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Wednesday Jul 29, 2015 #
10 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:18:39 [4] *** 7.4 km (10:38 / km) +320m 8:44 / km
spiked:12/14c
First WMOC long qualifier. A decent run in terms of finding the controls, apart from a frustrating one-minuter when I came in just below the third-last, but lacking in other areas which leaves me a little too close to the edge for comfort (23rd, with 26 to qualify). 27th is 8.30 away so as long as I don't do anything stupid tomorrow I should be OK, although I'd hope for something a bit more than barely qualifying, if only for a better starting position.
The main deficiencies today were insufficiently aggressive navigation - was very much going from feature to feature and not thinking far enough ahead - and, more pronounced, struggling to come to terms with the terrain. There were some very nice patches on the tops (the shorter courses spent most of their time here), much of it encountered on the two-kilometre first leg, but a lot of the map had shin-deep marsh-type vegetation even where there were no marshes, and I struggled to lift my legs enough to deal with those. Starting to lack a bit of strength later on, too.
Many, especially the early starters, will remember today for its foul weather - 11mm in two hours between 8 and 10 (not particularly well forecast) on top of heavy storms last night. This turned the forest even wetter than it already was and wasn't especially pleasant to be waiting around in, either. I was especially grateful for one of the perks of being a jury member - officials' parking which means I could park 400m from the arena (instead of 2k) and could thus use the car for gear storage, and only go up myself fairly close to my start time.
The main deficiencies today were insufficiently aggressive navigation - was very much going from feature to feature and not thinking far enough ahead - and, more pronounced, struggling to come to terms with the terrain. There were some very nice patches on the tops (the shorter courses spent most of their time here), much of it encountered on the two-kilometre first leg, but a lot of the map had shin-deep marsh-type vegetation even where there were no marshes, and I struggled to lift my legs enough to deal with those. Starting to lack a bit of strength later on, too.
Many, especially the early starters, will remember today for its foul weather - 11mm in two hours between 8 and 10 (not particularly well forecast) on top of heavy storms last night. This turned the forest even wetter than it already was and wasn't especially pleasant to be waiting around in, either. I was especially grateful for one of the perks of being a jury member - officials' parking which means I could park 400m from the arena (instead of 2k) and could thus use the car for gear storage, and only go up myself fairly close to my start time.