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Sunday Oct 25, 2015 #
10 AM
Orienteering (race/map walk blend :() 1:32:31 **** 8.48 km (10:55 / km) +276m 9:23 / km
spiked:6/16c shoes: Luath Blue XTalon 212s
Kentucky Adventure meet, Red Middle 5.8 km/210 m
Meet 24, course 36
platterpus set a nice set of challenges for the day. I wish I had really shown up. I didn't do well recovering from my errors today which tended to be compass/bearing leaving controls related. Major errors on 2, mispunched on 6 (punched 12 instead, the one stand I didn't check codes on because I was too annoyed; I actually felt lost on this leg!!), consequently my leg to 7 was bafflingly long (>2x what it should have been but I didn't understand why), and climbed the wrong spur on 8 (90 degree error again). By control 10, I had put myself on the ground >4 times, twice with old, unmapped fences that I didn't see, and turned my ankle in a hoof hole and face planted so I shut it down and walked some legs and ran a few others. I chose what seemed like a sensible route through 75 m of what was a wicked patch of very tall rough open that I thought should have had skeletons of those who did not quite make it to the mowed lawn at the campground cul-de-sac. Hammered through the finish in a many person 4th place tie to vent. cedarcreek let me know I mp'd (I didn't realize until then), I thanked him a bit snipily (for which I apologize) before moving on.
This race; my worst run since Happy Valley (thank god there was no knee-deep mud). I need to either stop trying to solve my recent issues to let them fix themselves or I need to fix them.
Ken, Bruce, and all of the OLOU/OCIN folks setup a very smoothly run set of races; a great weekend.
Meet 24, course 36
platterpus set a nice set of challenges for the day. I wish I had really shown up. I didn't do well recovering from my errors today which tended to be compass/bearing leaving controls related. Major errors on 2, mispunched on 6 (punched 12 instead, the one stand I didn't check codes on because I was too annoyed; I actually felt lost on this leg!!), consequently my leg to 7 was bafflingly long (>2x what it should have been but I didn't understand why), and climbed the wrong spur on 8 (90 degree error again). By control 10, I had put myself on the ground >4 times, twice with old, unmapped fences that I didn't see, and turned my ankle in a hoof hole and face planted so I shut it down and walked some legs and ran a few others. I chose what seemed like a sensible route through 75 m of what was a wicked patch of very tall rough open that I thought should have had skeletons of those who did not quite make it to the mowed lawn at the campground cul-de-sac. Hammered through the finish in a many person 4th place tie to vent. cedarcreek let me know I mp'd (I didn't realize until then), I thanked him a bit snipily (for which I apologize) before moving on.
This race; my worst run since Happy Valley (thank god there was no knee-deep mud). I need to either stop trying to solve my recent issues to let them fix themselves or I need to fix them.
Ken, Bruce, and all of the OLOU/OCIN folks setup a very smoothly run set of races; a great weekend.
Saturday Oct 24, 2015 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:36:06 *** 9.36 km (10:16 / km) +377m 8:33 / km
spiked:12/19c shoes: Luath Blue XTalon 212s
Kentucky Adventure meet, Red Long 7.1 km/240 m
Meet 24, course 35
Mostly a good day. I liked the terrain more than I thought I might have and was happy for most of my run. Two big errors 5,4 min and several smaller miscues (≤1 min ea). Biggest was a missed reentrant due to thinking I saw an earth bank that was probably not mappable. 2nd was an egregious 90 degree error out an incorrect spur. Compass problems all weekend; worse on the 2nd day. I was really pleased that the weather held off until control pickup.
Meet 24, course 35
Mostly a good day. I liked the terrain more than I thought I might have and was happy for most of my run. Two big errors 5,4 min and several smaller miscues (≤1 min ea). Biggest was a missed reentrant due to thinking I saw an earth bank that was probably not mappable. 2nd was an egregious 90 degree error out an incorrect spur. Compass problems all weekend; worse on the 2nd day. I was really pleased that the weather held off until control pickup.
3 PM
Control clearing/setup 30:00 [2] 1.5 km (20:00 / km) +75m 16:00 / km
shoes: Luath Blue XTalon 212s
cleared up 8 or 9 bags from the course in a light rain with Aragorn. Peaceful.
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015 #
Stretching 14:00 [1]
stretching and some Russian twists (core)
6 PM
Road running 1:13:00 9.06 mi (8:03 / mi) +11m 8:01 / mi
shoes: Saucony Guide 8
About as beautiful a night as I could ask for alas I wasn't feeling it before I started. Thought I might go for just 5 miles total but the first two miles felt so good I set my out-and-back turnaround at 4.5 miles (rather than 5). This turned out to be lucky because the last mile was not feeling nearly as good. Best long run in a while!