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Saturday Apr 21, 2012 #
11 AM
Running 11:46 [0] 1.13 mi (10:23 / mi) +6m 10:13 / mi
Orienteering 1:30:52 5.92 mi (15:21 / mi) +262m 13:30 / mi
ahr:162 max:178 20c
Thanks to a ride from Magnus, headed up to Nottingcook for UNO's meet organized by Bob Lux.
Great fun, awesome to have a nice long course at a local meet! Woods were already a bit thick, because it's more hemlock-y and pine-y, so just lots of dense vegetation that you need to be ninja-eque through.
My plan was to really have planned my route to the next control before I got to each control, but I found it such a battle to just keep contact with the map while being battered by branches that I didn't really succeed at that... to continue working on.
I had two major mistakes, one was a drift-off/pushed by green at the end of a long leg, think I just had to keep up a bit more focus and look at my compass more (8). The other was a didn't-quite-go-far-enough/distracted by two other runners in the vicinity (17). I was also really slow compared to Brendan on the first 3 controls, he basically made up 3 minutes to me by #3!!! Gosh-a-roni. Guess I was partly a bit hesitant, party a bit slow through the dense woods and partly he was just cookin'.
Had a good fun run around (mostly a bit behind) Magnus for 5-ish controls in the 3rd quarter of the race, he was running well, I couldn't quite get ahead. I just barely snuck ahead confidently descending to #15, but then my mistake at #17 ended up back behind. About half of the controls in the race, it seemed, I was just leaving as Brendan was coming in, but he never quite snuck ahead. Still, he was 2 minutes up at the end, despite having totally missed the water control and thus battling some serious tired/dehydrationess at the end...
1387/2000
Great fun, awesome to have a nice long course at a local meet! Woods were already a bit thick, because it's more hemlock-y and pine-y, so just lots of dense vegetation that you need to be ninja-eque through.
My plan was to really have planned my route to the next control before I got to each control, but I found it such a battle to just keep contact with the map while being battered by branches that I didn't really succeed at that... to continue working on.
I had two major mistakes, one was a drift-off/pushed by green at the end of a long leg, think I just had to keep up a bit more focus and look at my compass more (8). The other was a didn't-quite-go-far-enough/distracted by two other runners in the vicinity (17). I was also really slow compared to Brendan on the first 3 controls, he basically made up 3 minutes to me by #3!!! Gosh-a-roni. Guess I was partly a bit hesitant, party a bit slow through the dense woods and partly he was just cookin'.
Had a good fun run around (mostly a bit behind) Magnus for 5-ish controls in the 3rd quarter of the race, he was running well, I couldn't quite get ahead. I just barely snuck ahead confidently descending to #15, but then my mistake at #17 ended up back behind. About half of the controls in the race, it seemed, I was just leaving as Brendan was coming in, but he never quite snuck ahead. Still, he was 2 minutes up at the end, despite having totally missed the water control and thus battling some serious tired/dehydrationess at the end...
1387/2000
Orienteering 17:05 1.71 mi (9:59 / mi) +29m 9:29 / mi
ahr:165 max:180 12c
I was tired, but Daddy-o said we had to go sprint-yellow.... so Magnus and I geared up and did. I started 2 min back, got him to 9, but tiiiiired. =)
Was very different in character, mostly all out in the open rough yellow, kinda like running on moorland. Misplaced #3 was too bad, but eh.
1399/2000
Was very different in character, mostly all out in the open rough yellow, kinda like running on moorland. Misplaced #3 was too bad, but eh.
1399/2000