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Saturday Jun 25, 2005 #
Orienteering race 54:45 [4] ***
NavStock Sprint. Mom says I failed naptime in kindergarten, and I'm not much better at it now. I slept 2 hours after last night's adventure run - not surprising when you consider that the sky was brightening when I went to bed, and a skunk was noisily attacking a garbage bag in our group campground area.
Anyway, that's a roundabout way of getting to the main theme of today's sprint, which was "stupidity". It was a nicely designed course, making good use of a small area of forest. I stumbled and bumbled around like a drunkard for almost an HOUR. On a SPRINT course! I would get these clear-as-a-bell thoughts popping into my mind, like "go due north 50 meters from the trail" - and sometimes I'd even say them out loud, but then I'd realize that I couldn't remember whether I'd already crossed a trail, so I'd have to go back - sometimes to the previous control - and start again. I'd expected to be physically tired after last night's race, but that factor never came into play at all. The wheels simply weren't turning in my brain this morning.
Anyway, that's a roundabout way of getting to the main theme of today's sprint, which was "stupidity". It was a nicely designed course, making good use of a small area of forest. I stumbled and bumbled around like a drunkard for almost an HOUR. On a SPRINT course! I would get these clear-as-a-bell thoughts popping into my mind, like "go due north 50 meters from the trail" - and sometimes I'd even say them out loud, but then I'd realize that I couldn't remember whether I'd already crossed a trail, so I'd have to go back - sometimes to the previous control - and start again. I'd expected to be physically tired after last night's race, but that factor never came into play at all. The wheels simply weren't turning in my brain this morning.
Orienteering race 1:04:57 [5] *** 6.0 km (10:50 / km)
NavStock Middle Distance. This afternoon went much better than this morning, and I took only 10 minutes longer to do a course with 3.5 km more distance. Yahoo, I'm not going to stay stupid forever! However, my brain was working in its granny gear, so although I made fairly good nav decisions (with a couple of small glitches), I was thinking ve-e-e-ry slowly. It was SO hot. Swimming in Bass Lake after the race was a highlight of the day.
Orienteering 44 [4] 0.15 km (4:53 / km)
World 3-Legged String Orienteering Championship. Bent and I took top honours in the fiercely competitive Husband-Wife category, absolutely demolishing the pathetic times set by Hammer and Griz with their respective partners (both of them still in elementary school). Bent nearly catapulted me head-first into the huge boulder at the finish line. I wonder if orienteering insurance would cover that sort of thing...? (Hmmm.... maybe I'd better check to see if Bent has taken out life insurance on me!)
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2]
Two warm up / cool downs for two races.