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Sunday Nov 12, 2006 #
Orienteering long 1:40:00 [3] *** 9.2 km (10:52 / km)
shoes: Integrators
I just loved my new O shoes, no blisters, so comfy to run off trails and on the gravel road as well!
Pakim Pond was about same type of forest, slightly more runnable than Wharten Park. And no bogs, whew, that made me happy! The club (DVOA?) did a good job organizing this event, I could not detect one glitch!
See rest of comments on Saturday.
One note: if anyone is reading this: don't stay at the Red Carpet Inn in Hammonton..it is a dump! We did not have one blanket in the room, so we asked for one, and they answer "Do you really need a blanket?". I thought they were joking, but they were not...and I have a few more other stories, but that's enough complianing for one day :)
Pakim Pond was about same type of forest, slightly more runnable than Wharten Park. And no bogs, whew, that made me happy! The club (DVOA?) did a good job organizing this event, I could not detect one glitch!
See rest of comments on Saturday.
One note: if anyone is reading this: don't stay at the Red Carpet Inn in Hammonton..it is a dump! We did not have one blanket in the room, so we asked for one, and they answer "Do you really need a blanket?". I thought they were joking, but they were not...and I have a few more other stories, but that's enough complianing for one day :)
Saturday Nov 11, 2006 #
Event: BATONA 500
Orienteering race 1:20:00 [3] *** 6.3 km (12:42 / km)
shoes: VJ's
Batona: Wharton State Park - reminded me of the forest back home in Bucharest (Baneasa) where I used to train back in the days. Flat, tons of trails, well, the blueberries were an added "bonus". So, that made quite easy courses (I mean, no matter what you did, if you ran 100m past your control, you hit the next trail :)
I did enjoy their fall colors (in WI all leaves are dead by now), but, the O in WI forests is still the best :)
Anyway, regarding my performance: my times definetely did not reflect the time I put into training lately. I could find a ton of reasons to blame on, but I'll skip to the good part: I did not feel exhausted!!Even after the long on Sunday, I was ready for 5 more k easily. So, it has to do with either stamina or no hills (I like to believe it's the first :)
It felt good, well, yeah, I was sick of hoping through the blueberries, so soon enough I was happy to take ANY trail route, even if it doubled the distance. Especially for the long legs (which I ran, on Sunday!)
I did enjoy their fall colors (in WI all leaves are dead by now), but, the O in WI forests is still the best :)
Anyway, regarding my performance: my times definetely did not reflect the time I put into training lately. I could find a ton of reasons to blame on, but I'll skip to the good part: I did not feel exhausted!!Even after the long on Sunday, I was ready for 5 more k easily. So, it has to do with either stamina or no hills (I like to believe it's the first :)
It felt good, well, yeah, I was sick of hoping through the blueberries, so soon enough I was happy to take ANY trail route, even if it doubled the distance. Especially for the long legs (which I ran, on Sunday!)