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Saturday Jul 22, 2006 #
Orienteering race 1:01:45 [4] **** 5.0 km (12:21 / km) +220m 10:07 / km
15c weight:68kg (injured) (sick) shoes: Standard White O-Shoes
Swiss O Week Day 6. Like the first day, the start (at 2600m) was much higher than the finish (at 2200m), and involved a gondola ride.
The first two controls were in a dense, steep boulder-field. Unfortuantely I overshot the second control, wasting 6.5 minutes searching too low for it. This was one of my costliest mistakes of the week. The next, long leg, involved a descent of over 150m; and most of the rest of the course, now in steep coniferous woodland, was also downhill - until near the end when it climbed again to the finish at Leisee. My only over mistakes were that I tended to end up too low for some controls, necessitating a tough climb up for 25m or so. I couldn't motivate myself to run at any speed up the final hill, even though it was the last day.
Thanks largely to the huge mistake at No. 2, this was my second worst day in terms of points scoring, but I enjoyed the terrain the most today - pleasant woodland and a technical boulderfield, and a race with a definite downhill theme to it.
Result: 645 points. 75th out of 111 finishers. Best split: 36th to No. 1.
The first two controls were in a dense, steep boulder-field. Unfortuantely I overshot the second control, wasting 6.5 minutes searching too low for it. This was one of my costliest mistakes of the week. The next, long leg, involved a descent of over 150m; and most of the rest of the course, now in steep coniferous woodland, was also downhill - until near the end when it climbed again to the finish at Leisee. My only over mistakes were that I tended to end up too low for some controls, necessitating a tough climb up for 25m or so. I couldn't motivate myself to run at any speed up the final hill, even though it was the last day.
Thanks largely to the huge mistake at No. 2, this was my second worst day in terms of points scoring, but I enjoyed the terrain the most today - pleasant woodland and a technical boulderfield, and a race with a definite downhill theme to it.
Result: 645 points. 75th out of 111 finishers. Best split: 36th to No. 1.