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Saturday Aug 8, 2015 #
Note
Glutton for punishment prize: the day after the WOC long final, Sabine Hauswirth (or possibly somebody masquerading as Sabine Hauswirth, although the time looks about what I'd expect) ran the last day of the 6-days - not in W21E, but in M21E. Would I be speculating wildly if I suggested that this participation might be the result of losing a bet at the WOC party last night?
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:23:25 [4] *** 7.6 km (10:59 / km) +330m 9:01 / km
spiked:19/21c
Finished off the 6-days on a fairly reasonable note as we headed onto yesterday's WOC terrain on the north side of the valley. It was still tough, but this time it was tough in an enjoyable sort of way - still lots of soft and sometimes uneven ground, but none of the clambering over and around windblown trees which added so much unpleasantness to yesterday (where windblow existed today, it was mapped as dark green and thus avoidable).
I still struggle to run properly in this terrain; I think some of it is about learning what sort of ground can be trusted and what sort can't, although I need much more strength in the terrain, too. That did improve a bit today and in the second half I was at least running moderate hills (if not the really steep ones). Happy with today as a technical performance - just one small overshoot at 8, and drifted and lost contact a bit on the long 11, but when I relocated it was with the happy realisation that I was a couple of hundred metres closer to the control than I thought I was.
Not sure what the winning times ended up being - it was high 60s when I left.
So ends the orienteering part of this trip - lots of tough terrain, some realisation that I'm not really up to dealing with such tough terrain well, and a bit of frustration as a result. Bendigo next Saturday will seem very different. In between now and then, there's some travelling around northern and western Scotland between now and departure on Thursday night, starting with a day trip to the Orkney Islands tomorrow. The first stage came with a car-versus-wildlife near miss, involving a small deer in what I would have considered the unlikely setting of the road just out of Wick.
I still struggle to run properly in this terrain; I think some of it is about learning what sort of ground can be trusted and what sort can't, although I need much more strength in the terrain, too. That did improve a bit today and in the second half I was at least running moderate hills (if not the really steep ones). Happy with today as a technical performance - just one small overshoot at 8, and drifted and lost contact a bit on the long 11, but when I relocated it was with the happy realisation that I was a couple of hundred metres closer to the control than I thought I was.
Not sure what the winning times ended up being - it was high 60s when I left.
So ends the orienteering part of this trip - lots of tough terrain, some realisation that I'm not really up to dealing with such tough terrain well, and a bit of frustration as a result. Bendigo next Saturday will seem very different. In between now and then, there's some travelling around northern and western Scotland between now and departure on Thursday night, starting with a day trip to the Orkney Islands tomorrow. The first stage came with a car-versus-wildlife near miss, involving a small deer in what I would have considered the unlikely setting of the road just out of Wick.