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Sunday Sep 8, 2019 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 15:23 ** 3.05 km (5:02 / km) +47m 4:41 / km
ahr:159 max:181 22c
US Nationals Sprint. Ran a good race, just made one ~15s mistake on 5 when I didn't notice that there was a way through the building canopy and went around to the right instead. Tried to push when I could and just sneaked in for silver ahead of Jordan, some 25s behind Greg. Another unexpectedly good result and another medal!
Quite a claustrophobic little venue with the course bouncing around a very small area and not many open spaces with opportunities to push hard physically, which probably suited me. My strategy was to generally avoid the complicated stuff and not waste time worrying about levels, and default to taking simple, if longer, routes on the fast paths around/between the buildings (i.e. 6-7). Fortuitously for me, the course wasn't overly technical and didn't feature traps or tricky control locations; it turned out that if you spent time trying to be wary and read the weird level stuff, that time was mostly wasted, whereas if you just went to the center of the circle you'd see the flag.
Quite a claustrophobic little venue with the course bouncing around a very small area and not many open spaces with opportunities to push hard physically, which probably suited me. My strategy was to generally avoid the complicated stuff and not waste time worrying about levels, and default to taking simple, if longer, routes on the fast paths around/between the buildings (i.e. 6-7). Fortuitously for me, the course wasn't overly technical and didn't feature traps or tricky control locations; it turned out that if you spent time trying to be wary and read the weird level stuff, that time was mostly wasted, whereas if you just went to the center of the circle you'd see the flag.
1 PM
Orienteering race 20:00 4.0 km (5:00 / km) +27m 4:50 / km
ahr:171 max:181
Forgot to start watch at beginning so full distance/time close-ish
Sprint relay, anchor for one of Cascade's 4pt teams along with Siri and Peteris. They both did an awesome job and put me out in the lead, with Sergei Ryzhkov not far behind, no other teams close enough to factor. Navigated okay but had some troubles fumbling with flipping back and forth between the on-map-only control descriptions - in particular after 4 (the one on the bridge) for some reason it took me FOREVER to get my map situated and reoriented properly; this was where Sergei caught me. We were together, then he had a shorter forking at 6 and got ahead going into the butterflies. Figured I wouldn't see him again, but to my pleasant surprise he appeared right *behind* me at 17 after the long leg across the parking lots.
He had a better route to 18 (or maybe just ran faster) and punched first...then headed straight for the unmapped gap in the fence near 19. I was presented with an ethical dilemma - do the "right" thing by spending the time to legally go around, and lose the race because of it, do the "wrong" thing and follow him through the gap, but stay in the race, or do the even more wrong thing by doing the right thing and then protesting/being a jerk after the race. Clearly the third option is not an option; the first option also was unappetizing, so I took the second option with the justification that even if we both cheated, no other teams were negatively impacted and at least the race would be decided on even terms.
Anyway, so we were together again heading toward 20 and I was steeling myself for a h2h finish, but then we diverged, as it turned out there was one final forking before crossing the bridge, and he again had the shorter one, so got ahead for good. Let the team down by getting passed :(
Really fun event, thanks to Erin for putting it on, it seemed like pretty much singlehandedly.
Also of note: SIAC makes a big differencein a sprint all the time; Ryzhkov was getting time on me at every punch with his air vs. my non-air. Acquiring one of those asap.
Sprint relay, anchor for one of Cascade's 4pt teams along with Siri and Peteris. They both did an awesome job and put me out in the lead, with Sergei Ryzhkov not far behind, no other teams close enough to factor. Navigated okay but had some troubles fumbling with flipping back and forth between the on-map-only control descriptions - in particular after 4 (the one on the bridge) for some reason it took me FOREVER to get my map situated and reoriented properly; this was where Sergei caught me. We were together, then he had a shorter forking at 6 and got ahead going into the butterflies. Figured I wouldn't see him again, but to my pleasant surprise he appeared right *behind* me at 17 after the long leg across the parking lots.
He had a better route to 18 (or maybe just ran faster) and punched first...then headed straight for the unmapped gap in the fence near 19. I was presented with an ethical dilemma - do the "right" thing by spending the time to legally go around, and lose the race because of it, do the "wrong" thing and follow him through the gap, but stay in the race, or do the even more wrong thing by doing the right thing and then protesting/being a jerk after the race. Clearly the third option is not an option; the first option also was unappetizing, so I took the second option with the justification that even if we both cheated, no other teams were negatively impacted and at least the race would be decided on even terms.
Anyway, so we were together again heading toward 20 and I was steeling myself for a h2h finish, but then we diverged, as it turned out there was one final forking before crossing the bridge, and he again had the shorter one, so got ahead for good. Let the team down by getting passed :(
Really fun event, thanks to Erin for putting it on, it seemed like pretty much singlehandedly.
Also of note: SIAC makes a big difference
C • SIAC 13