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Saturday Mar 28, 2015 #
Run 30:00 [3]
shoes: XTalon212-1
Warm up and cool down
Orienteering 1:14:00 [3]
shoes: XTalon212-1
US Long champs, Bat Cave map, KY. Really looked forward to this.
Nothing surprising on warmup map - open, white, steep, well mapped rock. In hindsight, there was little to prepare us for the grotty parts to follow.
Steady to 1 and 2.
3 - light green began to become very slow, and missed the depression by about a minute. Drifted in. Looking back, the lower left route was faster but at the stage, did not have the info to judge that properly.
4,5 were awfully green and thorny with no obvious route choice - really no fun at all .
Spiked 6 but then the aversion to green dragged me off on the poor right route to 7, compounded by again missing a depression at the end by perhaps 2 minutes. Contoured in from solid AP but flag seemed 2 contours higher. Anyway, Looking back, the left route is both faster and safer but needed an immediate commitment to some green!
Amazing route choice to 8 - really slow - when it should be obvious that a flatter route to the far right was far better.
Ok through short legs at the end, and hoping for similar in the middle race tomorrow.
So probably 7 minutes off a clean run, and a couple more off a fast one. Looking holistically at the map, I have a lot of sympathy with the planner - difficult to thread a great course through it, but thought he did a good job.
Didn't stop to chat so not sure what ailed everyone else. Quads and shins cut to bits.
Well staged event , great weather, friendly, and parts were great underfoot.
Nothing surprising on warmup map - open, white, steep, well mapped rock. In hindsight, there was little to prepare us for the grotty parts to follow.
Steady to 1 and 2.
3 - light green began to become very slow, and missed the depression by about a minute. Drifted in. Looking back, the lower left route was faster but at the stage, did not have the info to judge that properly.
4,5 were awfully green and thorny with no obvious route choice - really no fun at all .
Spiked 6 but then the aversion to green dragged me off on the poor right route to 7, compounded by again missing a depression at the end by perhaps 2 minutes. Contoured in from solid AP but flag seemed 2 contours higher. Anyway, Looking back, the left route is both faster and safer but needed an immediate commitment to some green!
Amazing route choice to 8 - really slow - when it should be obvious that a flatter route to the far right was far better.
Ok through short legs at the end, and hoping for similar in the middle race tomorrow.
So probably 7 minutes off a clean run, and a couple more off a fast one. Looking holistically at the map, I have a lot of sympathy with the planner - difficult to thread a great course through it, but thought he did a good job.
Didn't stop to chat so not sure what ailed everyone else. Quads and shins cut to bits.
Well staged event , great weather, friendly, and parts were great underfoot.
Friday Mar 27, 2015 #
Run 30:00 [3]
shoes: ProGrid5 White /orange
Warm up and cool down at us sprint champs, morehead KY
Orienteering 23:00 [3]
shoes: ProGrid5 White /orange
Great to be on a sprint map after almost two years! Really clunky navigation and not moving fluently, but flowed well enough for the most part.
One big goof on leg 10, and I'd like to think it was a planning / mapping frailty not mine - anyway will see when i get the map back. Looked like a right/left choice - right is better but wait - there's a straighter wiggle through some uncrossables via some yellow. Big stone wall appears , turns out to be completely obscured by the zero-transparency overprint of the connecting line of a later leg. Lots of faffing - back out, in again, am I really here ? etc etc - somehow 2 mins binned. Lots of others lost time there.
Nice map and well presented event, though think planning could Have found more navigational challenge in 60% of distance in the rump of the map. Really enjoyed it though and interesting to visit backwoodsville KY - there must be THOUSANDS of equally good sprint areas in this country!
One big goof on leg 10, and I'd like to think it was a planning / mapping frailty not mine - anyway will see when i get the map back. Looked like a right/left choice - right is better but wait - there's a straighter wiggle through some uncrossables via some yellow. Big stone wall appears , turns out to be completely obscured by the zero-transparency overprint of the connecting line of a later leg. Lots of faffing - back out, in again, am I really here ? etc etc - somehow 2 mins binned. Lots of others lost time there.
Nice map and well presented event, though think planning could Have found more navigational challenge in 60% of distance in the rump of the map. Really enjoyed it though and interesting to visit backwoodsville KY - there must be THOUSANDS of equally good sprint areas in this country!
Wednesday Mar 25, 2015 #
Ride US 53:00 [3]
shoes: CAAD10
Z2 easy - deliberate easy week.
Monday Mar 23, 2015 #
Ride US 33:00 [3]
shoes: FORT TT
Very easy leg spin - zone 0.9673
S & C 10:00 [3]
Sunday Mar 22, 2015 #
Ride US 5:53:00 [3]
shoes: CAAD10
Short route to Henricus - across the appomatox, back via Pocahontas.
Legs feeling great, and shoulders no worse than shorter distance last week.
Legs feeling great, and shoulders no worse than shorter distance last week.