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Saturday May 12, 2012 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 22:39 [4] 3.76 km (6:01 / km)
SL3 - Sprint at Newcastle Uni.
This definitely goes down as a fail. Very hesitant to 1 as was struggling to get my head around the map, about 30secs lost. This was nothing compared to 4; left 3 along the right path but then lost contact with the map, seemed to have a brain explosion and couldn't work out where I was causing me to get more and more frustrated. Finally went back to 3 and started the leg again and had no problem realising I had overshot a path junction by 10m when it all went horribly wrong. Losing over 3mins on a 55sec leg meant the race was effectively over. Settled down after that with a steady run but nothing special.
This definitely goes down as a fail. Very hesitant to 1 as was struggling to get my head around the map, about 30secs lost. This was nothing compared to 4; left 3 along the right path but then lost contact with the map, seemed to have a brain explosion and couldn't work out where I was causing me to get more and more frustrated. Finally went back to 3 and started the leg again and had no problem realising I had overshot a path junction by 10m when it all went horribly wrong. Losing over 3mins on a 55sec leg meant the race was effectively over. Settled down after that with a steady run but nothing special.
11 AM
Orienteering race (Shadowing) 13:20 [2] 1.37 km (9:44 / km)
With Nea on the Very Easy course.
This also goes down as another fail but this time Nea had to suffer the ignominy of a mp courtesy of her dad. For some reason I picked up the Easy control descriptions (there were none on the map). The first 2 controls were common but not the third so Nea punched the wrong control. It wasn't until the next control that I realised my error but it didn't twig that we had already made a mistake. A none too happy girl at the the finish!
This also goes down as another fail but this time Nea had to suffer the ignominy of a mp courtesy of her dad. For some reason I picked up the Easy control descriptions (there were none on the map). The first 2 controls were common but not the third so Nea punched the wrong control. It wasn't until the next control that I realised my error but it didn't twig that we had already made a mistake. A none too happy girl at the the finish!
2 PM
Orienteering race 44:23 [4] 6.34 km (7:00 / km)
SL4 - Middle distance at Pelaw Main.
Reasonably steady for me with only a few wobbles. Overshot 2 but managed to stop myself going too far before correcting. 6 was a bit hit and miss but seemed to be the case for most people so no real time lost there. Lost nearly 2 mins at 7 as didn't see the "derrick" and overshot to hit the track but navigated successfully back to the control. Not sure what happened at 15 as I was following the edge of the lake then suddenly ended up at the railway line. No problems from there to the finish, happy to finish up second in the class and third on the course.
Reasonably steady for me with only a few wobbles. Overshot 2 but managed to stop myself going too far before correcting. 6 was a bit hit and miss but seemed to be the case for most people so no real time lost there. Lost nearly 2 mins at 7 as didn't see the "derrick" and overshot to hit the track but navigated successfully back to the control. Not sure what happened at 15 as I was following the edge of the lake then suddenly ended up at the railway line. No problems from there to the finish, happy to finish up second in the class and third on the course.
3 PM
Orienteering race (Shadowing) 18:14 [2] 1.84 km (9:55 / km)
Today we skipped around the course!