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Wednesday May 16, 2012 #
Orienteering - Urban race (BOK Urban 5) 35:52 [3] 6.51 km (5:31 / km) +70m 5:14 / km
(injured) shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 9
Duncan's urban race around the University and Cotham. Well planned and required some careful map reading and navigation.
Sadly was very far from a clean run. Went around the sports centre to 3 and found that the map was illegible at the control site. Found the area around 6/7 and 16 fairly interesting as had never been there before. Spotted the obscured uncrossable boundary whilst on my way to 16 but then messed up finding the control - even went down the correct steps to not find it and go back up the walkway again!
Probably made a bit of a mess around BGS but liked the well hidden controls and hope others messed it up more. Last bit was in familiar territory so no problems, enjoyed the blast up St Michael's Hill - left Alan Honey well done on me.
Few issues with the planning/organising worth commenting on - taked route to finish not taped, even I thought it was fairly obvious but at least one person missed it! No BOF map number or BOF event number printed on the map - my understanding is that there is some silly rule that invalidates BOF insurance if one or other of these is not printed?
Good fun; by far the most technical urban race I've done in some time.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/178882926
Sadly was very far from a clean run. Went around the sports centre to 3 and found that the map was illegible at the control site. Found the area around 6/7 and 16 fairly interesting as had never been there before. Spotted the obscured uncrossable boundary whilst on my way to 16 but then messed up finding the control - even went down the correct steps to not find it and go back up the walkway again!
Probably made a bit of a mess around BGS but liked the well hidden controls and hope others messed it up more. Last bit was in familiar territory so no problems, enjoyed the blast up St Michael's Hill - left Alan Honey well done on me.
Few issues with the planning/organising worth commenting on - taked route to finish not taped, even I thought it was fairly obvious but at least one person missed it! No BOF map number or BOF event number printed on the map - my understanding is that there is some silly rule that invalidates BOF insurance if one or other of these is not printed?
Good fun; by far the most technical urban race I've done in some time.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/178882926
Orienteering - Urban 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km) +15m 9:18 / km
(injured) shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 9
Collecting in a few controls - lost one battle with a gripple but the others unlocked with less difficulty. Knee started hurting as I jogged out of Royal Fort Gardens...
Sunday May 13, 2012 #
Orienteering race (BKO Regional) 45:26 [4] 7.57 km (6:00 / km) +105m 5:37 / km
(injured) shoes: inov8 Roclite295 (1)
BKO Regional at Swinley. Blue course - 6.9km.
Started off quite well and knee didn't start complaining until the long track leg 3-4. Saw the control at 7 and decided it wasn't mine before changing my mind and going over to it. Lost 30s or so on 11 as went the long wat around the rhododendrons rather than through it.
Small miss on 19 cost me 10s and then got caught in brashings on the way to 20. The leg along the track to 22 and then onto the finish really aggravated knee so fell into a walk for a short segment.
Didn't see anybody going any faster than me in the woods, but there were a lot of people holding on to me and so I seemed to be leading a train for several controls. Very surprised to have been 4th of 69 when I finished - obviously problems with my knee are causing me to pick it up a bit better so making me faster in terrain.
Once again felt like hard work. Am I now trying harder than I was 12 months ago?
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/177713426
Started off quite well and knee didn't start complaining until the long track leg 3-4. Saw the control at 7 and decided it wasn't mine before changing my mind and going over to it. Lost 30s or so on 11 as went the long wat around the rhododendrons rather than through it.
Small miss on 19 cost me 10s and then got caught in brashings on the way to 20. The leg along the track to 22 and then onto the finish really aggravated knee so fell into a walk for a short segment.
Didn't see anybody going any faster than me in the woods, but there were a lot of people holding on to me and so I seemed to be leading a train for several controls. Very surprised to have been 4th of 69 when I finished - obviously problems with my knee are causing me to pick it up a bit better so making me faster in terrain.
Once again felt like hard work. Am I now trying harder than I was 12 months ago?
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/177713426
Saturday May 12, 2012 #
Orienteering race (NGOC L8 - Mallards Pike N) 45:29 [4] 7.04 km (6:28 / km) +100m 6:02 / km
(injured) shoes: inov8 Roclite295 (1)
5.5km 95m climb Green course today - 7.4km too far for me if I'm running tomorrow.
Ok to 1 and 2, but then missed the cut off 2-3 so had to go around the paths and lost a good 20-30s. Got 4 bang on then went roughly straight across the rough/felled bit to 5. Thought the return through the rough open went better but I did end up slightly off when I hit 7.
Route from 7-8 took inspiration from Paul Taunton in front of me in going underneath a high fence - from Dudley's article in BOK News I know such features are not crossable to the average orienteer but are not "uncrossable" - saved a lot of time. Tired a lot running along the Spruce Ride towards the end.
Felt like an average performance today but disappointed with execution of 2-3 and think 4-5-6-7 and 8-9-10 could have been much much bettter. Knee fairly unhappy with the path running - hence why I went straight for a lot of it. Very surprised to find that I was leading green by 10 mins or so when I left.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/177328264
Ok to 1 and 2, but then missed the cut off 2-3 so had to go around the paths and lost a good 20-30s. Got 4 bang on then went roughly straight across the rough/felled bit to 5. Thought the return through the rough open went better but I did end up slightly off when I hit 7.
Route from 7-8 took inspiration from Paul Taunton in front of me in going underneath a high fence - from Dudley's article in BOK News I know such features are not crossable to the average orienteer but are not "uncrossable" - saved a lot of time. Tired a lot running along the Spruce Ride towards the end.
Felt like an average performance today but disappointed with execution of 2-3 and think 4-5-6-7 and 8-9-10 could have been much much bettter. Knee fairly unhappy with the path running - hence why I went straight for a lot of it. Very surprised to find that I was leading green by 10 mins or so when I left.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/177328264