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Saturday Apr 29, 2017 #
Orienteering race 1:24:17 [4] 5.4 km (15:36 / km)
shoes: X-Talon 190
WMOC Long Final, 39th of 81 - about what I expected after the rain came in and had to leave glasses behind. GPS 7.92km indicates another large amount of HC running.
Steady to 6, and was happy with how I was going, but a long leg into very vague contours from 6-7 saw me drop concentration and 11 minutes. Quite a few others had blowouts here, including some of the favourites. Eventually relocated 500m from the control. 7-8 was still in the vague area and lost another 8 mins - kept coming across mob tracks of which only one was mapped. 7 and 8 were both form-line gullies; contour interval was 2.5 so these were pretty shallow.
Gradually recovered and picked up places despite a few more errors of 1-2 mins. Found the mapping a little bit questionable, e.g. in some areas a brown dot was 10m high, while in others they were barely 1m high, and many contour knolls were barely 1.5m high. Often there was a line of 3-4 brown dots, but on the ground was a ridge with 7-8 high points. Some of the contour depressions were difficult to work out.
Challenging event - well done to the winners! A few surprises amongst the medallists today.
Steady to 6, and was happy with how I was going, but a long leg into very vague contours from 6-7 saw me drop concentration and 11 minutes. Quite a few others had blowouts here, including some of the favourites. Eventually relocated 500m from the control. 7-8 was still in the vague area and lost another 8 mins - kept coming across mob tracks of which only one was mapped. 7 and 8 were both form-line gullies; contour interval was 2.5 so these were pretty shallow.
Gradually recovered and picked up places despite a few more errors of 1-2 mins. Found the mapping a little bit questionable, e.g. in some areas a brown dot was 10m high, while in others they were barely 1m high, and many contour knolls were barely 1.5m high. Often there was a line of 3-4 brown dots, but on the ground was a ridge with 7-8 high points. Some of the contour depressions were difficult to work out.
Challenging event - well done to the winners! A few surprises amongst the medallists today.
Thursday Apr 27, 2017 #
Orienteering race 1:22:48 [4] 3.7 km (22:23 / km)
shoes: X-Talon 190
WMOC Long Qualification 2. Just never got into the map, orienteered hopelessly throughout and didn't feel like I had a clean leg at all. Three legs were absolute disasters; 20, 10 and 18 minutes. Surprisingly I won two legs, have no idea how, but it may explain how I made the A final with everybody else almost as bad as me.
GPS 7.04kms on a 3.7km course explains how much headless chook running I did, although on the 18 minute leg (7-8) most of the time was spent standing still trying to identify where I was.
Mostly have no idea where I went until RG goes up and I can see what happened.
GPS 7.04kms on a 3.7km course explains how much headless chook running I did, although on the 18 minute leg (7-8) most of the time was spent standing still trying to identify where I was.
Mostly have no idea where I went until RG goes up and I can see what happened.
Wednesday Apr 26, 2017 #
Orienteering race 42:34 [4] 4.2 km (10:08 / km)
shoes: X-Talon 190
WMOC Long Qualification 1- 3rd place in my group, despite making errors at 3 controls, including 1 and 2. 10 mins behind winner Ross B. GPS was 5.08, but only went wide on one leg (3-4). Can't get map until tomorrow, and no splits up yet, but I did discover that of the 3 M70 groups, two including mine had exactly the same course and only one guy in the other group beat my time.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017 #
Orienteering 54:02 [3] 5.17 km (10:27 / km)
shoes: X-Talon 190
WMOC Forest Model, time does not include standing around at controls.
Visited all but 3 controls, had difficulty recognising some of the tracks which were older and covered in pine needles, but the smaller and more indistinct recent tracks were easier to see. Learned that any shade of green should be avoided, as event the clearings and white areas shown in the green appeared to be full of brushings.
Realised afterwards that I'd used the 1:10000 side of the map instead of the 1:7500 side - doh!
Visited all but 3 controls, had difficulty recognising some of the tracks which were older and covered in pine needles, but the smaller and more indistinct recent tracks were easier to see. Learned that any shade of green should be avoided, as event the clearings and white areas shown in the green appeared to be full of brushings.
