron saint of NEOC, sort of knew where I was all the time, back in control at the end and spiked it. And then in.
Thanks to Bob Lux and the UNO folks for a nice day in the woods.
trail running 25:09 [3]
Gail wasn't in when I finished, so I went right back out just to run a bit more. Nice trail loop, plus I spotted her on her way to the next to last control.
Map is hard to read on the run, even when on trails. I can pick out some stuff, but not very well. The eyes are fading. I suppose I should be doing exercises for them too. Eye-yoga?
Map is hard to read on the run, even when on trails. I can pick out some stuff, but not very well. The eyes are fading. I suppose I should be doing exercises for them too. Eye-yoga?
Note
So October was a really good month for training, 46 hours and doing something every day. And enjoying it a lot. In the back of the mind is a goal of 365 hours for the year, at 319 now, most will need to be in November. Got to keep at it if I want to take any more scalps. And taking a scalp is so much fun.... :-)
Yesterday: 2/6 (yc), need improvement.
Tomorrow: No orienteering, drove enough today. Plan is either a 18.4-mile trail run (distance according to the guide book, not the website) or a local 5-mile road race. Haven't decided which, and doing both is out of the question.
Yesterday: 2/6 (yc), need improvement.
Tomorrow: No orienteering, drove enough today. Plan is either a 18.4-mile trail run (distance according to the guide book, not the website) or a local 5-mile road race. Haven't decided which, and doing both is out of the question.