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Sunday Nov 4, 2007 #
Orienteering race 1:16:20 [4] **** 7.4 km (10:19 / km) +360m 8:18 / km
shoes: LOP
Red 2:
thankfully much better woods and visibility but still shitty orienteering on my part.
started out really well, no rushing, reading the map and concentrating thoroughly. plus i was confident, which is something i was working on before this event.
so i was going in to 8 fine, crossing the road where i should be crossing it, getting slightly distracted by Paul R. who asked me somehting but going into the woods a little further than i should have and basically coming back to the road and attacking the control fine (the map was sort of sketchy in this area though). after this everything just went downhill for me, my focus and concentration were gone. Tom caught up to me on 8 and since i could keep up wtih him physically i let him lead me for the rest of the course. I did try to not follow him blatantly and take diff. route choices but I was really out of from that point ( I was going to 13 thinking i was going to 8 from 9 ye.. :) so even my efforts of doing something on my own failed.
I don't know what caused this mental block but maybe it's the combination of a big mistake and distraction by fellow competitors ( in fact, i know i get distracted easily so will need to work on that )
Overall, I was expecting more from myself this weekend, preparing for it well both physically and psychologically. I was obviosly not ready enough.
on the positive note though, it was a fun weekend, Boris visiting US to kick some ass, and me, having my first beer legally :)
I now have more O' skills that i need to improve on, which is always nice. despite many many mistakes that i had, the controls that i did ok on had decent times among f21 so i'm satisfied with that esp. since the competition was so tough this weekend (also very nice).
thankfully much better woods and visibility but still shitty orienteering on my part.
started out really well, no rushing, reading the map and concentrating thoroughly. plus i was confident, which is something i was working on before this event.
so i was going in to 8 fine, crossing the road where i should be crossing it, getting slightly distracted by Paul R. who asked me somehting but going into the woods a little further than i should have and basically coming back to the road and attacking the control fine (the map was sort of sketchy in this area though). after this everything just went downhill for me, my focus and concentration were gone. Tom caught up to me on 8 and since i could keep up wtih him physically i let him lead me for the rest of the course. I did try to not follow him blatantly and take diff. route choices but I was really out of from that point ( I was going to 13 thinking i was going to 8 from 9 ye.. :) so even my efforts of doing something on my own failed.
I don't know what caused this mental block but maybe it's the combination of a big mistake and distraction by fellow competitors ( in fact, i know i get distracted easily so will need to work on that )
Overall, I was expecting more from myself this weekend, preparing for it well both physically and psychologically. I was obviosly not ready enough.
on the positive note though, it was a fun weekend, Boris visiting US to kick some ass, and me, having my first beer legally :)
I now have more O' skills that i need to improve on, which is always nice. despite many many mistakes that i had, the controls that i did ok on had decent times among f21 so i'm satisfied with that esp. since the competition was so tough this weekend (also very nice).
Strength 8:00 [1]