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ROC Score-O at Genesee Valley Park
Running warm up/down 6:00 [2] 0.75 mi (8:00 / mi)
slept:5.5
Quick warm-up before the Sprint, after working registration and starting the early score-o group.
Feeling a little sluggish - it was probably a mistake to stay up until 1am playing Nate's new full version of Catching Features last night.
Orienteering race 32:04 [5] *** 3.75 km (8:33 / km)
spiked:7/11c
ROC Sprint at Genesee Valley Park. Ended up being more Middle than Sprint. The course was advertised as 2.5K, but the map was printed as 1:15, instead of 1:10, so the measurement was off. First time I've ever done a sprint on a 1:15 map (OK< so it was only about my 7th sprint ever). The course was basically a single loop - I think that a 1:5 map with more direction changes would have been more fun. The park has a nice series of bridges that can make for interesting route choices.
As far as my race, it was dreadful. The first 2 controls were in the middle of some light and medium green stuff, making for tough visibility, coupled with subtle 2.5m contour lines on the 1:15 map for slow approaches for me. C5 was also in some green, and I cut my legs up nicely, but only because I made the poor choice of running the length of the green, rather than the width (which, Nate tells me, also had a beaten path to the control area). C7 was in some green, and I ended up running a little ways past before I could find a reasonable place to cut in (getting out was much easier). C8-9 went fine, but then the race fell apart. C10 was easy - on a bridge, but I picked the wrong bridge, spent just about 2 minutes searching (including checking a different score-o control), then figured the bag was gone, so I hit C11 and went in (at 26:16), then figured out I was on the wrong bridge and went back out to C10, then C11 again and in (at 32:04). So, I got totally smoked by Tim, Gil and Rob (and others).
Nate was about 34 minutes. Chelsea followed Zach around, and they took over 80 minutes - just in time to leave for Zach's second soccer game (where he scored twice during a brief offensive stint).
It doesn't seem that anyone else got their splits, so I won't add this as a Race in AP. Here are my splits:
1 - 3:09
2 - 6:53 (3:44)
3 - 8:01 (1:08)
4 - 9:31 (1:30)
5 - 11:13 (1:42)
6 - 12:43 (1:30)
7 - 15:29 (2:46)
8 - 17:03 (1:34)
9 - 21:05 (4:02)
10 - ~29:10? (~8:05?)
11 - 30:48 (~1:38?)
F - 32:04 (1:16)
Orienteering race 58:25 [4] *** 6.5 km (8:59 / km)
spiked:12/16c
ROC Score-O at GVP. Very hot and tired from the Sprint - they did give us a 20-minute delay for the score-o start because the sprint took longer than expected. I tried to drink a fair amount between the races, but I new the running would be tough. I took the first 2 controls in the wrong order and was immediately over a minute behind Gil. I was quite clean on the early controls, most of which were repeats from the sprint, then I crossed E River Rd and ran into some difficulty. The first control was on a trail, but the mapping was weak and it wasn't easy to figure out which trails were mapped and which weren't - I ended up mostly ignoring the trails and ran off a swamp to get close. Oh, and as it turns out, I should have skipped this control and gone in the south part of the map from the road across from sprint C7, but I had hopes of making it over to the far side of the golf course for the other 3 controls, but that was not to be, today. For the next one, I should have jumped right out of the woods and cut back in, since I ended up losing the trail and bailing to the golf course anyway. The next one was easy, then I ran around to get my final southern control, since the creek looked too difficult to follow.
Then it was a long run all the way back to sprint C6. Gil popped out of the woods onto the golf course access trail a bit ahead of me. I closed the gap a bit on him, but then we hit a (small) uphill on E River Road, and I lost what I had gained and then some. I was pretty dehydrated and drained, and couldn't even run in the woods leaving the next control, but it was mostly road and trail the rest of the way, so I was able to scramble in, picking up 4 more sprint controls on the way in.
Gil grabbed 19 of the 20 controls. Tim had 17, but was most of a minute OT, so he lost one. Nate grabbed 13, though he was only out for about 45 minutes.
Orienteering 10:00 [3] *** 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
spiked:2/2c
Drove over to E River Rd and picked up 2 controls that I had not gone after on the far side of the golf course. Nate picked up the 3rd.