Orienteering 1:14:55 [3] *** 6.7 km (11:11 / km) +90m 10:29 / km
slept:8.0 weight:180lbs shoes: Falcons 2018
Day 1.
Running at 6500 ft at Mt Bachelor ski resort.
I had run here about 10 years ago but didn't remember much. My goal was to run an easy consistent pace. This was training and not a hard run.
I am still a little sore from soccer but not enough that it mattered.
I started off just enjoying the cool tempature, no humidy weather. I really should have been reading the map. I got the area but had to relocate. Control said foot of cliff but it wasn't lowest spot. It was actually on a shelf up from the lowest area. I think there was unmapped rock at the bottom of the cliff.
Went to the circle fine for #2 but again had trouble finding the control. Either the control was hung slight off or I didn't like map. I spent time wondering among the rocky areas. I found the control on smaller rocky area that didn't match the map.
Went to #3. It was hidden in a pine tree, flat against the trunk.
#4 I ran across the field but was left of the reentrant and had to fight my way through the pines to it.
#5, I saw the cliffs but missed the control. I over shot and had to come back to it.
#6, I decided start reading the map more carefully. No problem to 6.
#7, no problem.
#8, got to the control area but there was no control. I relocated several times to be sure. Still no control. Finally, saw the control tucked in a pine tree flat against the trunk.
#9 Silly control. Long trail run with a dogleg right back down the trail.
#10, slow but no problems.
#11. Realized this would be a technical area. Decided I wasn't going to try and read every detail as I couldn't determine what was what. Instead I would go straight, pace count and look at the end of the slots. I missed the control and wandered a bit. Finally found it by relocating on a ridge with rock that was hidden under the circle..
#15: trail run. There was extra rock in the circle that wasn't mapped.
#16, 17: silly controls. Would have been better to take us north of the finish instead.
After the course, I realized there was light green on the map but it was printed so light that you couldn't see it. Would have been nice to know it was there.
During the course I also got confused by text on the side of the map that was oriented towards north. A Major No-No. I oriented my map wrong at one point because I thought the north was side of the map because of the text.
Despite some silly legs, poor control placement, and map irregularities I still had fun. Had this been a real competition then that wouldn't have been the case.