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Thursday Apr 27, 2017 #
12 PM
orienteering race (WMOC long qual 2) 50:51 [4] 4.3 km (11:50 / km) +135m 10:13 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc 280
Another 7am departure and 5pm return today; we got there @9 but I wasn't running until after midday. Really wanted to make the most of this being the last year that 2nd-chance qualifiers will be available at WMOC, but struggled to read the map at all and made some fairly daft route choices, having no real understanding of which way was up and which way down, so went unnecessarily over some ridges and around some basins; don't like 2.5m contours and was annoyed afterwards to see that the A3 map which the men received for their longer courses was printed with much finer contours than the A4 I had, meaning that it was possible for them to actually read what was between the contours, which I had no chance of doing.
Lost time on 1, (good track route to 2 though), circumnavigated the deep basin unnecessarily to 4 when I should have taken the tracks, too far left on 5 and then on 6 completely failed to see the road/track option to the left, got confused by crossing unmapped very faint rides and somehow started navigating to 7, corrected this but then still managed to actually go to 7 before 6 because I didn't climb high enough before dropping - lost at least 5 min on that leg and another 2-3 throughout the course; also exited 8 badly. A bit annoyed to be 13th, but it was probably deserved, and at least being 11th overall after 2 days of qualifying means I don't have to wear an additional yellow number.
I'm happier with the way I was running physically today compared to yesterday but I don't think that 1 min start intervals are a good idea; I'm perfectly certain that a number of people got tows on one or other of the days...
Lost time on 1, (good track route to 2 though), circumnavigated the deep basin unnecessarily to 4 when I should have taken the tracks, too far left on 5 and then on 6 completely failed to see the road/track option to the left, got confused by crossing unmapped very faint rides and somehow started navigating to 7, corrected this but then still managed to actually go to 7 before 6 because I didn't climb high enough before dropping - lost at least 5 min on that leg and another 2-3 throughout the course; also exited 8 badly. A bit annoyed to be 13th, but it was probably deserved, and at least being 11th overall after 2 days of qualifying means I don't have to wear an additional yellow number.
I'm happier with the way I was running physically today compared to yesterday but I don't think that 1 min start intervals are a good idea; I'm perfectly certain that a number of people got tows on one or other of the days...