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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 #
Event: MVOC Cricket Holler Night O'
Event: ICO Camp Belzer
Night O' race 43:00 [4] *** 3.86 km (11:08 / km)
spiked:7/16c shoes: Adidas Tri-Star Cleats ($35)
Night O' at Cricket Holler in Dayton.
Biggest mistake was a little one---I overran 3 and got 4 first. Had to come back 75 or 100m to get 3. Several hesitations, and slow routes through green. The course was too easy, but fun anyway, and the food afterwards was awesome awesome.
Attendance was pretty low. I was third on the main course behind dersu and Mike.
Biggest mistake was a little one---I overran 3 and got 4 first. Had to come back 75 or 100m to get 3. Several hesitations, and slow routes through green. The course was too easy, but fun anyway, and the food afterwards was awesome awesome.
Attendance was pretty low. I was third on the main course behind dersu and Mike.
Night O' race 5:00 [5] *** 0.45 km (11:07 / km)
spiked:2/3c shoes: Adidas Tri-Star Cleats ($35)
Search and Destroy.
After the 60 minute score night O, we did a mass start Search and Destroy to take the course down. You race to controls and bring them back. If you're not first, you get nothing. This is very strategic, and your S&D score adds to your main score, so the win is on the line. My plan was to get one control, number 7. If I got even one, I'd be happy. At the mass start, I got the the attackpoint, and I just looked down at my already-set-compass. I ran almost right to it.
There was a square of four controls, but it just seemed like everyone would be going for them, and the fast guys would dominate, so I held little hope of getting even one more. I knew to go straight west, and as I popped up a contour line, I saw a headlamp going toward 8. I don't really know where it came from, but all of a sudden I'm sprinting towards the reflector, and I'm ahead.
I'm thinking, "As soon as I stop, this guy is going right for 9, and I won't have a hope", but the guy doesn't go right for 9. So I spend 2 seconds pulling the knot at 8, and I'm going for 9. I hear footsteps getting closer, so I relax and try to find the rhythm, and it works! I'm flat out flying, and I hear the footstep fade back.
But it was all I had. I was halfway back before I could even think about running.
Having 3 gave me second. Mike got 4, and dersu had changed clothes and didn't get any S&D points, having been outsprinted to the closest control.
Headlamp News: The more I use it, the more I love it.
After the 60 minute score night O, we did a mass start Search and Destroy to take the course down. You race to controls and bring them back. If you're not first, you get nothing. This is very strategic, and your S&D score adds to your main score, so the win is on the line. My plan was to get one control, number 7. If I got even one, I'd be happy. At the mass start, I got the the attackpoint, and I just looked down at my already-set-compass. I ran almost right to it.
There was a square of four controls, but it just seemed like everyone would be going for them, and the fast guys would dominate, so I held little hope of getting even one more. I knew to go straight west, and as I popped up a contour line, I saw a headlamp going toward 8. I don't really know where it came from, but all of a sudden I'm sprinting towards the reflector, and I'm ahead.
I'm thinking, "As soon as I stop, this guy is going right for 9, and I won't have a hope", but the guy doesn't go right for 9. So I spend 2 seconds pulling the knot at 8, and I'm going for 9. I hear footsteps getting closer, so I relax and try to find the rhythm, and it works! I'm flat out flying, and I hear the footstep fade back.
But it was all I had. I was halfway back before I could even think about running.
Having 3 gave me second. Mike got 4, and dersu had changed clothes and didn't get any S&D points, having been outsprinted to the closest control.
Headlamp News: The more I use it, the more I love it.