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Monday Feb 20, 2023 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 58:03 ***** 4.09 km (14:11 / km) +50m 13:22 / km
ahr:134 max:173 spiked:6/8c shoes: 2022 VJ Falcon 6.5. GA
Cholla Chaser on a new map (work in progress) near Colossal Cave south of Tucson, 1:10000/5m. Temps were a bit cooler than expected (mid 50s, about the same as yesterday) and it was overcast, but I had brought proper clothes.
This is a handicapped race with a mass start. We entered a box of controls—how many of those you needed to visit depended on your gender and age. As an old(er) lady I only needed to visit one in the box. After getting all your box controls (in any order if more than one) you returned to the mass start area to punch a control and continue on a 6-control advanced course before finishing.
As one of the faster older ladies here I went to the closest control in the box which wasn't far off a trail system and a lot of other people headed there, so there was a stream to follow in to the flag. Then all I needed to do was return to the start and continue on the normal course. I was first back to this point, so I got to navigate 1 and 2 with no one else around, and 3 as well as AliC, eventually winner, who passed me on the road between 2 and 3, had disappeared. I then didn't navigate well to 4 so more people got ahead (including Eileen Breseman who was surprised to see me). The cacti were thick just about everywhere but seemed especially vicious in the section of the map around 4-5-6. 5 was at a reentrant junction surrounded by stiff-limbed bushes and cacti of all types and was difficult to get into and out of, but eventually I was on my way in to 6 which was close to finish.
Besides Ali, 13 others had gotten past in the second half of the course so I finished 15th, placing ahead of Clint and Glen and Rick Breseman. ;-)
I chose technical difficulty of 5 mostly for the intense focus you needed not to end up in too much prickly stuff (prickly pear, cholla, agave, yucca, catclaw, other plants with long spines). I still ended up with spines in my knee and feet, with some short ones still embedded.
This is a handicapped race with a mass start. We entered a box of controls—how many of those you needed to visit depended on your gender and age. As an old(er) lady I only needed to visit one in the box. After getting all your box controls (in any order if more than one) you returned to the mass start area to punch a control and continue on a 6-control advanced course before finishing.
As one of the faster older ladies here I went to the closest control in the box which wasn't far off a trail system and a lot of other people headed there, so there was a stream to follow in to the flag. Then all I needed to do was return to the start and continue on the normal course. I was first back to this point, so I got to navigate 1 and 2 with no one else around, and 3 as well as AliC, eventually winner, who passed me on the road between 2 and 3, had disappeared. I then didn't navigate well to 4 so more people got ahead (including Eileen Breseman who was surprised to see me). The cacti were thick just about everywhere but seemed especially vicious in the section of the map around 4-5-6. 5 was at a reentrant junction surrounded by stiff-limbed bushes and cacti of all types and was difficult to get into and out of, but eventually I was on my way in to 6 which was close to finish.
Besides Ali, 13 others had gotten past in the second half of the course so I finished 15th, placing ahead of Clint and Glen and Rick Breseman. ;-)
I chose technical difficulty of 5 mostly for the intense focus you needed not to end up in too much prickly stuff (prickly pear, cholla, agave, yucca, catclaw, other plants with long spines). I still ended up with spines in my knee and feet, with some short ones still embedded.
5 PM
Note
After we got back to the AirBnB we ran a load of wash and sat out back on the "patio"-- an area with a fiber rug plus a roof held up by posts, and netting facing west to cut the sun's rays. Also had five seats (two that were much more comfortable than the others).
Dinner plans are to visit El Berraco, a fish place we've eaten at before. Last night was a social activity at Three Canyons in NE Tucson near Sabino Canyon. We had pulled pork quesadillas and beer. The night before we ate at Noble Hops on the north side (after Starbucks).
Dinner plans are to visit El Berraco, a fish place we've eaten at before. Last night was a social activity at Three Canyons in NE Tucson near Sabino Canyon. We had pulled pork quesadillas and beer. The night before we ate at Noble Hops on the north side (after Starbucks).