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Saturday May 13, 2017 #
Event: Southdowns Weekend
1 PM
Orienteering race 40:56 ** 6.3 km (6:30 / km) +97m 6:02 / km
ahr:173 max:185 spiked:18/18c shoes: VJ Integrator 2017
West Sussex Orienteering Weekend - Angmering Park, Middle Distance, Brown course.
Very tentative with my knee after only a day+ of taking Ibuprofain for my suspected knee inflammation. Knee mostly held up but I was quite careful especially with the uneven ground through the brashings and the NE area with a steep slope where the control was actually below uneven ground that was covered with undergrowth... Knee alert.
That said, only made a few actual errors, although most legs were simple, mainly compass bearing exercise (which I sometimes got right, sometimes not so much). I wasn't fast, however, and I think several times I took suboptimal micro route choices. I felt weak, not a surprise after recent weeks (lack of) training given my knee, I can imagine I lost quite some time on the dead running leg across the fields, and the physically demanding areas.
Still quite surprised to only be 15th out of 40 something, though a lot of people were on 38-39 minutes so probably a lot of people ran fairly error-free on this rather simple course and 2 minutes would have meant a lot of places.
The top guys were just simply too fast.
Very tentative with my knee after only a day+ of taking Ibuprofain for my suspected knee inflammation. Knee mostly held up but I was quite careful especially with the uneven ground through the brashings and the NE area with a steep slope where the control was actually below uneven ground that was covered with undergrowth... Knee alert.
That said, only made a few actual errors, although most legs were simple, mainly compass bearing exercise (which I sometimes got right, sometimes not so much). I wasn't fast, however, and I think several times I took suboptimal micro route choices. I felt weak, not a surprise after recent weeks (lack of) training given my knee, I can imagine I lost quite some time on the dead running leg across the fields, and the physically demanding areas.
Still quite surprised to only be 15th out of 40 something, though a lot of people were on 38-39 minutes so probably a lot of people ran fairly error-free on this rather simple course and 2 minutes would have meant a lot of places.
The top guys were just simply too fast.
5 PM
Urban Orienteering race 30:49 *** 6.1 km (5:03 / km) +4m 5:02 / km
ahr:172 max:181 spiked:26/26c
Chichester Urban, Mens Vets.
Slow and started to feel my knees from about halfway. But clearly in an urban race I usually do around 4:45 average pace, this one over 5m without any big climbs so I wasn't just feeling it, there is evidence. Hopefully will get over this in a few weeks and then get back to shape over the summer.
Interesting area, shame about the variable quality of planning. Some really interesting and tricky legs but also some fairly substandard ones, notably two controls were just inviting people to commit rule violations (reaching over) when I think it wasn't really necessary to plan those controls/legs that way. Placing the controls in a slightly different location would have helped even if I am not convinced the legs were fully thought trough in any case. Quite a few dog legs.
Not many mistakes but one of them hurt quite a bit - I misread the control description on one where it wasn't clear which part of a fence/wall the control was supposed to be (I read another control's description) so duly went the wrong place and had to double back and run around.
No idea about the result because I left before the fast guys started to come back, but I imagine they would have been quite a bit faster.
Knee feeling quite a bit timid now after the race, hopefully, it will go by tomorrow - I have downgraded from Black to Blue with a hope that my knee will last that long. I'll only go if it isn't playing up in the morning.
Slow and started to feel my knees from about halfway. But clearly in an urban race I usually do around 4:45 average pace, this one over 5m without any big climbs so I wasn't just feeling it, there is evidence. Hopefully will get over this in a few weeks and then get back to shape over the summer.
Interesting area, shame about the variable quality of planning. Some really interesting and tricky legs but also some fairly substandard ones, notably two controls were just inviting people to commit rule violations (reaching over) when I think it wasn't really necessary to plan those controls/legs that way. Placing the controls in a slightly different location would have helped even if I am not convinced the legs were fully thought trough in any case. Quite a few dog legs.
Not many mistakes but one of them hurt quite a bit - I misread the control description on one where it wasn't clear which part of a fence/wall the control was supposed to be (I read another control's description) so duly went the wrong place and had to double back and run around.
No idea about the result because I left before the fast guys started to come back, but I imagine they would have been quite a bit faster.
Knee feeling quite a bit timid now after the race, hopefully, it will go by tomorrow - I have downgraded from Black to Blue with a hope that my knee will last that long. I'll only go if it isn't playing up in the morning.