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Thursday Nov 26, 2015 #
7 PM
Run ((orienteering)) 22:00 [3] *** 2.4 km (9:10 / km) +90m 7:43 / km
spiked:7/9c
Club training near Bekkestua. This wasn't exactly a Halden Onsdagsnatt, but it was my first experience of Nordic night orienteering, on a map which was partly open and partly a patch of forest a few hundred metres across. Complex relay format with teams of three and two runners out at once (most of the time) - I was in a team with two juniors of 16 or so (one boy, one girl).
Took most of the first leg to work out what I was doing, then did OK with one exception - but it was a significant exception. At 4, I didn't see the marker (the controls were reflectors and this one was hanging on the other side of the tree); I didn't have the confidence to be sure I was in the right spot and convinced myself I was on the next knoll 100 metres down the hill, losing 2-3 minutes in the process.
One lesson: just because everything else is frozen doesn't mean that marshes are.
Took most of the first leg to work out what I was doing, then did OK with one exception - but it was a significant exception. At 4, I didn't see the marker (the controls were reflectors and this one was hanging on the other side of the tree); I didn't have the confidence to be sure I was in the right spot and convinced myself I was on the next knoll 100 metres down the hill, losing 2-3 minutes in the process.
One lesson: just because everything else is frozen doesn't mean that marshes are.
Run ((orienteering)) 8:00 [4] *** 1.3 km (6:09 / km) +50m 5:10 / km
spiked:8/8c
Second leg of the relay. A mass start and all in the yellow, so much easier than the first leg. I thought there might have been forking but there didn't seem to be; dropped by the bunch out of the start (which I wasn't quite ready for), but picked off a few in the second half. Definitely more intense pace than first time round.