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Friday Aug 2, 2013 #
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Wahoo!! 5th in the World Games Sprint! And just 3 seconds of getting to stand up there, with the US flag raised and get a medal... can just taste that now, although I am still just totally happy with 5th as sneaking into the top 10 was the original goal!
The course has a lot of running and then some control-pick type sections in the little areas of park. These weren't hard, but would be if you ran totally all-out in the simple urban areas and didn't have enough brain oxygen to count trees/change direction properly.
I'll write up a bit more post shower!
The course has a lot of running and then some control-pick type sections in the little areas of park. These weren't hard, but would be if you ran totally all-out in the simple urban areas and didn't have enough brain oxygen to count trees/change direction properly.
I'll write up a bit more post shower!
C • yeah! 15
9 AM
Running 9:38 [1] 1.24 mi (7:46 / mi)
A good chunk of time chatting with Sam and Minna under the tent, then out into the sun to warm up!
Drills 5:25 [1] 0.3 mi (18:03 / mi)
Running 3:00 [1] 0.13 mi (22:34 / mi) +1m 22:03 / mi
Orienteering 16:37 [4] 3.85 km (4:19 / km) +20m 4:12 / km
20c
World Games Sprint - El Ingenio
Well, yeah, mega-woo for a good race and ending up in 5th!!! Like most of my recent races, I started kinda slow but got into it. The easiest legs were generally my best splits, so yep, still best at running and not the even easy technical stuff. On one side, that's frustrating to lose all those 1-2-3 seconds on not hard little legs, but maybe on the other side, it means that it's just got to be possible for me to get faster!
How it went:
1 - Through the tunnel under the road from the stadium, then head rightish, ah! that's a big tree, scamper, scamper. Stopped extra time at the control because I didn't hear the beep. Beeps were abnormally quiet, just kinda had to trust.
2 - Out to path, in the white woods, only option.
3 - Eep! Most hesitant control of the race. There were tons of dirt mounds all around, and I had to find the right one. I really didn't come up with a good plan (good would have been counting trees), so just descended into the mess of them and ran the right way until I saw the control.
4 - And time to run! Saw Sam going anti-parallel just entering the urban stuff, made sure to cut across the open zone available. I could hear + feel my breathing being quite hard, knew I didn't need to think about taking it up a notch at all.
5 - Again, the route choice was about finding the way you could cut across the most yellow en route. Saw the Chinese girl one minute up coming at me as I approached the control, figured I had about 30 seconds on her.
6 - Picked my way out of the urban, then, which tree? First of the ones really close to the trail.
7 - Follow line of trees, to bamboo grove.
8 - Pop up and over path on the burm, then the tree closer to the trail after the burm gentle corner. Really chasing down the Chinese girl now, but what? She headed off towards #10 from #8. I really hoped she'd turn around, but she didn't, and ended up DQ'ed.
9 - Compass, up and over burm, spike.
10 - Back into urban, had seen the route choice before, and had decided on going right and using the narrow S passage. Further right gave an option for a little more open-cutting, but apparently it wasn't nice yellow, so ended up a fine choice.
11 - Feeling tired, but just kept at it, picked the left route which allowed for one yellow cut.
12 - Back into the park, I saw that it was going to be a lot of little changes of direction. I wanted my head screwed on totally right for this section, so I intentionally eased maybe just a bit the pace heading to 12, taking the right route. Saw the earthbank easily, went to end, and heard that I was doing well, as this was the spectator. Ok, focus, focus!!!
13 - Used the paved trails and their obvious junction to guide me straight to trail/ditch junction.
14 - Again, used the paved trails as a guide, could see the control on approach.
15 - Which tree? Control totally hidden behind, but should be the second one after a gap, so choose the right of the two, correct!
16 - Up to the path on top of the burm, hestitated very slightly at the first trail that descended into the green, but it wasn't around the slight bend, so waited, and got it right.
17 - Now really chasing down my 2 min up girl, Ausrinne K. from LTU, she went a bit wrong, I use the paved paths again.
18 - Back to the same control as #14, again was using paths.
19 - Compass and trees to right the right place to descend. Right on Ausrinne's heels now.
20 - I choose straight back out on the trail, as opposed to through the light green, I think faster, got ahead of Ausrinne. Then, eep, where is this black X that is the last control? Must be in the funnel of tape, approaching, approaching. Ah! The pink cat sculpture that was in the bulletin. Then sprinting it in!
