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Sunday Jul 15, 2012 #
11 AM
Running 11:00 [1]
Orienteering race 57:47 [4]
Long qual - 17th
So not as good today, but not horribly horrible, just not quite enough.... probably a wrong route choice (should have gone around on trails, ended up in gross gross green stuff instead...) and one lost-the-little trail leg that ended me in a nasty field of brambles which I had to extricate myself from, and then didn't really figure things out on the far side quickly, had to relocate off of a different control in a depression. Very not good.
So in a way, I understand not making the final, just not a good enough race. Still, there is much better to get. Unsure how I'll do that, but well, guess the answer is always just more training. Perhaps more training specifically thinking about the skills that WOC terrain will require...
But that's for the future, now will get to run some spectator races, cheer on our middle guys and gals and then some R&R before the relay!
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Similar to Sam on the sprint, from WRE points, I would have made it in either other heat yesterday:
Women's Long WRE points of last qualifier:
Heat A - 1021
Heat B - 991
Heat C - 1071
I had 1044 WRE points yesterday, but in Heat C, which by this metric is the hardest heat. And Heat A will actually take down to 992 points, because of the mess-up of giving the last Russian an A map when she should have gotten a B map.
And by a cursory glance at splits, it does look like I lost the most time on the longish legs where I either took the wrong route or didn't execute my chosen route well enough. But there was also oodles of time just being leaked out the whole way agains the top girls. Especially surprised at some 40s gaps early on...
In spectator races, I'm going to run less safely, more aggressively, see if I can find ways to speed myself up in this terrain!
So not as good today, but not horribly horrible, just not quite enough.... probably a wrong route choice (should have gone around on trails, ended up in gross gross green stuff instead...) and one lost-the-little trail leg that ended me in a nasty field of brambles which I had to extricate myself from, and then didn't really figure things out on the far side quickly, had to relocate off of a different control in a depression. Very not good.
So in a way, I understand not making the final, just not a good enough race. Still, there is much better to get. Unsure how I'll do that, but well, guess the answer is always just more training. Perhaps more training specifically thinking about the skills that WOC terrain will require...
But that's for the future, now will get to run some spectator races, cheer on our middle guys and gals and then some R&R before the relay!
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Similar to Sam on the sprint, from WRE points, I would have made it in either other heat yesterday:
Women's Long WRE points of last qualifier:
Heat A - 1021
Heat B - 991
Heat C - 1071
I had 1044 WRE points yesterday, but in Heat C, which by this metric is the hardest heat. And Heat A will actually take down to 992 points, because of the mess-up of giving the last Russian an A map when she should have gotten a B map.
And by a cursory glance at splits, it does look like I lost the most time on the longish legs where I either took the wrong route or didn't execute my chosen route well enough. But there was also oodles of time just being leaked out the whole way agains the top girls. Especially surprised at some 40s gaps early on...
In spectator races, I'm going to run less safely, more aggressively, see if I can find ways to speed myself up in this terrain!
Running 10:00 [1]
Saturday Jul 14, 2012 #
8 AM
Running warm up/down 9:00
Drills 3:00 [1]
Running 9:00 [1]
Orienteering race 14:13 [4]
Sprint Qual - 3rd
Well, only half the battle, but this one went well! 3rd Despite the crazy multi-levelness of buildings, it actually wasn't that complicated. We kinda suppose they wanted to make sure all was safe from protest, given this is a qual and all.
So I ran strong, kept in tune with the map just fine, and kept intersecting the Swiss woman (Rahel) who started at the same time as me, so about 2/3 of the way through I figured I was doing a good job and didn't need to absolutely kill the open running legs. Luckily this was the right call, as 3rd is way fine enough for qualifying and was only 5s behind the winner.
Still, none of the most famously fast names in my heat, so will need more speed for the final for sure. It's also more hilly and should feature a bit different style of sprint orienteering. The same plan will basically be in action, actively read map, read CDs that are ambiguous, no assumptions. Will also be looking out for uncrossable fences, it does look like there might be a few of those...
Well, only half the battle, but this one went well! 3rd Despite the crazy multi-levelness of buildings, it actually wasn't that complicated. We kinda suppose they wanted to make sure all was safe from protest, given this is a qual and all.
So I ran strong, kept in tune with the map just fine, and kept intersecting the Swiss woman (Rahel) who started at the same time as me, so about 2/3 of the way through I figured I was doing a good job and didn't need to absolutely kill the open running legs. Luckily this was the right call, as 3rd is way fine enough for qualifying and was only 5s behind the winner.
