Saturday Aug 2 |
 | Orienteering 1:00:10 [3] *** 3.9 km (15:26 / km) +40m 14:40 / km | |
| spiked:7/10c shoes: New Balance Orienteering |
| WUOC Relay. I was the final leg on the unofficial former British colonies women's relay: Rachel Effeney (Australia), Anna Shafer-Skelton, Ineka Booth (Australia), and me. I generally felt pretty good, although I had a couple of errors. One 180 in this huge patch of extremely thick vegetation. All I could see was the plant directly in front of me, which was disconcerting, and I guess I was more interested in finding the easiest way through rather than the correct direction. |
Friday Aug 1 |
| Orienteering 1:39:00 [3] **** 4.91 km (20:10 / km) +50m 19:11 / km | |
| spiked:4/10c shoes: Brooks Running |
| WUOC middle distance. I don't have my map with me right now to enumerate all of the problems that I had, but suffice it to say that this race went generally miserably. I basically would run to the control circle and then not be able to find the control. Several times I had to relocate off of a major feature 3 or 4 times before finding the control. I had one really good leg (6-7) and a couple of decent legs and other than that things were basically miserable.
I also got stuck in a swamp. There was a stream that didn't have any water in it and was covered in moss. It looked too wide to clear, so I just tried to run through it. I sunk in up to my thighs and tried to pull myself out with trees, but the trees weren't very well attached to the ground. I eventually got myself out, but I was kind of scared for a while there. |
Thursday Jul 31 |
| Orienteering 2:45:58 [3] **** 9.01 km (18:25 / km) +140m 17:06 / km | |
| spiked:10/19c shoes: New Balance Orienteering |
| WUOC Long course. I was pretty happy with the first half of the course. I made only small errors up until the spectator control. If only the course had ended there... I was getting pretty tired and dehydrated at this point. They didn't give much water at the water stops, and I was really starting to feel it. I made a couple of large but recoverable mistakes. Then on the way to 14, I found a Swiss girl who was sitting on the ground crying saying she couldn't move her leg. I stopped to help her for a while, but someone had already gone back to get the ambulance, and she kept telling me that she couldn't move and that she didn't want me to stay with her until help came, so I continued on. This really threw off my concentration, and I spent a lot of the rest of the course thinking I should have stayed with her even though she kept telling me to leave. I didn't have a very good idea of where I was going to 14, but miraculously pushed through a huge swath of green mess to come out right at the control. 15 went well, but things went downhill from there. By the end I was so tired that I found the GO control by listening to the announcer at the finish. I came out into the finish field outside the finish shoot and had to get inside it to get to the GO control. I didn't have enough dexterity to open up the streamers, so I ended up sort of bouncing off of them and falling to the ground. I finally got through and then fell down this steep hill. I punched the control and then started running up the longest finish shoot ever. I had been having trouble breathing for the whole course because of the cold that I was still trying to get over, and my inhaler only lasts for 3 or 4 hours, and I was pretty much at the end of that. I ended up having an asthma attack in the finish shoot, which was not fun at all and collapsed as soon as I crossed the finish line. At this point, it was kind of funny because mostly people were really concerned about me and trying to help me out, but the epunch person, really wanted me to download. She actually came over to me with the download box while I was still on the ground and sort of put the download box over my epunch. |
Tuesday Jul 29 |
| Orienteering 1:05:00 [3] **** | |
| shoes: Brooks Running |
| Model event |
Monday Jul 28 |
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| Event: WUOC 2008
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| Orienteering 28:00 [3] *** | |
| spiked:11/13c shoes: New Balance Orienteering |
| Training sprint in Tartu. Started in the park near our hotel and then went around a big park in the center of the city. |
| Orienteering 4:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Running |
| Running to and from the start. |
Sunday Jul 27 |
| Orienteering 44:16 [3] **** | |
| spiked:5/8c shoes: New Balance Orienteering |
| Training at Kuka park. The bugs were pretty bad again even with the copious amount of DEET that I slathered all over myself. I felt much better today and actually got to al of the controls that I planned on going to. I didn't make any large mistakes but my heels were really hurting out there even with tape over them and the bugs were extremely distracting. |
| Running 10:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance Orienteering |
| Run back from number 9, where I decided to stop, to the finish. |
| Orienteering 1:06:27 [3] **** | |
| spiked:6/9c shoes: Brooks Running |
| Afternoon training at Karsa park. I decided to just do the lower 2/3 of the course. It was mostly ok, although the first control I went to (number 6) was placed incorrectly and no one actually found the ribbon for number 9, so I wasted a lot of time on both of those controls. I also decided not to go all the way to number 11 because it was in a big thicket, which screwed me up for number 12. The bugs were much better, though. |