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Sunday Jul 8, 2007 #
Event: DVOA - French Creek West
Orienteering race 1:01:00 [4] 8.82 km (6:55 / km) +250m 6:03 / km
ahr:163 max:177 shoes: O-VJ-Grey-Spikes
Hot day at French Creek West. Was planning to run Green due to RF temp of ~93 even at 10am, but it didn't feel that bad, so I ran Red. Got a mild Migraine due to that, but killed it with 4 Excedrin & 4 Mt. Dews after ~ 2 hours - not too bad.
As for the run itself, I was first out through the ferns, so there was quite a bit of around-routing, and walking down or hopping up through the ferns (pretty think on maybe 1km of the course I ran on) so I knew would lose time there. I also lost a bunch more due to sloppiness.
#1: Ran hard on a trail going the right way, but missed a big trail going into the woods and got confused there.
#4: Ran around a bunch, afraid of the forest, apparently the forest there was okay.
#5: Way around on a trail, then missed by 7m on the way into the bag (according to my GPS) and did a 90m loop in 2 1/2 minutes circling back to the bag which was right about where I slowed down. Just didn't see it behind a tree in the ferns...
#6: Conservative around route w/20m more climb.
#7: Took overgrown trail, lost ~20 seconds.
2nd to last: Hit wall of green (unmapped) and went way around high, then had trouble on the way in. Around low (to more solid trail attack) could've been ~2 minutes better.
As expected, with as much time given away as I did on this course, and Clem running late (good fern trails) in home terrain he got me. Only about about 4-5 minutes so it could've been worse. Probably the heat slowed him a bit more than me (car thermometer said it was closer to 90 when he ran, vs. 85 when I did.)
As for the run itself, I was first out through the ferns, so there was quite a bit of around-routing, and walking down or hopping up through the ferns (pretty think on maybe 1km of the course I ran on) so I knew would lose time there. I also lost a bunch more due to sloppiness.
#1: Ran hard on a trail going the right way, but missed a big trail going into the woods and got confused there.
#4: Ran around a bunch, afraid of the forest, apparently the forest there was okay.
#5: Way around on a trail, then missed by 7m on the way into the bag (according to my GPS) and did a 90m loop in 2 1/2 minutes circling back to the bag which was right about where I slowed down. Just didn't see it behind a tree in the ferns...
#6: Conservative around route w/20m more climb.
#7: Took overgrown trail, lost ~20 seconds.
2nd to last: Hit wall of green (unmapped) and went way around high, then had trouble on the way in. Around low (to more solid trail attack) could've been ~2 minutes better.
As expected, with as much time given away as I did on this course, and Clem running late (good fern trails) in home terrain he got me. Only about about 4-5 minutes so it could've been worse. Probably the heat slowed him a bit more than me (car thermometer said it was closer to 90 when he ran, vs. 85 when I did.)
Running warm up/down 4:00 [2] 0.4 mi (10:00 / mi) +10m 9:17 / mi
shoes: O-VJ-Grey-Spikes
Short warmup - didn't want to heat up too much or it would be counterproductive. No cooldown as I wanted to physically cool down as fast as possible.