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Sunday Dec 3, 2017 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:53:07 11.89 km (9:31 / km) +335m 8:21 / km
slept:4.0 shoes: Salomon S-Lab Fellcross 2
Dontgetlost Icebreaker
Kings Forest Golf Course, Hamilton
Dontgetlost's 2-hr adventure runs are fun and fast, and attract a huge crowd. They're rogaine-style with the checkpoints assigned ski ratings to indicate their point values: green circle, blue square, black diamond and double black diamond. There are challenges in addition to finding the flags, e.g. dogbones, walk the line and whited-out sections of the map.
For a golf course area, the terrain was surprisingly diverse, ranging from very steep escarpment climbs to rocky stream crossings to pavement. The weather was perfect - cold and sunny.
My plan was too conservative. With the benefit of hindsight, I should have visited the double black diamond #65 early on. I ended up finishing my planned CPs with 22 minutes to go, then I just bopped around the golf course like a pinball picking up lower value controls in an inefficient sequence.
I used my trail running pack and debated removing some items I normally don't take orienteering. But since more stuff on my back = better training, I left it in. Good thing because one of the top women ran up and asked whether I had anything to put pressure on a cut with blood gushing out of it. Like a good adventure racer, I had a decent first aid kit with a big gauze pad and bandaids, so I stopped to dig out some supplies. She was eager to get back to racing; in fact, she did 7 controls in the remaining 20 minutes, earning twice as many points in that time as I did. Great stuff!
'Bent and I went out for a nice catch-up brunch with Browner, then headed to Milton where STORM had graciously provided dogsitting services. Then the *real* training of the day was done by Scout, Contour, BazingaDog and AdventureDog as they schooled all the others in the dog park.
Kings Forest Golf Course, Hamilton
Dontgetlost's 2-hr adventure runs are fun and fast, and attract a huge crowd. They're rogaine-style with the checkpoints assigned ski ratings to indicate their point values: green circle, blue square, black diamond and double black diamond. There are challenges in addition to finding the flags, e.g. dogbones, walk the line and whited-out sections of the map.
For a golf course area, the terrain was surprisingly diverse, ranging from very steep escarpment climbs to rocky stream crossings to pavement. The weather was perfect - cold and sunny.
My plan was too conservative. With the benefit of hindsight, I should have visited the double black diamond #65 early on. I ended up finishing my planned CPs with 22 minutes to go, then I just bopped around the golf course like a pinball picking up lower value controls in an inefficient sequence.
I used my trail running pack and debated removing some items I normally don't take orienteering. But since more stuff on my back = better training, I left it in. Good thing because one of the top women ran up and asked whether I had anything to put pressure on a cut with blood gushing out of it. Like a good adventure racer, I had a decent first aid kit with a big gauze pad and bandaids, so I stopped to dig out some supplies. She was eager to get back to racing; in fact, she did 7 controls in the remaining 20 minutes, earning twice as many points in that time as I did. Great stuff!
'Bent and I went out for a nice catch-up brunch with Browner, then headed to Milton where STORM had graciously provided dogsitting services. Then the *real* training of the day was done by Scout, Contour, BazingaDog and AdventureDog as they schooled all the others in the dog park.