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Sunday Nov 1, 2015 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 56:16 [4] *** 7.0 km (8:02 / km) +140m 7:18 / km
spiked:15/18c
Local Swiss event just north of Zurich, on an area unlike most I've seen before in Switzerland - the (slightly underestimated) advertised climb for the whole course was less than that in the first couple of controls last time I was in this part of the world. It was a flattish area, lots of tracks and lots of green, not yet in full winter mode so the green still meant something (often in European deciduous forests, the green can essentially be ignored in winter) - in particular, lots of brambles at ground level, not always reliably mapped.
My compass running in flat terrain wasn't very good today, but it didn't cost me as much as it might have on another day - indeed on 5, going out at 45 degrees in the wrong direction put me onto an alternative route choice which gave me my best split of the day. A bit wide on 8 and dropped 30 seconds or so, took what turned out to be a suboptimal route choice on 15, and then lost another 30 seconds or so on 16 - this didn't seem to be in the right place, but as it was on a "thicket" in an area of the map where there was no discernable relationship between the vegetation on the map and what was on the ground, it may well have been a mapping issue.
Ended up third in M40, although I think it was a fairly thin field (no names I recognised). Placing it in some perspective was that Markus Hotz, whom I've crossed paths with a bit in WMOCs, ran M21 and took six minutes longer to run 2.6km further.
Left the event a bit earlier than planned and got a train 30 minutes earlier than planned, which proved to be a bad move because it broke down and we had to wait for the next one an hour behind - yes, it does happen in Switzerland too. Now in Geneva.
My compass running in flat terrain wasn't very good today, but it didn't cost me as much as it might have on another day - indeed on 5, going out at 45 degrees in the wrong direction put me onto an alternative route choice which gave me my best split of the day. A bit wide on 8 and dropped 30 seconds or so, took what turned out to be a suboptimal route choice on 15, and then lost another 30 seconds or so on 16 - this didn't seem to be in the right place, but as it was on a "thicket" in an area of the map where there was no discernable relationship between the vegetation on the map and what was on the ground, it may well have been a mapping issue.
Ended up third in M40, although I think it was a fairly thin field (no names I recognised). Placing it in some perspective was that Markus Hotz, whom I've crossed paths with a bit in WMOCs, ran M21 and took six minutes longer to run 2.6km further.
Left the event a bit earlier than planned and got a train 30 minutes earlier than planned, which proved to be a bad move because it broke down and we had to wait for the next one an hour behind - yes, it does happen in Switzerland too. Now in Geneva.