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Saturday Oct 25, 2014 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:01:52 [3] *** 4.68 km (13:12 / km) +208m 10:48 / km
spiked:10/12c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Day 1 brown X classic at Mountain Lakes Park, N. Salem, NY
SL 3.8km, 180m climb...1:7500 / 5m map
Weather was delightful with sunny skies and rising temps (from mid 30s this morning when we left home, to low/mid 60s when we left mid-afternoon). Woods were quite open with occasional downed logs (some of them big, but mapped) and very little undergrowth, so it should be fun to come back here sometime. Map is a bit flaky* in places but contours are good.
I made a couple of poor decisions, the most serious resulting in my falling in the gravel road between 3 and 4 where I swung to avoid a couple of other Brown competitors on the beeline. Didn't save me any time (relative to Sue, anyway); once I hit the road I tripped and whacked my right palm (fleshy part below thumb; maybe I need some of those gloves PG uses...and kneepads) and left kneecap on large gravel bits. I don't have the swelling under the kneecap I got 2.5 months ago on the other knee (thank goodness) but it was quite tender on downhills later In the race and slowed me down there. Bummer... And the woods were great for running downhill in, just wish I could have done it. Tomorrow should be interesting.
Otherwise, found all the controls with no extra searching, though I was off to the right on 7 (boulder, 141), and 9 (boulder, 126). Also, I think the wide right route to 5 is better than the down/up I did to hit the trail east of 6. I went left of the lake 6-7, and around on the road 7-8 as far as the reentrant across from the park office. I noted 10's being against a tree near the road, giving near invisibility from the southern approach, but had two fellows going to it ahead of me anyway.
Without errors, and at normal speed, I think I would still have been 3rd/F60 behind Mary Jo and Janet F, who had a good run after her apparent mistake to 1.
11/26 overall
*besides being a bit cluttered with things you wouldn't note at speed or use as control points, I think a bigger problem is the size of some features...certainly some of the point features (and the small pipeline near parking, though not on the course), are undersized for a 1:7500 map, especially the rocky ground dots. The large boulder symbol used to represent the "2m" rock at 7 is almost as big as some of the buildings northwest of Hemlock Lake, when in reality it wasn't that big of a boulder (and not 2m high). And where are the index contours?
SL 3.8km, 180m climb...1:7500 / 5m map
Weather was delightful with sunny skies and rising temps (from mid 30s this morning when we left home, to low/mid 60s when we left mid-afternoon). Woods were quite open with occasional downed logs (some of them big, but mapped) and very little undergrowth, so it should be fun to come back here sometime. Map is a bit flaky* in places but contours are good.
I made a couple of poor decisions, the most serious resulting in my falling in the gravel road between 3 and 4 where I swung to avoid a couple of other Brown competitors on the beeline. Didn't save me any time (relative to Sue, anyway); once I hit the road I tripped and whacked my right palm (fleshy part below thumb; maybe I need some of those gloves PG uses...and kneepads) and left kneecap on large gravel bits. I don't have the swelling under the kneecap I got 2.5 months ago on the other knee (thank goodness) but it was quite tender on downhills later In the race and slowed me down there. Bummer... And the woods were great for running downhill in, just wish I could have done it. Tomorrow should be interesting.
Otherwise, found all the controls with no extra searching, though I was off to the right on 7 (boulder, 141), and 9 (boulder, 126). Also, I think the wide right route to 5 is better than the down/up I did to hit the trail east of 6. I went left of the lake 6-7, and around on the road 7-8 as far as the reentrant across from the park office. I noted 10's being against a tree near the road, giving near invisibility from the southern approach, but had two fellows going to it ahead of me anyway.
Without errors, and at normal speed, I think I would still have been 3rd/F60 behind Mary Jo and Janet F, who had a good run after her apparent mistake to 1.
11/26 overall
*besides being a bit cluttered with things you wouldn't note at speed or use as control points, I think a bigger problem is the size of some features...certainly some of the point features (and the small pipeline near parking, though not on the course), are undersized for a 1:7500 map, especially the rocky ground dots. The large boulder symbol used to represent the "2m" rock at 7 is almost as big as some of the buildings northwest of Hemlock Lake, when in reality it wasn't that big of a boulder (and not 2m high). And where are the index contours?