Still, none of the most famously fast names in my heat, so will need more speed for the final for sure. It's also more hilly and should feature a bit different style of sprint orienteering. The same plan will basically be in action, actively read map, read CDs that are ambiguous, no assumptions. Will also be looking out for uncrossable fences, it does look like there might be a few of those...
C • Yup 14
Running warm up/down 10:00
4 PM
Running warm up/down 10:00
Drills 5:00 [1]
Running 8:00 [1]
Orienteering 17:47 [4]
19c
Sprint Final - 20th!
Oh my gosh was that harder orienteering! Tiny little passageways and staircases and walls and just everything to worry about.... you really had to plan the full leg ahead to make sure there wasn't a dead end the way you started heading. And then there were route choices a plenty, usually at least a left and right...
I felt just flustered from the start, I didn't feel that nervous or anything, but it threw me that the route to the start actually did a U-turn or two. I didn't have a strong sense of direction by the time I actually got to the start, and then I made the wrong choice, to head up more stairs as opposed to up the grass slope and then I also went by the control. *Not* a good start! Still felt a bit rusty/not into it to 2 and 3, but was starting to feel better heading down in to the spectator (#8), except for one narrow bit where a lot of people cheering kinda made me unaware for a crucial sec... this sprinting with spectators bit is different!!
Then headed up the hill, and hm, Anna Margarthe Hausken was just leaving the control as I came into it, had obviously gained on her - cool! I frequently saw her ahead to the next few controls, sometimes was chasing her down, but then she'd take a different route and nope, wouldn't see her until next control. #14 was a tough one to just find a route to - I don't think mine was ideal, but it worked. I think heading immediately down, then up on the road and left into the general area is the best option.
Right towards the end, Simone caught me, and I got to have a battle with her over the last 3 controls (I could keep up, woo!). But we both messed up #17! My attack was a broad road to the left, then to take the next little passageway. But Simone took the big road. I waited a bit longer, then tried to turn down something that looked like a passageway, no dice, door. I looked down, saw no obvious passage, so decided Simone must have been right and started back up, just as she was actually heading down at me, and then we did find the right passageway. A second little fluster to the GO control, which wasn't quite visible amongst people, she recovered better and so was just a bit ahead down the finish chute. Finishing behind a winning Simone means you get clocked on the head with mini Swiss flags... =)
Oh my gosh was that harder orienteering! Tiny little passageways and staircases and walls and just everything to worry about.... you really had to plan the full leg ahead to make sure there wasn't a dead end the way you started heading. And then there were route choices a plenty, usually at least a left and right...
I felt just flustered from the start, I didn't feel that nervous or anything, but it threw me that the route to the start actually did a U-turn or two. I didn't have a strong sense of direction by the time I actually got to the start, and then I made the wrong choice, to head up more stairs as opposed to up the grass slope and then I also went by the control. *Not* a good start! Still felt a bit rusty/not into it to 2 and 3, but was starting to feel better heading down in to the spectator (#8), except for one narrow bit where a lot of people cheering kinda made me unaware for a crucial sec... this sprinting with spectators bit is different!!
Then headed up the hill, and hm, Anna Margarthe Hausken was just leaving the control as I came into it, had obviously gained on her - cool! I frequently saw her ahead to the next few controls, sometimes was chasing her down, but then she'd take a different route and nope, wouldn't see her until next control. #14 was a tough one to just find a route to - I don't think mine was ideal, but it worked. I think heading immediately down, then up on the road and left into the general area is the best option.
Right towards the end, Simone caught me, and I got to have a battle with her over the last 3 controls (I could keep up, woo!). But we both messed up #17! My attack was a broad road to the left, then to take the next little passageway. But Simone took the big road. I waited a bit longer, then tried to turn down something that looked like a passageway, no dice, door. I looked down, saw no obvious passage, so decided Simone must have been right and started back up, just as she was actually heading down at me, and then we did find the right passageway. A second little fluster to the GO control, which wasn't quite visible amongst people, she recovered better and so was just a bit ahead down the finish chute. Finishing behind a winning Simone means you get clocked on the head with mini Swiss flags... =)
Running 10:00
Warm down, and now time to recover the legs for tomorrow's long qual!
Friday Jul 13, 2012 #
7 AM
Running 3:00 [1]
Jogged with Cristina over to the start of Lausanne Cité, one of the training sprints. It's not supposed to be particularly relevant to the sprints tomorrow, but it's the right scale, and can still practice CD reading and not falling into traps!
