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Sunday Nov 20, 2011 #
Event: NEOC: Blue Hills Traverse
Running warm up/down 4:00 [1]
Orienteering 1:54:52 [4] 13.9 km (8:16 / km)
Blue Hills Traverse
Won! By ~2.5 min over Dancho. And probably my most lonely BHT so far, from 7 not in contact with anyone else. Was with Dancho and Andrew until then though, so at least got a dose of mass-start fun. Pretty clean run, bit of a bobble to 15 thinking I was supposed to go to 17, then just some small little things. Towards the end, wasn't really reading ahead that much, tired and also wanted to expend extra mental energy to make sure to really come up with a good plan.
1- easy just off the trail, but Dancho bolted from the start and was nearly 20s up already!
2- straight, pretty much following Andrew
3- Dancho leading
4- first trail run, and whoops, I nearly just went totally the wrong way, heading N on first trail I hit, but noted I didn't want a swamp on my left...
5- Andrew's bearing was better than mine, but he drifted up to me, then we both had to go down, bit low-vis, I found the rock first
6- fine
7- leading easy to ID rocky hill top
8- and broke away, not sure how, ran trail to stream to trail to gap around cliff by the marsh and then sailed down the hillside, wee bit nervous to be alone, but spike. Drank water and had the Honey Stinger goo that Eric had given me as I forgot to bring one...
9- trails for a bit, then up. I was a bit scared by the vagueness at the top, ran along trail to junction just to be sure
10- up reentrant, maybe could have avoided that green. also got a bit confused by some cliff under-mappage on way up, but sensibly kept going. impressed Tim P. won this one
11-12-13- the pretty trivial trail-running ones, gathered I was leading through the water/food stop, with Dancho maybe a minute behind, took sports drink.
14- up hill, not much to place the boulders, was diligent about bearing
15- um, repeat fail. Last week, went to 18 instead of 8. this leg, I decided I needed to go to 17.... so planned and executed going to 17 quite well, but then while reading ahead on a trail nearly there, I realized I actually should probably go to 15-16 first. Still apparently not a terrible route, had 2nd split, only a few seconds behind Dancho. Also, leaving trail to 15 wiped out hard forearm -> rock, ouchie!
16- hesitation on slightly earlier rockiness
17- fine
18- bit off bearing to R
19- got close using stone wall handrail, low vis area made it nice to have come from a close attackpoint
20- felt like brain was becoming noticably tired on this one, attacked from rocky hill nearby, but found it hard to evaluate distance/direction to go from it... ended up seeing the boulder on way past maybe 30 m too far east
21- attempted to find mini-path through greenbriar, failed, so just ran big trails, slighty confused by water stop not being where mapped, but no biggy, had just slightly passed it. Tired going up the hill!!!
22- wiggly left of line. Kinda like Lori's no-climb route to right having seen it now though, wonder if it was faster? Dancho did get me by 30s...
23- fine if timid
24- could have had a bit more agressive angle towards green marsh, ended up lower on stream than I needed to
25- straight times, time to push it in!!!
26- tangled in some green briar right on the approach, and was a bit off to the north, could tell from way wall wasn't quite bending yet. Also, this control was super-hidden down behind rockiness under cliff...
Finish wasn't quite working when I came in, but Ian scampered off and found one pretty quick.
Happy with the race. Biggest technique issues were attempting to go to wrong control for 15, the wrong trail initial running to 4, possibly route choices to 10 and 22.
QuickRoute
833/2000
Won! By ~2.5 min over Dancho. And probably my most lonely BHT so far, from 7 not in contact with anyone else. Was with Dancho and Andrew until then though, so at least got a dose of mass-start fun. Pretty clean run, bit of a bobble to 15 thinking I was supposed to go to 17, then just some small little things. Towards the end, wasn't really reading ahead that much, tired and also wanted to expend extra mental energy to make sure to really come up with a good plan.
1- easy just off the trail, but Dancho bolted from the start and was nearly 20s up already!
2- straight, pretty much following Andrew
3- Dancho leading
4- first trail run, and whoops, I nearly just went totally the wrong way, heading N on first trail I hit, but noted I didn't want a swamp on my left...
5- Andrew's bearing was better than mine, but he drifted up to me, then we both had to go down, bit low-vis, I found the rock first
6- fine
7- leading easy to ID rocky hill top
8- and broke away, not sure how, ran trail to stream to trail to gap around cliff by the marsh and then sailed down the hillside, wee bit nervous to be alone, but spike. Drank water and had the Honey Stinger goo that Eric had given me as I forgot to bring one...
9- trails for a bit, then up. I was a bit scared by the vagueness at the top, ran along trail to junction just to be sure
10- up reentrant, maybe could have avoided that green. also got a bit confused by some cliff under-mappage on way up, but sensibly kept going. impressed Tim P. won this one
11-12-13- the pretty trivial trail-running ones, gathered I was leading through the water/food stop, with Dancho maybe a minute behind, took sports drink.
14- up hill, not much to place the boulders, was diligent about bearing
15- um, repeat fail. Last week, went to 18 instead of 8. this leg, I decided I needed to go to 17.... so planned and executed going to 17 quite well, but then while reading ahead on a trail nearly there, I realized I actually should probably go to 15-16 first. Still apparently not a terrible route, had 2nd split, only a few seconds behind Dancho. Also, leaving trail to 15 wiped out hard forearm -> rock, ouchie!
16- hesitation on slightly earlier rockiness
17- fine
18- bit off bearing to R
19- got close using stone wall handrail, low vis area made it nice to have come from a close attackpoint
20- felt like brain was becoming noticably tired on this one, attacked from rocky hill nearby, but found it hard to evaluate distance/direction to go from it... ended up seeing the boulder on way past maybe 30 m too far east
21- attempted to find mini-path through greenbriar, failed, so just ran big trails, slighty confused by water stop not being where mapped, but no biggy, had just slightly passed it. Tired going up the hill!!!
22- wiggly left of line. Kinda like Lori's no-climb route to right having seen it now though, wonder if it was faster? Dancho did get me by 30s...
23- fine if timid
24- could have had a bit more agressive angle towards green marsh, ended up lower on stream than I needed to
25- straight times, time to push it in!!!
26- tangled in some green briar right on the approach, and was a bit off to the north, could tell from way wall wasn't quite bending yet. Also, this control was super-hidden down behind rockiness under cliff...
Finish wasn't quite working when I came in, but Ian scampered off and found one pretty quick.
Happy with the race. Biggest technique issues were attempting to go to wrong control for 15, the wrong trail initial running to 4, possibly route choices to 10 and 22.
QuickRoute
833/2000
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