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Thursday Jul 22, 2010 #
4 PM
Orienteering (Sprint) 21:35 [3] * 2.5 km (8:38 / km)
spiked:7/8c rhr:52 slept:7.0 weight:159lbs shoes: Wave Nirvana 3
FASTO #7 Course 1 - Miami University, Western College.
I don't think I was up for this as much as I would have liked to have been. I am still suffering from a mild groin pull. So the speed was not going to be there. On top of that I wasn't feeling so good in the stomach. Nonetheless, I got myself psyched up pretty good. The big external factor was the heat and humidity. Wow!
I really didn't want to get buggy. I was going to go out of my way to avoid any vegetation. I wore my jogging shorts and selected my routes accordingly. Pretty much predestined some oversights on my part.
Controls
1 - 2 - 3:
The climb took its toll on me. By the time I was leaving 3, I was tuckered out.
4 - 5 : I went wide left around everything. Like I said I had predetermined to avoid green stuff. In addition, I had crossed that ravine last winter, and it was not fun then; it surely wasn't looking attractive today. Unfortunately, I never did check it out, and therefore do not know if straight or right were viable alternatives.
6 - 7: I went left to 6 and then left to 7. I was pleased to find the big bridge open and runnable. However, after reviewing the courses and the route choices of others, I can see that I completely overlooked the reasonable possibility of going straight. I believe I was thinking that there was a deep ravine in them there bushes. Drat. Poor route choice, but excellent execution was the theme of the day.
8 - F: I stand corrected, I wandered a little to the right on the way to 8, running just past the short bridge midway. That may have cost me 3 or 4 seconds, but it definitely affected my approach to the control. The map around 8 is not exactly right. Running south from the edge of the bridge puts you in the woods west of the control and at the bottom of a set of stairs. Although mapped, they went unnoticed until I had to climb them. This took time, and required recovery at the top before the run-in to the finish.
Joseph Burkhead beat me. I'm OK with that, he should beat me. However, he only got me by 25 seconds. I would have had his rear-end if I had not made that last error requiring the climbing of stairs. So I missed a glory moment. dagnabit.
Although it looked like it could rain, it did not, yet I was soaked through and through. A bit of time to recover before the next course was in order. And so, I ate a slice of melon.
I don't think I was up for this as much as I would have liked to have been. I am still suffering from a mild groin pull. So the speed was not going to be there. On top of that I wasn't feeling so good in the stomach. Nonetheless, I got myself psyched up pretty good. The big external factor was the heat and humidity. Wow!
I really didn't want to get buggy. I was going to go out of my way to avoid any vegetation. I wore my jogging shorts and selected my routes accordingly. Pretty much predestined some oversights on my part.
Controls
1 - 2 - 3:
The climb took its toll on me. By the time I was leaving 3, I was tuckered out.
4 - 5 : I went wide left around everything. Like I said I had predetermined to avoid green stuff. In addition, I had crossed that ravine last winter, and it was not fun then; it surely wasn't looking attractive today. Unfortunately, I never did check it out, and therefore do not know if straight or right were viable alternatives.
6 - 7: I went left to 6 and then left to 7. I was pleased to find the big bridge open and runnable. However, after reviewing the courses and the route choices of others, I can see that I completely overlooked the reasonable possibility of going straight. I believe I was thinking that there was a deep ravine in them there bushes. Drat. Poor route choice, but excellent execution was the theme of the day.
8 - F: I stand corrected, I wandered a little to the right on the way to 8, running just past the short bridge midway. That may have cost me 3 or 4 seconds, but it definitely affected my approach to the control. The map around 8 is not exactly right. Running south from the edge of the bridge puts you in the woods west of the control and at the bottom of a set of stairs. Although mapped, they went unnoticed until I had to climb them. This took time, and required recovery at the top before the run-in to the finish.
Joseph Burkhead beat me. I'm OK with that, he should beat me. However, he only got me by 25 seconds. I would have had his rear-end if I had not made that last error requiring the climbing of stairs. So I missed a glory moment. dagnabit.
Although it looked like it could rain, it did not, yet I was soaked through and through. A bit of time to recover before the next course was in order. And so, I ate a slice of melon.
5 PM
Orienteering race 33:10 [3] *** 2.9 km (11:26 / km)
8c shoes: Wave Nirvana 3
FASTO #7 Course 2 - Miami University, Western College.
Controls
1 - 2 - 3: presented a lot of options. I even took time before going out to study the map and possible routes. But apparently, I was not at top analytical capacity. the fist control was tricky, because I didn't know where the darn bag was. It flustered me it moment while hunted for the control. I began to feel rather sick. I ran to 2, but completely overlooked the drop and wasted climb using the trail to the south. Darn. Coming out of 2 I looked north through the vegetation for a clear path to the northern trail. It looked doable and I was soon on the trail and did not repeat the error coming into 2.
All the way to 3 I looked for a place to stop. I get to 3 and it is down in the reentrant with some physical climb involved. By the time I get back up my insides are churning. I immediately search for and find and old log and spend a moment as god intends us to.
4 - 5 - 6: Back on the course, I am a new man. yet I make the same route choice mistakes to 5 and 6; losing time and distance due to sloppy map reading.
7 - 8: Having learned my lesson on number 7, I executed it perfectly this time, but am feeling squeamish again, and slow considerably. I am unsure whether right or left would be faster to 8, so I split the difference and go CCW to 8 and then the finish, using both routes.
Controls
1 - 2 - 3: presented a lot of options. I even took time before going out to study the map and possible routes. But apparently, I was not at top analytical capacity. the fist control was tricky, because I didn't know where the darn bag was. It flustered me it moment while hunted for the control. I began to feel rather sick. I ran to 2, but completely overlooked the drop and wasted climb using the trail to the south. Darn. Coming out of 2 I looked north through the vegetation for a clear path to the northern trail. It looked doable and I was soon on the trail and did not repeat the error coming into 2.
All the way to 3 I looked for a place to stop. I get to 3 and it is down in the reentrant with some physical climb involved. By the time I get back up my insides are churning. I immediately search for and find and old log and spend a moment as god intends us to.
4 - 5 - 6: Back on the course, I am a new man. yet I make the same route choice mistakes to 5 and 6; losing time and distance due to sloppy map reading.
7 - 8: Having learned my lesson on number 7, I executed it perfectly this time, but am feeling squeamish again, and slow considerably. I am unsure whether right or left would be faster to 8, so I split the difference and go CCW to 8 and then the finish, using both routes.