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Saturday Oct 8, 2011 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 38:44 **** 4.2 km (9:14 / km) +26m 8:57 / km
ahr:153 max:169 spiked:14/14c shoes: Black Jalas
Middle distance at Ontario O Champs. Hidden Meadows map (same as used for 2010 Canadian Champs). Ran M45-54. Good run, lots of fun. FR download and details later.
4 PM
Orienteering race 15:56 *** 2.46 km (6:29 / km) +2m 6:28 / km
ahr:158 max:170 spiked:15/15c shoes: NB 573 Trail Shoes
Sprint at ON Champs. 1st in M55-64.
Thursday Oct 6, 2011 #
6 PM
Road Run 33:13 3.64 mi (9:08 / mi) +41m 8:50 / mi
ahr:129 max:151 shoes: NB878 - #10
Recovery run. Legs were sore the last few days, but OK today. Just slogged along. Got a late start, so it was somewhat dark. Fall must be here.
Sunday Oct 2, 2011 #
Event: Hudson Highlander XVI
9 AM
Orienteering race 5:52:09 [3] *** 31.92 km (11:02 / km) +864m 9:43 / km
spiked:31/33c shoes: Black Jalas
Highlander. My 15th (consecutive) and 5th fastest. Tried to be conservative early and managed to avoid cramping later in the race. It was cool (50's) so that probably helped but also took my time to eat and drink at aid stations.
Navigation was mostly good with only one large error of about 15 minutes and a few smaller errors getting off-line in laurel. After the first three controls, I was on my own for most of the race.
Race S/F was at Lake Welch. First map was Jackie Jones with three controls to get us to Rt. 106 at the East side of the map and then a choose-4-out-of-7 scramble on the main part of the map. I did CDEG but misread a white area in laurel on my way to E and took 15 minutes to get back on track. Otherwise hit everything well on this map.
Trail run was next, starting at the West side of Jackie Jones, looping south around Breakneck Pond and then heading generally NE back to Lake Welch for a map exchange. Apparently "trail run" means a mixture of streamered "run" through mountain laurel thicket with water up to ankle depth, streamered run on trail which may or may not actually be visible, streamered run on paved road (ouch), and unstreamerred "keep the lake on your right" back to the finish. The trail run measured about 7.9 km by my Forerunner. I took just under an hour (for the full run, the "sprint" part of the run took about 50 minutes I think). Passed Bernie and Aleck and three cadets. The three cadets soon passed me since they had just stopped so one of them could do some equipment repair. Coincidentally finished the trail run just as Janet finished her trail run on the Lowlander.
The third map was Rockhouse Mountain with a long loop (~9k?) with 14 controls. I walked most of this map with an occasional jog on trails. Navigation was generally good, with a small miss on 21 when I went to a boulder too far to the west. King of the Mountain leg was 18 - 19, but I made no effort to "race" this leg. Total time on this map was about 2:45.
Final map was a "sprint" map of Lake Welch Beach printed at 1:4000. Despite the map being a bit flaky in places, I had no problems. Saw Ken Walker, Sr. at the tunnel under Lake Welch Drive and thought for a minute that he had caught up to me, so I hustled for the last two controls. Turns out that he was just returning from the third map and had the entire fourth loop left to do.
And then a fine feast put on by the great group of volunteers who keep this event alive from year to year. A big thanks to all of them.
Straight line distance 26.2 km with 600m climb advertised.
Navigation was mostly good with only one large error of about 15 minutes and a few smaller errors getting off-line in laurel. After the first three controls, I was on my own for most of the race.
Race S/F was at Lake Welch. First map was Jackie Jones with three controls to get us to Rt. 106 at the East side of the map and then a choose-4-out-of-7 scramble on the main part of the map. I did CDEG but misread a white area in laurel on my way to E and took 15 minutes to get back on track. Otherwise hit everything well on this map.
Trail run was next, starting at the West side of Jackie Jones, looping south around Breakneck Pond and then heading generally NE back to Lake Welch for a map exchange. Apparently "trail run" means a mixture of streamered "run" through mountain laurel thicket with water up to ankle depth, streamered run on trail which may or may not actually be visible, streamered run on paved road (ouch), and unstreamerred "keep the lake on your right" back to the finish. The trail run measured about 7.9 km by my Forerunner. I took just under an hour (for the full run, the "sprint" part of the run took about 50 minutes I think). Passed Bernie and Aleck and three cadets. The three cadets soon passed me since they had just stopped so one of them could do some equipment repair. Coincidentally finished the trail run just as Janet finished her trail run on the Lowlander.
The third map was Rockhouse Mountain with a long loop (~9k?) with 14 controls. I walked most of this map with an occasional jog on trails. Navigation was generally good, with a small miss on 21 when I went to a boulder too far to the west. King of the Mountain leg was 18 - 19, but I made no effort to "race" this leg. Total time on this map was about 2:45.
Final map was a "sprint" map of Lake Welch Beach printed at 1:4000. Despite the map being a bit flaky in places, I had no problems. Saw Ken Walker, Sr. at the tunnel under Lake Welch Drive and thought for a minute that he had caught up to me, so I hustled for the last two controls. Turns out that he was just returning from the third map and had the entire fourth loop left to do.
And then a fine feast put on by the great group of volunteers who keep this event alive from year to year. A big thanks to all of them.
Straight line distance 26.2 km with 600m climb advertised.