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Wednesday Aug 2, 2017 #
9 AM
Orienteering (red - retro-o) 2:46:58 ***** 12.48 km (13:23 / km) +299m 11:57 / km
ahr:117 max:158 shoes: red new balance trail
Canada 150 Retro-O Red Curse
12 C 6.1 km....
A reboot of the 1968 first Canadian Champs course at Camp Fortune done in the style of the era: black and white map, north lines @ 45 degrees to the page edge,...slightly revamped by Gord Hunter
It was hot and slow going but perhaps the hardest part ws getting used to the 1:20000 scale...
Up to 6 was OK....My only reflection in this part of the event was in taking the line from 1 to 2 deliberately instead of trails running it (which is what I was going to do and clearly would have been faster) but navigation was bang on so it was good practice...
Couldn't see 7 and by quick route I was right on top of it like I thought...so bailed to the trail to take 8...thought about going back for 7 but just in no mood for it...
Saw Sheldon on route to 9...taking the trail route so we went together for a bit...
At that point I was beat and was going to bail I didn't have any water and didn't wear bug spray so I was pretty frazzled...
I didn't listen to myself and pushed to 10 and all of a sudden came upon a yellow course control and was totally thrown...I asked Laura where we were and that should have been the sign to quit because I was exactly where my thumb was following along ...it was as if my brain skipped and I lost where I was...
At this point I should have gone to the trail and just walked back...but did I even take the time to think about it...No...I pushed to 10 and again apparently just missed it...
At this point I was getting a bit frantic and not sure where I was...so I took a safety bearing....and followed it but I had strayed to far off and was beginning to panic....The upside here was that the woods here were very nice to run in..
I saw a major water body in the distance and followed a bearing towards that what I figured would still hit the parkway....
At this point I was still running at seeming to get no where when I finally heard cars on my bearing and came out on the road....AT OBRIEN'S (P 11)
....Well at least I knew where I was ....and the running time was 2:32 so there would be no need for as search party on my account..
Ran a 4:30 km along the Meech lake Road in glee...called Colleen to tell her I was still alive and struggled up the hill to the download station to check in.
I promptly drank a litre of water and soaked myself in the nice cool clean up water I'd stored in the car...
Found out Sheldon and Oliver finished ...(yay guys) but the likes of Robbie A and Randy didn't....Colleen and Andrew had great runs switching to the "modern maps"...probably should have done the same...
In closing I just realized I started this reflection with a typo in the word course...I think I'll leave it as it stands
Despite feeling stupid the outing was still fun and made for one of those wonderful "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" o-ing stories.
PS...Somehow I did something to my left index finger...Ice took the swelling down but it still has colour issues
12 C 6.1 km....
A reboot of the 1968 first Canadian Champs course at Camp Fortune done in the style of the era: black and white map, north lines @ 45 degrees to the page edge,...slightly revamped by Gord Hunter
It was hot and slow going but perhaps the hardest part ws getting used to the 1:20000 scale...
Up to 6 was OK....My only reflection in this part of the event was in taking the line from 1 to 2 deliberately instead of trails running it (which is what I was going to do and clearly would have been faster) but navigation was bang on so it was good practice...
Couldn't see 7 and by quick route I was right on top of it like I thought...so bailed to the trail to take 8...thought about going back for 7 but just in no mood for it...
Saw Sheldon on route to 9...taking the trail route so we went together for a bit...
At that point I was beat and was going to bail I didn't have any water and didn't wear bug spray so I was pretty frazzled...
I didn't listen to myself and pushed to 10 and all of a sudden came upon a yellow course control and was totally thrown...I asked Laura where we were and that should have been the sign to quit because I was exactly where my thumb was following along ...it was as if my brain skipped and I lost where I was...
At this point I should have gone to the trail and just walked back...but did I even take the time to think about it...No...I pushed to 10 and again apparently just missed it...
At this point I was getting a bit frantic and not sure where I was...so I took a safety bearing....and followed it but I had strayed to far off and was beginning to panic....The upside here was that the woods here were very nice to run in..
I saw a major water body in the distance and followed a bearing towards that what I figured would still hit the parkway....
At this point I was still running at seeming to get no where when I finally heard cars on my bearing and came out on the road....AT OBRIEN'S (P 11)
....Well at least I knew where I was ....and the running time was 2:32 so there would be no need for as search party on my account..
Ran a 4:30 km along the Meech lake Road in glee...called Colleen to tell her I was still alive and struggled up the hill to the download station to check in.
I promptly drank a litre of water and soaked myself in the nice cool clean up water I'd stored in the car...
Found out Sheldon and Oliver finished ...(yay guys) but the likes of Robbie A and Randy didn't....Colleen and Andrew had great runs switching to the "modern maps"...probably should have done the same...
In closing I just realized I started this reflection with a typo in the word course...I think I'll leave it as it stands
Despite feeling stupid the outing was still fun and made for one of those wonderful "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" o-ing stories.
PS...Somehow I did something to my left index finger...Ice took the swelling down but it still has colour issues