Sunday Sep 14 |
 | Orienteering 2:00:50 [5]7.8 km (15:29 / km) +245m 13:23 / km | |
| spiked:11/16c |
| US Champs, Fallen Leaf Lake. Red Y, F21. Shakier than Saturday. Not bad until #6, boulder on a hillside that had some things mapped and other things not (seemed like a West Point leg on acid). Erin caught me at the beginning of the hill; I had planned on staying on top of the ridge but the thick green bushes (mapped as white on the map) stopped me & made me change my plans. We stopped too soon on the hill; Erin wisely went on, while I went high to relocate (bad idea, didn't work) then went low to relocate (better idea, but worked only slightly better). Frustrating control. Then not at all clean on the next one, ending up too far north in the overgrown crap. When I got to the control I was chagrined to see a 5-foot long pink ribbon screaming out the location... Nice running down the valley to #8 (once down the nasty hill). Got close to #10 then couldn't find the control, despite relocating on a very distinct point on the trail below, and going up to the control on the distinct tree to take a bearing to our pit (the course setter said he could see our control from the distinct tree...). The yellow near the control was not at all obvious to me. I was quite frustrated by the control! Ran the road to #11, as hard as I could. No real problems the rest of the course (except to not see the streamers from the last control to the finish...) but was getting a bit tired. Thrown off a bit by the rather large boulder on the hillside just north east of #14 that was NOT on the map. All those tiny pits and boulders that made the map, and this very obvious boulder somehow was missed (though, as a drafter/sometime fieldchecker, I know these things do happen...). Like Saturday, I felt physically much better than I expected or had a right to. And again, really nice weather and beautiful views. Despite my poor run, I moved up to 5th US, 6th overall. |
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Red Y - Splits |
Saturday Sep 13 |
| Orienteering 2:03:46 [4]8 km (15:28 / km) +260m 13:18 / km | |
| spiked:13/16c |
| US Champs, Fallen Leaf Lake. Red Y, F21. Also a WRE. Slow but clean on first 5 controls. Went down & around on #6, attacking from below but I was unable to read my way in and had to reattack, still floundering around a bit on the hillside. Erin caught me here. Watched her for most of the next leg but lost her as we went up the hill. I drifted a bit too low; when I came back to it, Sandra & Karen were punching in and Erin was coming down the hill towards it. The four of us were in a (strung-out) line for the next several controls, though Sandra spiked the infamous #10 and the rest of us didn't. Karen found it well before Erin & I; I finally bailed out to the trail and re-attacked, spiking it. (But the boulder was tiny, surrounded by green, and was very easy to miss.) Spiked the next control (passed Angelica on the way & had a conversation with her) and was clean, if slow, for the rest of the course. Erin, having lost even more time at #10 than I, caught me again at 14 and we finished together. I felt surprisingly strong physically the whole race, which was nice. Two huge mistakes, on small mistake, the rest pretty good. 7th for the day among the women. 5 effort except for those long searching-for-control legs, which brings down the race to an overall 4 effort. |
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Red Y - Splits |
Friday Sep 12 |
| Orienteering 1:08:06 [3] | |
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| Model event at Fallen Leaf Lake. Includes jog up to model area start on paved road. Didn't plan to be out so long, and didn't even go to that many controls, but had trouble with a pit and wanted to figure it out before the races. Had some issues with the map & the terrain... But, a lovely day. |
Tuesday Sep 9 |
| Nordic Track 47:59 [3] | |
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| Evening, after acupuncture. Too late to get to the track to join the club but after doing nothing yesterday, potentially nothing tomorrow, definitely nothing Thursday, I felt I had to do something. The machine seemed a bit sticky, perhaps from recent humidity. |