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Saturday May 7, 2016 #
12 PM
Running warm up/down 2:32 0.54 km (4:44 / km) +3m 4:38 / km
ahr:151 max:163
Urban Orienteering race (Sprint) 14:42 **** 3.12 km (4:43 / km) +3m 4:42 / km
ahr:171 max:181 spiked:15/15c
Science City Race 1, Mens Vet / Women Open course.
4th / 50 in Mens Vets, 6/80 overall (Happy with that, 2 England International W21 in front is not that bad).
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Good course, kept me on my toes, lots of route choice legs in the Cambridge Science Park. A wobble of about 10s to the first control, then in control all the way. Was able to plan ahead mostly 2-3 legs, debating about which choice is better and most of the time made the right choice. Probably could have been shorter to 8 and 15, but the limiting factor in this race was mostly my legs. Not a surprise after the state they are in from the last few days and for some reason the shoe has pressed my right foot in a way that it was quite painful. Went away while running but came back after.
4th / 50 in Mens Vets, 6/80 overall (Happy with that, 2 England International W21 in front is not that bad).
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Good course, kept me on my toes, lots of route choice legs in the Cambridge Science Park. A wobble of about 10s to the first control, then in control all the way. Was able to plan ahead mostly 2-3 legs, debating about which choice is better and most of the time made the right choice. Probably could have been shorter to 8 and 15, but the limiting factor in this race was mostly my legs. Not a surprise after the state they are in from the last few days and for some reason the shoe has pressed my right foot in a way that it was quite painful. Went away while running but came back after.
Urban Orienteering race (Sprint) 16:19 **** 3.03 km (5:23 / km) +2m 5:22 / km
ahr:166 max:179 spiked:23/23c
Science City Race 2, North Cambridge Map, Course 2 (Mens Vets / Womens Open).
9th / 49 Mens Vets, 15th/78 overall.
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Much less happy about this. A totally different character sprint race than the 1st one. Well done for the planners as it is difficult to pull off in a sprint race, but they managed to do it. In this race, it was much less about route choice (most of the route variations I think were similar length), and much more about keeping good contact with the map in a very complex area with many twists and turns in both the route and the course.
I had to run a lot slower to not loose contact, which is clearly the area I need to improve upon. Nevertheless I had two small (to 3 and 8) and one larger wobbles (leg 10 where I ran past the control), all together about 40s, plus smaller losses with minor suboptimal route choices and waiting for people to punch ahead of me. It may seem small, but in fact in the overall results I was 1s behind 4th place, so it did matter!
It looks like I do need to work a lot on map simplification, looking at the splits this was clearly an area where some people are much better than me, as even without the 40s mistakes, relative to the other race, they had a better speed than me.
On the other hand it is also true that most people would have had a lot more rest between their two races, as having started at the back for race 1, I did not wait too long before going to the start for race 2. I did not feel that it would have inhibited my running, looking at the difference of the HR profile between race 1 and race 2 it clearly shows that I was running well within my capabilities on race 2. It may have influenced the freshness of my mind, though.
Good training as preparation for the British Sprint in a months time which was the reason I drove so far for this race, and it did not disappoint, well done organisers.
9th / 49 Mens Vets, 15th/78 overall.
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Much less happy about this. A totally different character sprint race than the 1st one. Well done for the planners as it is difficult to pull off in a sprint race, but they managed to do it. In this race, it was much less about route choice (most of the route variations I think were similar length), and much more about keeping good contact with the map in a very complex area with many twists and turns in both the route and the course.
I had to run a lot slower to not loose contact, which is clearly the area I need to improve upon. Nevertheless I had two small (to 3 and 8) and one larger wobbles (leg 10 where I ran past the control), all together about 40s, plus smaller losses with minor suboptimal route choices and waiting for people to punch ahead of me. It may seem small, but in fact in the overall results I was 1s behind 4th place, so it did matter!
It looks like I do need to work a lot on map simplification, looking at the splits this was clearly an area where some people are much better than me, as even without the 40s mistakes, relative to the other race, they had a better speed than me.
On the other hand it is also true that most people would have had a lot more rest between their two races, as having started at the back for race 1, I did not wait too long before going to the start for race 2. I did not feel that it would have inhibited my running, looking at the difference of the HR profile between race 1 and race 2 it clearly shows that I was running well within my capabilities on race 2. It may have influenced the freshness of my mind, though.
Good training as preparation for the British Sprint in a months time which was the reason I drove so far for this race, and it did not disappoint, well done organisers.