Saturday Oct 7 |
 | Orienteering 40:00 [2]2.5 km (16:00 / km) | |
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| Model event, controls 1-8. Mostly walking, trying to get a feel for the terrain and the map. Subtle contour detail and the limestone "pavement" make for interesting, but tricky, orienteering. |
| Orienteering race 1:02:07 [3]3.7 km (16:47 / km) | |
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| Day 2, middle, at Rocky Ridge. Strange: other than one leg, I had a good run, with good contact, and only 1-2 minutes of mistakes. But on that leg from hell, number 3, I lost 23 minutes. It started with a small parallel error, followed by inattentiveness and sloppy compass, unitl I got to a parallel "attack point". I couldn't relocate because I wasn't even close to where I thought I was (I missed by over 150 meters to the north), and the area where I was searching and trying to relocate looked an awful lot like the area I thought I was in. After maybe 2-3 minutes lost, I actually relocated correctly, but I screwed up the approach, didn't find it, and then decided I must be way too far south. After 15 minutes or so, I bailed to a trail 300 meters north of the control, came back south to where I had been near the start, and eventually found it. Worst single leg in 3 years. |
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Middle Course 6 - Splits |
Friday Oct 6 |
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| Event: 2006 North American Championships (Golden Leaf Orienteering Fest)
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| Orienteering race (sprint) 14:51 [4]2.4 km (6:11 / km) | |
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| NAOC, sprint, M45+, at McMaster Univeristy in Hamilton, Ontario. (First time orienteering in Canada.) A good run, on a pretty easy, totally urban course. One 5-8 second mistake. This was the first time I read ahead on every leg, planning the route for the next leg. (If I couldn't make myself do it on this course, I never would.) That slowed me down in the middle of the legs, but I probably gained more time back by not hesitating leaving the next control, and not making any bad route choices. 6th in M45, second over 50 (well behind Charlie S.) |
| Road Run 14:00 [3]1.5 mi (9:20 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up for sprint. |
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Sprint 2 - Splits |
Wednesday Oct 4 |
| Orienteering 1:05:03 [2]5 km (13:01 / km) | |
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| At Norwottuck, very easy. Had trouble reading the map at dusk, so last 20 minutes were a trail run, getting back as darkness fell. |
Tuesday Oct 3 |
| Track 14:04 [3]2.0 mi (7:01 / mi) | |
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| Plan was to do a four mile tempo run at 7 minute pace, but quit early when my foot got painful. |
| dirt 18:00 [2]2.0 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
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| Slow jog before and after. |
Monday Oct 2 |
| grass 30:35 [3]3.8 mi (8:02 / mi) | |
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| UMass fields, 4 laps. |
Sunday Oct 1 |
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| Event: WCOC Trout Brook Valley
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| Orienteering 1:23:25 [3]*** 7.25 km (11:30 / km) +230m 9:56 / km | |
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| WCOC Trout Brook red, nice course set by Rick, after heavy rain, so the woods were very wet. A modest physical effort, but the orienteering was OK: just a bunch of small mistakes, maybe 4-5 minutes total including three 30 second misses. I like running on this map: it's detailed, and requires good concentration, but it's also readable and accurate. And though there's quite a bit of rocky ground, there's also lots of nice runnable woods. I kept the laces to my left shoe totally loose, which got me through without too much discomfort. Good thing I didn't step in a mud hole: the shoe would have been gone! |
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Red - Splits |