Sunday Aug 12 |
 | Orienteering (sprint relay) 54:00 [4] *** 7.4 km (7:18 / km) +200m 6:26 / km | |
| shoes: Adidas Novas |
| I ended up not having a team for the sprint relay, so I ran it by myself. I think I was in the lead for the first 10 seconds, before everyone else realized that John had started us backwards. Then the Halden guy took over and that was pretty much the end of it. I made some embarrassing mistakes, partly because of the forking, mostly because of not orienteering well.
Now would be a perfect time for a mixed technical intensity option. The first loop was significantly harder than the next two which were ... basically the same. I don't know that there's really a widespread need for that sort of complication, though. |
Saturday Aug 11 |
| Orienteering race (Long) 2:20:16 [3] **** 14 km (10:01 / km) +515m 8:28 / km | |
| spiked:14/18c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| I decided to run red at the long-o champs, which I think was a good decision. The map was 1:15 which took some getting used to. I didn't get used to it fast enough and was caught by the people starting 10 minutes back by #4 (oh, forgot to mention that they mass started us {championship mass start? wierd, no?} by class, so I started with two other guys on red, one of whom I later joined up with about halfway through and stayed with for the rest of the course. The M-40s had a distinct advantage, though, because 4 of them started together all of similar skill level, and apparently stayed together for the first few controls). After that I cleaned up and had a good run. The last half of the course I kept seeing a Swiss guy now living in Milwaukee (?), a woman from Halden, and Ted Good, which made it a little more fun. |
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Red - Splits |
Friday Aug 10 |
| Orienteering race (short) 47:51 [4] **** 5.3 km (9:02 / km) +220m 7:29 / km | |
| spiked:10/12c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Might as well have been a contours-only map, but that was fine because the contours were exquisitely accurate. Very enjoyable terrain, if a little steep. I made a parallel error on #10 which cost me 4 minutes, and I was thinking all the while "ok, be careful on this one, it'll be hard". Then I aimed off on the next one but didn't trust myself, losing another minute. A good effort but I need to be more attentive. |
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Blue short - Splits |
Thursday Aug 9 |
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| I think I won the trail-o demo, with all correct answers and 5s at the timed control. I guess trail-o is kind of fun when you win :) Also went to see the olympic training center. Much less impressive than I had imagined. |
Wednesday Aug 8 |
| Orienteering race (night-o) 2:00:43 [3] **** 11.3 km (10:41 / km) +350m 9:15 / km | |
| spiked:19/25c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Night-o champs. I decided to run blue, even though this was only the 4th night-o I've ever done, and only the second I've ever completed. I had my wimpy 5-led headlamp which was perfectly adequate. Someday it would be interesting to run with one of those floodlights, but somehow that seems like it would detract from the challenge. Anyway, I thought it was a good course, better than the blue courses here last weekend. I had fun.
That said, there were two unfortunate problems with the course. One was that some of the controls were hung right up against trees so as to be nearly invisible. I think this gave me trouble on #2, and frankly it's just irritating when a course setter gleefully casts aside fairness in favor of some demonic goal of difficulty. I enjoy a hard course, but not a bingo course. Kind of reminded me of that West Point course by Jerre Hansbrough a few years back. Anyway, that only applied to a few of the controls. The other problem was that the water was again placed on roads, again not where indicated, and more importantly, without reflectors. This cost me a good 4 or 5 minutes on #9. |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [3] *** 2.5 km (10:00 / km) | |
| spiked:3/4c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| I spent most of the day in the various mapping clinics, which were a little disorganized. But, I met some cool people, and learned a thing or two about mapping, so I guess it was worthwhile. Afterwards I was walking back to my tent when I saw Alar Ruutopold who was about to go run the Orange course from Sunday, so I went out on it with him. We switched off each leg from memory. After I goofed up the first control, we were pretty clean. Felt much better physically today. |
Monday Aug 6 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [2] **** 2 km (12:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Adidas Novas |
| I set a line-o for the junior-junior training camp, then went out with Zach Lyons, Theron Nipson, and David Bryant. I thought the line-o would be quite challenging for them, and I'm glad they did it in groups with an adult, but actually they noticed a lot more about the vegetation and contours than I expected. Zach in particular did quite well matching the map to the terrain. He's quite focussed, too. |