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Tuesday Aug 10, 2010 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:28:45 [4] *** 8.8 km (10:05 / km) +390m 8:15 / km
spiked:20/25c
I hadn't originally planned to run today because I didn't think I'd be able to get back in time for an IOF meeting at 2 without my own transport, but in the end decided to take a punt on being able to find a ride (which I did, albeit through the thumb-at-carpark-exit method in the company of Sebba). Another nice area on the whole, almost subalpine in places, and a bit hillier than yesterday. Still struggling, though, with strength in the terrain - even at my current level of fitness I'd expect to be able to run a nine-contour hill early in the course on the harder ground at home without too much trouble - and felt as if I was really pussyfooting around on the steeper downhills. Tired in the last 20 minutes - back-to-back 90-minute races is a challenge in this terrain.
Technically it was a little better than yesterday with nothing bigger than 45 seconds or so, probably 2-3 minutes of mistakes all up, most of them in the second half of the course. The first error, at 6, was annoying - a pack went through me at 5 and I made the mistake of assuming they knew what they were doing. A little closer to the lead than yesterday but a couple of places further down.
The disappointment of the day was that I couldn't find a ride back from the IOF meeting to the long qualification and had to watch it on the internet like the rest of you. Still, there are bonuses to being an IOF delegate, one of them being a free meal tomorrow night at the expense of the Trondheim City Council (and a free meal in Norway, a country where even pizzas go for $40, is definitely not to be passed up).
Technically it was a little better than yesterday with nothing bigger than 45 seconds or so, probably 2-3 minutes of mistakes all up, most of them in the second half of the course. The first error, at 6, was annoying - a pack went through me at 5 and I made the mistake of assuming they knew what they were doing. A little closer to the lead than yesterday but a couple of places further down.
The disappointment of the day was that I couldn't find a ride back from the IOF meeting to the long qualification and had to watch it on the internet like the rest of you. Still, there are bonuses to being an IOF delegate, one of them being a free meal tomorrow night at the expense of the Trondheim City Council (and a free meal in Norway, a country where even pizzas go for $40, is definitely not to be passed up).