Sunday Oct 8 |
 | Orienteering race 1:27:19 [4] 7.1 km (12:18 / km) | |
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| NAOC long, perfect weather. Same area as yesterday, but the terrain seemed different today: much less limestone, but thicker in places, and the marshes were a lot wetter, at least where I went, wading once for 10-15 meters in water up to my crotch. I made a bunch of mistakes (including an idiotic and costly trail error on the way to the go control); at least nothing cost more than 2-3 minutes. I lost the most time on the long leg when I tried to cross a stream. It was only about knee deep, but my first foot kept sinking, and sinking, into the mud. When the water got to the top of my thigh, I got scared I would be stuck for good (or lose a shoe), and I quickly sat down in the water to take the weight off it. Then I slowly extricated my buried foot, which made my hamstring start to cramp. When I finally escaped, I probably should have found another place to cross, but I was totally spooked and instead climbed back through thick vegetation to the trail and went the long way around. Cost at least 3 minutes on what could have been a fast leg for me. All in all, a pretty mediocre result: a decent result (for me) would have been around 80. |
| Orienteering 35:00 [3] 3.5 km (10:00 / km) | |
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| Did the other part of the model, controls 9-12, at a jog before the race as a warm-up. Maybe too much warm-up, as I had really tired legs during in the race. |
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Long Course 6 - Splits |
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. |