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Saturday Apr 30, 2011 #
Event: West Point A-meet
9 AM
Running warm up/down 9:52 1.5 km (6:35 / km) +60m 5:29 / km
ahr:155 max:170 shoes: Inov-8 Orocs
Warm up to the West Point Middle. Long route up hill - everything felt ok.
Orienteering race (Middle) 57:23 **** 5.79 km (9:55 / km) +211m 8:23 / km
ahr:167 max:185 shoes: Inov-8 Orocs
West Point middle race. I am so out of shape! Partly because I am so out of shape I couldn't properly get into this race. The thick scraggly blueberries sapping energy and slowing everything down didn't help of course.
COMPASS, COMPASS, COMPASS! I've been getting better about using my compass more but as my gps track shows it's not good enough yet! The first control at least I was able to correct quickly and then had no problem finding the control but the 6th leg was hideous and lost me probably 4 minutes.
In general I'm not pleased with this race. Too slow, stopped short too many times to try and match the terrain to the map (it doesn't help that some things were inconsistently mapped), and generally lacked confidence in my orienteering... and had issues with my compass...
COMPASS, COMPASS, COMPASS! I've been getting better about using my compass more but as my gps track shows it's not good enough yet! The first control at least I was able to correct quickly and then had no problem finding the control but the 6th leg was hideous and lost me probably 4 minutes.
In general I'm not pleased with this race. Too slow, stopped short too many times to try and match the terrain to the map (it doesn't help that some things were inconsistently mapped), and generally lacked confidence in my orienteering... and had issues with my compass...
12 PM
Note
stretching - 15ish minutes
1 PM
Running warm up/down 9:42 0.96 km (10:03 / km) +30m 8:42 / km
ahr:142 max:164 shoes: Newbalance 758 blue
Warm up for the sprint. After this morning's race I really wasn't ready for another race. I opted for the running shoes, orienteering socks, and shorts on the theory that it was a sprint. It was a thick forest sprint though...
Did a bunch of running around and a bit of stretching as my warm-up. Not what I would consider enough if I was going to be racing hard and well.
Did a bunch of running around and a bit of stretching as my warm-up. Not what I would consider enough if I was going to be racing hard and well.
Orienteering race (Sprint) 27:10 **** 2.91 km (9:19 / km) +67m 8:22 / km
ahr:172 max:185 shoes: Newbalance 758 blue
Embarrassing. I was just not in race mode for this and then couldn't get into any sort of orienteering mode whatever. Overshot controls, took poor route choices to avoid straight routes through the woods that were energy draining but faster, and was generally slow. grr.