Orienteering 25:00 [2]
Spaced out on bringing Ross's Garmin (he is a trusting individual, to leave me with his, since I left mine in Basel... but I really am not going to lose it!), so this is a time estimate.
Mostly went well, got caught along with everyone else by the tram station at 4, jeeze louise was that hard to read it would be way up there! Imperfect but ok route to 6, also 10 I think. 15 was hard to know what was going on from just seeing the map, but once you got there, was obvious it was lower and you could quickly use stairs around for a fairly equal route choice, even if you did realize from the beginning.
It got a bit easier towards the end, but unstandard road intersections meant I messed one up to 18, happy I recovered quickly, but unhappy I made the mistake in the first place.
Hoping to run a bit more cleanly tomorrow. Being focused and running fast should happen without too much thought, as a big race will bring the fire to the legs and the attention to the brain.
The things I would like to think about are 1) to identify early on, certainly before any irrecoverable decisions if anything is a 'trap' and 2) to read the control descriptions well. I actually don't intend to read all CDs, any thing on a tree or a building corner when there is nothing else in the circle are not needed. But anything with any possibility of confusion, yes, must read!!
2106/2000
Mostly went well, got caught along with everyone else by the tram station at 4, jeeze louise was that hard to read it would be way up there! Imperfect but ok route to 6, also 10 I think. 15 was hard to know what was going on from just seeing the map, but once you got there, was obvious it was lower and you could quickly use stairs around for a fairly equal route choice, even if you did realize from the beginning.
It got a bit easier towards the end, but unstandard road intersections meant I messed one up to 18, happy I recovered quickly, but unhappy I made the mistake in the first place.
Hoping to run a bit more cleanly tomorrow. Being focused and running fast should happen without too much thought, as a big race will bring the fire to the legs and the attention to the brain.
The things I would like to think about are 1) to identify early on, certainly before any irrecoverable decisions if anything is a 'trap' and 2) to read the control descriptions well. I actually don't intend to read all CDs, any thing on a tree or a building corner when there is nothing else in the circle are not needed. But anything with any possibility of confusion, yes, must read!!
2106/2000
Thursday Jul 12, 2012 #
Orienteering 50:00 [3]
Long Model - Bois de Duin
Headed out with Sam, Eric and Eddie, and it turns out, it's same area as yesterday, but they updated the veg + trail mapping, so I was way, way more happy out there! Things that were nasty were mapped as such, ok, I can do that!
Start -> 43: Attacked off the trail by passing little trail on right and sensing hillside. Came upon boulder about right when I wanted to, but it was very invisible from more than a few meters away, so things may be 'hidden' like that even in white woods...
43 -> 49: Busted a move out to the big trail, then little trail, then a new little trail, then was pace counting to turn up, but actually saw the control first, and a bit higher than I expected.
49 -> 38: I ended up too far left the first time, saw control on thicket to my right, but wasn't happy that I drifted so much. I tried again and more or less the same. Looking at it now, I think the problem was sloppy line drawing-in, whoopsie.
38 -> 40: Ooh, scary one to do through the woods! Drifted left, placed myself in a little clearing that had an indistinct trail leaving, then continued on to my clearing.
40 -> 39: Plan was to stay in the woods, pushed out to trail, came in from far side.
39 -> 37: Off of trail bend, noting vague veg changes, spike, woo!
37 -> 35: Ug. Totally didn't find this one well. It was in Green, at the end of a trail. I went back and did it over twice, I think a problem was I wasn't reading the end of the yellow correctly, what I thought was end of yellow was actually light green. Safer would have been on trails to right...
35 -> 32: Turned off trail at boulders, spike!
32 -> 31: Well, easy from this direction, better shaped clearing than it was yesterday...
31-> 34: Aha! They also added a trail over the hill top yesterday that I was happy to use, this map is so many oodles better!
34 -> 33: Well, could see control from previous one, not so hard.
33 -> 36: Crashed through bushes, down to trail, then kept on the nose to pop off just at the reentrant, worked nicely, but maybe faster around on trail?
36 -> 48: Trail run mostly, cut off at end worked alrighty, came in slightly N of control, but on linear feature so fine.
48 -> 47: Oooh, pushed low, should have been more dedicated to compass. Saved by excellent visibility in that zone, but I can't count on that...
47 -> 44: Fine, rides added up to what I thought rides should be.
44 -> 46: Eric was cruising in the same direction, I followed for a bit, but then needed to keeping going a different way to get to my control, spiked!
