Sunday Oct 10 |
 | orienteering 3:52:00 [3]32.5 km (7:08 / km) | |
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| Hudson Highlander IX. Lousy race for me. I blew #2 badly and got dropped, then messed up 3, fumbled my way through to the first exchange, went out the wrong way from there. Demoralized. Walked a leg or two, then picked it up a bit and had a fast final loop, which was mostly on trails. I noticed from the splits that the 2 legs in the middle where I basically gave up cost me 10 mins. That was the difference between top 10 and top 5. The moral - as always - is never, EVER, give up a race before its over (injuries excepted). There is *always* a chance to recover from errors no matter how stupid I am on any given control. After control #3 all I could think was "the race is lost." Thats a killer. Not only does it make navigation impossible, its just not nice to think that way. Everyone out there (myself included) expects me to try my best the entire race. I want people who beat me in a race or on any given leg to think "Yeah, I beat Eddie! Hot damn!!" Rightly so. Have a look at comments on my route in the splits list. I was 9th. |
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Highlander - Splits |
Saturday Oct 9 |
| orienteering 25:49 [4]3.55 km (7:16 / km) | |
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| Highlander sprint qualifier on Sebago map. WAY too many errors. |
| orienteering 29:22 [4]3.6 km (8:09 / km) | |
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| Highlander sprint final on Sebago. Again, WAY too many errors. |
Thursday Oct 7 |
| road run 40:17 [4]10.15 km (3:58 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. |
Wednesday Oct 6 |
| orienteering 30:23 [3]5.1 km (5:57 / km) | |
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| A short O-course at Loch Raven on the Walker's map. Wanted to go about twice as long, but it got too dark to see anything. 1:10000, 20 ft contours. |
Tuesday Oct 5 |
| road run 58:16 [3]14.4 km (4:03 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Carried the Pawtuckaway map and visualized a couple of legs. |
Monday Oct 4 |
| cycling 1:13:00 [4]24.95 mi (2:55 / mi) | |
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| Work commute. Made the light at York and Church lane on the way home! That light is synched with the one at Greenspring and Padonia. If I jam hard through the 1.5 miles between them I can make the cycle. Otherwise its a 5 min wait. |
| road run 21:40 [3]4.81 km (4:30 / km) | |
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| Road run around the neighborhood in the dark right after getting off the bike. |