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Saturday Sep 24, 2016 #
1 PM
◪ race (Long Green-X) 1:03:01 [4] ***** 7.2 km (8:45 / km) +320m 7:10 / km
spiked:10/14c shoes: Icebugs Spirit 2016
The most technically difficult race of my life.
I think that several factors contributed to that:
1 - phenomenal terrain,
2 - very detailed map by Mark.
3 - tough course setting by Alar,
4 - my fading eyesight,not able to read this map on a run,
5 - very thick canopy, creating low light conditions, even on a sunny day, like today was.
So it was defensive orienteering tactics for most of the course, but last 2 controls, coming home.
I would not count every time I stopped to read the map with magnifier as a time loss, everyone was forced to do that to succeed today. Getting into a wrong place was very costly, relocation difficult. In the beginning the tactics was to take short running sections stop, read confirm, select next target, execute and so on. worked well, just on a last section before #2 I was pushed by the terrain to the left ~ 50-60 meters, realized it when I hit northern tip of the marsh past the control and corrected quickly - 30 40 sec at all.
I think that several factors contributed to that:
1 - phenomenal terrain,
2 - very detailed map by Mark.
3 - tough course setting by Alar,
4 - my fading eyesight,not able to read this map on a run,
5 - very thick canopy, creating low light conditions, even on a sunny day, like today was.
So it was defensive orienteering tactics for most of the course, but last 2 controls, coming home.
I would not count every time I stopped to read the map with magnifier as a time loss, everyone was forced to do that to succeed today. Getting into a wrong place was very costly, relocation difficult. In the beginning the tactics was to take short running sections stop, read confirm, select next target, execute and so on. worked well, just on a last section before #2 I was pushed by the terrain to the left ~ 50-60 meters, realized it when I hit northern tip of the marsh past the control and corrected quickly - 30 40 sec at all.