46 -> 41: Ooh, Eric and Sam in view, are they going my way, another way? Felt the stress, kept it in check, did my thing effectively, which was to traverse some nastiness then got out to a trail, fought through more nastiness and then kep my patience to find control where I wanted. Maybe getting more used to 1:!5...
41 -> 42: Bash through nasty to get out to the big trail, turned off a bit early, but right at proper distance for control, so no prob finding.
42 -> 45: Used bearing and was happy to find the little barrier marking stones exactly where I wanted, again just kept going on my bearing until I basically fell through green on top of the control.
2084/2000
Headed out with Sam, Eric and Eddie, and it turns out, it's same area as yesterday, but they updated the veg + trail mapping, so I was way, way more happy out there! Things that were nasty were mapped as such, ok, I can do that!
Start -> 43: Attacked off the trail by passing little trail on right and sensing hillside. Came upon boulder about right when I wanted to, but it was very invisible from more than a few meters away, so things may be 'hidden' like that even in white woods...
43 -> 49: Busted a move out to the big trail, then little trail, then a new little trail, then was pace counting to turn up, but actually saw the control first, and a bit higher than I expected.
49 -> 38: I ended up too far left the first time, saw control on thicket to my right, but wasn't happy that I drifted so much. I tried again and more or less the same. Looking at it now, I think the problem was sloppy line drawing-in, whoopsie.
38 -> 40: Ooh, scary one to do through the woods! Drifted left, placed myself in a little clearing that had an indistinct trail leaving, then continued on to my clearing.
40 -> 39: Plan was to stay in the woods, pushed out to trail, came in from far side.
39 -> 37: Off of trail bend, noting vague veg changes, spike, woo!
37 -> 35: Ug. Totally didn't find this one well. It was in Green, at the end of a trail. I went back and did it over twice, I think a problem was I wasn't reading the end of the yellow correctly, what I thought was end of yellow was actually light green. Safer would have been on trails to right...
35 -> 32: Turned off trail at boulders, spike!
32 -> 31: Well, easy from this direction, better shaped clearing than it was yesterday...
31-> 34: Aha! They also added a trail over the hill top yesterday that I was happy to use, this map is so many oodles better!
34 -> 33: Well, could see control from previous one, not so hard.
33 -> 36: Crashed through bushes, down to trail, then kept on the nose to pop off just at the reentrant, worked nicely, but maybe faster around on trail?
36 -> 48: Trail run mostly, cut off at end worked alrighty, came in slightly N of control, but on linear feature so fine.
48 -> 47: Oooh, pushed low, should have been more dedicated to compass. Saved by excellent visibility in that zone, but I can't count on that...
47 -> 44: Fine, rides added up to what I thought rides should be.
44 -> 46: Eric was cruising in the same direction, I followed for a bit, but then needed to keeping going a different way to get to my control, spiked!
46 -> 41: Ooh, Eric and Sam in view, are they going my way, another way? Felt the stress, kept it in check, did my thing effectively, which was to traverse some nastiness then got out to a trail, fought through more nastiness and then kep my patience to find control where I wanted. Maybe getting more used to 1:!5...
41 -> 42: Bash through nasty to get out to the big trail, turned off a bit early, but right at proper distance for control, so no prob finding.
42 -> 45: Used bearing and was happy to find the little barrier marking stones exactly where I wanted, again just kept going on my bearing until I basically fell through green on top of the control.
2084/2000
Wednesday Jul 11, 2012 #
Running 3:15 [1]
Jog to the start of the Women's Long training at Fermens.
Orienteering 1:03:00 [2] ***
13c
Long Distance training at Fermens
Hmm, well, we could say summer-woods. Full of brambles and nettles, particularly in rough open areas, jeez was that prickly to get through! The other problem I had was the extreme over-grown-ness of the little trails. Definitely to the point that they aren't as fast as the big trails and roads, but they can also be hard to follow sometimes... many of them don't seem to be normal hiking or biking trails but just forestry rides in various stages of filling back in.
Anyways, that is what it is, perhaps the model map will at least have those rough open areas marked as brashing-covered. That would be nice for route planning.
Start -> 1: On a compass, also following veg boundary to start. Popped over hill into reentrant, no control, panic! Scamper down to another control, look back up to where I was, and control was right there, behind a tree. Going to have confidence to really look for controls where they should be!
1 -> 2: Decided to bail out to road that the finish was on, then come up on little trail, then a ride to the control. But that was a really terrible little trail, ended up off of it more than once... Found control fine.
2 -> 3: Now this little trail was awesome! Took it down to big trail, then hopped through some not-terrible brashings to the meadow.
