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Saturday Oct 15, 2011 #
Event: OCIN - East Fork State Park
12 PM
Orienteering 1:22:30 [4] 7.8 mi (10:35 / mi)
shoes: MudRock IV
Red course at East Fork. A really nice course with tons of route choices. I felt several times en route that I had probably made the wrong decision, but given how tired I was, it was probably okay to play it safe on some of the approaches. My navigation was very clean, with only a few minor mistakes. What time I lost was due either to general slowness or bad route choice.
Friday Oct 14, 2011 #
10 AM
Field checking 6:00:00 [1] 10.0 mi (36:00 / mi)
shoes: MudRock IV
Checking control locations on the north side of the lake at East Fork. I have to re-design a few controls becuase a couple that I had chosen based on the map are WAY too hard in real life. This will be a very challenging race, but I really don't want to kill anyone.
9 PM
Orienteering 1:00:00 [3] 2.8 km (21:26 / km)
shoes: MudRock IV
A surprisingty challenging night training event set up by mikeminium. I did really horribly. Despite having been out on this map all day before, I could not gauge distances for the life of me. I kept making parallel errors, turning too early, etc. This was definitely not a good omen for the St. Louis race.
Thursday Oct 13, 2011 #
Note
(sick)
Tuesday Oct 11, 2011 #
9 AM
Trail running 45:00 [3] 5.5 mi (8:11 / mi)
shoes: MudRock IV
morning run at HW
Sunday Oct 9, 2011 #
Event: OCIN Camp Stonybrook
12 PM
Orienteering 1:18:26 [4] 6.3 km (12:27 / km)
shoes: MudRock IV
OCIN meet at Stonybrook. This is a great event, and one of OCIN's best in terms of getting new people out to experience the sport. I overheard a lot of newcomers to the sport who really seemed to enjoy it. Hopefully, we'll see them again.
Mike set a surprisingly demanding red course, with some characteristic deviousness. Take, for example, the leg from 15 to 16. Trying to follow the red line out of 15 was very difficult, when every step of the way, the slope of the land pushes you left. It's so easy to end up too far left on that leg. 8/9 was also a nice leg, and one that duped me. After making fairly good decisions about going through or around the reentrants, I got fooled by the small reentrant west of the control. With so much dark green right in the center of the map, this has got to be a pretty challenging place to set a course. But Mike did a really superb job.
I ran great until control 8, which I must have run right past before pushing too far west into the thick green. I botched several controls thereafter (9, 11, 12, and 13) and by the time I got my navigational confidence back, I was too tired physcially to do anything about it.
Mike set a surprisingly demanding red course, with some characteristic deviousness. Take, for example, the leg from 15 to 16. Trying to follow the red line out of 15 was very difficult, when every step of the way, the slope of the land pushes you left. It's so easy to end up too far left on that leg. 8/9 was also a nice leg, and one that duped me. After making fairly good decisions about going through or around the reentrants, I got fooled by the small reentrant west of the control. With so much dark green right in the center of the map, this has got to be a pretty challenging place to set a course. But Mike did a really superb job.
I ran great until control 8, which I must have run right past before pushing too far west into the thick green. I botched several controls thereafter (9, 11, 12, and 13) and by the time I got my navigational confidence back, I was too tired physcially to do anything about it.