Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Event: 2016 Victorian Championships - Middle Distance - Borhoney Ghurk, Elaine
 

Vic Middle- blow by blow
0-1 Realised the green was worthy pf respect. So slowed down to make sure my quickroute trace was red and would stand out later on. A green trace would disappear.
Also kept to the top and then veered right when it felt about time.
1-2 Kept on the top and turned left when the mining detail appeared.
2-3 Bendigo red line technique worked well until I reach the cliff just before the control. Rockclimbing skills helped me keep on the red line.
3-4 Looks like I climbed another cliff. Can't say I noticed. Was keen to bypass the piles of rubble on the red line.
4-5 Tried to red line but failed to climb as I did, so was a little low. First error.
5-6 Red lining worked
6-7 Red lined but again failed to climb. Hd to at the endof the leg. Error 2.
7-8 Red lining required another cliff climb. Well actually bloody steep hill climb. As the control was on top, there was no point trying to go round.
8-9 Red line through detail
9-10 Almost red line through detail.
10-11 I did think about an attack point strategy, but in the end red lined, hoping to collect myself on the cliff on the line. Didn't see it, though the GPS said I went right next to it. weird. And so made the significant error of the run. Error 3 cost 2-3 minutes.
11-12 Suspicious of red line, so too a more careful route. Which was a waste of time. This was a red line control.
12-13 Down into the gully and ran along the bottom to avoid needing to think. Apparently there was a second control up top which cause the best fun of the day... but that was when I finished.
14-15 Red line
15-16 red line
16-17 Track
17-F track
Arrived at finish to hear Chris N discussing his dnf due to that control pair at 14. I enjoyed claiming Roch and I (2nd and 3rd to his 1st) would protest if he was reinstated. Pity I couldn't stop smiling so I wasn't very believable.
How can a setting mistake like this happen. Very easily actually. I have come close myself. It comes from making late tweaking to courses, and no longer looking at the interaction between courses. Quite human. Other than that, I thought this was one of the better Rex Niven courses. Good terrain helps as well. The regrowth improves the challenge.

C • 13 5

The misses weren't very significant.
Speaking of misses, this course was set by two young ladies in the club. At a guess Leisha is 18 and Corrina about 15. They put a lot of thought into the task and it shows. Its a very good sign for the future of Victorian orienteering.

C • Young ladies 2

No improvement.

Finished the right half of the Peter the Great remap. The rest will have to wait for other priorities.

Rained off. And it was welcome.

Running between detail ... ie speeding up mapping process.

Two laps of No 7 with a break between