Training Log Archive: AliC

Event: SMOC Chilson
 

Helped send people off for the first hour, good turnout on another awesomely nice day for orienteering!

SMOC Chilson - Barbara's Meet! (With vetting by Mark, mapping by Igor)

Good times, although I didn't run totally cleanly. 3 issues:

#1- I didn't see control at #6. Came around from the trail, was sure I was in the right reentrant, saw no flag. But it was up just a bit higher than I was expecting and on the far side of the reentrant. Circle slightly off.

#2- Bah! Totally botched trails! Thundered down from 6, just keeping vague sense of direction. Came out on a trail, decided I was north of junction and to go south. So did, ok, heading southish, should be ok. But then I came to a junction that didn't make total sense, oops, I'm *there*! Probably a quicker realization that otherwise even, since I set courses here in the fall... bad.

#3 - Number 12. Which, ok, isn't quite in the place indicated by control circle, but I can't pretend that was my problem. I sailed way past it, too far North. Thought I was on a good bearing, but must have been off by some 30 degrees, so that's definitely not good. Found far depressions in N-S reentrant before turning back.

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Controls:
#1 - Through #13, then around marsh.
#2 - Pretty straight on line, using trail from clearing at 2/3s of the way there.
#3 - Started on the ride for maybe 70m then up reentrant, popped out on ride and over mini-reentrant to the right one.
#4 - Wheee! This section was a blast to run through, pretty much on line, hitting saddle points, pop over to the control.
#5 - On line through the wiggly stuff, then right off the side to the lowlands where I picked off the squiggly reentrant full of water to tell me to definitely continue on.
#6 - Out from the lowlands, on the trail. The map probably says cut towards the end, but it looked thicker with green, so my tired-from-5k legs choose the trail. Went well until I couldn't see the control where I expected.
#7 - Aforementioned disaster out to trail, but then fine actually attacking, perhaps a little more tangled in green than necessary over the small green hill along the way.
#8 - Bashed through undergrowth and then splashed through the marsh. Was there a dry way to get there?
#9 - Splashed out from #8 and to trail, then attacked easily through the way I'd been fixing my trail mistake earlier. But I was a bit too far right, through necks of both double-depressions would have been more ideal, instead of south of the 2nd set.
#10 - Whee! Control pick! Direct.
#11 - Control pick #2, also went well, unsure about choice of a mini-short leg like this that goes through marked under growth.
#12 - Bah, aforementioned off-ness. Kept just searching too far left for some sign of reentrantness, but it was to my right!
#13 - Straight North, along fence, then trails, then in after the mini-swamp on left. Hesitation as I approached though, should have been more confident from the bigger hill. After all, had been there before!

Nice course, awesome little area!

C • I was dry to and after 8 (until 13) 5

C • trail junctions 1

And Orange, on tired legs. Maybe shouldn't have done this, actually, left patellar tendon is now really ouchie....

And control pickup of some fun controls. But, yeah, legs quite tired.