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Saturday Apr 19, 2014 #
Event: WCOC Sessions Woods Meet
11 AM
orienteering 1:23:24 [2] 5.2 mi (16:02 / mi) +821ft 13:57 / mi
rhr:49 weight:131lbs shoes: Brooks something-or-others
Somewhat recovered from yesterday. Took a while yesterday evening before I could start refueling, but then drank and ate a bunch, plus a 3 am snack, plus a good breakfast.
And so off to the WCOC meet at Sessions. Wouldn't have gone except that Gail wanted to go. Wasn't sure what I would do, if anything. A little bit of walking felt OK. but a very little bit of running felt like already too much.
Western Mass rules -- note that those three words describe both a method of meet organization and a complete sentence about the state of the world. Regarding the former, 18 controls, get them all or get some subset (5, or 9, or 12, or 15). Nine seemed like more than enough challenge. So off I went for what I assumed would be mostly a walk.
And there was certainly a good bit of walking. But I also discovered that just sort of shuffling along seemed quite tolerable, so I shuffled a fair bit unless things went uphill too much or the woods were uninviting. The legs still felt dead, but way better than the really really dead that I was expecting.
Got my nine controls done, 48-34-32-30-31-35-33-38-41, and I must have miscounted because I then headed off to 42 instead of back to the finish. And at some point around then I looked at my watch, and thought about how I was doing (much better than expected), and decided I might as well shuffle around to a few more, and maybe even all of them.
So then 37-36-44-46-43-40 and pretty close to the finish, but there were still two left. I certainly had as much energy as I had when I started, more if anything, so might as well. So off to get 47 and 45 and then in.
Can't imagine that was the optimum route.
Only screw-up was on the way from 45 to the finish. Ended up on the main E/W trail instead of the one going by 48. Not pretty.
Nice day, fun outing, credits to Charlie and Bill for hosting.
And now, still feeling rather beat, time for a nap.
And so off to the WCOC meet at Sessions. Wouldn't have gone except that Gail wanted to go. Wasn't sure what I would do, if anything. A little bit of walking felt OK. but a very little bit of running felt like already too much.
Western Mass rules -- note that those three words describe both a method of meet organization and a complete sentence about the state of the world. Regarding the former, 18 controls, get them all or get some subset (5, or 9, or 12, or 15). Nine seemed like more than enough challenge. So off I went for what I assumed would be mostly a walk.
And there was certainly a good bit of walking. But I also discovered that just sort of shuffling along seemed quite tolerable, so I shuffled a fair bit unless things went uphill too much or the woods were uninviting. The legs still felt dead, but way better than the really really dead that I was expecting.
Got my nine controls done, 48-34-32-30-31-35-33-38-41, and I must have miscounted because I then headed off to 42 instead of back to the finish. And at some point around then I looked at my watch, and thought about how I was doing (much better than expected), and decided I might as well shuffle around to a few more, and maybe even all of them.
So then 37-36-44-46-43-40 and pretty close to the finish, but there were still two left. I certainly had as much energy as I had when I started, more if anything, so might as well. So off to get 47 and 45 and then in.
Can't imagine that was the optimum route.
Only screw-up was on the way from 45 to the finish. Ended up on the main E/W trail instead of the one going by 48. Not pretty.
Nice day, fun outing, credits to Charlie and Bill for hosting.
And now, still feeling rather beat, time for a nap.