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Saturday May 11, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 51:20 *** 2.12 mi (24:13 / mi) +85m 21:32 / mi
ahr:128 max:157 spiked:3/10c slept:8.0 shoes: 2011 icebugs
Middle distance race at Lake Moreau. Avoiding the contact lens, and decided it was not raining when I left the car, but it was raining pretty good by the time I got up to the start, and that turned out to be a disastrous eyewear choice. It was remarkable that I did as well as I did, given how little of the map I could see. Stopped a bit short on 1, but otherwise ok. Got to the right place on 2, but I had seen the cliff as being right down by the marsh, so I was a little perplexed with no cliff there. Then I figured out it was up a bit and met George M near there.
3/ By now the glasses were very badly fogged, bad enough that I had to take them off to see where I was going, and put them on and look for a dry spot to try to figure out where to go. A little right of the line around marshes, then left to get up cliff and went right to the correct dot knoll, but didn't look far enough around for the flag. So some milling around until Geoman showed up again and showed me the bag.
4. My best navigational leg. Across the slim marsh, then left of the marsh before the flag and on the slim strip between the marshes and in. Saw people coming down from the right.
5. Couldn't figure out where to cross, and it turned out I could cross the big marsh by hopping from tussock to tussock. Only problem with that strategy was I got across and tried to look at the map but my hand was empty. I had to go back about a third of the way into the swamp to retrieve the map. Then some copious wandering N of the control before mercifully figuring it out.
6. Couldn't see three marshes, so went two, and a little disappointed not to find it. Press on and it was on the third.
7. Trail to the bend, then straight across the marsh on tussocks again. More or less straight to it, but with very little confidence, and saw a flag I thought was facing too far N, and was maybe sooner than I expected it, but luckily it was mine.
8. Another pretty good leg, under the circumstances. Across the trail and the stream, up some cliffs, then looking for the highest ground and the slot in the cliffs up top. Straight to it.
9. Feeling more confident here, but stopped just short and ended up drifting right toward the marsh where I decided I had to go back up, easy then.
10. I could see how slowly I was moving when Oslug went zipping by me, but I caught back up to her at the marsh, where she was contemplating which direction to go, and I had already decided to go right. A little extra climb, but I didn't want to go through the finish.
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3/ By now the glasses were very badly fogged, bad enough that I had to take them off to see where I was going, and put them on and look for a dry spot to try to figure out where to go. A little right of the line around marshes, then left to get up cliff and went right to the correct dot knoll, but didn't look far enough around for the flag. So some milling around until Geoman showed up again and showed me the bag.
4. My best navigational leg. Across the slim marsh, then left of the marsh before the flag and on the slim strip between the marshes and in. Saw people coming down from the right.
5. Couldn't figure out where to cross, and it turned out I could cross the big marsh by hopping from tussock to tussock. Only problem with that strategy was I got across and tried to look at the map but my hand was empty. I had to go back about a third of the way into the swamp to retrieve the map. Then some copious wandering N of the control before mercifully figuring it out.
6. Couldn't see three marshes, so went two, and a little disappointed not to find it. Press on and it was on the third.
7. Trail to the bend, then straight across the marsh on tussocks again. More or less straight to it, but with very little confidence, and saw a flag I thought was facing too far N, and was maybe sooner than I expected it, but luckily it was mine.
8. Another pretty good leg, under the circumstances. Across the trail and the stream, up some cliffs, then looking for the highest ground and the slot in the cliffs up top. Straight to it.
9. Feeling more confident here, but stopped just short and ended up drifting right toward the marsh where I decided I had to go back up, easy then.
10. I could see how slowly I was moving when Oslug went zipping by me, but I caught back up to her at the marsh, where she was contemplating which direction to go, and I had already decided to go right. A little extra climb, but I didn't want to go through the finish.
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