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Saturday Jun 1, 2013 #
Event: Foot-O - Two Day Classic
Orienteering 15:58 [2] 1.6 km (9:59 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330
Shadowing Kate on Starter1. Good straight forward, yet interesting course. Kate scooted around, no help required, except for getting over/through fences.
2 PM
Orienteering 47:51 [4] 4.5 km (10:38 / km) +106m 9:31 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330
E1 @ Pre-Frazzle GPS = (an impressive) 5.99km
Really enjoyed this up until 14. I chose to go up and over from 13, but never really stayed in contact after climbing out of 13. Over-ran the spur I needed and dropped down the next one. Took a little while to convince myself I had overshot the control by that far, but relocated straight back to the right rock.
And here's where it all went pear shaped. I read the description correctly, but in my mind the control was going to be on the right of the rock, when in reality it was around to the left. No big deal? The wrong side of a 6m monolith is very much the WRONG side! I searched three quarters of the base of the rock (spot a problem?) and with a large WTF, then tried to work out where the hell I was. Couldn't place the rock detail anywhere else on the map (mainly because I was in the right spot!) and decided to drop all the way down to the fence corner. Checked very carefully that it was indeed the right fence corner, took the bearing and WTF, I was just at those rocks! Back up the hill and beyond the rocks to go hunting elsewhere.
Enter OldManTooms. He spots poor ShitRoute scratching his head and yells "You're near the knoll at the top." Well der, ShitRoute thinks to himself, but which one? OMT bounds over to ShitRoute and says "You're here!" Another 'Well der", but where is the control. OMT says "It was around this side" indicating the opposite side to all of my fruitless searching. ShitRoute take 3 steps in that direction and there the bloody thing is! ShitRoute must check compass!!
Ran off towards 15 with the laughter of OMT, MTBJen and Tooms2 ringing in my ears. Overshot it a bit, but nothing drastic.
Clean through the rest and eventually back to the finish.
Kate says "You were gone a long time!" - thanks Love!
Apart from the Epic Fail at 14, it would have been a reasonable time. Good, fast, technical course. Pity ShitRoute can't navigate or run fast!
Really enjoyed this up until 14. I chose to go up and over from 13, but never really stayed in contact after climbing out of 13. Over-ran the spur I needed and dropped down the next one. Took a little while to convince myself I had overshot the control by that far, but relocated straight back to the right rock.
And here's where it all went pear shaped. I read the description correctly, but in my mind the control was going to be on the right of the rock, when in reality it was around to the left. No big deal? The wrong side of a 6m monolith is very much the WRONG side! I searched three quarters of the base of the rock (spot a problem?) and with a large WTF, then tried to work out where the hell I was. Couldn't place the rock detail anywhere else on the map (mainly because I was in the right spot!) and decided to drop all the way down to the fence corner. Checked very carefully that it was indeed the right fence corner, took the bearing and WTF, I was just at those rocks! Back up the hill and beyond the rocks to go hunting elsewhere.
Enter OldManTooms. He spots poor ShitRoute scratching his head and yells "You're near the knoll at the top." Well der, ShitRoute thinks to himself, but which one? OMT bounds over to ShitRoute and says "You're here!" Another 'Well der", but where is the control. OMT says "It was around this side" indicating the opposite side to all of my fruitless searching. ShitRoute take 3 steps in that direction and there the bloody thing is! ShitRoute must check compass!!
Ran off towards 15 with the laughter of OMT, MTBJen and Tooms2 ringing in my ears. Overshot it a bit, but nothing drastic.
Clean through the rest and eventually back to the finish.
Kate says "You were gone a long time!" - thanks Love!
Apart from the Epic Fail at 14, it would have been a reasonable time. Good, fast, technical course. Pity ShitRoute can't navigate or run fast!
Friday May 31, 2013 #
6 AM
Running 33:57 6.63 km (5:07 / km) +24m 5:02 / km
shoes: Reebok Roadlite
3 km in 12:45.
BLOODY COLD morning!
BLOODY COLD morning!
Wednesday May 29, 2013 #
Walking 30:46 [1] 3.2 km (9:37 / km)
Monday May 27, 2013 #
6 AM
Running 36:21 [2] 6.63 km (5:29 / km) +26m 5:23 / km
shoes: Reebok Roadlite
Easy loop. Feel a bit stiff and sore after yesterday, so didn't go as far as planned.
Sunday May 26, 2013 #
Event: OAWA Relay Championships
10 AM
Orienteering 24:24 [5] 3.1 km (7:52 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330
Leg 2 @ Relays
Slow start to make sure I wasn't over-running anything, but smooth enough after that. fenry bounded over me pretty early on and we seemed to have lots of splits for the first half a dozen controls before he disappeared.
Started the leg in 2nd place for about a minute and held onto third.
Slow start to make sure I wasn't over-running anything, but smooth enough after that. fenry bounded over me pretty early on and we seemed to have lots of splits for the first half a dozen controls before he disappeared.
Started the leg in 2nd place for about a minute and held onto third.
11 AM
Orienteering 23:45 [5] 3.2 km (7:25 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330
Leg 4 @ relays.
Ceri managed to come in with a small lead ahead of Rachel, so Simon and I more or less started together. He had a straighter, shorter leg to one and led the way around until about 10 where we punched together. He blasted away to 11 and I lost sight of him - apparently he fluffed 11 a bit. Clean through the rest and pushed as hard as I could because I thought maybe I had managed to get ahead of Simon.
Ended up third, about a minute up on Rachel and Simon in fourth.
Good fun courses and racing.
Ceri managed to come in with a small lead ahead of Rachel, so Simon and I more or less started together. He had a straighter, shorter leg to one and led the way around until about 10 where we punched together. He blasted away to 11 and I lost sight of him - apparently he fluffed 11 a bit. Clean through the rest and pushed as hard as I could because I thought maybe I had managed to get ahead of Simon.
Ended up third, about a minute up on Rachel and Simon in fourth.
Good fun courses and racing.