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Sunday Aug 2, 2015 #
10 AM
Running 8:40 [2] 1.0 mi (8:40 / mi) +10m 8:24 / mi
Orienteering race 1:42:09 [4] 7.3 mi (14:00 / mi) +115m 13:20 / mi
Achagor S6D Day 1 - M21L, 77th
Standard crapness.
My initial reaction was I did alright on the first 10 and then it all fell apart, but the splits say I was pretty much hovering around my finishing position throughout, which was a surprise but the numbers don't lie.
Thought I was fairly slow and accurate through the first 8, using compass more than ever, even realised when I had gone off course to 7.
Dave caught me into 9, and followed him towards 10, but clocked he had drifted left and so I kept right.Feeling pleased with myself I was bemused then to find it was where I thought it was and so drifted and faffed around trying to work out where I was in relation to road.
Took a wrong turn on way to #11 and was too stubborn to back track so lost a lot more time here.
12 was quite good (35th quickest, amazing) managed to stay quite straight and hadn't been worn down by terrain and conditions.
But then went awol to 13 too far south and very rough to get back on track.
Too low to 15, though the map seemed dodgy here, and now the flies hit me, something I had never experienced before!
By this point the last thing I wanted was a long leg across stuff you can't run on, and it is these legs that make orienteering very un-fun but something about taking rough with smooth etc
Essentially walked it all with my map on my head to keep flies off.
17 was fine, but decided to take paths to 18 just to get legs going again, ran right up to control somehow didn't see it and looped around for a while before finding it where I originally thought it was.
Silly mistake to penultimate control too, but by this point I wasn't bothered.
Hard, I expected nothing less, and not downhearted by that, more by the fact the bits where I thought I was doing (relatively) well, I wasn't.
Onto the next one...
EDIT - GPS on RG doesn't look bad, maybe I'm just too slow in execution
Standard crapness.
My initial reaction was I did alright on the first 10 and then it all fell apart, but the splits say I was pretty much hovering around my finishing position throughout, which was a surprise but the numbers don't lie.
Thought I was fairly slow and accurate through the first 8, using compass more than ever, even realised when I had gone off course to 7.
Dave caught me into 9, and followed him towards 10, but clocked he had drifted left and so I kept right.Feeling pleased with myself I was bemused then to find it was where I thought it was and so drifted and faffed around trying to work out where I was in relation to road.
Took a wrong turn on way to #11 and was too stubborn to back track so lost a lot more time here.
12 was quite good (35th quickest, amazing) managed to stay quite straight and hadn't been worn down by terrain and conditions.
But then went awol to 13 too far south and very rough to get back on track.
Too low to 15, though the map seemed dodgy here, and now the flies hit me, something I had never experienced before!
By this point the last thing I wanted was a long leg across stuff you can't run on, and it is these legs that make orienteering very un-fun but something about taking rough with smooth etc
Essentially walked it all with my map on my head to keep flies off.
17 was fine, but decided to take paths to 18 just to get legs going again, ran right up to control somehow didn't see it and looped around for a while before finding it where I originally thought it was.
Silly mistake to penultimate control too, but by this point I wasn't bothered.
Hard, I expected nothing less, and not downhearted by that, more by the fact the bits where I thought I was doing (relatively) well, I wasn't.
Onto the next one...
EDIT - GPS on RG doesn't look bad, maybe I'm just too slow in execution