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Saturday Jun 9, 2018 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 58:56 *** 7.44 km (7:55 / km) +209m 6:57 / km
ahr:156 max:179 24c
RG
Ultimate-O middle at Peteris' Jack Creek map, which is a handful of miles up the road from the Teanaway/Lick Creek complex, but is considerably steeper and often junkier than those venues, though there are some areas of open, visible woods and of very open scattered trees - this variability no doubt a result of the vagaries of logging over the years.
The common theme of the day seemed to be difficulty in the control circle: the low-vis green areas combined with often diffuse hill-side contours often made spiking controls difficult. To wit: my worst control was 4, when I ran right by the feature (a rootstock along a ridge line) on the other side from the flag - though to be fair had I paid attention to the description I would've known it was on a rootstock and presumably saved myself 2min.
Excellent courses by Ott. Had a number of other bobbles as well, including 1 (bogged down in green), 9 (low), 11 (high), 13 (high), 14 (high), and 17 (route choice), so was surprised to end up just ahead of Graeme, Bonesaw, and Adam, though just behind Peteris. Naturally I blame this on him being the mapmaker - never mind that I helped with fieldchecking.
Ultimate-O middle at Peteris' Jack Creek map, which is a handful of miles up the road from the Teanaway/Lick Creek complex, but is considerably steeper and often junkier than those venues, though there are some areas of open, visible woods and of very open scattered trees - this variability no doubt a result of the vagaries of logging over the years.
The common theme of the day seemed to be difficulty in the control circle: the low-vis green areas combined with often diffuse hill-side contours often made spiking controls difficult. To wit: my worst control was 4, when I ran right by the feature (a rootstock along a ridge line) on the other side from the flag - though to be fair had I paid attention to the description I would've known it was on a rootstock and presumably saved myself 2min.
Excellent courses by Ott. Had a number of other bobbles as well, including 1 (bogged down in green), 9 (low), 11 (high), 13 (high), 14 (high), and 17 (route choice), so was surprised to end up just ahead of Graeme, Bonesaw, and Adam, though just behind Peteris. Naturally I blame this on him being the mapmaker - never mind that I helped with fieldchecking.
Running warm up/down 10:54 0.99 mi (11:01 / mi) +74m 8:56 / mi
ahr:106 max:135