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Monday Aug 14, 2006 #
Event: US Night Champs
Hiking 2:30:00 [1] 8.0 mi (18:45 / mi)
slept:6.25
Hiked from Lake Marie in the Snowy Range, up the Medicine Bow Peak trail. We planned on going 1 hour up, max, but when we got to the hour mark, the peak seemed to be teasing us, so we kept going. 15 minutes later we saw the real peak in view (the first was false), so we decided to keep going - the peak turned out to be a little farther up: 1:28 in total. Zach and I stayed on the trail, but Nate scrambled up the last 100m or so to the actual peak. The trip down went quicker than expected - it didn't feel like an hour. A little over 1/3 of the way down, we ran into 5 Amish girls that we had passed coming up - they were planning to hike past the peak, down the other side, and around the lakes (a longer, but flatter return route). I suggested that they may want to just turn around - they had been out over 3 hours, so they were still probably 1.5 to the peak.
Hiking 10:00 [1]
After the main hike, we stopped down the road and had my first-ever August snowball fight (well, Zach nailed Nate from point blank). Can't believe that there could still be snow, with the sun beating down on it and the number of rain storms they get here.
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.73 mi (8:40 / mi)
5 minutes with Zach, then 10 before my start. My warm-down was limited to 5 minutes of walking after midnight.
Orienteering race 1:36:10 [4] *** 8.78 km (10:57 / km)
spiked:7/10c
US Night-O Champs on the Light of Cheyenne map outside of Laramie. BTW, I actually did see the light of Cheyenne (~40 miles away?) during the race.
I struggled on the first control. I got distracted by a green control (turns out it was their C2), and lost focus. I circled back to that control and it was obvious where it was, so I was able to get to C1. C2-C5 went quite smoothly. I actually led some people into some of those controls. I had a reasonable (although zig-zag) approach for C6, and it was going smoothly until the batteries in my light started to die. I had to change the batteries, which cost me time, and more importantly, focus. I recovered with a pretty clean C7, but C8 was a disaster - I tried to ignore others, since I took a different approach, but that backfired, since, in hindsight, there was a clear convergence going on. C9 was just tough going, but that was just a warm-up for the difficulty in leaving C9.
Nate finished 9 seconds out of first. His biggest regret was his hesitation in approaching the last control: he aimed right of the control to hit a fence, then went left, but had second-thoughts, and lost time. Zach was also 2nd - missing by 44 seconds, and was about 9 minutes behind the M-12 winner on White.
I struggled on the first control. I got distracted by a green control (turns out it was their C2), and lost focus. I circled back to that control and it was obvious where it was, so I was able to get to C1. C2-C5 went quite smoothly. I actually led some people into some of those controls. I had a reasonable (although zig-zag) approach for C6, and it was going smoothly until the batteries in my light started to die. I had to change the batteries, which cost me time, and more importantly, focus. I recovered with a pretty clean C7, but C8 was a disaster - I tried to ignore others, since I took a different approach, but that backfired, since, in hindsight, there was a clear convergence going on. C9 was just tough going, but that was just a warm-up for the difficulty in leaving C9.
Nate finished 9 seconds out of first. His biggest regret was his hesitation in approaching the last control: he aimed right of the control to hit a fence, then went left, but had second-thoughts, and lost time. Zach was also 2nd - missing by 44 seconds, and was about 9 minutes behind the M-12 winner on White.