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Saturday Jan 19, 2013 #
Orienteering race 1:25:30 [3] *** 6.7 km (12:46 / km) +240m 10:49 / km
shoes: Salomon Speedcross
After a long runless week, the Navigator Cup weekend has let me get out and leave some blood in the woods (literally). Day one was ok but not really a very fulfilling performance. A mixture of nice open woods and newer woods interspersed with evil vines.
Many controls were tentative loosing time at the starts of legs and using too many slow-ups to review the map mid leg. Only 6, 9, 10 and 11 were on-the-money. The largest error was on 4 drifting N of the line and somehow exactly paralleling the main road for 250m of light green (it felt like much more). Started to mess up at 4 by heading NE into the medium green and backed off returning to a much better light green pass through to the trail. It used a minute but the cost of the dark green would have been much larger. The most startling moment was moving off of control 5 at the top of a gully. Turned to go into the gully and the quick motion downhill was met by a vine that might as well have been wire. Tore my numbers half off and put a good size rip in my shirt; if I had not spun I might have been left hanging as decoration for the next runner. It was good fun but I wish that I had been able to move a bit faster.
Also ran the junior's training sprint 2.5 km and the confusing-o 1.4 km afterwards for a warmdown. Aidan was less confused and beat me in the later; good on him!
Many controls were tentative loosing time at the starts of legs and using too many slow-ups to review the map mid leg. Only 6, 9, 10 and 11 were on-the-money. The largest error was on 4 drifting N of the line and somehow exactly paralleling the main road for 250m of light green (it felt like much more). Started to mess up at 4 by heading NE into the medium green and backed off returning to a much better light green pass through to the trail. It used a minute but the cost of the dark green would have been much larger. The most startling moment was moving off of control 5 at the top of a gully. Turned to go into the gully and the quick motion downhill was met by a vine that might as well have been wire. Tore my numbers half off and put a good size rip in my shirt; if I had not spun I might have been left hanging as decoration for the next runner. It was good fun but I wish that I had been able to move a bit faster.
Also ran the junior's training sprint 2.5 km and the confusing-o 1.4 km afterwards for a warmdown. Aidan was less confused and beat me in the later; good on him!
Orienteering race (2630) 26:30 [3] 2.83 km (9:22 / km) +35m 8:49 / km
shoes: Salomon Speedcross
Training sprint.
Orienteering race 15:13 [3] 1.4 mi (10:52 / mi) +25m 10:18 / mi
shoes: Salomon Speedcross
Confusing-O training