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Sunday Sep 29, 2013 #
9 AM
Orienteering (Brescia House School) 22:23 [4] 3.7 km (6:03 / km)
(sick) shoes: Salomon 3D S-Lab Red #4
Feeling better after this flu.
Started off well. No problems on the Cottesmore Park map, also managing not to step in any rivers or marsh (didn't smell too good). Felt the flu and body lethargy going up the hill to #10 where I probably wasn't even doing 6:30 pace. Map changeover at #10 to Bresia House. Nice planning through here, but then it got a bit too easy from 13-18. No other problems, but a few nice challenging last 3 controls.
Overall a horrific time, probably about 5 mins down on Michael. Hoping this flu is a once off and not a resurgence of the Lepto bug.
Body is very sore after the run, so probably not recovered. :-(
Started off well. No problems on the Cottesmore Park map, also managing not to step in any rivers or marsh (didn't smell too good). Felt the flu and body lethargy going up the hill to #10 where I probably wasn't even doing 6:30 pace. Map changeover at #10 to Bresia House. Nice planning through here, but then it got a bit too easy from 13-18. No other problems, but a few nice challenging last 3 controls.
Overall a horrific time, probably about 5 mins down on Michael. Hoping this flu is a once off and not a resurgence of the Lepto bug.
Body is very sore after the run, so probably not recovered. :-(
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 #
Note
(sick)
Was entered to run the Moonlight Night Trail Race at Big Red Barn, but have come down with a flu type thing. Had to watch from the sidelines for the 2ND TIME IN A ROW. Spectating is getting expensive.
Tuesday Sep 24, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (Hawequas) 18:20 [5] *** 2.9 km (6:19 / km) +90m 5:28 / km
13c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #2
Ran for ROC as 2nd leg runner behind Michele and ahead of Eugene.
Michele had a decent run, handing over to me in +/- 6th, at the back of a loose bunch. Managed to pick these teams off within the first 3 controls, moving up to 3rd. No problems on any of the controls despite some being nicely technical. Passed WITSOC for 2nd at about #7 then focused on extending the gap for Eugene. Eugene also had a good run and mantained the place. Unfortunately RACO were way too far ahead.
Bit of trouble at the end as I was DSQ'ed for 'cheating' by not punching the finish emit block before tagging Eugene in the change over (instead of the other way round). Honestly, if I'd seen the punch unit or remembered in time that we needed to punch, I would have. We appealed to the Jury and were reinstated (no flags on the control, nothing in final Bulletin or in official rules, nor any precedence as this has happened before with no blame on the competitor).
Anyway, another nice run and a very pleasing result.
Michele had a decent run, handing over to me in +/- 6th, at the back of a loose bunch. Managed to pick these teams off within the first 3 controls, moving up to 3rd. No problems on any of the controls despite some being nicely technical. Passed WITSOC for 2nd at about #7 then focused on extending the gap for Eugene. Eugene also had a good run and mantained the place. Unfortunately RACO were way too far ahead.
Bit of trouble at the end as I was DSQ'ed for 'cheating' by not punching the finish emit block before tagging Eugene in the change over (instead of the other way round). Honestly, if I'd seen the punch unit or remembered in time that we needed to punch, I would have. We appealed to the Jury and were reinstated (no flags on the control, nothing in final Bulletin or in official rules, nor any precedence as this has happened before with no blame on the competitor).
Anyway, another nice run and a very pleasing result.
Monday Sep 23, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race (Hawequas) 1:33:38 [5] *** 11.0 km (8:31 / km) +400m 7:12 / km
26c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #2
SA Long Distance Champs
A complete turnaround from yesterday. Still trying to find out where my run came from, maybe more motivation from running on a tough, challenging new map.
Had a moderate start. Slow to #1 as I didn't like the map. Still getting into it to #2 and 3. Michael started 3 mins ahead, but I saw him coming into the control behind me here. This was big motivation and I promptly got a best split to #4 before he ran away from me up the hill to 5,6,7. Another fair leg to 8 (but don't know why no-one is faster?), then a struggle up to #9.
I had a good long leg, probably one of the nicest ones I've ever seen in SA. Got the route choice mostly right, but maybe should have attacked the control from below. Got a nice surpise when I saw Michael and Cobus leaving the control, and then a huge surprise when I saw Eugene (3m behind) entering the control as I was leaving. Super-motivated at this stage as 'race-on' flashed through my brain.
Ran with Cobus and Michael through 11 & 12, but then something went wrong to #13. We made a perfect parallel error, crossing a road 100m out of place on a wrong bend. (I blame Michael who was leading ;-) however I also wasn't following on the map well enough). Took about 4 mins to recover by which time I'd seen Eugene leaving the area.
I took a different route choice from the other out of 13 (back onto the road and around the rocky terrain) which allowed me to drop the other 2. Good to 14 and 15, where I caught Eugene. Ran behind him to 16 and 17, where Michael crossed the gap, then all 3 together to 18 & 19.
Tried to push hard on this long leg, as I knew I could medal. Eugene started to suffer and Michael was also weak for most of the leg, only pulling away towards the end. Was a bit lucky to have someone to guide me into 20, as once again the map didn't compute. Then okay to 21, 22, 23, where Eugene's elastic band on us finally snapped. I in turn lost sight of Michael going to 24, but he popped out of the bushes at #25. I thus attacked the control too early, loosing a bit more time before the finish.
Came in in 2nd place, just 3 mins down on Tim. Eugene lost lots of time in the last 1.3km and only finished 3.5 min after I did, so he took 3rd.
Nice to finally have a good Champs result this year.
A complete turnaround from yesterday. Still trying to find out where my run came from, maybe more motivation from running on a tough, challenging new map.
Had a moderate start. Slow to #1 as I didn't like the map. Still getting into it to #2 and 3. Michael started 3 mins ahead, but I saw him coming into the control behind me here. This was big motivation and I promptly got a best split to #4 before he ran away from me up the hill to 5,6,7. Another fair leg to 8 (but don't know why no-one is faster?), then a struggle up to #9.
I had a good long leg, probably one of the nicest ones I've ever seen in SA. Got the route choice mostly right, but maybe should have attacked the control from below. Got a nice surpise when I saw Michael and Cobus leaving the control, and then a huge surprise when I saw Eugene (3m behind) entering the control as I was leaving. Super-motivated at this stage as 'race-on' flashed through my brain.
Ran with Cobus and Michael through 11 & 12, but then something went wrong to #13. We made a perfect parallel error, crossing a road 100m out of place on a wrong bend. (I blame Michael who was leading ;-) however I also wasn't following on the map well enough). Took about 4 mins to recover by which time I'd seen Eugene leaving the area.
I took a different route choice from the other out of 13 (back onto the road and around the rocky terrain) which allowed me to drop the other 2. Good to 14 and 15, where I caught Eugene. Ran behind him to 16 and 17, where Michael crossed the gap, then all 3 together to 18 & 19.
Tried to push hard on this long leg, as I knew I could medal. Eugene started to suffer and Michael was also weak for most of the leg, only pulling away towards the end. Was a bit lucky to have someone to guide me into 20, as once again the map didn't compute. Then okay to 21, 22, 23, where Eugene's elastic band on us finally snapped. I in turn lost sight of Michael going to 24, but he popped out of the bushes at #25. I thus attacked the control too early, loosing a bit more time before the finish.
Came in in 2nd place, just 3 mins down on Tim. Eugene lost lots of time in the last 1.3km and only finished 3.5 min after I did, so he took 3rd.
Nice to finally have a good Champs result this year.