Walking16:25 1.35 km (12:09 / km) +42m10:31 / km ahr:82 max:116 shoes: VJ Falcons 10
Walk to the start from arena.
Orienteering race 51:46*** 3.73 km (13:52 / km) +164m11:22 / km ahr:133 max:170 spiked:9/11c shoes: VJ Falcons 10
US Middle distance champs at Big Basin SP. M65+, 2.4k, 160m. No color courses were specified, only course 1-11 (this was course 6). Curiously, the course numbers were not on the maps, only the classes, printed in tinyfont.
Terrain was steep, generally soft underfoot and there was some thick vegetation so it was physical and slow for much of the course. Course design used the terrain well. Temperature mid 70s and sunny, which also slowed things a bit.
My run was not very good. Major screw-ups on the first two controls. Lost about 5 minutes on the first one when I missed to the left, saw features I couldn’t identify and wound up going back to the start triangle for a redo. Crossed the big stream too soon on the way to 2 and spent time searching to the west of the control. Eventually crossed back over the stream to the trail to go to a proper attack point to find the control, having squandered about 10 minutes. Pretty clean the rest of the way. ~23 minutes from start to control 2, ~28 minutes for the rest of the course. Could’ve been about 36 minutes, but well off the podium with the two big errors.
Some organizational issues at the Start as some people punched a start box while most did not. Starts were shifted by two minutes for those not punching a start box, so real time results were messed up. Also, the start crew apparently didn’t have a list of competitors by start time, so had no idea who was supposed to start when. And the much advertised “quiet zone” at the start didn’t seem to have been communicated to the start crew. Hope they get this figured out before hosting NAOC in a year.
Orienteering1:01:31*** 2.64 km (23:19 / km) +203m16:51 / km ahr:86 max:123 shoes: VJ Falcons 9
Model event at Big Basin SP. Got close enough to all 10 controls to see the flag. Didn’t always agree with how things were mapped or the positioning of some of the flags.