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Sunday Apr 24, 2011 #
Orienteering warm up/down 20:00 [1] 3.0 km (6:40 / km)
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:38:42 [5] 16.84 km (5:52 / km) +535m 5:03 / km
Easter Day 2 - Long Distance
Race cancelled due to incorrectly placed #3 - a real disappointment after putting in all of the training for long distance race and then running quite well.
I had a good start, spiking 1, and running agressively to 2 straight over the hill. Approaching 3 from the SE, I saw a couple of flags, but they were not on my feature so I continued on. Upon reaching the site I saw no flag and was a little confused. I tried to find a large feature to relocate and found Graham Braid who explained that it was mis-placed and was the flag on the cliff that I saw on the approach. After the confusion I wasn't confident enough of my location to really do anything other than punch and continue. I didn't think it was my role to pick up the flag and attempt to relocate it.
My time loss was probably 60-90 seconds - not enough to destroy my run, so I continued at full speed and tried to put it out of my mind.
I took pretty straight route choices for most legs in the farmland, except for going right from 6-7 and left from 11-12 to avoid the rockfaces.
I lost 45 seconds at 12 by mis-interpreting the rocks on the northern edge of the circle to be the control site.
My mistake on the second map was not going straight to 23. I contoured out and ran the side of the hill towards the dam to save height. This didn't really pay off. I should have gone straight and could have saved at least a minute.
I was quite strong from 23 onwards and pulled a gap on Craig, who was probably on level terms with me as I crossed paths with him coming out of 23. My route from 26-27 running 200m up the fence was probably a good choice.
Unofficial Results
Route Gadget
Race cancelled due to incorrectly placed #3 - a real disappointment after putting in all of the training for long distance race and then running quite well.
I had a good start, spiking 1, and running agressively to 2 straight over the hill. Approaching 3 from the SE, I saw a couple of flags, but they were not on my feature so I continued on. Upon reaching the site I saw no flag and was a little confused. I tried to find a large feature to relocate and found Graham Braid who explained that it was mis-placed and was the flag on the cliff that I saw on the approach. After the confusion I wasn't confident enough of my location to really do anything other than punch and continue. I didn't think it was my role to pick up the flag and attempt to relocate it.
My time loss was probably 60-90 seconds - not enough to destroy my run, so I continued at full speed and tried to put it out of my mind.
I took pretty straight route choices for most legs in the farmland, except for going right from 6-7 and left from 11-12 to avoid the rockfaces.
I lost 45 seconds at 12 by mis-interpreting the rocks on the northern edge of the circle to be the control site.
My mistake on the second map was not going straight to 23. I contoured out and ran the side of the hill towards the dam to save height. This didn't really pay off. I should have gone straight and could have saved at least a minute.
I was quite strong from 23 onwards and pulled a gap on Craig, who was probably on level terms with me as I crossed paths with him coming out of 23. My route from 26-27 running 200m up the fence was probably a good choice.
Unofficial Results
Route Gadget
Orienteering 22:21 [2] 1.82 km (12:16 / km) +82m 10:01 / km
Shadowing Mason and Torren on M10N.
I didn't particularly enjoy another 1500m to the start again on top of my 16+km race.
Anyway, it was fun to shadow the boys and watch them enjoy it so much. The first 5 were quite difficult. The handrail was a creek, but it was rough and difficult to follow. If you were in the creek running was slow, but if you were out of the creek, the kids risked missing the controls.
4 was the most tricky. The creek disappeared into a rockface and you had to work out that you should go up and around it.
Mason was relieved to hit a track at 6. From there on he ran off and did very well completely on his own.
Torren was tired after climbing the big hill and did well, but at a slightly slower pace on the track.
Check out Torren's Route Gadget on C19
I didn't particularly enjoy another 1500m to the start again on top of my 16+km race.
Anyway, it was fun to shadow the boys and watch them enjoy it so much. The first 5 were quite difficult. The handrail was a creek, but it was rough and difficult to follow. If you were in the creek running was slow, but if you were out of the creek, the kids risked missing the controls.
4 was the most tricky. The creek disappeared into a rockface and you had to work out that you should go up and around it.
Mason was relieved to hit a track at 6. From there on he ran off and did very well completely on his own.
Torren was tired after climbing the big hill and did well, but at a slightly slower pace on the track.
Check out Torren's Route Gadget on C19