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Saturday May 17, 2008 #
Orienteering race (Middle) 55:06 *** 4.0 km (13:47 / km)
18c shoes: Falcon VJ
GPS: 5.8km, +120m
Worst... race... ever...
Instead of spiked controls, speaking of boomed controls is much more eloquent: 4 major booms on the first 8 controls. After a first nice and rather easy control, I boomed at 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th controls, each time getting worse and worse, to the point where I would stand in the forest, completely lost, without a single clue of where I lost map contact, and doubting everything, including the map and the compass.
Not sure exactly what leads to this disaster, except perhaps a combination of too high self-confidence after past weeks success, very low visibility in forest due to new foliage, which I am not really accustomed to, and perhaps fatigue of the past week of work. During the race it was clearly a gross failure to recognize my mistakes and to adapt my o'technique to the terrain and map at hand. Plus, didnt have much of pleasure with the terrain, which I found too green, and the course layout, which I found angular, adding too much "accidental" complexity to the "essential" complexity of the terrain (to speak in SE terms)
After the 8th control I pretty much jogged around the course, and still managed to do some slight mistakes.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/570227...
Worst... race... ever...
Instead of spiked controls, speaking of boomed controls is much more eloquent: 4 major booms on the first 8 controls. After a first nice and rather easy control, I boomed at 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th controls, each time getting worse and worse, to the point where I would stand in the forest, completely lost, without a single clue of where I lost map contact, and doubting everything, including the map and the compass.
Not sure exactly what leads to this disaster, except perhaps a combination of too high self-confidence after past weeks success, very low visibility in forest due to new foliage, which I am not really accustomed to, and perhaps fatigue of the past week of work. During the race it was clearly a gross failure to recognize my mistakes and to adapt my o'technique to the terrain and map at hand. Plus, didnt have much of pleasure with the terrain, which I found too green, and the course layout, which I found angular, adding too much "accidental" complexity to the "essential" complexity of the terrain (to speak in SE terms)
After the 8th control I pretty much jogged around the course, and still managed to do some slight mistakes.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/570227...
Orienteering race (Sprint) 16:54 [4] *** 2.3 km (7:21 / km)
16c shoes: Falcon VJ
GPS: 2.55km (6:39) +80m
After the middle disaster, running the sprint was rather a formality, especially since it was the same terrain with a scale-up map. Notable difference in weather though, because we ran under a cold "douche" after the hot sun of the morning.
My only goal was then to have a clean race, and perhaps to redeem a bit of confidence. I almost blow it up on the first control, then it was an ok race. I just took it slowly in the forest, where I finally managed to feel in control - legs felt quite powerless too. Not a bad race but clearly not a strong one, as there was much more people in front of me than behind.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/570227...
After the middle disaster, running the sprint was rather a formality, especially since it was the same terrain with a scale-up map. Notable difference in weather though, because we ran under a cold "douche" after the hot sun of the morning.
My only goal was then to have a clean race, and perhaps to redeem a bit of confidence. I almost blow it up on the first control, then it was an ok race. I just took it slowly in the forest, where I finally managed to feel in control - legs felt quite powerless too. Not a bad race but clearly not a strong one, as there was much more people in front of me than behind.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/570227...
Running warm up/down 40:00 [2] 4.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Falcon VJ
Total warm up for both races, around...