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Wednesday Aug 2, 2017 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 1:33:29 **** 6.12 km (15:17 / km) +95m 14:11 / km
ahr:130 max:154 spiked:8/10c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Retro-O in Parc Gatineau at Camp Fortune. Re-run of the original COC courses from 1968...I did the women veterans' course, the "yellow" (like a modern green), 4.3 km, on a 1:20000 black and white map with 6m contours. With north lines about 45 degrees off vertical (angled left), something else to keep track of. Not all used features were actually mapped, but flags were in the circled locations (control descriptions were English only; international symbols came later).
Mostly sunny and humid; mid 70s to start but low 80s when we finished. I was soaked with sweat enough that the brim of my hat was dripping for most of the last half hour.
Started well, being careful to pace count as I went down the trail to where I wanted to leave it to attack, because of the 1:20000 scale. The marshes showed up right where I expected them to! #2 was reassuring, back to the trail and near a junction. Almost overshot my third control, the terrace, number 86, but saw a couple of people coming out of it so I checked where they came from. The only other control I messed up was near the end when I was running on a trail behind others and just needed to find a bridge, except I wasn't confident which trail we were on and explored some others which apparently aren't on the map (bike trails) for several minutes lost, I'm sure.
When I finally did see the bridge I didn't see the flag at first because several young boys were hanging out there and one was between me and flag, but then he moved. From there to the finish was a bit tricky finding the proper trail. I went up a hill on one with streamers (control descriptions said "150 m from last control to finish. No tapes") and there was the finish banner just ahead of me. Success!
I was in about 18th place overall on the course when we left with only a few more people out.
Because the original event here also apparently had a club team award, Gord encouraged clubs to put together their top three runners' times (as long as they met certain rules). Turns out EMPO (Janet Findlay, David Hunter, and me) were first club team, narrowly beating out Marion Owen's team from Calgary)! Janet and David certainly ran well on the yellow course; as for team times, my time was almost two minutes faster than Glen's (though he ran the longer "red" course).
Mostly sunny and humid; mid 70s to start but low 80s when we finished. I was soaked with sweat enough that the brim of my hat was dripping for most of the last half hour.
Started well, being careful to pace count as I went down the trail to where I wanted to leave it to attack, because of the 1:20000 scale. The marshes showed up right where I expected them to! #2 was reassuring, back to the trail and near a junction. Almost overshot my third control, the terrace, number 86, but saw a couple of people coming out of it so I checked where they came from. The only other control I messed up was near the end when I was running on a trail behind others and just needed to find a bridge, except I wasn't confident which trail we were on and explored some others which apparently aren't on the map (bike trails) for several minutes lost, I'm sure.
When I finally did see the bridge I didn't see the flag at first because several young boys were hanging out there and one was between me and flag, but then he moved. From there to the finish was a bit tricky finding the proper trail. I went up a hill on one with streamers (control descriptions said "150 m from last control to finish. No tapes") and there was the finish banner just ahead of me. Success!
I was in about 18th place overall on the course when we left with only a few more people out.
Because the original event here also apparently had a club team award, Gord encouraged clubs to put together their top three runners' times (as long as they met certain rules). Turns out EMPO (Janet Findlay, David Hunter, and me) were first club team, narrowly beating out Marion Owen's team from Calgary)! Janet and David certainly ran well on the yellow course; as for team times, my time was almost two minutes faster than Glen's (though he ran the longer "red" course).