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Sunday Jun 1, 2008 #
Orienteering race 1:14:45 [3] *** 6.6 km (11:20 / km) +270m 9:24 / km
spiked:10/13c slept:4.0 shoes: 200803 NB MT800
The NEOC Nobscot Scout Reservation red course. Overall, I was pleased with my performance. In general, I had good route choices, kept up a good running tempo, stayed in contact with the map, and effectively used my time for planning purposes.
I rolled my ankle, and my right knee was painfully throbbing along the course; the former I will probably treat with ice, and the latter with weight training (I guess). I was just on the verge of the 10 minutes /k goal, but I was within my (2 times average(Ross, Brendan)) goal. (Ross won in 54 minutes; Brendan did not attend).
Overview comments:
- I still suck at interacting with other orienteers. About fifty meters out of the start, I ran into a couple who were probably running yellow or orange; I transitioned into my "look like you know what you're doing" mode, and got lost ON TRAILS. Sigh. I estimate a four minute mistake.
- Lakes are awesome attack points.
- I find that when actually orienteering through woods, I find a set of attack points on the way to ensure I'm still in contact. In a curious correlation, I find that adding attack points makes my split time longer because I take time to verify hitting each one. This was true, e.g. on control 6 on 26 May Long course; I had a good route and stayed in contact, but my split was long.
In depth description:
Apart from my trail blunder approaching control 1 (I overshot on trails by about 250 m), that control was easy. Control 2 was steep, but obvious relative to a significant cliff. I initially didn't go far enough south, costing perhaps 1 minute. Control 3 was a difficult, treacherous approach on a steep, leafy slope; my route could have been better, but I did hit the two trails I expected to intersect in the correct places.
I was proud of my route to Control 4; rather than take the obvious trail (and add perhaps 150-200 m), I hit a field and beelined via two rock walls to spike the control. For control 5, I had a good route and should have run faster. Controls 6, 7, and 8 all had excellent lake attackpoints, bringing me to within about 100 m in each case. From 8 to 9, I decided to go over a spur rather than contour around and picked up the reentrant leading to the knoll near 9. I figured it was fastest; the other runners I talked to all went over (and I'm sure someone as energetic as Ross and the Saegers, e.g. would). The remaining controls were all fairly straightforward. I put a lot of effort from 12 to the end.
I rolled my ankle, and my right knee was painfully throbbing along the course; the former I will probably treat with ice, and the latter with weight training (I guess). I was just on the verge of the 10 minutes /k goal, but I was within my (2 times average(Ross, Brendan)) goal. (Ross won in 54 minutes; Brendan did not attend).
Overview comments:
- I still suck at interacting with other orienteers. About fifty meters out of the start, I ran into a couple who were probably running yellow or orange; I transitioned into my "look like you know what you're doing" mode, and got lost ON TRAILS. Sigh. I estimate a four minute mistake.
- Lakes are awesome attack points.
- I find that when actually orienteering through woods, I find a set of attack points on the way to ensure I'm still in contact. In a curious correlation, I find that adding attack points makes my split time longer because I take time to verify hitting each one. This was true, e.g. on control 6 on 26 May Long course; I had a good route and stayed in contact, but my split was long.
In depth description:
Apart from my trail blunder approaching control 1 (I overshot on trails by about 250 m), that control was easy. Control 2 was steep, but obvious relative to a significant cliff. I initially didn't go far enough south, costing perhaps 1 minute. Control 3 was a difficult, treacherous approach on a steep, leafy slope; my route could have been better, but I did hit the two trails I expected to intersect in the correct places.
I was proud of my route to Control 4; rather than take the obvious trail (and add perhaps 150-200 m), I hit a field and beelined via two rock walls to spike the control. For control 5, I had a good route and should have run faster. Controls 6, 7, and 8 all had excellent lake attackpoints, bringing me to within about 100 m in each case. From 8 to 9, I decided to go over a spur rather than contour around and picked up the reentrant leading to the knoll near 9. I figured it was fastest; the other runners I talked to all went over (and I'm sure someone as energetic as Ross and the Saegers, e.g. would). The remaining controls were all fairly straightforward. I put a lot of effort from 12 to the end.