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Monday Oct 13, 2014 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (Arnprior) 18:23 [5] *** 4.1 km (4:29 / km) +25m 4:21 / km
22c shoes: Adidas Thrasher TR M
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NAOC Sprint. Of all the races I've run in the past year, this one has to count as the most frustrating. In the first 21 controls, I ran an efficient sprint race, avoiding the tricky traps early in the course and pre-reading legs effectively. My route choices were sometimes barely suboptimal, but I lost no time hesitating or making up my mind. During the arena segment at the end, I tuned out the announcer's voice and kept hitting controls effectively. I was in 3rd place at control #21. And then came control #22.
I came out of #21 with a simple plan involving two things: an accurate compass heading, and the knowledge that I was looking for a tree at the end of a finish chute. The problem was that the same tape used for the finish chute extended far north of where the control actually was. This was to block the food stand off from errant runners, but it confused me and I veered right of my original heading. I immediately saw the stairway and ran back south, but I somehow managed to miss the control and hit #20 instead. From there, I just took a straight compass heading north and saw it immediately, but the damage had been done.
Altogether, I lost a full minute at the GO control to a silly mistake that never should have happened. If I'd just followed my heading straight to the tree and ignored the tape, I would have hit #22 cleanly. Lesson learned: never rely on finish chutes for navigation.
I finished 8th out of 24 juniors.
NAOC Sprint. Of all the races I've run in the past year, this one has to count as the most frustrating. In the first 21 controls, I ran an efficient sprint race, avoiding the tricky traps early in the course and pre-reading legs effectively. My route choices were sometimes barely suboptimal, but I lost no time hesitating or making up my mind. During the arena segment at the end, I tuned out the announcer's voice and kept hitting controls effectively. I was in 3rd place at control #21. And then came control #22.
I came out of #21 with a simple plan involving two things: an accurate compass heading, and the knowledge that I was looking for a tree at the end of a finish chute. The problem was that the same tape used for the finish chute extended far north of where the control actually was. This was to block the food stand off from errant runners, but it confused me and I veered right of my original heading. I immediately saw the stairway and ran back south, but I somehow managed to miss the control and hit #20 instead. From there, I just took a straight compass heading north and saw it immediately, but the damage had been done.
Altogether, I lost a full minute at the GO control to a silly mistake that never should have happened. If I'd just followed my heading straight to the tree and ignored the tape, I would have hit #22 cleanly. Lesson learned: never rely on finish chutes for navigation.
I finished 8th out of 24 juniors.
12 PM
Orienteering race (Robert Simpson Park) 16:49 [5] **** 3.0 km (5:36 / km) +10m 5:31 / km
16c shoes: Adidas Thrasher TR M
NAOC Relay (3rd leg). I started the course alone, with the rest of the teams several minutes in front of me, so I wasn't really expecting to catch anyone. The first part of the course had some tricky compass-heading controls through flat forest with low visibility, and although I found #2, #3, and #4 without a problem, I missed #5 to the east and lost ~40 seconds relocating. From there, I hit #6 straight-on and took an extremely conservative route choice to #7, approaching it by trails from the southwest. The rest of the course was relatively easy.
The real story of the day was Isabel, who made up almost 5 minutes on the last leg to secure a comeback victory for our A-team. Congrats to Katrina, Will, Ethan, and Izzy for an amazing relay race!
The real story of the day was Isabel, who made up almost 5 minutes on the last leg to secure a comeback victory for our A-team. Congrats to Katrina, Will, Ethan, and Izzy for an amazing relay race!