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Sunday Oct 9, 2011 #
9 AM
Orienteering 1:42:44 11.79 km (8:43 / km) +242m 7:54 / km
ahr:164 max:183 slept:5.0
Boulderdash Blue, Day 2: 9.4 km, 225m climb. I'm out of practice orienteering, and it showed today. After some excessive cheering and trash talking at the start (proxy Ross), I immediately made big mistakes on the first two controls. I need to have a better routine for warming up my brain and body and getting into an orienteering mindset. The vegetation was thick in many places today, with pine saplings and considerable deadfall. The terrain (and map) were vague in places, which made checking features off on routes difficult. At the beginning of the course, I was messy; at the end, I was sluggish.
Coming out of the start, I misjudged the reentrants I had passed through and stopped a spur too early. It took me two full minutes to piece together what had happened, and Clem passed me. The miss at 1 rattled me, and despite my best efforts to refocus, I missed 2, which was in a tricky shallow reentrant. I made a parallel error and lost eight minutes; I ended up relocating off the trails below two and reattacking from the south.
I was horrified and distraught after two huge mistakes, but I resolved to compose myself and clean up my running. I was very careful on the next controls, though I overshot the reentrant into cp 4 by about 45s. I was clean (albeit slow and careful) through 8, and passed at least one cadet. On 9, I made a foolish plan to attack from the south, and ended up overshooting and circling back through gross vegetation. Despite a foul mood and thick vegetation, I won the split to ten. I made small mistakes at 13, 15, and 18, but had a clean long leg into 19. I passed Kevin Culberg about 200m before the control, and pushed hard and accurately through 22. He passed me again before 23, and I had an uneventful finish.
I lacked the stamina to run hard for 103 minutes, particularly after the race yesterday and only five hours of sleep due to tedious A-meet tasks. I really started to slow down from control 16 to the end. My run was tolerable save for the disasters at 1 and 2. After the race, I went to lunch with Andrew, Clem, Brendan, Lori, and SGB and his parents.
Quickroute. Difficulty mapping track to controls suggests some minor distortion on the map.
Coming out of the start, I misjudged the reentrants I had passed through and stopped a spur too early. It took me two full minutes to piece together what had happened, and Clem passed me. The miss at 1 rattled me, and despite my best efforts to refocus, I missed 2, which was in a tricky shallow reentrant. I made a parallel error and lost eight minutes; I ended up relocating off the trails below two and reattacking from the south.
I was horrified and distraught after two huge mistakes, but I resolved to compose myself and clean up my running. I was very careful on the next controls, though I overshot the reentrant into cp 4 by about 45s. I was clean (albeit slow and careful) through 8, and passed at least one cadet. On 9, I made a foolish plan to attack from the south, and ended up overshooting and circling back through gross vegetation. Despite a foul mood and thick vegetation, I won the split to ten. I made small mistakes at 13, 15, and 18, but had a clean long leg into 19. I passed Kevin Culberg about 200m before the control, and pushed hard and accurately through 22. He passed me again before 23, and I had an uneventful finish.
I lacked the stamina to run hard for 103 minutes, particularly after the race yesterday and only five hours of sleep due to tedious A-meet tasks. I really started to slow down from control 16 to the end. My run was tolerable save for the disasters at 1 and 2. After the race, I went to lunch with Andrew, Clem, Brendan, Lori, and SGB and his parents.
Quickroute. Difficulty mapping track to controls suggests some minor distortion on the map.
Orienteering warm up/down 8:31 [1] 1.14 km (7:27 / km)
ahr:140 max:168 shoes: 201006 Inov-8 X-talon 212
Cool down. Fatigued. HR data looks spurious at the end; my effort was trivial.