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Sunday May 8, 2022 #
Event: 2022 Billygoat
Orienteering race 3:27:59 [3] ***** 9.45 mi (22:01 / mi) +500m 18:54 / mi
ahr:144 max:163 shoes: Falcon
Another Billygoat in the books. Meh stamina going in.Took 2 gels and carried maybe a liter+ of water, though once I ran dry around 19-20, my brain really shut down.
S-1 to the right, behind Magnus, trying to run manageably hard and scan the course for skips. I saw 6 as a possibility, but did not see 9 or 16 as options. All the others looked like toss-ups, maybe worthwhile depending on who I was with. Checked the code so as not to mispunch at the Kid control. Wet, wet, wet.
1-2 more splashing.
2-3 Stina went by and I thanked her for setting Saturday's courses.
3-4-5 somewhere along here Lori and Sam and Presto came by. We slogged near each other to 5. I was on the fence about skipoping 6. I had almost been convinced not to skip 6, but when I rose to the top of the cliffside and saw how close I was to the 5-7 line, I decided to skip 6. I saw a pair ahead of me, so that was some comfort, but maybe they were on the Kid, because there was only 1 other Goat-er who skipped 6.
5-7 Managed to read my way in with runners merging coming in from 6.
7-8: seeing someone on the road, obviously skipping 9, gave me the idea that I should have held my skip until later. I thought I could bridge up to some faster runners by skipping 6, but I failed to keep up speed, and also made an error leaving 8 toward 9.
8-9 Left the control in an odd directory. Followed power line after getting re-located, then to the path junction, then down into the wet shelf where I hit 9 without problems. Lori, then Sam+Presto punched after me. They had a good pace, and passed me comfortably jogging along the road from 9-10A.
10A-11 Started along the path near the cliff line, saw Phil B and tried to keep him in my sights. I was in contact at the yellow open area 400m SE of the control, then lost contact while running with Phil.
11-12 straight. We saw Sharon running toward 11 while leaving 13. I must have done something else stupid because he ran straight-ish from 12-13, while I got confused, thinking we were near one of the purple cross-hatched areas. After some stupid flailing around, when I think I must have been running North along the yellow cross-hatched area, wondering why I couldn't find any open fields on the map, I turned around and went the way Phil had gone, still not in contact. I found the trail, Joel, and eventually the water stop on the NW. At first, I didn't see the way through the green and marsh, and was planning to go to the SE stop for a more obvious path. Then I saw the black dash through the yellow, closer to the straight line from the cup to 13.
After punching 13, and sliding down the reentrant, I was momentarily stopped in my tracks about how to cross the stream. Eventually came up on the path behind Jennifer, who angled in toward 14 a little later and more left than I did.
14-15 Straight. Somewhere along here saw Phil again, but wasn't quite sure how I had made up for the brain fart leaving 12.
15-16 following Phil, not in contact. Phil confirmed that we had just passed by #14 again, then down to 16.
16-17 Phil was ahead a bit, Jennifer ahead a little as we folowed the path left of the line. Then I counted reentrants, matched the oval-shaped knoll, and found the control. Several others punched near me, and I think we all scrambled mostly straight uphill leaving 17 for 18. Did anybody contour around to the left ? Much scrambling here, as well as other places, involved grabbing tree roots. I sometimes joke about needing to carry a machete in some O venues to deal with thick vegetation. This was the first time I can recall thinking of crampons and mud-axes.
17-18 in contact from the knife-thin knoll top 1/3 of the way along the leg.
18-19 in a group that included Sharon and Clare, but lost contact at some point, and flailed around quite a bit, Thought I relocated using the small shack 125m NNE of the flag, but failed to hit the control from there. Eventually relocated from the elbow-shaped wall of contours just NW of the circle and spiked it from there, but by that time, the entire group of maybe 6-8 people were long gone. Solo to the end. Camelbak ran dry at some point here.
19-20 overran on the trail by ~50-75 m.
20-21Trail to just S of the control, then crossed the open woods to the NW-running trail. Made my position from the rootstocks, and got on a good angle, although it was confusing crossing the stream.
21-22 a bit left of the line, matched the small marsh after crossing the stream.
22-23 Straight. Could see the control from a way away.
23-24 Went straighter/steeper than planned, rising to the trail to the left of the building instead of to the right. Then contoured just above the OOB area. Misread the control description at first, had to do a double-take.
24-25 straight.
25-26 Straight, ticked off the path junction just N of the circle.
26-F mistook the building to the left of the 25-26 line as the building I wanted, so that's why people may have seen me entering the finish area from a weird direction.
S-1 to the right, behind Magnus, trying to run manageably hard and scan the course for skips. I saw 6 as a possibility, but did not see 9 or 16 as options. All the others looked like toss-ups, maybe worthwhile depending on who I was with. Checked the code so as not to mispunch at the Kid control. Wet, wet, wet.
1-2 more splashing.
2-3 Stina went by and I thanked her for setting Saturday's courses.
3-4-5 somewhere along here Lori and Sam and Presto came by. We slogged near each other to 5. I was on the fence about skipoping 6. I had almost been convinced not to skip 6, but when I rose to the top of the cliffside and saw how close I was to the 5-7 line, I decided to skip 6. I saw a pair ahead of me, so that was some comfort, but maybe they were on the Kid, because there was only 1 other Goat-er who skipped 6.
