Running warm up/down (Street & Trail) 8:00 [2] 0.75 mi (10:40 / mi)
slept:6.75
East Fork State Park, OH. Warm-up for both the
Flying Pig US Sprint Course Championships. I ran with the model map reading vegetation, reentrants and manmade features to see how the mapper interpreted these.
Orienteering race (Foot) 20:50 [4] *** 2.9 km (7:11 / km) +100m 6:08 / km
spiked:10/12c
Flying Pig US Sprint Course Championships, East Fork State Park, OH. I ran the Red/Blue Course 3 and got my April Fool's joke in early. I ran confidently toward the first control and somehow ran over top of it losing 30 seconds. Next, I flubbed an attack to #2 by attacking from the correct reentrant, but then crossing the next thinking it was a ditch. After at least a 1:45 minute loss there, fatigue from the hills or the general weakness I've been feeling kept me from doing much better. I had no leg speed, however, it was reasonably fun. The 1:5,000 scale map was nice to read. Despite my travails, I got second again to Peter Gagarin in +M45.
Running warm up/down (Street & Trail) 5:00 [2] 0.5 mi (10:00 / mi)
East Fork State Park, OH. Warm-up for the 2006 US Relay Championships. Some of this was to jog over to some food in between races and well before my run.
Orienteering race (Foot) 1:13:44 [4] *** 6.1 km (12:05 / km) +265m 9:56 / km
spiked:12/15c
Flying Pig US Relay Championships, East Fork State Park, OH. I ran on QOC's 4pt. team with Dave Onkst leading (Green), Tim Good running second (Orange), and Ted Good (Red) running anchor. I ran a longish Green course. I really felt like I let my teamates down making a sophomorish mistake of almost 20 minutes in error on the way to #4. I had just passed other competitors when the crucial leg came up. I picked a sub-optimal route, executed it horrifically by going down the wrong giant reentrant, couldn't figure out what had happened for a long time (hunting for the control on the wrong ridge), then once I did, I still couldn't get to the control cleanly. I had just started feeling a little calmer when I wanted to put some distance between myself and a pursuer. The pressure of teamates depending on me to get back blew my focus even more after the mistake as things kept compounding. We were fortunate in that there weren't a lot of other strong 4pt. teams and the fact that my other teammates ran much better than I did. One good thing to come out of this besides our third place was that I was able to run much harder trying to make up for things than I had in the last month. Afterwards, I felt sore after the race very quickly.