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Saturday May 6, 2017 #
Treadmill 28:15 [3] 5.0 km (5:39 / km)
Moderate pace treadmill
Friday May 5, 2017 #
Treadmill 27:00 [3] 5.0 km (5:24 / km)
Treadmill 5km, took it somewhat easy due to right knee hurting since Minnesota. Hopefully just due to my falling on it, and no internal trouble. Pain goes away when I run (so should be OK for Billygoat).
Sunday Apr 30, 2017 #
1 PM
Orienteering race 1:30:15 [5] 7.4 km (12:12 / km) +180m 10:52 / km
Long distance at Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, last event in the nicely arranged MNOC WOC/JWOC team trials. I ran green, 7.4km, 180m climb, according GPS I covered 9.9km and 189m climb. Mostly nice open terrain with lots of leaf covering, and wet with many marshes providing alternatively good navigation handles and/or wet and muddy experiences (see below!).
Disappointed in my run, several really dumb mistakes. Right out of the start I decide to go NE to hit some trails, instead of the obvious due north to hit a road. To add insult to injury I managed a parallel error by confusing two trail intersections, and almost ran off the map. At least 2 minutes lost (Attackpoint didn't report that, oddly enough). #2 was OK, fun navigation, I ended up slightly north which cost 30-45 seconds.
#4 presented some route choices, I went pretty straight through, at one point saw a small clearing and made for it...turned out to be a marsh with 1 meter of water under the surface. Barely made it back to "shore", crawling across the wobbling marsh cover. Then made a really strange mistake as I got closer to #4, failed to see a small path and then just got confused, ended up 200-300m northwest close to a big marsh. Really dumb, had I just followed the compass and the contour lines I would have been fine. Have no good explanation for the error, other than perhaps that the marsh 250m due north of the control was mapped as being wooded, but was in fact completely open. Confused me but in hindsight I should have had more confidence in my location.
UPDATE: having now looked at my GPS track, my error was even worse! I ended up WEST of the large open marsh 500m NNW of #4, having mysteriously executed a 90 degree turn due West when I should have gone south, at a 90 degree turn of a path. No wonder I was confused! Lesson learned: use the compass, duh. Am keeping my old comments above just to remember how confused I got - lesson for the future, hopefully.
Somewhat made up for #4 with good navigation to #5, and decent runs to 6 and 7. Then made a ridiculous parallel error on #8, left the path too early and everything fit just fine...ended up SE and E along the large impassable marsh. Figured it out but cost 3-4 minutes. Really dumb mistake again. #10 was really easy due to the two big path crossings. Could have run faster to 11 and 12 and goal but legs didn't quite work at the same speed as brain!
Fun run but mad at myself for 12-13 minutes worth of silly mistakes.
Alexandra won both days in Yellow/White, great boost for self confidence. Time for orange soon?
Disappointed in my run, several really dumb mistakes. Right out of the start I decide to go NE to hit some trails, instead of the obvious due north to hit a road. To add insult to injury I managed a parallel error by confusing two trail intersections, and almost ran off the map. At least 2 minutes lost (Attackpoint didn't report that, oddly enough). #2 was OK, fun navigation, I ended up slightly north which cost 30-45 seconds.
#4 presented some route choices, I went pretty straight through, at one point saw a small clearing and made for it...turned out to be a marsh with 1 meter of water under the surface. Barely made it back to "shore", crawling across the wobbling marsh cover. Then made a really strange mistake as I got closer to #4, failed to see a small path and then just got confused, ended up 200-300m northwest close to a big marsh. Really dumb, had I just followed the compass and the contour lines I would have been fine. Have no good explanation for the error, other than perhaps that the marsh 250m due north of the control was mapped as being wooded, but was in fact completely open. Confused me but in hindsight I should have had more confidence in my location.
UPDATE: having now looked at my GPS track, my error was even worse! I ended up WEST of the large open marsh 500m NNW of #4, having mysteriously executed a 90 degree turn due West when I should have gone south, at a 90 degree turn of a path. No wonder I was confused! Lesson learned: use the compass, duh. Am keeping my old comments above just to remember how confused I got - lesson for the future, hopefully.
Somewhat made up for #4 with good navigation to #5, and decent runs to 6 and 7. Then made a ridiculous parallel error on #8, left the path too early and everything fit just fine...ended up SE and E along the large impassable marsh. Figured it out but cost 3-4 minutes. Really dumb mistake again. #10 was really easy due to the two big path crossings. Could have run faster to 11 and 12 and goal but legs didn't quite work at the same speed as brain!
Fun run but mad at myself for 12-13 minutes worth of silly mistakes.
Alexandra won both days in Yellow/White, great boost for self confidence. Time for orange soon?