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Thursday Mar 8, 2012 #
11 AM
Running 30:00 [1]
shoes: Mizuno Elixir (Nov 11)
7 PM
Running 20:00 [1]
shoes: VJ Bold (Oct 2011)
Orienteering 1:05:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Bold (Oct 2011)
Drove with Ola to the training after his exam, so we were running a bit late. I was navigating down some back roads to the parking location with his smart phone, and we took a wrong turn. We decided to stay on the road we took and just take a slightly longer way around. Around 10km later on this snowy logging road, almost to the point of meeting up with the proper route, the road was closed by a gate, and the road past it was not drive-able. Gah! So we had to turn around and we ended up being over an hour late to the training.
I might have left out the story above, except that I think it influenced the training session for me. The terrain was super subtle, and while the visibility and running was good for the most part, there were low lying spruce trees scattered in various places that really obstructed things. The marsh boundaries were really hard to see, and all of this combined at night made the map a whole lot harder than what it appears to be.
I think I lost at least a minute to most controls. It was really hard to see the control features, especially the boulders, even if you were only 10m away. Knowing that the features were hard to see, later on the course, it felt like you had gone far enough to the control and just couldn't see the control, but because it was night you actually hadn't gone far enough. You really needed a lot of confidence to spike the controls, which, after the ordeal of getting us lost on the way to the training, was definitely lacking.
Part 1: http://orienteering.ca/doma/show_map.php?user=robb...
Can't seem to get part 2, will try later.
I might have left out the story above, except that I think it influenced the training session for me. The terrain was super subtle, and while the visibility and running was good for the most part, there were low lying spruce trees scattered in various places that really obstructed things. The marsh boundaries were really hard to see, and all of this combined at night made the map a whole lot harder than what it appears to be.
I think I lost at least a minute to most controls. It was really hard to see the control features, especially the boulders, even if you were only 10m away. Knowing that the features were hard to see, later on the course, it felt like you had gone far enough to the control and just couldn't see the control, but because it was night you actually hadn't gone far enough. You really needed a lot of confidence to spike the controls, which, after the ordeal of getting us lost on the way to the training, was definitely lacking.
Part 1: http://orienteering.ca/doma/show_map.php?user=robb...
Can't seem to get part 2, will try later.