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Saturday May 11, 2013 #
9 AM
Hiking 15:00 [1]
Running 10:00 0.11 mi (1:30:55 / mi)
Orienteering race 39:21 4.2 km (9:22 / km) +190m 7:38 / km
US Middle Champs - Moreau Lake State Park
Gosh, I love orienteering at Moreau! It's just beautiful, detailed marshy-rocky-ridgy terrain with no-problem vegetation. EMPO rocks for 1) learning it existed, 2) mapping it, 3) holding awesome events on it.
My race was solid, but not as speedy as I'd like. I would really like to learn how to go just *faster* in such terrain. Chatting with Boris, it sounded like he really kept high speed picking out big or otherwise clear features to pick off along the way, slowing only on approach to circle.
An overview (QuickRoute):
1) Possibly my weakest split, but I was scared! Bent a bit off the line to not go up cliffs immediately, then felt not quite sure about where I was, but going right direction for awhile. Some marshes saved me and came right into it, almost totally sure in circle.
2) Trying to just go online, a bit nervous after crossing N-S marsh about if I'd gone too far. Read contours wrong, didn't realize it was on the back side of a hill, luckily distance estimation saved me, becuase I felt like it was the right place.
3) Straight, left of hill top, leftish of swamp, straight W. Good.
4) Not totally in contact, heading W, getting to big swamps at first. Crossed first big one, realized I was in arc of swamp on it's W side, picked off things, using swamps mostly into the control.
5) Tumble on bearing, note where I was wrt big marsh, continue on bearing, spike.
6) Marsh, reentrant to reentrant, spike.
7) Left of line, then right of line a bit, really liked being in the reentrant with boulder 200m north of the control, just fired confidently in from there.
8) Fully stopped at 7 to put the picture together, then just a quick hop over the hill to the nose.
9) E to trail, snuck on it until a clear bend, then marsh up reentrant, over 2 hill tops and decend on in on compass bearing.
10) Scolded my brain to not notice Alex and slowed down to focus on listening to my compass, which took me the right way in a detailed little area.
11) Marsh, marsh, marsh, tumble down hill, over some nobbles, 2nd decent has my reentrant.
12) Boo, was firing it quickly along, then problems in circle because the hill I saw didn't seem to have an encircling cliff. Acutally, it was a boulder on an index contour for part of that, now makes more sense...
13) Wow, 25s or so down to Hannah on this one, just should have been more confident on my bearing and read my control description earlier, was thinking I was looking for a mini swamp....
14) Meh, about 20s lost here too, was too eager for the end, lost my head a little bit thinking the first low was the 2nd and then contemplating looking for the control too early. Didn't really, but slow.
15) Fire it away! But someone got me by 7s, c'mon, should be fast when it's a control on a darn trail!!
Ok, reading through this I did simplify more than I thought. But still need to increase the pace somehow!
Gosh, I love orienteering at Moreau! It's just beautiful, detailed marshy-rocky-ridgy terrain with no-problem vegetation. EMPO rocks for 1) learning it existed, 2) mapping it, 3) holding awesome events on it.
My race was solid, but not as speedy as I'd like. I would really like to learn how to go just *faster* in such terrain. Chatting with Boris, it sounded like he really kept high speed picking out big or otherwise clear features to pick off along the way, slowing only on approach to circle.
An overview (QuickRoute):
1) Possibly my weakest split, but I was scared! Bent a bit off the line to not go up cliffs immediately, then felt not quite sure about where I was, but going right direction for awhile. Some marshes saved me and came right into it, almost totally sure in circle.
2) Trying to just go online, a bit nervous after crossing N-S marsh about if I'd gone too far. Read contours wrong, didn't realize it was on the back side of a hill, luckily distance estimation saved me, becuase I felt like it was the right place.
3) Straight, left of hill top, leftish of swamp, straight W. Good.
4) Not totally in contact, heading W, getting to big swamps at first. Crossed first big one, realized I was in arc of swamp on it's W side, picked off things, using swamps mostly into the control.
5) Tumble on bearing, note where I was wrt big marsh, continue on bearing, spike.
6) Marsh, reentrant to reentrant, spike.
7) Left of line, then right of line a bit, really liked being in the reentrant with boulder 200m north of the control, just fired confidently in from there.
8) Fully stopped at 7 to put the picture together, then just a quick hop over the hill to the nose.
9) E to trail, snuck on it until a clear bend, then marsh up reentrant, over 2 hill tops and decend on in on compass bearing.
10) Scolded my brain to not notice Alex and slowed down to focus on listening to my compass, which took me the right way in a detailed little area.
11) Marsh, marsh, marsh, tumble down hill, over some nobbles, 2nd decent has my reentrant.
12) Boo, was firing it quickly along, then problems in circle because the hill I saw didn't seem to have an encircling cliff. Acutally, it was a boulder on an index contour for part of that, now makes more sense...
13) Wow, 25s or so down to Hannah on this one, just should have been more confident on my bearing and read my control description earlier, was thinking I was looking for a mini swamp....
14) Meh, about 20s lost here too, was too eager for the end, lost my head a little bit thinking the first low was the 2nd and then contemplating looking for the control too early. Didn't really, but slow.
15) Fire it away! But someone got me by 7s, c'mon, should be fast when it's a control on a darn trail!!
Ok, reading through this I did simplify more than I thought. But still need to increase the pace somehow!
Running 10:00 4.44 mi (2:15 / mi) +71m 2:09 / mi
C • woc 3
2 PM
Hiking 13:00 [1]
Hiking up again with Hannah, Alex and Tereza. Yeah team girls! =)
Orienteering 30:00
Control pickup, great to be just processing more of the contours up there, and funtimes until I was super-laden down with all the stands + water station debris... Tereza saved me with a helping hand about halfway back, woo!