Finnish- Announcer said it was tight, so I booked it in. And it was, 0.5 down to the Ukrainian, and apparently I lost that place in the run in! Gosh! But, she is a speed demon, she had the fastest run-in time and I had the second fastest, so I'm not beating myself up that much.
Many from many teams gave me great congrats after the race, a really wonderful feeling. This sport has an awesome community, even on the highest levels.
Well, yeah, mega-woo for a good race and ending up in 5th!!! Like most of my recent races, I started kinda slow but got into it. The easiest legs were generally my best splits, so yep, still best at running and not the even easy technical stuff. On one side, that's frustrating to lose all those 1-2-3 seconds on not hard little legs, but maybe on the other side, it means that it's just got to be possible for me to get faster!
How it went:
1 - Through the tunnel under the road from the stadium, then head rightish, ah! that's a big tree, scamper, scamper. Stopped extra time at the control because I didn't hear the beep. Beeps were abnormally quiet, just kinda had to trust.
2 - Out to path, in the white woods, only option.
3 - Eep! Most hesitant control of the race. There were tons of dirt mounds all around, and I had to find the right one. I really didn't come up with a good plan (good would have been counting trees), so just descended into the mess of them and ran the right way until I saw the control.
4 - And time to run! Saw Sam going anti-parallel just entering the urban stuff, made sure to cut across the open zone available. I could hear + feel my breathing being quite hard, knew I didn't need to think about taking it up a notch at all.
5 - Again, the route choice was about finding the way you could cut across the most yellow en route. Saw the Chinese girl one minute up coming at me as I approached the control, figured I had about 30 seconds on her.
6 - Picked my way out of the urban, then, which tree? First of the ones really close to the trail.
7 - Follow line of trees, to bamboo grove.
8 - Pop up and over path on the burm, then the tree closer to the trail after the burm gentle corner. Really chasing down the Chinese girl now, but what? She headed off towards #10 from #8. I really hoped she'd turn around, but she didn't, and ended up DQ'ed.
9 - Compass, up and over burm, spike.
10 - Back into urban, had seen the route choice before, and had decided on going right and using the narrow S passage. Further right gave an option for a little more open-cutting, but apparently it wasn't nice yellow, so ended up a fine choice.
11 - Feeling tired, but just kept at it, picked the left route which allowed for one yellow cut.
12 - Back into the park, I saw that it was going to be a lot of little changes of direction. I wanted my head screwed on totally right for this section, so I intentionally eased maybe just a bit the pace heading to 12, taking the right route. Saw the earthbank easily, went to end, and heard that I was doing well, as this was the spectator. Ok, focus, focus!!!
13 - Used the paved trails and their obvious junction to guide me straight to trail/ditch junction.
14 - Again, used the paved trails as a guide, could see the control on approach.
15 - Which tree? Control totally hidden behind, but should be the second one after a gap, so choose the right of the two, correct!
16 - Up to the path on top of the burm, hestitated very slightly at the first trail that descended into the green, but it wasn't around the slight bend, so waited, and got it right.
17 - Now really chasing down my 2 min up girl, Ausrinne K. from LTU, she went a bit wrong, I use the paved paths again.
18 - Back to the same control as #14, again was using paths.
19 - Compass and trees to right the right place to descend. Right on Ausrinne's heels now.
20 - I choose straight back out on the trail, as opposed to through the light green, I think faster, got ahead of Ausrinne. Then, eep, where is this black X that is the last control? Must be in the funnel of tape, approaching, approaching. Ah! The pink cat sculpture that was in the bulletin. Then sprinting it in!
Finnish- Announcer said it was tight, so I booked it in. And it was, 0.5 down to the Ukrainian, and apparently I lost that place in the run in! Gosh! But, she is a speed demon, she had the fastest run-in time and I had the second fastest, so I'm not beating myself up that much.
Many from many teams gave me great congrats after the race, a really wonderful feeling. This sport has an awesome community, even on the highest levels.
Running 7:14 [1] 0.6 mi (12:03 / mi) +3m 11:52 / mi
Cool down with Sam, in the super small area we had for the teams. About in the middle, I heard the news that I was in 5th! A big hug from Sam, and an instant smile on my face! =)