Saturday Oct 27 |
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| Event: Camp Scherman A-meet (LAOC)
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 | Orienteering race 1:26:39 [4] *** 5.5 km (15:45 / km) +225m 13:05 / km | |
| 22c slept:4.0 shoes: Inov 330 |
| Not really "Middle" distance as it was announced. More like normal Classic despite being short due to a very slow terrain.
Map doesn't look so bad as reality was, ran without gators in short uniform. That wasn't wise at all, legs were bloody till the knees - green colors on the map represented different density of thick spiky bushes, agaves, and cactuses. Second day experience reveled that agave's spikes are more painful after rain, probably they produce some kind of ethereal oil - each encounter resulted in muscular crumpses and still, after 3 days looks more like bee's bites - swollen and very sensitive, with blueish areal around.
Blowout first 2 controls - was hard to say what and how cliffs, rocks, and boulders were mapped and what was not mapped. Main challenge was to find crossable path in this mess, don't get lost, don't get hurt, don't step on the cactus, and make decision that this 5x10m cliff in front is mapped as cliff and not as impassable cliff.
The rest of the distance was quite good, as good as it could be for my running shape, no errors, but rather slow - didn't have much gas to run after #7. Almost 2km altitude works just killing.
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| Orienteering 35:00 [3] ** 2 km (17:30 / km) +40m 15:55 / km | |
| 8c shoes: Inov 330 |
| White, shadowing Karina. |
Monday Oct 22 |
| Easy run 15:00 [3] 3 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Renegade 3 |
| Houston night run around mall. Locals were in shock seeing runner at such late time. |
Sunday Oct 21 |
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| Oct. 21, Rossmoor Bar, Rancho Cordova |
| Orienteering 1:14:00 [3] **** 7.6 km (9:44 / km) +40m 9:29 / km | |
| 14c shoes: Inov 330 |
| Rossmor bar, Sacramento. Red. Half of the map remains of gold rush mining activities - boulders, rocks, rocks, and rocks mixed with poison oak. Couple mistakes up to 10min in total - area quite complex at places. Would be very tough middle distance if mapped properly. |