Orienteering race (Score-O) 1:01:00 [3]
shoes: Nike Air Terra Humara
ROC Score-O at Webster park, nice night for running though everything was wet and the streams were more full.
Felt ok about it. Path: 86, 87, 85, 84, 83, 96, 95, 93, 90, 89, 91, 92, 99, attempt at 94, 82, 81 - 1 minute penalty.
Of note - I punched behind Mike and Carl at the first control, but then crossed immediately and reached 87 before them both. Mike passed me up at 85, but I caught up a bit at 84. Didn't see him until much later when he was on his way to 89 and I was returning from it.
91 bit me twice. First I missed the small reentrant and climbed up out of the stream bed to find the field 100m north of it. Then when I passed down the trail and up to where 91 should have been, I missed it - it looks like it should be a straight shot up the hill, but alas... Mike and I searched around for it for quite a while...
I was running low on time so I knew I had one chance to swing through to pick up 94, and I must have just missed it. I came back south from the stream crossing and up the hill, but didn't see it. I didn't have time to futz around and headed out and up the path. Mike popped out onto the trail a bit behind me where 97 was (and I knew I had no time for that at all)
It was a nice run up the trail to 82/81 - though I did have a nice slip in that goo.
Looking at the map in the calm here, I don't think I would have picked a different route, so the planning and navigating skills were working well. I had a good set of legs for the finish, so that was nice too.
Orienteering race (Sprint) 21:13 [4] *** 1.67 km (12:42 / km) +57m 10:51 / km
spiked:7/9c shoes: Nike Air Terra Humara
Roc's Sprint at Webster Park.
The luck that hid 91 from me on the score-o reversed and brought me right to 2... I was leaving and a pack of earlier starters followed back on my course, but I heard they were less successful...
On 8 I stayed low on the left side of the stream hoping to take the clear path to the end and run up the spur. The steep grade became tricky and I went up the hill at apparently the right spot as the control was there.
I punched through just a few sections of green and ran clear most of the way. Overshot 9 a small amount and thought I was looking for a hill rather than a depression. Saw the control just as I heard Rob coming from the other side of the control.
I must have lollygagged a bit on the run through the brush off the hill at 9 - I remember finding the worst section of prickers there... oh well.