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Saturday May 17, 2014 #
Event: Sage Stomp
11 AM
Orienteering race 15:29 [5] ** 2.8 km (5:32 / km) +60m 5:00 / km
17c
Sage Stomp sprint! Tied for third with Speedy Canuck Graeme Rennie behind his fellow Speedy Canucks Will Critchley and Damian Konotopetz.
I had a largely clean but physically unremarkable race, as evidenced by the fact that every one of my splits was somewhere from third to seventh. Hopefully this was a product of having just finished a 3.5-hour drive 15 minutes before starting the course. I was within a minute of Canadian Will (there is also Junior Will) at the top, so that's cool.
I had a largely clean but physically unremarkable race, as evidenced by the fact that every one of my splits was somewhere from third to seventh. Hopefully this was a product of having just finished a 3.5-hour drive 15 minutes before starting the course. I was within a minute of Canadian Will (there is also Junior Will) at the top, so that's cool.
4 PM
Orienteering race 28:26 [5] *** 3.2 km (8:53 / km) +125m 7:26 / km
15c
Sage Stomp middle! Second place among a strong field. This was quite a technical area, with lots of smallish hilltops, some rock detail, and runnable woods of various densities. I was the last starter on Course 7, two minutes behind Nikolay, who I found at 2 and ran with for most of the course.
Side note - the map was extremely suspect in the area around the second control, and many people had big time loss here. There was an unmapped reentrant, and the correct reentrant was mapped poorly. I managed to come out of it with just a minute or so lost, as I managed to find the right reentrant reasonably well, but was somehow several contours low, which didn't make sense to me.
Some other problems with 6, 7, 11, and 13 - no major losses, but anywhere from 10-30s for each. These were mainly errors of contour interpretation and trying to read the map too quickly. I spent the last 80% of the course trying to run away from Nikolay, but each time I put space between us I made some mistake that allowed him to catch back up, which happened 3-4 times.
This course was fantastic practice for quick, pressurized map reading of detailed, technical terrain while moving at high speed - a combination of the attributes of a sprint and a middle. A sprinty middle! Or is it a middly sprint? I think we've invented a new O-discipline.
Side note - the map was extremely suspect in the area around the second control, and many people had big time loss here. There was an unmapped reentrant, and the correct reentrant was mapped poorly. I managed to come out of it with just a minute or so lost, as I managed to find the right reentrant reasonably well, but was somehow several contours low, which didn't make sense to me.
Some other problems with 6, 7, 11, and 13 - no major losses, but anywhere from 10-30s for each. These were mainly errors of contour interpretation and trying to read the map too quickly. I spent the last 80% of the course trying to run away from Nikolay, but each time I put space between us I made some mistake that allowed him to catch back up, which happened 3-4 times.
This course was fantastic practice for quick, pressurized map reading of detailed, technical terrain while moving at high speed - a combination of the attributes of a sprint and a middle. A sprinty middle! Or is it a middly sprint? I think we've invented a new O-discipline.