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Saturday Oct 4, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2]
Jog and climb to start.
Orienteering race 1:36:41 [4]
Very ugly start. Then orienteered better and held up on long legs.
S-1: Saw 'circle in green' - guessed it would be ugly so never looked for route choice (left to rim, follow rim to control - easy!). As advertised, medium and dark green were very ugly mf rose - slow and hard to maintain map contact.
(-2+ minutes)
1-2: Dropped and got to knoll - turned right but control was 'bit left'. Dropped much too far left, down, up to swamp, bounced back. [At AP, STOP! and take bearing] [-3 minutes]
2-3: Short and clean
3-4: Excellent route choice and execution until creek crossed. Crossed, could not find trail, instead of re-locating chose to wander up trough medium green. Finally started bailing to trial - found it! - luck! I was 100-150m east (crossed creek a bit east of expected) Just too reliant on one feature - trail - also brain-dead after long leg - nicely designed long leg. [-3+ min]
4-5: Planned route well - turned right to get to trial-stream junction - good finish - short leg but first good orienteering!
5-F: Good routes and execution rest of way - very tired but maintained 'my' pace. Cionsistent - nearly all legs were 9th-11th place of 23.
5-6: Left of red line seemed best creek crossing in terms of steep banks. but AP was unclear (afraid I'd miss both re-entrants) so I aimed left to rim & turned right - worked well. On red line offered better attack across flats.
8-9: Wide right to road was just too tempting - straight was much shorter, mostly open woods, but lots of woods running and very challenging attack at end. Unpleasant leg - long road run with trivial AP and finish.
10-11: About 5 major, steep, short 'drops' along the way. Fun leg late in course.
12-13: 4th fastest time (of 23) - that's weird!
Very sloppy, frustrating start but glad I improved and persevered, moving up from 20th to 13th. Best possible finish would have been about 8-10.
S-1: Saw 'circle in green' - guessed it would be ugly so never looked for route choice (left to rim, follow rim to control - easy!). As advertised, medium and dark green were very ugly mf rose - slow and hard to maintain map contact.
(-2+ minutes)
1-2: Dropped and got to knoll - turned right but control was 'bit left'. Dropped much too far left, down, up to swamp, bounced back. [At AP, STOP! and take bearing] [-3 minutes]
2-3: Short and clean
3-4: Excellent route choice and execution until creek crossed. Crossed, could not find trail, instead of re-locating chose to wander up trough medium green. Finally started bailing to trial - found it! - luck! I was 100-150m east (crossed creek a bit east of expected) Just too reliant on one feature - trail - also brain-dead after long leg - nicely designed long leg. [-3+ min]
4-5: Planned route well - turned right to get to trial-stream junction - good finish - short leg but first good orienteering!
5-F: Good routes and execution rest of way - very tired but maintained 'my' pace. Cionsistent - nearly all legs were 9th-11th place of 23.
5-6: Left of red line seemed best creek crossing in terms of steep banks. but AP was unclear (afraid I'd miss both re-entrants) so I aimed left to rim & turned right - worked well. On red line offered better attack across flats.
8-9: Wide right to road was just too tempting - straight was much shorter, mostly open woods, but lots of woods running and very challenging attack at end. Unpleasant leg - long road run with trivial AP and finish.
10-11: About 5 major, steep, short 'drops' along the way. Fun leg late in course.
12-13: 4th fastest time (of 23) - that's weird!
Very sloppy, frustrating start but glad I improved and persevered, moving up from 20th to 13th. Best possible finish would have been about 8-10.