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Friday Sep 1, 2017 #
Event: Labor Daze
10 AM
Orienteering race 44:08 *** 7.42 km (5:57 / km) +135m 5:27 / km
ahr:170 max:182 17c
Daze Day 3, Lower Dutchman Flats ("Witch of Many Boulders"). Mappy.
Pretty erratic for the first 3-4 controls. I saw Eric leave the start taking the trail around to 1, but that seemed pretty lame so I went straight, which turned out to be better even though I headed to the wrong rock outcropping and lost a small bit of time, maybe 20s. On 2, I was wary of dropping too far, so naturally I was too high and had to double back and down, close to 1min lost. 3 was the first one in the notoriously technical microlava area; I missed to the right, but recognized it quickly and did a bit of circling for a loss of ~70s. Then I had my map flipped and did a classic 180 out of 3, which cost me ~30s.
I was a lot cleaner after that - my only other loss was ~30s on 11, where for unknown reasons my direction suddenly became janky on the last 100m of the leg and I did a weird zigzag, even though it was a straight shot through open forest.
Got Bonesaw by 1:50 for the third win in a row! He had some issues, namely the route to 1, but mainly I had better speed and was taking seconds from him pretty consistently.
Pretty erratic for the first 3-4 controls. I saw Eric leave the start taking the trail around to 1, but that seemed pretty lame so I went straight, which turned out to be better even though I headed to the wrong rock outcropping and lost a small bit of time, maybe 20s. On 2, I was wary of dropping too far, so naturally I was too high and had to double back and down, close to 1min lost. 3 was the first one in the notoriously technical microlava area; I missed to the right, but recognized it quickly and did a bit of circling for a loss of ~70s. Then I had my map flipped and did a classic 180 out of 3, which cost me ~30s.
I was a lot cleaner after that - my only other loss was ~30s on 11, where for unknown reasons my direction suddenly became janky on the last 100m of the leg and I did a weird zigzag, even though it was a straight shot through open forest.
Got Bonesaw by 1:50 for the third win in a row! He had some issues, namely the route to 1, but mainly I had better speed and was taking seconds from him pretty consistently.
Running warm up/down 10:10 [2] 1.06 mi (9:35 / mi) +25m 8:56 / mi
11 AM
Cycling (MTB) 2:52:12 28.27 mi (9.9 mph) +366m
ahr:117 max:167
Mark Prior had invited me to bike from Bachelor back down to Bend, so I joined him in that endeavor. Temps were comfortable up at the mountain in the AM but as we descended and the day progressed you could slowly feel the heat creeping up toward 95F. About 2/3 of the way down Mark had to bail to the highway to get back to his place by 2, so I continued on my own. I was flagging after about two hours and had run out of water, so hit the highway for the last few miles.
Really fun biking, though Mark is a better/faster/more experienced technical rider than I (and has a bike that's like 10 times better) so I felt like I was slowing him down somewhat.
Really fun biking, though Mark is a better/faster/more experienced technical rider than I (and has a bike that's like 10 times better) so I felt like I was slowing him down somewhat.