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Sunday Nov 7, 2010 #
Orienteering 1:12:13 8.5 km (8:30 / km) +250m 7:24 / km
17c
Hickory Run A-meet Red Long
So this was a very clean run, and I'm definitely happy with it. According to AP splits analysis, I had 6 seconds of mistake, and that was being a slowpoke into the finish. I was dropping significant time to Sam (and others on Red) almost every single control. I was really quite cautious, but I might have needed to be to not make costly mistakes (based on my all-overness of yesterday's middle).
I mostly had plans for the next route before coming into each control (occasionally did stroll into them while mapreading to make sure I could), although was a bit less disciplined about this than yesterday- have to keep the focus!!
1- Definitely scared. Did not want to mess up the first control, and didn't see a happy easy way in. Cut off the trail early, into reentrant, passed by the rocky bit, then into the clearing just E of control and actually pace-counted in.
2- Scared again. Was online, then on trail, went up to double boulders so I knew where I was. Then went flat, but that actually put me lower than control. Noticed when I saw some boulders around.
3- Still timid, but better, off spotted yellow.
4- Slow! Downhill, but not flying, came to the W side of hill, had to go around to the east.
6- Long, vague, relocated in yellow bits around trail above stream, then on a bearing from reentrant on opposite side.
8- Finally getting a bit more confident, went quickly on a bearing.
10- Ug. Out to trail, had a plan to take little shortcut trail down, failed on execution.
11- Took over stream immed, up old path, along trail then in.
12- Took indistinct trail, somehow did not find right way through green.
14- Route choice: down to trail, up to next trail, then crawled through some dark green to get to the corridor of loveliness along the stream. Sams route in the white longer was probably quicker though.
15- Remembered the green wasn't so bad here from yesterday, when straight-ish, but paid attn to white zones.
596/2000
So this was a very clean run, and I'm definitely happy with it. According to AP splits analysis, I had 6 seconds of mistake, and that was being a slowpoke into the finish. I was dropping significant time to Sam (and others on Red) almost every single control. I was really quite cautious, but I might have needed to be to not make costly mistakes (based on my all-overness of yesterday's middle).
I mostly had plans for the next route before coming into each control (occasionally did stroll into them while mapreading to make sure I could), although was a bit less disciplined about this than yesterday- have to keep the focus!!
1- Definitely scared. Did not want to mess up the first control, and didn't see a happy easy way in. Cut off the trail early, into reentrant, passed by the rocky bit, then into the clearing just E of control and actually pace-counted in.
2- Scared again. Was online, then on trail, went up to double boulders so I knew where I was. Then went flat, but that actually put me lower than control. Noticed when I saw some boulders around.
3- Still timid, but better, off spotted yellow.
4- Slow! Downhill, but not flying, came to the W side of hill, had to go around to the east.
6- Long, vague, relocated in yellow bits around trail above stream, then on a bearing from reentrant on opposite side.
8- Finally getting a bit more confident, went quickly on a bearing.
10- Ug. Out to trail, had a plan to take little shortcut trail down, failed on execution.
11- Took over stream immed, up old path, along trail then in.
12- Took indistinct trail, somehow did not find right way through green.
14- Route choice: down to trail, up to next trail, then crawled through some dark green to get to the corridor of loveliness along the stream. Sams route in the white longer was probably quicker though.
15- Remembered the green wasn't so bad here from yesterday, when straight-ish, but paid attn to white zones.
596/2000
Running warm up/down 7:00 [1]
Warm up before start. Chilly! Did some drills too.
Orienteering 15:00
14c
Total muppet with my Garmin, kept hitting start and stop instead of lap for the controls, so it's track is just confusing more than anything else.
Warmed down redoing the women's sprint course, focusing on legs that I hadn't done well, or wanted to try a different route. Tried different routes to 1, 2, 10, 11. Mostly the new routes were improvements, I think, although hard to tell as I was tired now! And must have been tired, because I totally made mistakes on legs I did fine in the race (6 and 8 particularly).
Took particular note around 7, where I made my 30 sec mistake in the race. There is a first depression before 7, but it is pretty vague and almost runs into the other, I would almost give it a bit of hint of form line than a true depression mark, but it's not really a mistake in how it's mapped or anything.
610/2000
Warmed down redoing the women's sprint course, focusing on legs that I hadn't done well, or wanted to try a different route. Tried different routes to 1, 2, 10, 11. Mostly the new routes were improvements, I think, although hard to tell as I was tired now! And must have been tired, because I totally made mistakes on legs I did fine in the race (6 and 8 particularly).
Took particular note around 7, where I made my 30 sec mistake in the race. There is a first depression before 7, but it is pretty vague and almost runs into the other, I would almost give it a bit of hint of form line than a true depression mark, but it's not really a mistake in how it's mapped or anything.
610/2000
Running race 2:38 [4]
2 x 100m (or so) on the boulder field @ Hickory Run, against JJ, who was much faster, particularly on the second one!
Such and impressive bit of nature, a sea of boulders!
Such and impressive bit of nature, a sea of boulders!