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Sunday Aug 6, 2017 #
Event: Canadian Championships Long
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:08:54 *** 6.7 km (10:17 / km) +170m 9:08 / km
ahr:137 max:160 spiked:14/15c shoes: Falcons 7
COC Long at Foley Mountain Conservation Area. Course 7 (5.9k, 160m). A really nice area with a variety of terrain and technical detail - and excellently mapped. Good course design, taking us through most of the areas and incorporating a 1.7k long leg. Not a lot of route choice for most of the legs but without many trails or big hills I can see the challenge. Rocky underfoot in lots of places.
I had a very good run. Lost a minute on #4 checking out a nearby knoll. Some hesitation on the long leg (#6) when things weren't making sense and I changed my plan by dropping to the stream with distinct (rock and contour) features which let me reestablish map contact and hit the control right on. Got lucky on #11 when things weren't matching but I stayed on my compass heading and a bag showed up with the right code on it. Placed 4th in M55+, 2min behind 2nd but 17min behind Ted de St, Croix in 1st. M45+ ran the same course - about 8 people faster than me in that class.
I had a very good run. Lost a minute on #4 checking out a nearby knoll. Some hesitation on the long leg (#6) when things weren't making sense and I changed my plan by dropping to the stream with distinct (rock and contour) features which let me reestablish map contact and hit the control right on. Got lucky on #11 when things weren't matching but I stayed on my compass heading and a bag showed up with the right code on it. Placed 4th in M55+, 2min behind 2nd but 17min behind Ted de St, Croix in 1st. M45+ ran the same course - about 8 people faster than me in that class.
Saturday Aug 5, 2017 #
12 PM
Orienteering race 41:26 **** 3.49 km (11:52 / km) +101m 10:22 / km
ahr:143 max:161 spiked:13/15c shoes: Falcons 7
Wednesday Aug 2, 2017 #
9 AM
Orienteering 1:35:28 *** 7.9 km (12:05 / km) +160m 10:58 / km
ahr:137 max:154 spiked:12/12c shoes: Falcons 7
Retr-O. Re-run of the first COC courses, held in 1968. Camp Fortune map in Gatineau Park. Black and white map, 1:20,000, 6m contours. Ran the Red course, which is the course run by the elite women. 6.1km straightline distance. Navigation mostly by trails, marshes and contours. Many features you'd expect to find on a "modern" orienteering map were not shown. Woods were summer green but not too thick with OK visibility. Somewhat rocky underfoot. Navigated pretty well, depending heavily on the compass. Found all the controls just about where I expected them. Biggest error was navigating to the Finish where I took a bit of a circuitous route. Warm with the temperature about 80F. Thanks to Gord Hunter, who was the primary organizer for the event.
Tuesday Aug 1, 2017 #
11 AM
Orienteering 1:55:17 ***** 8.05 km (14:20 / km) +22m 14:08 / km
ahr:110 max:132 16c shoes: Falcons 7
Playing in the Carp Barrens. Training event with about 30 points marked with mini-bags, so make your own course. Focused on reading features mostly at a walk/occasional jog and navigated to about 10 controls in the eastern part of the map (the "barrens"). Then visited another 5 or 6 in the western part as I headed back to the car (after running about a km along the road). Water level was high in the area, so extra bonus marshes were available for sloshing through.