Sunday Aug 3 |
 | Orienteering Forest (race) 1:09:34 [4] 8 km (8:42 / km) | |
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| First day at the 6 days of Aveyron. Fabulous terrain with fast running in grasslands with cities of rock pillars and intricate bush detail and some forest. Wow, amazing orienteering. Made one bigger mistake, where I lost around 3 minutes, but otherwise mostly good. Very surprised to win H21A Long, but everyone made even bigger mistakes. |
Saturday Aug 2 |
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| Event: 6 Days of Aveyron, France
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Friday Aug 1 |
| Orienteering Forest (race) 1:46:59 [4] 8 km (13:22 / km) | |
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| Extended middle distance, as the organizers called it, at Lake Aydat. Super detailed and great terrain in terms of contours, but absolutely horrible vegetation. Old clear cuts and storm damage made the woods worse than Victoria terrain. There was nicer terrain in the north end of the map. Organizers should have put normal middle distance course there. 3 to 4 km would have been enough and people would have had fun. As it was now it was miserable... |
Thursday Jul 31 |
| Orienteering Forest (race) 1:52:23 [4] 12.4 km (9:04 / km) | |
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| Long distance on a map right next to where the world cup was in 2006. This is just in the shadow of the volcano called Puy de Dome. Kind of flat area with subtle contours, lots of trails and lots of green forest. After about 50 minutes of running there was a water control and a took a gel. Did well in this first part. Then there was a crazy detailed area of the map with a butterfly. Kind of walked and jogged this part and was reasonably clean. A bit easier again on the way home, but legs were tired. First in H21A Long. |
Wednesday Jul 30 |
| Orienteering Forest (race) 18:05 [4] 2.7 km (6:42 / km) | |
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| Sprint at the 3 day event in Auvergne, France. This was up on a small plateau called Gergovie. The terrain was mostly flat grasslands with labyrinth-like stone walls and thick bushes. Very tricky terrain for a sprint, but I did get lots of help from elephant trails, as I started late. Still managed to make two mistakes that probably cost 1:30 in total. A great thunderstorm came through the area just before my run. Louise won women elite and Andrea won the category for the rest of the women! |
| Running Rough 10:00 [2] | |
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| Warm-up. |