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Sunday Jun 19, 2011 #
Orienteering race 1:34:59 [5] ***** 13.73 km (6:55 / km) +405m 6:02 / km
spiked:20/24c shoes: Jalas FLX
JUKOLA!!!
Conor had a pretty great race and I set out. got into a train right on the way to 1 and caned it down the road. we branched off and then i realised they all seemed to be going way too far right so i came back left spiked the control only to have a train come in just behind me.
2,3,4,5 were all pretty unexciting except i was running well. left 5 with no plan, kinda formulated it as I ran behind these two guys. I wanted to hit the little ride, which in hindsight was ambitious. we came too far right but not by much and went around through the field. the light green there then turned out to be horrible. spiked the control afterwards though.
going to 7 i again got pulled into the wrong train and was nearly making a parallel mistake but noticed i was a hill over so ran across, the going was poor though so i guess i lost 20-30 secs
8 was fine, 9 I just ran out of 8 and i was thinking about where i could climb the slope, when i did i put my compass down as if i was still at 8 and missed it horribly, could not work out what was happening and eventually came back to the road to relocate. knew then what was happeneing. 5 mins dropped.
furious i flew down to 10 in a huge train that had appeared, i recognised a few of them from the start.
got confused by the veg change before 11 but then so did everyone else there and we all piled into it at once. I was then about 6th or 7th in the train heading to 12, but they went left after going over the spur, i went right too the control and turned around to a sea of light. took off with them all chasing me down. one guy passed me out going over the hill to 13 and then a fwew more to 14.
16 was gaffled and i learned the hard way when i hit the wrong control. so did many other people. I navigated to the right one again with loads behind me. 1 min lost
then a huge train took me right to 17 and 18. 19 was easy and i ran passed 3 people. again easy 20, then the long leg I had no plan and feared for my life, i said hey ill just hit the path, left and bam! headtorch died. I though many expletives at that point. some guy had gone with me so i stuck with him, really didnt know where i was, got onto the ride thingy still had no idea using only my little petzl! hit the road and saw everything, could have been a lot worse, powered up the hill sticking behind the guy and came up to the top, saw the two little rocks and knew i was in business. the guy set off to another gaffle (which was wrong of him!) and I compassed by myself to the control, took it in the middle of a train arriving.
easy 22, then 23 i was too high but so was the whole train and i caught them (they looked embarrased!) and took it. held my place to the end then, until shea wasn't in the changeover! i shouted at him a lot.
Overall quite happy but really pissed about 9. dropped roughly 7 mins.
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Conor had a pretty great race and I set out. got into a train right on the way to 1 and caned it down the road. we branched off and then i realised they all seemed to be going way too far right so i came back left spiked the control only to have a train come in just behind me.
2,3,4,5 were all pretty unexciting except i was running well. left 5 with no plan, kinda formulated it as I ran behind these two guys. I wanted to hit the little ride, which in hindsight was ambitious. we came too far right but not by much and went around through the field. the light green there then turned out to be horrible. spiked the control afterwards though.
going to 7 i again got pulled into the wrong train and was nearly making a parallel mistake but noticed i was a hill over so ran across, the going was poor though so i guess i lost 20-30 secs
8 was fine, 9 I just ran out of 8 and i was thinking about where i could climb the slope, when i did i put my compass down as if i was still at 8 and missed it horribly, could not work out what was happening and eventually came back to the road to relocate. knew then what was happeneing. 5 mins dropped.
furious i flew down to 10 in a huge train that had appeared, i recognised a few of them from the start.
got confused by the veg change before 11 but then so did everyone else there and we all piled into it at once. I was then about 6th or 7th in the train heading to 12, but they went left after going over the spur, i went right too the control and turned around to a sea of light. took off with them all chasing me down. one guy passed me out going over the hill to 13 and then a fwew more to 14.
16 was gaffled and i learned the hard way when i hit the wrong control. so did many other people. I navigated to the right one again with loads behind me. 1 min lost
then a huge train took me right to 17 and 18. 19 was easy and i ran passed 3 people. again easy 20, then the long leg I had no plan and feared for my life, i said hey ill just hit the path, left and bam! headtorch died. I though many expletives at that point. some guy had gone with me so i stuck with him, really didnt know where i was, got onto the ride thingy still had no idea using only my little petzl! hit the road and saw everything, could have been a lot worse, powered up the hill sticking behind the guy and came up to the top, saw the two little rocks and knew i was in business. the guy set off to another gaffle (which was wrong of him!) and I compassed by myself to the control, took it in the middle of a train arriving.
easy 22, then 23 i was too high but so was the whole train and i caught them (they looked embarrased!) and took it. held my place to the end then, until shea wasn't in the changeover! i shouted at him a lot.
Overall quite happy but really pissed about 9. dropped roughly 7 mins.
Results
map
3drerun