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Saturday Nov 16, 2013 #
Orienteering race 2:05:46 [5] **** 13.2 km (9:32 / km) +449m 8:09 / km
spiked:13/22c shoes: La Sportiva Wildcat
Challenging course & didn't always meet the challenge, but some good moments and some bad moments. Very rocky footing almost the whole way, very not used to that, tiring! Biggest news is the #4 control that I biffed so badly, 17 min's worth...I actually came within 50 feet of the flag heading dead towards it before I veered off thinking I already flew by it off my left...AAAARRRGGGHHH!!! The GPS track shows I was heading dead towards it from my #7 control AP and I was ALMOST THERE so close I might have seen it with just a few more steps!!... AAAARGGHHHH!!!! So then I flailed around a bit doing lots of extra-curricular running and walking. Had some drift problems and fitness issues. But have to be happy finishing this one, definitely a challenge, but didn't execute as well as I have been the past couple weeks. Here's the leg comments:
1- spike
2- spike, hilltop AP
3- spike, trail corner AP
4- story above...I was heading right to it and was almost there dead on - AAARRRGGHHH!!
5- spike but slow
6- got drawn into wrong control but found real one not long after
7- so-so
8- Drifted way right over to 10 unintentionally...was surprised- that shouldn't happen! Had to backtrack west to #8 - slow- rocks, green, bleh, corner of parking lot as AP
9- paved road to hill as AP, spike
10- sloppy, drifted too far right into mess but got back on track
11- Trail, then cut contouring SW around hill to next trail, slow up hill, terrain intersect with trail as AP, spike
12- beeline, spike
13- should have been easy but wound up past it
14- river/trail AP, spike but had to re-tie shoe on the way there
15- followed river and saw it where expected
16- slog but got it, slow spike
17- ugly find but a find
18- ugly find but a find, slow up hill
19- spike
20- spike
21- spike
F- spike
1- spike
2- spike, hilltop AP
3- spike, trail corner AP
4- story above...I was heading right to it and was almost there dead on - AAARRRGGHHH!!
5- spike but slow
6- got drawn into wrong control but found real one not long after
7- so-so
8- Drifted way right over to 10 unintentionally...was surprised- that shouldn't happen! Had to backtrack west to #8 - slow- rocks, green, bleh, corner of parking lot as AP
9- paved road to hill as AP, spike
10- sloppy, drifted too far right into mess but got back on track
11- Trail, then cut contouring SW around hill to next trail, slow up hill, terrain intersect with trail as AP, spike
12- beeline, spike
13- should have been easy but wound up past it
14- river/trail AP, spike but had to re-tie shoe on the way there
15- followed river and saw it where expected
16- slog but got it, slow spike
17- ugly find but a find
18- ugly find but a find, slow up hill
19- spike
20- spike
21- spike
F- spike