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Sunday Oct 2, 2016 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:06:40 [5] 9.9 km (6:44 / km) +103m 6:24 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Mudclaw 265 Blue
Caddihoe chase day 2, chasing start, exciting,
M50L, 8km, 160m
Started just behind Duncan Harris (DEE) & Lawrence townley (an M45).
Quickly formed a pack. Struggling tho, not feeling it.
The 3 of us made an error at no 7 let Pete Ward back to us, & he dictated a lot of the later action despite only being able to jog on the paths. He was too strong in terrain, and Duncan was too fast a runner for me.
I stupidly tried to cut thru some gorse and ruined myself, it tore off my control descs holder too, and I was bleeding & wrecked. one runner saw me lying in a pile of gorse bleeding and I just said, "Don't!!!" and he ran off. Finally back on my feet & Paul G was nearly on me, but with a big effort I regained my position in the "leading" pack.
Passed an ailing Kev Fielding (HH; M45, day 1 winner) as we hit the moors again, but knew I was out of my depth, & 3 controls from the end, again I lost the plot and headed into gorse & a fence, and in that moment lost the whole thing, as the others simply disappeared.
Got out of it, to find a dying Kev Fielding standing there saying "what am I doing? where am I?" to which I said, "we've both cocked it up". Needless to say I held him off - but was over a minute down on the winners - Pete & Duncan. Duncan's finish was VERY fast & I would not have matched it, so a win was never gonna happen anyway. Whatever....
Clive went off an hour later and took 12 mins longer than me - at one point he started resurveying the map! What a joke. Level B? OH come on!
2nd again. tired of this.
And again, this wasn't fun. Too tough, too tussocky, no real route choices, and bad mapping. Hmmmm. I am either in the wrong sport, or I avoid WIM/WSX events for a long time....
Results - sigh. Still -look who I "beat" - ha ha. http://www.wimborne-orienteers.org.uk/16%20Caddiho...
Overall results - well I got the result I deserved? http://www.wimborne-orienteers.org.uk/16%20Caddiho...
Garmin https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1388675...
M50L, 8km, 160m
Started just behind Duncan Harris (DEE) & Lawrence townley (an M45).
Quickly formed a pack. Struggling tho, not feeling it.
The 3 of us made an error at no 7 let Pete Ward back to us, & he dictated a lot of the later action despite only being able to jog on the paths. He was too strong in terrain, and Duncan was too fast a runner for me.
I stupidly tried to cut thru some gorse and ruined myself, it tore off my control descs holder too, and I was bleeding & wrecked. one runner saw me lying in a pile of gorse bleeding and I just said, "Don't!!!" and he ran off. Finally back on my feet & Paul G was nearly on me, but with a big effort I regained my position in the "leading" pack.
Passed an ailing Kev Fielding (HH; M45, day 1 winner) as we hit the moors again, but knew I was out of my depth, & 3 controls from the end, again I lost the plot and headed into gorse & a fence, and in that moment lost the whole thing, as the others simply disappeared.
Got out of it, to find a dying Kev Fielding standing there saying "what am I doing? where am I?" to which I said, "we've both cocked it up". Needless to say I held him off - but was over a minute down on the winners - Pete & Duncan. Duncan's finish was VERY fast & I would not have matched it, so a win was never gonna happen anyway. Whatever....
Clive went off an hour later and took 12 mins longer than me - at one point he started resurveying the map! What a joke. Level B? OH come on!
2nd again. tired of this.
And again, this wasn't fun. Too tough, too tussocky, no real route choices, and bad mapping. Hmmmm. I am either in the wrong sport, or I avoid WIM/WSX events for a long time....
Results - sigh. Still -look who I "beat" - ha ha. http://www.wimborne-orienteers.org.uk/16%20Caddiho...
Overall results - well I got the result I deserved? http://www.wimborne-orienteers.org.uk/16%20Caddiho...
Garmin https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1388675...
12 PM
Running 25:00 [2] 3.0 mi (8:20 / mi) +20m 8:10 / mi
shoes: Inov-8 Mudclaw 265 Blue
Jog back to where my control descs holder had been torn off in fight / gorse. Got it back.
returned via last part of course & did leg 23 (?) about 1 minute quicker without the Kev Fielding / me ballsup.
Very tired but a good sociable weekend, and an idyllic campsite, great pub evening, met some new people, and the sun shone.....
returned via last part of course & did leg 23 (?) about 1 minute quicker without the Kev Fielding / me ballsup.
Very tired but a good sociable weekend, and an idyllic campsite, great pub evening, met some new people, and the sun shone.....