Training Archive: jwolffIn the 7 days ending 2007-06-17:
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Sunday Jun 17 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:54:00 [3] *** 11 km (10:22 / km) | |
| 2nd leg of Jukola. I assumed I would head out as about no 1000 and that with a normal run I would have the opportunity to lift 300 places or more. And I was right. However, my own race was far from normal, almost a complete disaster, if I can call anything normal after not having raced at all this year...
I tried to do my own race, but it proved to be difficult, with a hell of a lot of runners. I do not think I was overly arrogant in the beginning, but I must admit I had almost no map-contact going to the first post. Instead of doing the sensible thing, i.e. to immediately secure form the track 100 m after the post, I decided to run headlessly back and forth for a while until securing from the path and even going in the wrong direction to do so... On the second post I was in control but made last minute change to my route choice to avoid a green area. I ended up at the wrong forking and spent again to much time in relocating. Up to the third post, I passed someone asking for my control in English. I politely answered that it is straight ahead, as that was what I thought. However, I was slightly off track and misread a deep pit on the map for the small cliff I just passed. I turned for a post visited by a lot of people just to find it had the wrong code. My own post was just 20 m away but I headed back in the wrong direction until I got some sense in my navigation. After the first 3 posts I had lost something like 15-20 minutes and about 100 places. The rest of the course was far from perfect but doable. From the third TV I got to navigate more or less independently and that went OK! Maybe I should start practicing.... | ||
Saturday Jun 16 | ||
| Event: Jukola 2007 | ||