3 -> 4: Again, tried to use little trail to E of 3 to get to big trail. Despite the green all around, maybe not worth it to find the trail? Was hard to find and then hard to follow.
4 -> 7: Road run then picking out some veg changes to get to control.
7 -> 8: Used trails, but failed to end up at control while attempting to use veg features. Made myself repeat from last trail junction, using pace counting. Better. May have to do more pace counting here, otherwise APs from trails are rather sparse.
8 -> 9: Used huge (paved!) forest road on left. Would have been awesome to cruise on in a race. Went along ditch just 10m to the W, spiked end-of wet ditch control.
9 -> 10: More road running, I think quite good. Right around the control there was some gorgeous white woods. Mmmm
10 -> 19: Basically a trail right to it. Control quite hidden for being on the edge of a clearing.
19 -> 20: Yeah, cruise time! Over top of hill, because less downfall on some old ride that's not mapped.
20 -> 21: Fail #2 to find a boulder (first was 8). So I cut, basically right on line, verrified I was at trail bend, and continued on my bearing. The woods seemed thicker than white, but I just stopped to early, another 15 paces were needed. Perhaps a scale issue here.
21 -> 22: Eep, made a really bad cut through thickness and ended up on a way different part of trail than I thought, almost skipped 22 to do 23... but went back and made myself do it. Used wee stone markers on way in. Helped, but they aren't necessarily visible, only 0.3m off the ground?
22 -> 23: On bearing + pace counting, came out slightly right.
2065/2000
Hmm, well, we could say summer-woods. Full of brambles and nettles, particularly in rough open areas, jeez was that prickly to get through! The other problem I had was the extreme over-grown-ness of the little trails. Definitely to the point that they aren't as fast as the big trails and roads, but they can also be hard to follow sometimes... many of them don't seem to be normal hiking or biking trails but just forestry rides in various stages of filling back in.
Anyways, that is what it is, perhaps the model map will at least have those rough open areas marked as brashing-covered. That would be nice for route planning.
Start -> 1: On a compass, also following veg boundary to start. Popped over hill into reentrant, no control, panic! Scamper down to another control, look back up to where I was, and control was right there, behind a tree. Going to have confidence to really look for controls where they should be!
1 -> 2: Decided to bail out to road that the finish was on, then come up on little trail, then a ride to the control. But that was a really terrible little trail, ended up off of it more than once... Found control fine.
2 -> 3: Now this little trail was awesome! Took it down to big trail, then hopped through some not-terrible brashings to the meadow.
3 -> 4: Again, tried to use little trail to E of 3 to get to big trail. Despite the green all around, maybe not worth it to find the trail? Was hard to find and then hard to follow.
4 -> 7: Road run then picking out some veg changes to get to control.
7 -> 8: Used trails, but failed to end up at control while attempting to use veg features. Made myself repeat from last trail junction, using pace counting. Better. May have to do more pace counting here, otherwise APs from trails are rather sparse.
8 -> 9: Used huge (paved!) forest road on left. Would have been awesome to cruise on in a race. Went along ditch just 10m to the W, spiked end-of wet ditch control.
9 -> 10: More road running, I think quite good. Right around the control there was some gorgeous white woods. Mmmm
10 -> 19: Basically a trail right to it. Control quite hidden for being on the edge of a clearing.
19 -> 20: Yeah, cruise time! Over top of hill, because less downfall on some old ride that's not mapped.
20 -> 21: Fail #2 to find a boulder (first was 8). So I cut, basically right on line, verrified I was at trail bend, and continued on my bearing. The woods seemed thicker than white, but I just stopped to early, another 15 paces were needed. Perhaps a scale issue here.
21 -> 22: Eep, made a really bad cut through thickness and ended up on a way different part of trail than I thought, almost skipped 22 to do 23... but went back and made myself do it. Used wee stone markers on way in. Helped, but they aren't necessarily visible, only 0.3m off the ground?
22 -> 23: On bearing + pace counting, came out slightly right.
2065/2000
Tuesday Jul 10, 2012 #
Note
And I think another rest day. How decadent of me. =) But I figure it doesn't hurt to go into the model training of this week with some good solid rest behind me, esp with getting the jet lag on out of the system and all.
And one half of draft 2 of telescope proposal went out to co-Is yesterday, time to make that the full draft...
And one half of draft 2 of telescope proposal went out to co-Is yesterday, time to make that the full draft...
Monday Jul 9, 2012 #
Note
Rest day = work day in Heidelberg. Heading up to the astro institute shortly, must get a new draft of telescope proposal out to collaborators today!!