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Saturday Jul 5, 2003 #
orienteering 53:06 [4] 6.4 km (8:18 / km) +820ft 6:56 / km
Day 3 at "The Map Formerly Known as Blue Mountain" -- when Platt is involved, you know that one way or another some things are going to be weird (there is a big rock on the map called "Stenen Rock", Stenen being Swedish for "the rock", so it's really "The Rock Rock").
Bad day. Spiked #1, actually spiked the rock it was supposed to be on, but the control was on another rock about 70 meters away and I circled a bit before spotting it. Rather pissed (i.e. motivated), picked up the pace, made idiotic parallel error at #3 (having just picked up Lyn Walker, who will now never dare follow me again, she should know better). Now highly pissed and more motivated, ran hard to just about #8 when my calf cramped up on a steep downhill and it was hoppity-hop the last 2 km to the finish.
Only bright spot was my walk back out to #1 afterwards, where I discovered that Platt, who many years ago made some maps that one hopes for his sake have all been burned, is now mapping really well. Complicated rocky area was mapped perfectly.
Bad day. Spiked #1, actually spiked the rock it was supposed to be on, but the control was on another rock about 70 meters away and I circled a bit before spotting it. Rather pissed (i.e. motivated), picked up the pace, made idiotic parallel error at #3 (having just picked up Lyn Walker, who will now never dare follow me again, she should know better). Now highly pissed and more motivated, ran hard to just about #8 when my calf cramped up on a steep downhill and it was hoppity-hop the last 2 km to the finish.
Only bright spot was my walk back out to #1 afterwards, where I discovered that Platt, who many years ago made some maps that one hopes for his sake have all been burned, is now mapping really well. Complicated rocky area was mapped perfectly.