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Sunday Oct 24, 2010 #
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11 AM
orienteering 49:50 3.24 mi (15:23 / mi) +453ft 13:35 / mi
ahr:151 max:183 shoes: x-talon 212 #2
Day 2 of the CSU/NEOC Fall Festival A meet.
Thought for the day -- I was dropping down the hill after #9, on my way to the last control, a good run almost finished, now just trying to hustle in to beat 50 minutes, when the thought popped into my mind: "You're not doing so bad for a 66-year-old." :-)
And in fact it was a pretty good run, just one miss at #3, dropped into the wrong reentrant but corrected properly. And the legs, while I wouldn't call them spry, were certainly better than a week ago when the feeling had just been of overwhelming fatigue. Today was definitely better -- the woods were slower, the visibility worse, and my per-km time was the same as last week at the champs.
Nice course by Dean Sturtevant. Several controls had downhill approaches through a bit of bland terrain, had to be on your toes. I managed all but #3 just fine.
And, on another subject, I'll add a suggestion for meet directors about something I've observed many times -- just because you are the meet director, that doesn't not mean that you need to be the emcee for the awards presentation. The task of the meet director is to get the right people for each job. And that goes for the awards presentation. Get someone comfortable speaking in public and let them do it. The participants will appreciate it.
Here's today's route.
Thought for the day -- I was dropping down the hill after #9, on my way to the last control, a good run almost finished, now just trying to hustle in to beat 50 minutes, when the thought popped into my mind: "You're not doing so bad for a 66-year-old." :-)
And in fact it was a pretty good run, just one miss at #3, dropped into the wrong reentrant but corrected properly. And the legs, while I wouldn't call them spry, were certainly better than a week ago when the feeling had just been of overwhelming fatigue. Today was definitely better -- the woods were slower, the visibility worse, and my per-km time was the same as last week at the champs.
Nice course by Dean Sturtevant. Several controls had downhill approaches through a bit of bland terrain, had to be on your toes. I managed all but #3 just fine.
And, on another subject, I'll add a suggestion for meet directors about something I've observed many times -- just because you are the meet director, that doesn't not mean that you need to be the emcee for the awards presentation. The task of the meet director is to get the right people for each job. And that goes for the awards presentation. Get someone comfortable speaking in public and let them do it. The participants will appreciate it.
Here's today's route.
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