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Saturday Sep 22, 2007 #
Running warm up/down 12:00 [2] 2.0 km (6:00 / km)
am: Short warm up before race. Repeated the dose after the race.
Orienteering race 1:06:15 [5] *** 8.0 km (8:17 / km) +300m 6:58 / km
spiked:11/15c
am: WA championships. Mt Dale. Day 1.
First orienteering 'race' for quite a long time. I couldn't have run much harder in this area. Scrubby and rough under foot with lots of fallen timber and broken laterite. Hard for anyone using granny glasses. Too much time just watching that I didn't fall and break a leg.
Was careful in the early stages and hit the first 4 controls OK. Wasn't careful enough at 5 though (3m boulder). Went past the boulder on the eastern side - just didn't see it in the scrub. I recovered quickly after I spotted a group of rocks beyond the control to the SE, and it would have only been a small miss if I'd sorted it out straight away. Unfortunately, I then went to the boulder on the SW side of the control and still didn't see the boulder the control was on even though I was only 10-15m away! (one of the least imposing 3m boulders I've come across). Stood there like a goose until Rhys appeared, having caught 2 mins on me. We played cat and mouse for the rest of the course, often taking different route choices but ending up together at many of the controls.
I went straight on 7 whereas he went out to the left via the yellow and bare rock and gained about 30 sec. On 8, he went up the track and cut across to the road. I stayed closer to the straight line and lost more time. He might have been nearly 1 min ahead by now, but I caught him coming out of 8 by virtue of an easier approach to the control across some bare rock and open ground and avoiding some of the awful garbage he went through after leaving the control. I got 9 just in front of him and kept up with him on the early part of the long leg to 10. Was thinking at this point I didn't really want to run quite this hard. I dropped behind a bit at 10 after going a little too far to the left of the line and getting caught in some shit. He was starting to get out of sight on the way to 11 so I put in a surge to make sure I could see him take the control. Then got a glimpse of orange and white from about 100m away and went for it. Did 12 fairly smoothly and I was right behind him again. He bashed his knee at 12 so was a bit slow coming out of the control. We went different ways to 13 and I got a break on him by going to the right of the line and making maximum use of the bare rock and clearings approaching the control. 14 and 15 were just basically a case of running as hard as I could and trying not to stuff up. Managed to stay in front to the finish (not by much though!).
Was very pleased that I could run as hard as this in a physically demanding area. The real test though, will be how I pull up after Day 2
First orienteering 'race' for quite a long time. I couldn't have run much harder in this area. Scrubby and rough under foot with lots of fallen timber and broken laterite. Hard for anyone using granny glasses. Too much time just watching that I didn't fall and break a leg.
Was careful in the early stages and hit the first 4 controls OK. Wasn't careful enough at 5 though (3m boulder). Went past the boulder on the eastern side - just didn't see it in the scrub. I recovered quickly after I spotted a group of rocks beyond the control to the SE, and it would have only been a small miss if I'd sorted it out straight away. Unfortunately, I then went to the boulder on the SW side of the control and still didn't see the boulder the control was on even though I was only 10-15m away! (one of the least imposing 3m boulders I've come across). Stood there like a goose until Rhys appeared, having caught 2 mins on me. We played cat and mouse for the rest of the course, often taking different route choices but ending up together at many of the controls.
I went straight on 7 whereas he went out to the left via the yellow and bare rock and gained about 30 sec. On 8, he went up the track and cut across to the road. I stayed closer to the straight line and lost more time. He might have been nearly 1 min ahead by now, but I caught him coming out of 8 by virtue of an easier approach to the control across some bare rock and open ground and avoiding some of the awful garbage he went through after leaving the control. I got 9 just in front of him and kept up with him on the early part of the long leg to 10. Was thinking at this point I didn't really want to run quite this hard. I dropped behind a bit at 10 after going a little too far to the left of the line and getting caught in some shit. He was starting to get out of sight on the way to 11 so I put in a surge to make sure I could see him take the control. Then got a glimpse of orange and white from about 100m away and went for it. Did 12 fairly smoothly and I was right behind him again. He bashed his knee at 12 so was a bit slow coming out of the control. We went different ways to 13 and I got a break on him by going to the right of the line and making maximum use of the bare rock and clearings approaching the control. 14 and 15 were just basically a case of running as hard as I could and trying not to stuff up. Managed to stay in front to the finish (not by much though!).
Was very pleased that I could run as hard as this in a physically demanding area. The real test though, will be how I pull up after Day 2