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Sunday Sep 8, 2019 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 18:46 [5] **** 1.8 km (10:26 / km) +55m 9:03 / km
spiked:9/16c shoes: Salomon SC3 Bl/Bl 3
Cabrillo College. First ever orienteering meet here. US Nationals Sprint Champs. Brown (Course 3) 1.8km, 55m climb, 16 controls
Start at 9:08. Felt pretty ready, legs only a little tired. Nice, cool weather. Trail shoes are essential as there are some sandy hillsides to traverse.
Quite a disappointing race for me. Never got the hang of the purple dashed lines; never saw the tunnel going to #4 (lost :13), didn't realize I could go on the lower level walkway to get to #5 (lost :30), and yet by #9, was in 4th, only :16 behind the course leader, Glen T, :04 behind Walter in 2nd, and :03 behind eventual course winner Steve Tarry, having rung up 3 #1's and a #2 in the first 9 controls. But then made a turn too early going to #10 (lost :35), didn't read the vegetation well on #11 (lost :20), couldn't find #12 on the map (lost :10), and stayed on the upper level going to #13 (lost :30). Despite all that, was still in a position to finish ahead of Chuck, who wound up first in M70, but then did not see that the wall E of #14 was mapped as passable (neither did others, like Walter and Glen; I think the mapping could have been clearer), so went all the way around, and then all the way around again leaving to go to #15. Wound up 1:01 behind Chuck; I'd been 2 seconds behind him after #13. On the other hand, Walter was 1:34 ahead of me at #13, and he lost even more than I did (1:40 to 1:06, compared to Chuck) on 14-15, so it's not really fair to say I was still in a position to win M70 at #13.
Definitely a venue we should use again for a major event. Parking, cafeteria for hanging out, arena, weather - all very good. Venue is quite complex, worthy of a challenging sprint. Just gotta fix a few things on the map and print it at a higher scale (or blow it up to a higher scale).
[Orienteering Sprint race]
Start at 9:08. Felt pretty ready, legs only a little tired. Nice, cool weather. Trail shoes are essential as there are some sandy hillsides to traverse.
Quite a disappointing race for me. Never got the hang of the purple dashed lines; never saw the tunnel going to #4 (lost :13), didn't realize I could go on the lower level walkway to get to #5 (lost :30), and yet by #9, was in 4th, only :16 behind the course leader, Glen T, :04 behind Walter in 2nd, and :03 behind eventual course winner Steve Tarry, having rung up 3 #1's and a #2 in the first 9 controls. But then made a turn too early going to #10 (lost :35), didn't read the vegetation well on #11 (lost :20), couldn't find #12 on the map (lost :10), and stayed on the upper level going to #13 (lost :30). Despite all that, was still in a position to finish ahead of Chuck, who wound up first in M70, but then did not see that the wall E of #14 was mapped as passable (neither did others, like Walter and Glen; I think the mapping could have been clearer), so went all the way around, and then all the way around again leaving to go to #15. Wound up 1:01 behind Chuck; I'd been 2 seconds behind him after #13. On the other hand, Walter was 1:34 ahead of me at #13, and he lost even more than I did (1:40 to 1:06, compared to Chuck) on 14-15, so it's not really fair to say I was still in a position to win M70 at #13.
Definitely a venue we should use again for a major event. Parking, cafeteria for hanging out, arena, weather - all very good. Venue is quite complex, worthy of a challenging sprint. Just gotta fix a few things on the map and print it at a higher scale (or blow it up to a higher scale).
[Orienteering Sprint race]
12 PM
Orienteering race 33:26 [5] *** 3.2 mi (10:27 / mi) +50m 9:58 / mi
spiked:24/25c shoes: Salomon SC3 Bl/Bl 3
Sprint Relay at Cabrillo College. Run leadoff for WildRayBerg (with Marie-Josee and Riley Culberg. Mass start at 12:30, though due to threat of a delay, didn't get a warm up in. Legs pretty dead from this mornings' Sprint Champs, and emotions pretty low due to snafus there.
Did reasonably well for first 8 or so controls, seeing a lot of Tom Nolan and Sverre Froyen. But when I got to #70, which was the hub of a three-winged butterfly loop, misread the tiny numbers on the clue sheet on the map as 79, and then lost two minutes looking around for a different control. For the rest of the race back and forth with Steve Haas. #19 had a hole in the fence next to it, and many people went through. I went around (didn't see the gate on the other side) and stumbled through some nasty bushes, then had to go up a steep embankment, and that really finished me off. Overall, not a fun experience, when it could have been as this venue is quite interesting.
[Orienteering Sprint race]
Did reasonably well for first 8 or so controls, seeing a lot of Tom Nolan and Sverre Froyen. But when I got to #70, which was the hub of a three-winged butterfly loop, misread the tiny numbers on the clue sheet on the map as 79, and then lost two minutes looking around for a different control. For the rest of the race back and forth with Steve Haas. #19 had a hole in the fence next to it, and many people went through. I went around (didn't see the gate on the other side) and stumbled through some nasty bushes, then had to go up a steep embankment, and that really finished me off. Overall, not a fun experience, when it could have been as this venue is quite interesting.
[Orienteering Sprint race]