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Sunday Jun 22, 2014 #
Orienteering race 43:00 [5] *** 2.8 km (15:21 / km) +170m 11:47 / km
13c shoes: Icebug olx
Day 2 of Val Chisone 2-Day. This was a middle distance event at Pra Catinat, a high alpine forest between 1600-1700 meters elevation on the north side of Val Chisone, with a lot of open and semi-open land, good-looking woods with widely spaced trees, difficult footing, exceedingly steep hillsides, and cows. Spectacular weather for the day.
I think I handled the physical aspects of the terrain pretty well, but my technical orienteering left something to be desired. Not careful enough on the approaches, and a lot of time wasted looking for the controls as a result. The nature of the terrain made pace counting inaccurate. But somehow my combined time was good enough to come in first of 5 in M60. There was a nice award ceremony, and I got a bottle of wine, Dogliani, a regional specialty. Hope I can get it home intact.
The host club, Oricuneo, is small but earnest, fine folks, with a fair amount of English (I have zero Italian). They seemed delighted to have me there, lots of good-natured banter about international competition, urged me to come back in September for their next 2-cay competition, with one day in Italy and the other just across the border in France.
I think I handled the physical aspects of the terrain pretty well, but my technical orienteering left something to be desired. Not careful enough on the approaches, and a lot of time wasted looking for the controls as a result. The nature of the terrain made pace counting inaccurate. But somehow my combined time was good enough to come in first of 5 in M60. There was a nice award ceremony, and I got a bottle of wine, Dogliani, a regional specialty. Hope I can get it home intact.
The host club, Oricuneo, is small but earnest, fine folks, with a fair amount of English (I have zero Italian). They seemed delighted to have me there, lots of good-natured banter about international competition, urged me to come back in September for their next 2-cay competition, with one day in Italy and the other just across the border in France.
