Training Log Archive: BruceMeier

WCOC Long Distance Course 3 about 9km actual. Slow on 3 (should have taken diagonals instead of mostly roads). Mistake on 4 locating significant tree (went right past it). Mistake on 16 with a 90 degree error with distraction from course planner driving around in his car! Then seemed to be slow for next 4 controls (too cautious?). I have a suspicion that many had seen controls 20 and 21 before starting whereas I was late for start!. Finished with a good split on last run in to finish to take 1st in M50 but beaten by young Miguel for the course.

C • Congrats 1

Long Distance Course 3 M50, M16, M21B, W20, W35 - Splits

Event: Western Cape Orienteering Championships 2012
 

WCOC Middle Distance Course 3. Had a bit of a nightmare here and everyone beat me today. Started off well with 1st splits to 1 and 2. Then on 3 I blew it, went too low and missed the countour features, didn't track my paces, turned back much too late, then too high and past again. Finally found 3. Recovered well as far as 8 where I lost map contact. Lost more time on 9 for wrong thicket. Then really messed up 10, not reading control description ( north-west side, not on top of the hill!), going on to other ridges then to road to relocate...finally found it after Michelle came past. Still confused for 11 where Phil was also around to distract. Recovered a bit on 12, 13. Stumbled across the bracken but did not have a good AP for 14 and went too low (a 14th pos split!). Then a 1st split for 15 and 2nd split for 16 before it all went awry for 17, confusing the finish circle for the registration area. A good 18, but then limped into the finish after turning my ankle on the last bit of rough.

Middle Distance Course 3 M50, M16, M21B, W20, W35 - Splits

Newlands forest, Kirstenbosch and back

Plumstead hard 10k