Orienteering (Foot) 47:27 [1] * 2.1 km (22:36 / km) +60m 19:46 / km
ahr:74 max:106 spiked:9/9c slept:7.0 weight:178.5lbs
QOC: Wheaton Regional Park. While Peggy ran the Red course, Max and I walked and jogged the White course. There was some slight rain at times. Max's concentration is still not really on the map but he enjoyed the running and walking. He has a lot of competitiveness in him. He was able to plan legs between controls when I emphasized it. He did tell a few others that we saw that he was learning to read the map and I think he genuinely did. While going through the course, I did find some features which could have been added to the map including a nice sized boulder off a paved trail.
Running warm up/down (Street & Trail) 7:00 [2] 0.75 mi (9:20 / mi)
Warm-up between toilets, the start, epunch registration and my parked car with some repetition due to forgetting to do various things like clear my epunch.
Orienteering (Foot) 54:46 [3] *** 6.7 km (8:10 / km) +235m 6:57 / km
ahr:158 max:170 spiked:17/20c
QOC: Wheaton Regional Park, MD. The course was fun and I did get to one area which I hadn't been to before. It was also one year ago when QOC held it's last Spring meet in the park that was the last straw for my knee before needing surgery. Today was much better. For the race last tune-up before the A-meet season begins, I did okay. The park is not that difficult and I'm fairly familiar with it. I was steady though a bit slow. The challenge was in keeping my concentration reading and running. It was good practice for that as well as for practicing good process and technique. I made a clear error on #1 by going more or less straight and being too high but the rootstock may have been off a bit. I was pretty clean through #12 but the mapping is out of date in the area of #13. I got hung up in some green there and had to go past the control and around it to come back to the control. There were a few unmapped features en-route there too. Going to the Go control, I made another error by being too high but I've wondered about the contours and placement of the trails on the map in the area too as they may have contributed to my problem. Some questioned whether the rootstock that the control was on was correct or not. It seemed to line-up with the building at the finish but to be sure, I would have to validate it without being in a rush to finish.