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Saturday Mar 30, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (Yorkshire Hill) 1:11:52 [3] *** 5.4 km (13:19 / km) +95m 12:14 / km
25c
Goldmining! I love goldmining terrain. However, my lack of practice orienteering (I have been off for over a year due to injury) and lack of fitness really showed in this technical area.
I stuffed up number 4 which I thought was behind a high point, but when I looked it wasn't there, so I ran around checking the other nearby highpoints and scratching my head before realising it was behind a 'knoll' which the first high point was on top of. I don't think I was the only person to do this.
Kate R caught me a couple of controls later and with Hania we ran together taking turns to lead into controls until I lost them on the vague downhill leg to 18. I really stuffed 18 (4-5 min), mistaking a minor creek for a major erosion on the map and searching south along the creek instead of north. Then I was tired and also messed up 19 (2 min) by not orienting my map properly and running off the wrong corner of a clearing.
One thing I did notice this weekend - although I did still make too many mistakes, I recovered from most of them and the worst were 10 min. A couple of years ago it wouldn't have been unlike me to make a 20 or 30 min error, so I guess that's progress. :)
I stuffed up number 4 which I thought was behind a high point, but when I looked it wasn't there, so I ran around checking the other nearby highpoints and scratching my head before realising it was behind a 'knoll' which the first high point was on top of. I don't think I was the only person to do this.
Kate R caught me a couple of controls later and with Hania we ran together taking turns to lead into controls until I lost them on the vague downhill leg to 18. I really stuffed 18 (4-5 min), mistaking a minor creek for a major erosion on the map and searching south along the creek instead of north. Then I was tired and also messed up 19 (2 min) by not orienting my map properly and running off the wrong corner of a clearing.
One thing I did notice this weekend - although I did still make too many mistakes, I recovered from most of them and the worst were 10 min. A couple of years ago it wouldn't have been unlike me to make a 20 or 30 min error, so I guess that's progress. :)
Run warm up/down 15:00 [3]
Friday Mar 29, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race (Easter Sprint) 24:42 [3] ** 2.9 km (8:31 / km) +90m 7:22 / km
22c
Fun sprint around La Trobe university in Bendigo. This was my only 'elite' race and I was nearly last, but I still felt pretty good about my run. Came back with a very bloody leg after running through some scratchy acacia in my shorts. I wasn't really expecting a few bush legs in an urban sprint!
Run warm up/down 15:00 [3]
Tuesday Mar 26, 2013 #
6 PM
Run (Morialta) 43:00 [3]
Hot weather run with Tynomite up the centre track to the top of first and second falls and back down with an extra loop up and down Hogan's track.
Monday Mar 25, 2013 #
6 PM
Run (Hawthorndene) 20:00 [3]
Short run with Bridgemon and Tynomite before a Wallaringa committee meeting where I had the crazy idea of sitting next to the chocolate. :)
Sunday Mar 24, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering (Para Wirra) 1:53:00 [3]
MP - Grrrr. Found the gap between OOB to run down from 4 to 5, but saw some 'Do not enter' signs and got spooked. Ran back and forth from various points of reference to make sure I was in the right place, but for some reason decided I shouldn't be running down there due to the signs. By the time I faffed around, ran about in the OOB for a bit, relocated 4 times and eventually decided I would just skip 5 and 6 and go straight to 7 I'd wasted over half an hour (34min split 4 to 7). Finished the course very angry at myself. Enjoyed the rest though - I do like Para Wirra. My own brain just sabotages me sometimes.