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Saturday Jun 1, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering warm up/down 8:51 1.12 km (7:55 / km) +7m 7:41 / km
ahr:136 max:146
Orienteering race 1:05:43 **** 8.01 km (8:12 / km) +41m 8:00 / km
ahr:160 max:178
NZ Queen's Birthday
Day 1 Whirokino
M40A
1 Darren Ashmore NZ 59
2 Carsten Jorgensen NZ 64
3 Bruce 65
Not a bad performance in NZ sand dunes for the first time since World Masters in April 2017.
I had two annoying mistakes at 6 and 8. Both were caused by trying to enter the forest from a known point, but I wasn't able to find the right attack point. At 6, I couldn't see the marked water point, so I wasn't confident of my entry point and missed the control by 20m to the left before turning the wrong way and losing 90 seconds. I then lost more than 30 seconds when the control unit didn't register with my SI stick. Eventually I punched the map and proceeded.
Then at 8 crossed the track only 30m right of the felled area, so I assumed that I was 30m right of the marked felled area on the map. Silly me! The map was incorrect and I then entered the forest too far to the right.
Otherwise I was reasonably clean.
I did have a bit of trouble reading the detail contours underneath green stripe in low light, but I was able to cope by using my magnifier for most of these tricky legs.
The last section in the open hills was fun, but did involve some tough climbs.
This terrain was a real challenge and was very enjoyable. The rain even held off for most of the afternoon, before bucketing down in Palmerston North later in the day.
The main road from Wellington to Levin was closed in the morning due to an accident. This resulted in a 1 hour detour through the hills north of Wellington before a dramatic drop to the coast on a narrow road. Luckily we had plenty of time and did not need to panic.
Day 1 Whirokino
M40A
1 Darren Ashmore NZ 59
2 Carsten Jorgensen NZ 64
3 Bruce 65
Not a bad performance in NZ sand dunes for the first time since World Masters in April 2017.
I had two annoying mistakes at 6 and 8. Both were caused by trying to enter the forest from a known point, but I wasn't able to find the right attack point. At 6, I couldn't see the marked water point, so I wasn't confident of my entry point and missed the control by 20m to the left before turning the wrong way and losing 90 seconds. I then lost more than 30 seconds when the control unit didn't register with my SI stick. Eventually I punched the map and proceeded.
Then at 8 crossed the track only 30m right of the felled area, so I assumed that I was 30m right of the marked felled area on the map. Silly me! The map was incorrect and I then entered the forest too far to the right.
Otherwise I was reasonably clean.
I did have a bit of trouble reading the detail contours underneath green stripe in low light, but I was able to cope by using my magnifier for most of these tricky legs.
The last section in the open hills was fun, but did involve some tough climbs.
This terrain was a real challenge and was very enjoyable. The rain even held off for most of the afternoon, before bucketing down in Palmerston North later in the day.
The main road from Wellington to Levin was closed in the morning due to an accident. This resulted in a 1 hour detour through the hills north of Wellington before a dramatic drop to the coast on a narrow road. Luckily we had plenty of time and did not need to panic.