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Monday Jul 29, 2019 #
12 PM
Walking warm up/down 31:59 2.36 km (13:33 / km) +88m 11:25 / km
ahr:115 max:147 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
To the start from parking via the portajohns.
1 PM
Orienteering race 57:06 *** 4.24 km (13:28 / km) +80m 12:18 / km
ahr:135 max:164 spiked:8/9c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Scottish 6-Day, Day 2 on Edinchip (pronounced Edenkip) map, 1:10000, 5m contours; 3.4 km, 90m climb. Weather similar to yesterday (so, circa 60+/-), maybe a few degrees cooler, slightly less breeze, only the threat of drizzle.
As I hiked up the hill to the start I saw dozens of people on their courses heading almost straight up the hill, and hoped my course wouldn't do the same...and it didn't. #1 was a 300m leg mostly contouring across the hill (slightly uphill) past another control (one of three boulders in a line where I attempted to figure out which of the three it was. Mapped "marshes" on this map weren't as wet as those yesterday, and could be traversed fairly easily. Then we got to drop down the hill and cross a fordable stream before heading slightly up the other side before exiting that valley for the lower areas closer to the A84 roadway, where there was a series of controls before climbing back up to finish not far from the start.
I bobbled #4 a bit (again! What is it with number 4 ... or sometimes it's #6?), partly because there was a camera crew (two men with cameras filming the action) not long before the point, and I misidentified which hilltop they were on, so I went too far and had to come back for it. The leg from #6-7 was a bot unfair, I thought; the beeline crossed a stream with solid black lines on its sides, dark green on the far side, and a thickish purple line along it on the side I approached. There were crossing points marked about 250m either way from #6. I decided the purple meant out of bounds/do not cross, and chose the left-hand crossing point and doubled back to #7 (passing another control, and checking the code, on the way) making it a 450m leg rather than a 200m leg.
I was happy with my placing, about halfway down the field when I finished (15/32 at that point; more finished later on). When I returned to where the Americans were gathering, I spoke to one who was also on course 20 and she admitted to having gone straight on that leg and crossed the purple line. She said it was poor course design (Glen agrees). There wasn't any note in the course notes that I remember seeing mentioning the purple line and what it meant.
Results (may be provisional)
Splits
Route Gadget
As I hiked up the hill to the start I saw dozens of people on their courses heading almost straight up the hill, and hoped my course wouldn't do the same...and it didn't. #1 was a 300m leg mostly contouring across the hill (slightly uphill) past another control (one of three boulders in a line where I attempted to figure out which of the three it was. Mapped "marshes" on this map weren't as wet as those yesterday, and could be traversed fairly easily. Then we got to drop down the hill and cross a fordable stream before heading slightly up the other side before exiting that valley for the lower areas closer to the A84 roadway, where there was a series of controls before climbing back up to finish not far from the start.
I bobbled #4 a bit (again! What is it with number 4 ... or sometimes it's #6?), partly because there was a camera crew (two men with cameras filming the action) not long before the point, and I misidentified which hilltop they were on, so I went too far and had to come back for it. The leg from #6-7 was a bot unfair, I thought; the beeline crossed a stream with solid black lines on its sides, dark green on the far side, and a thickish purple line along it on the side I approached. There were crossing points marked about 250m either way from #6. I decided the purple meant out of bounds/do not cross, and chose the left-hand crossing point and doubled back to #7 (passing another control, and checking the code, on the way) making it a 450m leg rather than a 200m leg.
I was happy with my placing, about halfway down the field when I finished (15/32 at that point; more finished later on). When I returned to where the Americans were gathering, I spoke to one who was also on course 20 and she admitted to having gone straight on that leg and crossed the purple line. She said it was poor course design (Glen agrees). There wasn't any note in the course notes that I remember seeing mentioning the purple line and what it meant.
Results (may be provisional)
Splits
Route Gadget
2 PM
Walk/Jog warm up/down 23:27 1.83 km (12:51 / km)
ahr:112 max:157 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
From finish back to the arena (plus some time before I remembered to stop my watch).