Orienteering race (Ratlum Sprint A) 24:22 [3] 1.66 km (14:41 / km) +95m 11:25 / km
(sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14
Sprint A (which I ran after B). With so much laurel to bash, most of this was brisk walk/bash, with a few slow jogging segments. Minor issues
- on #2 I went straight in, realized I was on a charcoal platform, found it on the map, then turned around and saw the control down hill
- #4 - contours not right, wound up wide right, recognized I had been through here on the earlier course, turned left and hit #5 deadon, looked downhill and saw hill on which I then found #4
clean but slow the rest of the way... skies opened up for the last three controls - finished in the downpour, since I was wet and nasty, I stripped the shirt off and stood in the rain for 10 minutes, at least I washed much of the funk away, now I was just wet. Changed to a dry shirt in the house and enjoyed the fine food and finer company that always goes with a Ratlum Mtn event... Many thanks to Charlie and Rhonda...
Orienteering (Ratlum Sprint B) 29:01 [3] 2.49 km (11:39 / km) +95m 9:47 / km
(sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14
After being sick for the past 5 days, I didn't have any zip at all, but I ran where I could...
#5 - came down slightly north of circle, but the clearing is pretty vague with other openish areas in there, a bit of hunting until I found it.
#9 - went straight in the green from the trail junction under the line, but drifted R and crossed the trail north of the bend and got N of flag, corrected OK, but Glen got ahead of me here...
#11 - got back ahead of Glen enroute to #11, I was on a straight line, he was coming up the hill
Fieldwork (Cross Farms) 1:20:00 [1]
shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14
A little more field work. I'm only going to get the area around the school done for my workshop next week and since I'm doing the map for 1:5000 sprint scale, I guess I could do the fieldwork at 1:2500. Not quite enough room to draw the fine detail around the buildings at 1:5000