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Wednesday Aug 17, 2011 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 45:00 [4] ***** 3.8 km (11:51 / km) +80m 10:43 / km
spiked:4/6c
Woc tour Day 3 - Crolles (middle distance)
This is the day my Woc tour started to fall apart!
Did a stupid thing by checking the overall results before my race to see I was in the top 20 then seen the winning time so far - 44mins.
lost 1 min on route choice to the first - my brain wanted me to do a 180 but i resisted the temptation. slow to the difficult 5th and 6th but going well
glanced at watch after punching the 6th - 26 mins and maybe only 1.2km to go! hell, I could get a good result here! Thats when it all fell apart...
250m on a bearing to the 7th the ground was impossible to scramble over in straight line must have drifted. It was impossible to relocate, everything looked the same and the map was weird! (confirmed by Roar afterwards)
20mins later I switched off the garmin and trudged out a beaten man :-(
This is the day my Woc tour started to fall apart!
Did a stupid thing by checking the overall results before my race to see I was in the top 20 then seen the winning time so far - 44mins.
lost 1 min on route choice to the first - my brain wanted me to do a 180 but i resisted the temptation. slow to the difficult 5th and 6th but going well
glanced at watch after punching the 6th - 26 mins and maybe only 1.2km to go! hell, I could get a good result here! Thats when it all fell apart...
250m on a bearing to the 7th the ground was impossible to scramble over in straight line must have drifted. It was impossible to relocate, everything looked the same and the map was weird! (confirmed by Roar afterwards)
20mins later I switched off the garmin and trudged out a beaten man :-(
C • Jack 2
Monday Aug 15, 2011 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:27:07 [5] ***** 8.26 km (10:33 / km) +400m 8:29 / km
spiked:10/15c
Woc tour day 2 - la grande teppe
Longer course today, real good course first section of 6 controls in a tough area this was not clean for me, I was navigating to the circle ok but messing up the last 100m or so when visibility (lack of) and intense ground detail confused me.
Lost 10 minutes on these 6 controls. Then came a nice open and semi open section with lots of climb that sapped energy but not too technical
(this was the only non-tech section of the whole week)
then a drop down to the finish through tough forest again.
Happy enough with this run but losing the 10 minutes early on was a pity.
went to look up results - around 20th again today if only I had yesterdays too - but wait, I am on yesterdays!! The SI card must have had enough room on it for the whole course :-)
Longer course today, real good course first section of 6 controls in a tough area this was not clean for me, I was navigating to the circle ok but messing up the last 100m or so when visibility (lack of) and intense ground detail confused me.
Lost 10 minutes on these 6 controls. Then came a nice open and semi open section with lots of climb that sapped energy but not too technical
(this was the only non-tech section of the whole week)
then a drop down to the finish through tough forest again.
Happy enough with this run but losing the 10 minutes early on was a pity.
went to look up results - around 20th again today if only I had yesterdays too - but wait, I am on yesterdays!! The SI card must have had enough room on it for the whole course :-)
Sunday Aug 14, 2011 #
8 AM
Orienteering race 1:02:10 [4] ***** 5.95 km (10:27 / km) +310m 8:17 / km
spiked:14/17c
Day 1 Woc tour - les gouilles
Started well, pretty clean, punched the 5th and had a gut feeling something was wrong - SHIT!! i forgot to clear my SI card :-(
ah well another days training.
The rest of the course flowed smoothly, I guess I had relaxed a bit knowing that I was just going for a wee run out.
pissed afterwards as I would have been 20th out of 150 or so.
Started well, pretty clean, punched the 5th and had a gut feeling something was wrong - SHIT!! i forgot to clear my SI card :-(
ah well another days training.
The rest of the course flowed smoothly, I guess I had relaxed a bit knowing that I was just going for a wee run out.
pissed afterwards as I would have been 20th out of 150 or so.
Saturday Aug 13, 2011 #
11 AM
Orienteering 58:36 [3] ***** 4.26 km (13:45 / km) +190m 11:15 / km
spiked:5/8c
First taste of terrain for the WOC tour.
training on le creux qui sonne with M, J, H & J
set out some courses on our 5 maps, was good to have controls out and get into the terrain again went slow so was pretty clean.
Nice weather too :-)
training on le creux qui sonne with M, J, H & J
set out some courses on our 5 maps, was good to have controls out and get into the terrain again went slow so was pretty clean.
Nice weather too :-)