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Saturday Apr 27, 2013 #
Event: West Point A-meet
orienteering race 1:07:12 [3] 4.2 km (16:00 / km)
Decided to run F50+ for the middles, F55+ for the sprints.
Was not a happy camper when I turned over the map and saw I needed to go down several contours through green and rock. After spending way to much time trying to figure out how to do it, finally just dropped down into the nice big reentrant where I could see an easy way down without too many rocks and then climbed to my control.
Remembered a nice mossy trail down the spur on the way to 2 and wondered if it would still be like that - it was! Love that trail. But then proceeded to mess up the control by not being careful when I left the trail.
3-8 was a lot of fun; perfect middle controls.
I glanced at 8-9 on the way to 8 and thought drop down and go left around the mountain to the flat spot. But after dropping a couple contours took a closer look and realized there was no real flat spot and the right route to the trail and then road was clearly the better choice. Dithered for a bit and finally sucked it up and climbed back up the contours and went right. Definitely the correct decision but stupid not to have seen it and stayed high.
Decided to take the road to 10 but was totally confused at the junction being sure I wanted to go one way when I needed to go 90 degrees a different way. Trusted my compass (thank goodness) but very shaken that a road junction hadn't made sense.
Not too bad but definitely lost time on 1 and 2.
Was not a happy camper when I turned over the map and saw I needed to go down several contours through green and rock. After spending way to much time trying to figure out how to do it, finally just dropped down into the nice big reentrant where I could see an easy way down without too many rocks and then climbed to my control.
Remembered a nice mossy trail down the spur on the way to 2 and wondered if it would still be like that - it was! Love that trail. But then proceeded to mess up the control by not being careful when I left the trail.
3-8 was a lot of fun; perfect middle controls.
I glanced at 8-9 on the way to 8 and thought drop down and go left around the mountain to the flat spot. But after dropping a couple contours took a closer look and realized there was no real flat spot and the right route to the trail and then road was clearly the better choice. Dithered for a bit and finally sucked it up and climbed back up the contours and went right. Definitely the correct decision but stupid not to have seen it and stayed high.
Decided to take the road to 10 but was totally confused at the junction being sure I wanted to go one way when I needed to go 90 degrees a different way. Trusted my compass (thank goodness) but very shaken that a road junction hadn't made sense.
Not too bad but definitely lost time on 1 and 2.
orienteering race 22:45 [3] 2.0 km (11:23 / km)
Sprint around Camp Buckner. Tentative in the woods just because of the footing. Bad route to 7 and got over one building - pretty stupid in retrospect but at least the positive is that I must have been running hard to be brain dead enough to make the mistake! At least a minute lost there.
Will need to think about wearing glasses for sprints - really had trouble reading the map in the busy area.
Will need to think about wearing glasses for sprints - really had trouble reading the map in the busy area.