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Saturday Nov 16, 2013 #
10 AM
Running 11:02 1.0 mi (11:02 / mi) +25m 10:14 / mi
ahr:120 max:152
Orienteering race 1:10:06 6.49 mi (10:48 / mi) +292m 9:29 / mi
ahr:167 max:178
French Creek North Classic, DVOA meet Day #1
Yay, a good race! Almost everything went really smoothly, everything made sense aside from a parallel feature error I made to #19, but recovered from quickly. Nice to have a good race and be up there not far from the top of the Blue results.
2 - Bearing + pace count, to make sure I didn't stop too soon.
3 - A bit scary, but kept on my bearing + tried to not descend/ascent much. I wanted to place myself exactly in the ditch/zone of green that had to be crossed half way, but couldn't. Still, these rocky zones were obvious.
4 - Thought briefly about heading up to the train and using it, but decided that was just too much climb, time to battle through the stripes of green and rocky! Came out on the trail, tried to sense where I was by gauging distance to the top and where the slope really starting going down. Wasn't totally sure on that, but thought I should be about under the line, so kept on a bearing through pretty flat stuff. Then I stumbled on double boulders and a pit with a control in it, so I knew exactly where I was then headed in.
5 - Vauge zone (looking at splits, these were good controls for me - go compass skills!). Just stayed on my bearing, noted reentrant with boulder on the far side of the nose and headed on in.
6 - More vauge, Bearing, one slight reentrant on the way.
7 - Final vague, but there there was a line of rocks to catch at least. I came nicely straight to the control.
8 - Tumble down the hill with Alex and Sergei G. Not super fast, because it was so rocky. Alex disappeared right at some point, Sergei and I came out on the trail, I realized we were at the ditch junctions, so attacked from there (went through too much green though).
9 - Used he road, sick of rocky green.
10 - Stream, bearing, go.
11 - Route choice! Opted for the most trails possible, because I really wasn't running that well in the forest. So that meant the low trail option, staying on it all the way.
12 - Fine, bearing + contouring.
13 - Descending, hesitated for a second when I didn't see the control after 3rd ditch crossing (it was so visible out there!) but continuing on worked.
14 - Oops, mini-mistake. I came out on a vaguely N-S trail after battling through thorns and wanted it to be the upper trail, but it wasn't (should have considered gradient), so after a brief run the wrong way, corrected and was on my way.
15 - Stream to bigger stream, slight hesitation, but then saw the conrol.
16 - Trail, again wasn't crazy visible, but was catching a West Point guy who led me right to it.
17 - Up up up through the rocky. Oops, too far up, I'm by the big boulders, correction down and to it.
18 - More up up up!
19 - Trail and then cut the corner and was left of the first depression instead of between the two, so then following a bearing was off, but took me to a rootstock with a control, so I knew it was mapped and acted accordingly.
20 - Smidge of a leg.
21 - Barrelling through campground.
Very happy I did the stuff in the vague well and chose a good route choice.
Yay, a good race! Almost everything went really smoothly, everything made sense aside from a parallel feature error I made to #19, but recovered from quickly. Nice to have a good race and be up there not far from the top of the Blue results.
2 - Bearing + pace count, to make sure I didn't stop too soon.
3 - A bit scary, but kept on my bearing + tried to not descend/ascent much. I wanted to place myself exactly in the ditch/zone of green that had to be crossed half way, but couldn't. Still, these rocky zones were obvious.
4 - Thought briefly about heading up to the train and using it, but decided that was just too much climb, time to battle through the stripes of green and rocky! Came out on the trail, tried to sense where I was by gauging distance to the top and where the slope really starting going down. Wasn't totally sure on that, but thought I should be about under the line, so kept on a bearing through pretty flat stuff. Then I stumbled on double boulders and a pit with a control in it, so I knew exactly where I was then headed in.
5 - Vauge zone (looking at splits, these were good controls for me - go compass skills!). Just stayed on my bearing, noted reentrant with boulder on the far side of the nose and headed on in.
6 - More vauge, Bearing, one slight reentrant on the way.
7 - Final vague, but there there was a line of rocks to catch at least. I came nicely straight to the control.
8 - Tumble down the hill with Alex and Sergei G. Not super fast, because it was so rocky. Alex disappeared right at some point, Sergei and I came out on the trail, I realized we were at the ditch junctions, so attacked from there (went through too much green though).
9 - Used he road, sick of rocky green.
10 - Stream, bearing, go.
11 - Route choice! Opted for the most trails possible, because I really wasn't running that well in the forest. So that meant the low trail option, staying on it all the way.
12 - Fine, bearing + contouring.
13 - Descending, hesitated for a second when I didn't see the control after 3rd ditch crossing (it was so visible out there!) but continuing on worked.
14 - Oops, mini-mistake. I came out on a vaguely N-S trail after battling through thorns and wanted it to be the upper trail, but it wasn't (should have considered gradient), so after a brief run the wrong way, corrected and was on my way.
15 - Stream to bigger stream, slight hesitation, but then saw the conrol.
16 - Trail, again wasn't crazy visible, but was catching a West Point guy who led me right to it.
17 - Up up up through the rocky. Oops, too far up, I'm by the big boulders, correction down and to it.
18 - More up up up!
19 - Trail and then cut the corner and was left of the first depression instead of between the two, so then following a bearing was off, but took me to a rootstock with a control, so I knew it was mapped and acted accordingly.
20 - Smidge of a leg.
21 - Barrelling through campground.
Very happy I did the stuff in the vague well and chose a good route choice.
Running 2:12 0.19 mi (11:32 / mi) +1m 11:21 / mi
ahr:115 max:134