Realised afterwards that I'd used the 1:10000 side of the map instead of the 1:7500 side - doh!
Monday Apr 24, 2017 #
Orienteering race 19:36 [5] 2.1 km (9:20 / km)
shoes: X-Talon 190
WMOC Sprint Final. Not my best run by a long way, mistakes at 2, 8, 10, 12 and 13. Big mistakes too by sprint standards. GPS 2.65kms, so a few hundred metres of extra distance. Final position 25th.
Deserved win by 'Chatty' (and by Rosco yesterday in the Qual), shows what can be done with concentration and minimal time loss.
Ran hard to 1, then lost sense of direction on a short and easy leg to 2, faffing around finding several other controls (including 3 I found out later). Lost over 1 minute. Won the split to 3, and did ok for the next few. Made a hash of 7-8, at the time thought I'd lost at least another minute, but turned out to be only half that, which I can put down to the speed I was running - felt really good running-wise by this stage. Lost another half a minute and a minute on 11 and 12 through not reading the map carefully enough, then 13 was a problem for many people with the badly mapped tunnel. I lost 1.5 mins there - a lot less than many others.
Can take consolation from the fact that lots of really good orienteers handled the map, course and pressure either worse or only marginally better than me, but I think I need to re-think my approach to sprints.
Deserved win by 'Chatty' (and by Rosco yesterday in the Qual), shows what can be done with concentration and minimal time loss.
Ran hard to 1, then lost sense of direction on a short and easy leg to 2, faffing around finding several other controls (including 3 I found out later). Lost over 1 minute. Won the split to 3, and did ok for the next few. Made a hash of 7-8, at the time thought I'd lost at least another minute, but turned out to be only half that, which I can put down to the speed I was running - felt really good running-wise by this stage. Lost another half a minute and a minute on 11 and 12 through not reading the map carefully enough, then 13 was a problem for many people with the badly mapped tunnel. I lost 1.5 mins there - a lot less than many others.
Can take consolation from the fact that lots of really good orienteers handled the map, course and pressure either worse or only marginally better than me, but I think I need to re-think my approach to sprints.
Sunday Apr 23, 2017 #
Orienteering race 17:21 [4] 1.9 km (9:08 / km)
shoes: X-Talon 190
Sprint Qualification at World Masters. Garmin 2.2km, so pretty clean. Couple of small errors, but quite a few stops to check the map. Finished 9th in heat, so should qualify comfortably. Haven't got the map back, and no splits up yet, will post more later.
Later: lost time in the circle at 1, going slightly right and getting confused by another control. Took a while to work out a route to 2, and didn't execute it particularly well, but did better than most - very well-set leg. 2-3 another complicated leg which I didn't execute well. Won the split from 3-4, and 3rd 0n 4-5 with the road route, running fast. 5-6, 6-7 also good legs for me, but 7-8 was BAD - didn't see the obvious route, and went in the opposite direction for 100m. 9 was fairly easy, but 10 was a corker - think I picked the correct route which was the reverse of the second part of 1-2. Too slow on short, easy leg to 11, then stuffed 11-12 - couldn't see either of the route choices, and after dithering for a while eventually picked the slowest. Managed a reasonable finish from there, although could have gained a few seconds by being more decisive after punching 12, considering I'd just run within 20m of 13 to get to 12.
A fairly late start tomorrow, will have to be in better form.
Later: lost time in the circle at 1, going slightly right and getting confused by another control. Took a while to work out a route to 2, and didn't execute it particularly well, but did better than most - very well-set leg. 2-3 another complicated leg which I didn't execute well. Won the split from 3-4, and 3rd 0n 4-5 with the road route, running fast. 5-6, 6-7 also good legs for me, but 7-8 was BAD - didn't see the obvious route, and went in the opposite direction for 100m. 9 was fairly easy, but 10 was a corker - think I picked the correct route which was the reverse of the second part of 1-2. Too slow on short, easy leg to 11, then stuffed 11-12 - couldn't see either of the route choices, and after dithering for a while eventually picked the slowest. Managed a reasonable finish from there, although could have gained a few seconds by being more decisive after punching 12, considering I'd just run within 20m of 13 to get to 12.
A fairly late start tomorrow, will have to be in better form.