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Sunday Jul 6, 2014 #
Orienteering race (SW Sprint Champs Prologue) 19:23 [5] 2.6 km (7:27 / km)
Really bad.
1,2,3 fine, 4 confused by purple line so ran towards it; think that it was just emphasising the barrier. 20s.
7 - wrong tree; should've looked at gaps rather than trees. 10s.
8 - couldn't see fence gaps until really close up; should have compassed to where expected gap to be. As a result no idea which gap used; assumed S and it was actually N. Hence; looked N for control and was way off - literally more than 100m. Need to be way more confident than this about where I was. 1 min 30s.
9 - second disaster. Probably still a bit annoyed after 8. Should have taken easy route as same distance - note to self; do this in future. Missed path through woods, didn't check compass, punched control without checking code; assumed all was fine, came out in field - "errrm...something is wrong..."
Worked out where I was and went to control fine - via a different one which I also punched. Another 1 min 30s.
Rest broadly ok other than route choice; was quicker in every instance to use the closer path to control and not cut accross anything; even though distance quite a lot longer sometimes. Also slow on the runin since for some reason I was convinced I had to cross the [extremely busy] road, so spent a bit of time jogging along the side of it waiting for traffic, then saw the actual finish.
So easily 4 mins lost here; bit depressing; running was pretty good.
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/53582257...
1,2,3 fine, 4 confused by purple line so ran towards it; think that it was just emphasising the barrier. 20s.
7 - wrong tree; should've looked at gaps rather than trees. 10s.
8 - couldn't see fence gaps until really close up; should have compassed to where expected gap to be. As a result no idea which gap used; assumed S and it was actually N. Hence; looked N for control and was way off - literally more than 100m. Need to be way more confident than this about where I was. 1 min 30s.
9 - second disaster. Probably still a bit annoyed after 8. Should have taken easy route as same distance - note to self; do this in future. Missed path through woods, didn't check compass, punched control without checking code; assumed all was fine, came out in field - "errrm...something is wrong..."
Worked out where I was and went to control fine - via a different one which I also punched. Another 1 min 30s.
Rest broadly ok other than route choice; was quicker in every instance to use the closer path to control and not cut accross anything; even though distance quite a lot longer sometimes. Also slow on the runin since for some reason I was convinced I had to cross the [extremely busy] road, so spent a bit of time jogging along the side of it waiting for traffic, then saw the actual finish.
So easily 4 mins lost here; bit depressing; running was pretty good.
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/53582257...
Orienteering race (SW Sprint Champs Final) 19:16 [5] 2.6 km (7:25 / km)
1 - 10s lost since thought control on bench was start kite; and it was too close to actual veg boundary control for the rules - Adam did this too so it's an elite mistake and is therefore okay.
Not the best route choice to 6 although looking at it now, not as bad as I'd feared; probably only 15s in it.
8; coming out to the S would've been faster than wiggling around the earthbank to the N.
Missed obvious cut through to 9, probably another 10s although this happened because I was planning 10 which I did pretty well. Planned 11 successfully while implementing 10.
Possibly should've been planning 12 as this was another suboptimal choice although again there isn't that much in it.
Slow out of 13 worrying about if I'd missed a control - in my mind 12 and 13 were 3 controls...rest ok.
Only 45s or so down on Adam who made a few mistakes too; pleased to be 1s up on Jack Benham and half or minute or so up on Paul; but he wins overall as had a much better Prologue run.
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/53582262...
Not the best route choice to 6 although looking at it now, not as bad as I'd feared; probably only 15s in it.
8; coming out to the S would've been faster than wiggling around the earthbank to the N.
Missed obvious cut through to 9, probably another 10s although this happened because I was planning 10 which I did pretty well. Planned 11 successfully while implementing 10.
Possibly should've been planning 12 as this was another suboptimal choice although again there isn't that much in it.
Slow out of 13 worrying about if I'd missed a control - in my mind 12 and 13 were 3 controls...rest ok.
Only 45s or so down on Adam who made a few mistakes too; pleased to be 1s up on Jack Benham and half or minute or so up on Paul; but he wins overall as had a much better Prologue run.
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/53582262...