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Friday Apr 4, 2008 #
Event: Flying Pig XII
Orienteering race 42:00 ***
The Pig WRE. Except that it wasn't a WRE - not for me anyway.
We dutifully got up at 0330 (after packing until midnight), trekked to Timmins, flew to Toronto, and there a problem developed... The guy who was supposed to offload the bags from our flight onto the US Customs belt apparently felt sick at work and just walked off the job, without telling anybody about it. So we waited and waited (along with about 10 others from the same flight - all heading off to southern vacations), until finally they were able to pinpoint the problem and deliver the bags. Sadly, by that time it was too late to get through customs and onto our flight, so we missed it and sat in Pearson for a few extra hours.
Drove like mad from Columbus to the Pig venue, but arrived only 5 min too late for Katarina's start. Since it was a WRE, we were out.
She raced it anyway, and actually won by over 2 minutes despite feeling as bad physically as she has ever felt in the past few years.
For my part, I started quickly but a mistake on #4 and then I lost my will to push around this "extended sprint" sylte of race. Cruised around, in a not-too-shameful 42 minutes, considering I haven't been out orienteering since the US Champs last fall, and haven't seen anything remotely resembling forest or orienteering terrain in 5+ months.
It felt awful being out there, but it will come back quickly - it always does.
We dutifully got up at 0330 (after packing until midnight), trekked to Timmins, flew to Toronto, and there a problem developed... The guy who was supposed to offload the bags from our flight onto the US Customs belt apparently felt sick at work and just walked off the job, without telling anybody about it. So we waited and waited (along with about 10 others from the same flight - all heading off to southern vacations), until finally they were able to pinpoint the problem and deliver the bags. Sadly, by that time it was too late to get through customs and onto our flight, so we missed it and sat in Pearson for a few extra hours.
Drove like mad from Columbus to the Pig venue, but arrived only 5 min too late for Katarina's start. Since it was a WRE, we were out.
She raced it anyway, and actually won by over 2 minutes despite feeling as bad physically as she has ever felt in the past few years.
For my part, I started quickly but a mistake on #4 and then I lost my will to push around this "extended sprint" sylte of race. Cruised around, in a not-too-shameful 42 minutes, considering I haven't been out orienteering since the US Champs last fall, and haven't seen anything remotely resembling forest or orienteering terrain in 5+ months.
It felt awful being out there, but it will come back quickly - it always does.
Running warm up/down 20:00 [3]
For the above.