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Sunday Oct 17, 2010 #
9 AM
Orienteering 1:20:00 [4]
shoes: Inov 8 oroc (july 10)
A really nice, crisp morning.
Although slower than yesterday, I'm much happier with this race, since I was very clean and in control for most of it. Up until control 13 I felt I was doing really well, but then blew it again on the slope to 13 and 14. I really suck at downhill/contouring legs, gotta figure it out. Lost upwards of 5min there.
After day 1, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to simplify the map in order to run fast in this terrain, as it seemed Ross and Sergei had figured out. Looking at the splits though I was still quite slow on day 2 on the long legs. I was running decently fast on those legs but I was pretty much checking off every hill and swamp the whole way, which is not the way to do it.
Wasn't fast enough on some of the other downhill legs (ex. 7) and the short legs (8,10,11,12). Was too conservative and should have attacked them more. On a positive note, I was strong on the uphills, and had the fastest split on the uphill slog to 18.
Forgot to bring a gel with me, don't know if it would have made a difference in the end or not.
Ended up in 3rd over the two days, which was surprising. Feel like I was more like the winner of the "strugglers' though, those of us behind Ross and Sergei.
Overall a really fun weekend on an amazing map. Would like to have another crack at it some time. Perfect Scandinavian terrain training I think.
Although slower than yesterday, I'm much happier with this race, since I was very clean and in control for most of it. Up until control 13 I felt I was doing really well, but then blew it again on the slope to 13 and 14. I really suck at downhill/contouring legs, gotta figure it out. Lost upwards of 5min there.
After day 1, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to simplify the map in order to run fast in this terrain, as it seemed Ross and Sergei had figured out. Looking at the splits though I was still quite slow on day 2 on the long legs. I was running decently fast on those legs but I was pretty much checking off every hill and swamp the whole way, which is not the way to do it.
Wasn't fast enough on some of the other downhill legs (ex. 7) and the short legs (8,10,11,12). Was too conservative and should have attacked them more. On a positive note, I was strong on the uphills, and had the fastest split on the uphill slog to 18.
Forgot to bring a gel with me, don't know if it would have made a difference in the end or not.
Ended up in 3rd over the two days, which was surprising. Feel like I was more like the winner of the "strugglers' though, those of us behind Ross and Sergei.
Overall a really fun weekend on an amazing map. Would like to have another crack at it some time. Perfect Scandinavian terrain training I think.
Running warm up/down 25:00 [1]
shoes: Inov 8 oroc (july 10)