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Saturday Jun 1, 2019 #
Event: Return to the Ridge
10 AM
Orienteering 1:25:51 [3] +189m
shoes: Icebugs
Charlie gave me a ride down to the Pound Ridge Reservation where we both did the Brown course on a dry, sunny, warm day. The woods on the north east part of the park were beautiful: open, good visibility, lots of good features.
I consider this endeavor a great success. I found all the controls. I finished a nominal 4.0km course in under 90 minutes. I remembered to punch the lap button on my watch at each control (how? I wore my SI on the same hand as my watch). I did not fall. My right hip and leg and ankle did not hurt at all. I took extra pause each leg to consider route and stay in contact with the map.
If I had a do-over: on #3 I would look around better at the knoll (I walked past the low hung control without seeing it); on #7 I would leave the east end of the wall between the marshes to go n.e. to the intermittent trail instead of skirting around the hill on its southern side.
Can't complain about being last in M70 when the only other contestants were PG and Walk.
Beyond the age & gender groups, I beat for the first time two rabbits I've tried for years to catch up to. Surely due to navigation because I'm not a runner.
My route.
I consider this endeavor a great success. I found all the controls. I finished a nominal 4.0km course in under 90 minutes. I remembered to punch the lap button on my watch at each control (how? I wore my SI on the same hand as my watch). I did not fall. My right hip and leg and ankle did not hurt at all. I took extra pause each leg to consider route and stay in contact with the map.
If I had a do-over: on #3 I would look around better at the knoll (I walked past the low hung control without seeing it); on #7 I would leave the east end of the wall between the marshes to go n.e. to the intermittent trail instead of skirting around the hill on its southern side.
Can't complain about being last in M70 when the only other contestants were PG and Walk.
Beyond the age & gender groups, I beat for the first time two rabbits I've tried for years to catch up to. Surely due to navigation because I'm not a runner.
My route.
Sunday May 26, 2019 #
Event: NEOC: Earl's Trails
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:23:14 [3] 4.02 km (20:43 / km) +151m 17:26 / km
shoes: Icebugs
Up to Earl's Trails with son David. We did the Brown Course separately, my giving him a two or three minute head start figuring I would never catch up to that former Army orientation trainer who is in good shape. Well, he's out of practice and I forgot to give him my O symbol sheet to refresh his recollection. Gave him my Garmin watch, but, not unlike me, he forgot to start it. For the first 6 of 8 controls I kept catching up to him as he hunted around the red circles.
I started off pretty well and efficiently found the first 6 controls.
I really blew it on #7 at the southern, bitter end of a rivulet. I passed "it" (more on that later) as I realized I was too close to the road and the noisy traffic. I turned around and there it was 20 meters away, right at the very end of "the" rivulet.
On to #8 not far away. Topography sort of fit the map, and I found a control on top of a beautiful, open spur. But it was #116, not #118 listed on the clue sheet. I wandered around an area that seemed to have more spurs than Manhattan has potholes. I finally decided to relocate to the west, find the n-s trail and reattack. Seemed forever before I climbed up to that trail. Well, turns out it was forever. Reattacked from the pool around which the trail skirts, shouldn't be hard or far. Well, another area of plentiful spurs. Finally stumbled upon #8, headed back to the trail and south to the finish.
Upon downloading I was told I was DNF. "Really? I know I was there - at the very tip of the rivulet!". The most accommodating official said he'd make the DNF disappear but we wouldn't know the time I was at #7.
So I get home, enter my GPX file into QR, and discover that indeed I never did find #7! I found another control (must be the only time on the course I failed to check the number) - one at the southern, bitter end of a rivulet. But about 180 meters n.n.e. of the real #7. Yikes! No wonder I floundered looking for #8.
So give me the DNF. And I apologize to that accommodating official: I was mistaken.
On my way from what I mistakenly thought was #7, I found Dave wandering around looking for #7. I told him go east about 70m. He says he finally found it but could not find #8 and bailed out to the Finish. Since he did not start the Garmin, we don't know if he found the real #7 or not.
My route.
I started off pretty well and efficiently found the first 6 controls.
I really blew it on #7 at the southern, bitter end of a rivulet. I passed "it" (more on that later) as I realized I was too close to the road and the noisy traffic. I turned around and there it was 20 meters away, right at the very end of "the" rivulet.
On to #8 not far away. Topography sort of fit the map, and I found a control on top of a beautiful, open spur. But it was #116, not #118 listed on the clue sheet. I wandered around an area that seemed to have more spurs than Manhattan has potholes. I finally decided to relocate to the west, find the n-s trail and reattack. Seemed forever before I climbed up to that trail. Well, turns out it was forever. Reattacked from the pool around which the trail skirts, shouldn't be hard or far. Well, another area of plentiful spurs. Finally stumbled upon #8, headed back to the trail and south to the finish.
Upon downloading I was told I was DNF. "Really? I know I was there - at the very tip of the rivulet!". The most accommodating official said he'd make the DNF disappear but we wouldn't know the time I was at #7.
So I get home, enter my GPX file into QR, and discover that indeed I never did find #7! I found another control (must be the only time on the course I failed to check the number) - one at the southern, bitter end of a rivulet. But about 180 meters n.n.e. of the real #7. Yikes! No wonder I floundered looking for #8.
So give me the DNF. And I apologize to that accommodating official: I was mistaken.
On my way from what I mistakenly thought was #7, I found Dave wandering around looking for #7. I told him go east about 70m. He says he finally found it but could not find #8 and bailed out to the Finish. Since he did not start the Garmin, we don't know if he found the real #7 or not.
My route.
