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Sunday May 9, 2010 #
Running (Control Pickup) 20:00 [1] 3.0 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: 201004 Inov8 X-Talon 212
Picking up five controls from the long course. Nominally, the US Team was helping out with maintenance like control pickup, but there was a large component (predominantly CSU) of non-team members. Today's crew consisted of Boris, Ross, Sam, Mikkel, Brendan, and me. It should be noted that several doughty WCOC members picked up over half of the controls in the northern and southern sectors. Only the controls in the center of the map remained.
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:44:07 [5] 11.9 km (8:45 / km) +370m 7:34 / km
shoes: 201004 Inov8 X-Talon 212
The WCOC "The Hatter's Return" A-meet, Day 2 Long Distance WRE course at Huntington State Park. I had an acceptable race: a clean run with no major errors, good intensity and endurance throughout the race, no problems focusing, and a satisfactory result. My race was not fast - I finished 22 minutes behind Ross, and 9 behind Brendan, but I am not disappointed. I believe a run of this quality is now typical for me. I am quite glad that I beat Emily by about 2 minutes, but her pre-race conditions weren't optimal. Nevertheless, such victories are to be cherished; as I recall, this is my first non-sprint victory. I was both faster and cleaner than my long course at West Point.
On the long (800m) first leg, I charged off in the appropriate direction, noted the marshy reentrant and hill halfway to the control, and selected the big reentrant right of the line as my attackpoint. However, I wasn't in contact, and I quickly confused myself. I relocated off the marshy reentrant on my line, but lost time clambering up cliffs I should have gone around. I executed the rest of the leg ok, but I wasn't really in a racing zone.
I regained my focus but had bobbles at controls 4 (overshot), 9 (bad route choice), 10 (overshot), 12 (suboptimal route choice), 14 (hesitation), 16 (dumb route choice), and 24 (hesitation). I was in good contact for the latter half of the race. I passed a few people, though I'm not sure they were on my course. Confidently running past older orienteers is (perhaps unjustly) a good ego boost.
Of note, I avoided error at 26, which turned out to be a difficult control. I had just climbed some cliffs to 25 and was very tired, so I was a bit more cautious at 26 than I thought I needed to be. I checked off the boulder cluster, cliff, small reentrant and spur, and hit the control about 15 m to the left. Even with that error, I had the 7th fastest split. I also tied with Schirminator for fastest finish split.
On the long (800m) first leg, I charged off in the appropriate direction, noted the marshy reentrant and hill halfway to the control, and selected the big reentrant right of the line as my attackpoint. However, I wasn't in contact, and I quickly confused myself. I relocated off the marshy reentrant on my line, but lost time clambering up cliffs I should have gone around. I executed the rest of the leg ok, but I wasn't really in a racing zone.
I regained my focus but had bobbles at controls 4 (overshot), 9 (bad route choice), 10 (overshot), 12 (suboptimal route choice), 14 (hesitation), 16 (dumb route choice), and 24 (hesitation). I was in good contact for the latter half of the race. I passed a few people, though I'm not sure they were on my course. Confidently running past older orienteers is (perhaps unjustly) a good ego boost.
Of note, I avoided error at 26, which turned out to be a difficult control. I had just climbed some cliffs to 25 and was very tired, so I was a bit more cautious at 26 than I thought I needed to be. I checked off the boulder cluster, cliff, small reentrant and spur, and hit the control about 15 m to the left. Even with that error, I had the 7th fastest split. I also tied with Schirminator for fastest finish split.