5-7 Managed to read my way in with runners merging coming in from 6.
7-8: seeing someone on the road, obviously skipping 9, gave me the idea that I should have held my skip until later. I thought I could bridge up to some faster runners by skipping 6, but I failed to keep up speed, and also made an error leaving 8 toward 9.
8-9 Left the control in an odd directory. Followed power line after getting re-located, then to the path junction, then down into the wet shelf where I hit 9 without problems. Lori, then Sam+Presto punched after me. They had a good pace, and passed me comfortably jogging along the road from 9-10A.
10A-11 Started along the path near the cliff line, saw Phil B and tried to keep him in my sights. I was in contact at the yellow open area 400m SE of the control, then lost contact while running with Phil.
11-12 straight. We saw Sharon running toward 11 while leaving 13. I must have done something else stupid because he ran straight-ish from 12-13, while I got confused, thinking we were near one of the purple cross-hatched areas. After some stupid flailing around, when I think I must have been running North along the yellow cross-hatched area, wondering why I couldn't find any open fields on the map, I turned around and went the way Phil had gone, still not in contact. I found the trail, Joel, and eventually the water stop on the NW. At first, I didn't see the way through the green and marsh, and was planning to go to the SE stop for a more obvious path. Then I saw the black dash through the yellow, closer to the straight line from the cup to 13.
After punching 13, and sliding down the reentrant, I was momentarily stopped in my tracks about how to cross the stream. Eventually came up on the path behind Jennifer, who angled in toward 14 a little later and more left than I did.
14-15 Straight. Somewhere along here saw Phil again, but wasn't quite sure how I had made up for the brain fart leaving 12.
15-16 following Phil, not in contact. Phil confirmed that we had just passed by #14 again, then down to 16.
16-17 Phil was ahead a bit, Jennifer ahead a little as we folowed the path left of the line. Then I counted reentrants, matched the oval-shaped knoll, and found the control. Several others punched near me, and I think we all scrambled mostly straight uphill leaving 17 for 18. Did anybody contour around to the left ? Much scrambling here, as well as other places, involved grabbing tree roots. I sometimes joke about needing to carry a machete in some O venues to deal with thick vegetation. This was the first time I can recall thinking of crampons and mud-axes.
17-18 in contact from the knife-thin knoll top 1/3 of the way along the leg.
18-19 in a group that included Sharon and Clare, but lost contact at some point, and flailed around quite a bit, Thought I relocated using the small shack 125m NNE of the flag, but failed to hit the control from there. Eventually relocated from the elbow-shaped wall of contours just NW of the circle and spiked it from there, but by that time, the entire group of maybe 6-8 people were long gone. Solo to the end. Camelbak ran dry at some point here.
19-20 overran on the trail by ~50-75 m.
20-21Trail to just S of the control, then crossed the open woods to the NW-running trail. Made my position from the rootstocks, and got on a good angle, although it was confusing crossing the stream.
21-22 a bit left of the line, matched the small marsh after crossing the stream.
22-23 Straight. Could see the control from a way away.
23-24 Went straighter/steeper than planned, rising to the trail to the left of the building instead of to the right. Then contoured just above the OOB area. Misread the control description at first, had to do a double-take.
24-25 straight.
25-26 Straight, ticked off the path junction just N of the circle.
26-F mistook the building to the left of the 25-26 line as the building I wanted, so that's why people may have seen me entering the finish area from a weird direction.
Saturday May 7, 2022 #
Event: ROC - Overlook NRE
Orienteering race 1:00:12 [2] **** 272.0 mi (13 / mi) +105m 13 / mi
ahr:135 max:153 shoes: Falcon
HHSpencer Green course at ROC NRE.
Mostly good contact, good planning, and good execution.
S-1 went a bit left of the intended line, got confused by the intersecting MTB paths, and thought I was 1 hump farther south than I really was. Found #1 by prospecting S along the shelf where the hill slope changed.
1-2: mostly straight
2-3: straight, though I intentionally went 1 reentrant more to the left than desired just to make sure the bend on the map matched the bend in the terrain.
3-4 Straight
4-5: it wasn't until much later that I realized the wide U-shaped contour was a spur, not a reentrant, and my feature, reentrant, was on the shoulder of the spur. 4 to trail to the bend, then straight in.
5-6 crossed the little trickle left of the line.d
6-7 went by way of #9, although having seen 9 didn't help me go very straight from 8-9. It did help me to know when to drop down to #9.
Mostly walking/jogging, not a hard effort physically, although I was concentrating.
Mostly good contact, good planning, and good execution.
S-1 went a bit left of the intended line, got confused by the intersecting MTB paths, and thought I was 1 hump farther south than I really was. Found #1 by prospecting S along the shelf where the hill slope changed.
1-2: mostly straight
2-3: straight, though I intentionally went 1 reentrant more to the left than desired just to make sure the bend on the map matched the bend in the terrain.
3-4 Straight
4-5: it wasn't until much later that I realized the wide U-shaped contour was a spur, not a reentrant, and my feature, reentrant, was on the shoulder of the spur. 4 to trail to the bend, then straight in.
5-6 crossed the little trickle left of the line.d
6-7 went by way of #9, although having seen 9 didn't help me go very straight from 8-9. It did help me to know when to drop down to #9.
Mostly walking/jogging, not a hard effort physically, although I was concentrating.