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Saturday May 1, 2010 #
Event: USMA West Point A-Meet 2010
10 AM
Running warm up/down 15:00 [1] 2.0 km (7:30 / km) +77m 6:17 / km
ahr:135 max:168 shoes: 201004 Inov8 X-Talon 212
Orienteering race 46:18 [5] 4.8 km (9:39 / km) +205m 7:57 / km
ahr:175 max:186 shoes: 201004 Inov8 X-Talon 212
The West Point Middle distance course. Overall, I had a clean run at a respectable pace on a day when almost everyone made big mistakes. My run was not immaculate, but my mistakes were small, and my overall placing quite good. While I'm ecstatic about my result - 7 minutes behind Boris, and 6 behind Ross, I was not satisfied with my fitness and cleanliness of execution. Nevertheless, this is essentially my best result to date, and leaps and bounds better than my result last year.
I will post split comments detailing my routes. I finished 8/31, scalping several much faster orienteers whose made costly mistakes. I also won the finish chute leg by 2 seconds (woooo).
Positives:
- Started cleanly and conservatively to get into the map and avoid blowups.
- Avoided major mistakes on a treacherous course.
- Maintained a reasonably steady effort throughout the course.
- Had good, if not spectacular flow.
- Recovered from errors well.
- Chose and executed acceptable route choices.
Negatives:
- Fitness was inadequate, particularly for uphill legs (2, 6, 9, 11, 12).
- I was too slow to be competitive.
- My race had a few small bobbles and hesitations, e.g. at 2, 4, 8, and 10.
- While the conservative start set a good tone for a clean course, I lost a lot of time at the beginning. I was 3.5 minutes behind Ross at control 4.
- I had not thoroughly decided how I was going to attack the (n+1)th control before reaching control n.
I will post split comments detailing my routes. I finished 8/31, scalping several much faster orienteers whose made costly mistakes. I also won the finish chute leg by 2 seconds (woooo).
Positives:
- Started cleanly and conservatively to get into the map and avoid blowups.
- Avoided major mistakes on a treacherous course.
- Maintained a reasonably steady effort throughout the course.
- Had good, if not spectacular flow.
- Recovered from errors well.
- Chose and executed acceptable route choices.
Negatives:
- Fitness was inadequate, particularly for uphill legs (2, 6, 9, 11, 12).
- I was too slow to be competitive.
- My race had a few small bobbles and hesitations, e.g. at 2, 4, 8, and 10.
- While the conservative start set a good tone for a clean course, I lost a lot of time at the beginning. I was 3.5 minutes behind Ross at control 4.
- I had not thoroughly decided how I was going to attack the (n+1)th control before reaching control n.
1 PM
Orienteering race 18:30 [5] 2.8 km (6:36 / km) +88m 5:43 / km
ahr:181 max:189 shoes: 201004 Inov8 X-Talon 212
For whatever reason, I tend to suffer comparatively more on the second race of a day than much of the competition. Note that my heart rate averaged 181 for the course, but I was still four minutes behind Ross with only a 0:20 error at control six.
In general, I had acceptable flow. I was reading ahead well up until the end of the course. With the exception of my error at six, my splits were all between 15 and 50% back of the leader. I had poor choices at 1 and 7, and a hesitation at 14, which accounted for all my 40%+ split deficits.
Ultimately, my problem was that I was not moving very fast. A comparison of my splits with Sam is instructive, because the ratio is generally constant. Kudos to Ross, who crushed the rest of us like the British crushed the French at Trafalgar, and to Sam, who has fired the first shot of our conflict.
In general, I had acceptable flow. I was reading ahead well up until the end of the course. With the exception of my error at six, my splits were all between 15 and 50% back of the leader. I had poor choices at 1 and 7, and a hesitation at 14, which accounted for all my 40%+ split deficits.
Ultimately, my problem was that I was not moving very fast. A comparison of my splits with Sam is instructive, because the ratio is generally constant. Kudos to Ross, who crushed the rest of us like the British crushed the French at Trafalgar, and to Sam, who has fired the first shot of our conflict.