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Saturday Sep 24, 2016 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (Foot) 1:35:24 [4] ***** 5.97 km (15:59 / km)
slept:7.0
North American Orienteering Long Championships on the Burnt Mountain map near Hanover, NH. This was a pretty fun day for me, despite the problems I had navigating. It's not often that one gets to run in such challenging terrain. I was probably reading half of what should have. My eyes just weren't distinguishing things like lines of cliffs apart from trails. There were times when I was able to know the control would be below me on a particular cliff or around a boulder but mostly, from the map, I was just getting an impression of things that were in the terrain. I relied on contours and even vegetation a lot to get me close. I managed to not make any big errors on the first part of the course and felt good about that. I hesitated a lot and got drawn off seeing other controls sometimes but through #7 I'd only lost a little time and didn't have to retrace my steps.
On #8, I got close and saw a few people around the control, but seeing some turn and stare at the map, got me to second thinking. I ran on past to the next knoll before turning back.
I managed to run off of the map on the long leg. It was set a bit close to the edge of the page but I also felt confident that I would have recognized a line of cliffs that I'd chosen to run to. When I started the leg I still had it in my mind that I was missing some better route. After finishing the course and seeing the trail going around the big hill, I'm amazed that others saw it; I still had trouble finding it standing around afterward. What I did had me climbing and crossing more cliffs than I knew I should, I just got confused by some parallel features--a couple of trails and a marsh that looked a little like ones shown on the map. I was probably tired enough to just be trying too hard in my head to force the terrain I was seeing onto the map. I relocated just before a paved road and came straight to the control on a planned route from there. It lost me well over 11 minutes.
I hit controls 11 and 12 pretty well but ran too confidently toward #13. I got confused by an intermittent trail, mistaking it for a larger trail just past the control. When I saw the intermittent trail, I turned back instead of crossed it. I should have played this safe by just dropping low and running the trail the whole way.
It was a pretty fun day just being out there. I look forward to another chance to go here again.
On #8, I got close and saw a few people around the control, but seeing some turn and stare at the map, got me to second thinking. I ran on past to the next knoll before turning back.
I managed to run off of the map on the long leg. It was set a bit close to the edge of the page but I also felt confident that I would have recognized a line of cliffs that I'd chosen to run to. When I started the leg I still had it in my mind that I was missing some better route. After finishing the course and seeing the trail going around the big hill, I'm amazed that others saw it; I still had trouble finding it standing around afterward. What I did had me climbing and crossing more cliffs than I knew I should, I just got confused by some parallel features--a couple of trails and a marsh that looked a little like ones shown on the map. I was probably tired enough to just be trying too hard in my head to force the terrain I was seeing onto the map. I relocated just before a paved road and came straight to the control on a planned route from there. It lost me well over 11 minutes.
I hit controls 11 and 12 pretty well but ran too confidently toward #13. I got confused by an intermittent trail, mistaking it for a larger trail just past the control. When I saw the intermittent trail, I turned back instead of crossed it. I should have played this safe by just dropping low and running the trail the whole way.
It was a pretty fun day just being out there. I look forward to another chance to go here again.