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Saturday May 26, 2012 #
Event: Western Mass 5-Day
10 AM
Orienteering 1:00:48 5.36 km (11:20 / km) +766ft 9:19 / km
ahr:163 max:187 spiked:14/17c
trying my actual age class, rather than letting time bring it to me. a good race would've been 45 minutes, a great one maybe 40
turns out it was Clem and Andy Strat with the tow rope out through 7, and Ken who I failed to follow out of 14.
1) easy enough
2) apparently screwed the bearing, and was trying to navigate by the terrain, unsuccessfully. got there just in time to get a tow though 7 by ken walker and balter
8) meh. ugly, two hesitations, but no catastrophe
9) crushed it. fifth best split, even with the big boys
10) pretty decent, could've been a little better at the ends, though.
11) got confused by a trail i wasn't expecting
12) slow and wandery
13) felt good about this one, kept moving up the hill and slicing off switchbacks, homed right into it
14) should've gone direct, instead of the trail
15) and boom. tried staying in contact with a faster runner and paid for it by losing contact with the map. thought i was in the wrong trail junction and what do you know, i couldn't make it work. found a spring eventually and put the leg to bed. surprised i only dropped two places.
16) with a 10 minute rest for my legs, i killed this one
17) and this one
turns out it was Clem and Andy Strat with the tow rope out through 7, and Ken who I failed to follow out of 14.
1) easy enough
2) apparently screwed the bearing, and was trying to navigate by the terrain, unsuccessfully. got there just in time to get a tow though 7 by ken walker and balter
8) meh. ugly, two hesitations, but no catastrophe
9) crushed it. fifth best split, even with the big boys
10) pretty decent, could've been a little better at the ends, though.
11) got confused by a trail i wasn't expecting
12) slow and wandery
13) felt good about this one, kept moving up the hill and slicing off switchbacks, homed right into it
14) should've gone direct, instead of the trail
15) and boom. tried staying in contact with a faster runner and paid for it by losing contact with the map. thought i was in the wrong trail junction and what do you know, i couldn't make it work. found a spring eventually and put the leg to bed. surprised i only dropped two places.
16) with a 10 minute rest for my legs, i killed this one
17) and this one
1 PM
Orienteering 37:34 3.79 km (9:54 / km) +567ft 8:04 / km
ahr:173 max:187 spiked:12/14c
My original plan was to do red for the first event, and green for the second - I was pretty tired after the first upgrade, so I stuck with the second half of the plan. Probably the best race I've had, and a solid sign to move up to red if I can keep it up. 56s behind tp and 34s behind BP - no wonder he left for MN.
1) second worst leg. left the final trail too early, and on a bad heading. luckily, two wrongs made a right, and eventually i got close enough to successfully match the terrain (1:00)
2) went tank-mode on the underbrush and aced this leg by 7s. going straight at it paid off with an early reveal 100m out.
3) clean
4) clean
5) clean
6) chose the brute-force-and-ignorance route over the top. seems to have been roughly equivalent to contouring.
7) decent - coulda been more precise on the initial approach
8) worst leg. still like the initial plan to take the trail around, but came off the trail waaaay too early. didn't realize how far i hadn't gone and looked north into a reentrant before turning south. when taking the bearing to 9 my intuition was off by 45 degrees, which was unusually high. (1:30
9) i thought i had done decently on this one, but AP says I lost 30s. must've had a case of the slows
10) nailed it
11) decent.
12) murdered this split. probably my best single split ever. aced it by 47s on some very competent competition. focus was anger-powered after the fustercluck on the analogous leg on blue. had a good plan, stayed in contact and kept the hammer down the entire time
13) kept it up for one more leg. then fumbled the punch. bah
14) and trotting on in.
1) second worst leg. left the final trail too early, and on a bad heading. luckily, two wrongs made a right, and eventually i got close enough to successfully match the terrain (1:00)
2) went tank-mode on the underbrush and aced this leg by 7s. going straight at it paid off with an early reveal 100m out.
3) clean
4) clean
5) clean
6) chose the brute-force-and-ignorance route over the top. seems to have been roughly equivalent to contouring.
7) decent - coulda been more precise on the initial approach
8) worst leg. still like the initial plan to take the trail around, but came off the trail waaaay too early. didn't realize how far i hadn't gone and looked north into a reentrant before turning south. when taking the bearing to 9 my intuition was off by 45 degrees, which was unusually high. (1:30
9) i thought i had done decently on this one, but AP says I lost 30s. must've had a case of the slows
10) nailed it
11) decent.
12) murdered this split. probably my best single split ever. aced it by 47s on some very competent competition. focus was anger-powered after the fustercluck on the analogous leg on blue. had a good plan, stayed in contact and kept the hammer down the entire time
13) kept it up for one more leg. then fumbled the punch. bah
14) and trotting on in.
4 PM
Orienteering 48:01 [0] 3.14 km (15:18 / km) +280ft 13:28 / km
spiked:9/10c
control pickin'. orienteering's way easier when the controls are <100m and you're walking. except for trying to move with a bouquet of 10 controls and a bag of water station trash. especially on that last one that i pooched. at a walk. got good at rotating the compass bezel with my teeth
5 PM
Orienteering 22:48 3.91 km (5:50 / km) +118ft 5:35 / km
ahr:168 max:180 spiked:18/19c
umass sprint - a little bit of a trundle for the longer ones, but consistent. first time i've felt like i've looked far enough ahead and moved through controls. one or two hiccups, though. indicated splits lag reality by 9-10s
1) sprint maps are small! 50s. seriously.
2) getting the hang of it
3) stairs and walls are tricky
4) and it takes some willpower to go down stairs before you're certain (20s)
5) easy enough
6) likewise
7) yup
8) read it as the wrong corner, but didn't commit to anything stupid before correcting. 15s
9) bam
10) bam
11) maybe shoulda come from the north?
12) yup
13) right next to the dumpster. on a hot day. thanks!
14) honestly, i forgot what white meant on the map. there were solid trails in there, though, which was nice. went way left, shooting at the wrong corner. (10s)
15) mmhmm
16) fun scooting down the alleyways. enough people went CCW around the building - i don't understand why. slightly more gradual elevation change, perhaps.
17) easy
18) into a wee pit
F) and home
i wonder if that lag accounts for the timing discrepancies. where's that thinking hat..
14)
1) sprint maps are small! 50s. seriously.
2) getting the hang of it
3) stairs and walls are tricky
4) and it takes some willpower to go down stairs before you're certain (20s)
5) easy enough
6) likewise
7) yup
8) read it as the wrong corner, but didn't commit to anything stupid before correcting. 15s
9) bam
10) bam
11) maybe shoulda come from the north?
12) yup
13) right next to the dumpster. on a hot day. thanks!
14) honestly, i forgot what white meant on the map. there were solid trails in there, though, which was nice. went way left, shooting at the wrong corner. (10s)
15) mmhmm
16) fun scooting down the alleyways. enough people went CCW around the building - i don't understand why. slightly more gradual elevation change, perhaps.
17) easy
18) into a wee pit
F) and home
i wonder if that lag accounts for the timing discrepancies. where's that thinking hat..
14)