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Sunday Sep 17, 2017 #
9 AM
Orienteering 1:53:40 14.53 km (7:49 / km) +431m 6:49 / km
ahr:165 max:188 shoes: x talon 190.2
Tried a short jog warm-up down the road, and my leg was sore enough that I only got about 50m before I gave up and walked to the start.
Started fairly conservatively (but probably not enough, given my lack of fitness) and found the terrain far more runnable. Happily, my leg improved slightly once I got warmed up and miraculously didn't get as bad as yesterday through the entire run.
Relatively clean through the first 8 controls. A tiny bit low on 3 and a little wobble coming into 7, but pretty smooth and feeling OK. Only 3 minutes down on Craig at this point, but that is about where my fitness and brains ran out (funny how that often happens simultaneously).
8-9 was a monster leg, with two obvious choices. I was immediately drawn to running wide left to stay out of the rock detail for almost the whole leg and in terrain I knew was runnable, but a (stupid) little voice in my head said 'you know that going straight up the spur will be faster if you get it right, and you're doing pretty well so far' and, for the second day in a row, I changed my mind and stuffed it up.
For some reason I had a little trouble holding a straight line early in the leg and so was never confident with my position on the spur. I seemed to fall off both sides of it at various times and totally lost track of where I was. I wish I had split my watch at 8, because in the end I got so confused athat I stopped WAAAAY short of where I needed to be and started searching randomly for anything that made sense. I eventually gave up and headed to the top of the hill and slighty over the other side, where Craig came through. He apprently helpfully pointed where I should be going, but I was too braindead to notice and by the time I figured it out, he was long gone. Even more so when I came down near the control, mid-identified a large boulder cluster and launched a search about 100m from where the control actually was. 15 minutes binned on the leg. Game over. The GPS trace for that leg is going to be special.
10 was super slo and creful, but I was obviously still fried given my spectacular misreading of the map on my convoluted journey up (and down and up again) to #11.
Got my head back in the game a bit after this. 12-14 was OK, just super slow. #15 I was really happy with how I read the detail in the first half of the leg, but then I vagued out again and went for a bit of a wander , before failing to see the control when I was standing right next to it.
#16 was going fine until I tripped over a stick and got a massive calf cramp. Once I managed to get that sorted after a little lie on the ground and a stretch, I lost track of how many creeks I had crossed, and went one too far before bouncing back to the control. Clean and in control from there to the end, but walking most of the uphills and not running very quickly between htem.
Still really enjoyed it today - glad to get through it without my leg falling apart. Nice to have that feeling of approaching control sites confidently expecting to see the flag exactly where I was going, rather than just ducking arounf to the back of arandom rock and hoping. Might just get the hang if this game if I do it more than once or twice per year!
Started fairly conservatively (but probably not enough, given my lack of fitness) and found the terrain far more runnable. Happily, my leg improved slightly once I got warmed up and miraculously didn't get as bad as yesterday through the entire run.
Relatively clean through the first 8 controls. A tiny bit low on 3 and a little wobble coming into 7, but pretty smooth and feeling OK. Only 3 minutes down on Craig at this point, but that is about where my fitness and brains ran out (funny how that often happens simultaneously).
8-9 was a monster leg, with two obvious choices. I was immediately drawn to running wide left to stay out of the rock detail for almost the whole leg and in terrain I knew was runnable, but a (stupid) little voice in my head said 'you know that going straight up the spur will be faster if you get it right, and you're doing pretty well so far' and, for the second day in a row, I changed my mind and stuffed it up.
For some reason I had a little trouble holding a straight line early in the leg and so was never confident with my position on the spur. I seemed to fall off both sides of it at various times and totally lost track of where I was. I wish I had split my watch at 8, because in the end I got so confused athat I stopped WAAAAY short of where I needed to be and started searching randomly for anything that made sense. I eventually gave up and headed to the top of the hill and slighty over the other side, where Craig came through. He apprently helpfully pointed where I should be going, but I was too braindead to notice and by the time I figured it out, he was long gone. Even more so when I came down near the control, mid-identified a large boulder cluster and launched a search about 100m from where the control actually was. 15 minutes binned on the leg. Game over. The GPS trace for that leg is going to be special.
10 was super slo and creful, but I was obviously still fried given my spectacular misreading of the map on my convoluted journey up (and down and up again) to #11.
Got my head back in the game a bit after this. 12-14 was OK, just super slow. #15 I was really happy with how I read the detail in the first half of the leg, but then I vagued out again and went for a bit of a wander , before failing to see the control when I was standing right next to it.
#16 was going fine until I tripped over a stick and got a massive calf cramp. Once I managed to get that sorted after a little lie on the ground and a stretch, I lost track of how many creeks I had crossed, and went one too far before bouncing back to the control. Clean and in control from there to the end, but walking most of the uphills and not running very quickly between htem.
Still really enjoyed it today - glad to get through it without my leg falling apart. Nice to have that feeling of approaching control sites confidently expecting to see the flag exactly where I was going, rather than just ducking arounf to the back of arandom rock and hoping. Might just get the hang if this game if I do it more than once or twice per year!