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Sunday Oct 10, 2010 #
Event: RMOC Kelly Dahl
9 AM
Orienteer race 1:34:47 [4] 4.71 mi (20:07 / mi) +1413ft 15:40 / mi
shoes: 2nd pair - Saucony Guide 3
Kelly Dahl Green Course.
Not my best, but not totally horrendous. About as expected since this wasn't an open course with lots of trails. Significant navigational mistakes at 4 and 9. Significant route choice error at 6. Other smaller navigational and route choice errors on all the rest. I spent way too much time stopped and walking.
Start - 1: No mistakes, just took my sweet time...
1-2: Headed south towards the trail thinking that I was aiming off so I'd be west of a trail intersection- apparently I hit the trail east of that intersection because when I turned east, the trail ended. Backtracked to the trail intersection, and took that trail to another, then bearing off bend in trail.
*Better route choice would have been to go straight from the first trail intersection.
2-3: Followed power line to trail that went around hill. Noted a pit next to the trail. Didn't see the trail intersection that I thought would be obvious but noticed the trail narrowed significantly, so I must have taken the correct fork anyways. Panicked briefly, but then found it on a bearing from the next trail intersection.
3-4: Had a bit of a tough time getting started with this one. Back to the trail, found a trail intersection, wasn't sure which one it was... After standing around for a while dithering, I went down the trail until I saw a pile of rocks on the right. Worked my way to a gully. Took a bearing from the intersection of two gullies and it took me right to it. Way to much time standing around thinking.
4-5: Across a spur then across a dry marsh. Was about 200m out of the way to the east, but this allowed me to notice a shallow reentrant which aimed me to the control. Too much stop/walk time here.
*Better route would have been a straight shot. There was a trail with a notable bend right behind the control, so I should have run straight for it and then if I missed, I would have hit the trail and it wouldn't have been too hard to figure out where along the trail I was.
5-6: Trail to another trail, to a fence, to a fence corner, then bearing on in. I should have gone a more direct route. I went over 1km out of the way to run on trails and fences.
6-7: Went with a plan to run to the fence and take a bearing from the fence corner. Never saw the fence. Found a pile of rocks on top of a spur before the fence, realized where I was and walked to the control from there.
7-8: Went straight to it.
8-9: Whoops, went to the wrong pile of rocks a few times and got distracted by a control that I knew wasn't mine before I even checked it. Wasted a lot of time here.
9-10: Dodge people and rocks and went straight to it. I get nervous about falling running downing hill in rough areas.
10-Finish: Like 9-10.
I think I'm getting better at figuring out where I am when I go off course. Haven't made a mistake over 10min (and very few over 5) for 3 races now. I would like to stop depending on trails to much- I go waaaaayyyy out of my way to find and stay on them. If I am not on a trail, fence, powerline, distinct spur or reentrant, etc, then I'm usually walking...
Not my best, but not totally horrendous. About as expected since this wasn't an open course with lots of trails. Significant navigational mistakes at 4 and 9. Significant route choice error at 6. Other smaller navigational and route choice errors on all the rest. I spent way too much time stopped and walking.
Start - 1: No mistakes, just took my sweet time...
1-2: Headed south towards the trail thinking that I was aiming off so I'd be west of a trail intersection- apparently I hit the trail east of that intersection because when I turned east, the trail ended. Backtracked to the trail intersection, and took that trail to another, then bearing off bend in trail.
*Better route choice would have been to go straight from the first trail intersection.
2-3: Followed power line to trail that went around hill. Noted a pit next to the trail. Didn't see the trail intersection that I thought would be obvious but noticed the trail narrowed significantly, so I must have taken the correct fork anyways. Panicked briefly, but then found it on a bearing from the next trail intersection.
3-4: Had a bit of a tough time getting started with this one. Back to the trail, found a trail intersection, wasn't sure which one it was... After standing around for a while dithering, I went down the trail until I saw a pile of rocks on the right. Worked my way to a gully. Took a bearing from the intersection of two gullies and it took me right to it. Way to much time standing around thinking.
4-5: Across a spur then across a dry marsh. Was about 200m out of the way to the east, but this allowed me to notice a shallow reentrant which aimed me to the control. Too much stop/walk time here.
*Better route would have been a straight shot. There was a trail with a notable bend right behind the control, so I should have run straight for it and then if I missed, I would have hit the trail and it wouldn't have been too hard to figure out where along the trail I was.
5-6: Trail to another trail, to a fence, to a fence corner, then bearing on in. I should have gone a more direct route. I went over 1km out of the way to run on trails and fences.
6-7: Went with a plan to run to the fence and take a bearing from the fence corner. Never saw the fence. Found a pile of rocks on top of a spur before the fence, realized where I was and walked to the control from there.
7-8: Went straight to it.
8-9: Whoops, went to the wrong pile of rocks a few times and got distracted by a control that I knew wasn't mine before I even checked it. Wasted a lot of time here.
9-10: Dodge people and rocks and went straight to it. I get nervous about falling running downing hill in rough areas.
10-Finish: Like 9-10.
I think I'm getting better at figuring out where I am when I go off course. Haven't made a mistake over 10min (and very few over 5) for 3 races now. I would like to stop depending on trails to much- I go waaaaayyyy out of my way to find and stay on them. If I am not on a trail, fence, powerline, distinct spur or reentrant, etc, then I'm usually walking...
Thursday Oct 7, 2010 #
6 PM
Incline 1:14:25 [4] 2.68 mi (27:46 / mi) +2132ft 15:50 / mi
shoes: 2nd pair - Saucony Guide 3
Incline 35:55 from first step of cog way lot. Started off way too fast to get away from the whiny boys...