Training Log Archive: Tundra/Desert

To the start of the second day of the SDO B meet.

Blue. It was my impression that the mapper/course setter set on a task not quite up to his capabilities; last year's B meet, first day, was similar. There were all those nicely detailed, technical areas, and it was clear a lot of time went into the mapping, but they were invariably missing a boulder or many, and the mutual orientation of things was wrong. The first control was just like that, enough to screw the race up for me.
I still was no slower than Andy for most of the legs that I was clean.

Green, after Blue. I was really tired and so jogged it, except for a re-run of the first control (shared with Blue) to figure out exactly how much time I had lost. I did some stupid things, some of them intentionally; tried twice to penetrate the impenetrable manzanita (both times unsuccessfully). Also pretended that I was a real orienteer by actually reading the map—things I would never do in an actual race.
Oh, and a control was misplaced. I tried to pull an Eric Weyman on the course setter by trying to carefully figure out where the control might be. I'm no Eric—I actually got the right idea and almost found it, but was stopped by a wall of manzanita around which it was possible to go,
but I didn't.
First voided course in 55 races this year! I think this was the best (latest in the season) in my many years of orienteering.

W = 155 if I believe Annabel's scale.

Hydration log: I won't even go there.

Blue, D2 - Splits