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Saturday Apr 29, 2017 #
11 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:28:07 [4] *** 9.2 km (9:35 / km) +240m 8:28 / km
spiked:23/28c
WMOC long final, 17th. I'd have taken that result before the start of this week (and even more so before the start of last week) after a difficult summer; it wasn't a perfect run and I never felt especially sharp, but kept plugging away and the only major time loss was 90 seconds or so on the low-visibility 23 (a control which troubled others too, most notably Grant who thinks he lost 10 minutes there).
2 was a long leg largely on tracks which gave me a chance to plan and settle after a somewhat unconfident 1. In general I used tracks a lot, partly for safety, partly because, although the coastal macrocarpa was very open underneath, I expected that going up and down the dunes would be draining after a while. Eric went through me at 7 (a bit earlier than I'd expected, so he must have started well), then I started seeing a lot more people after 14 when we got into the area where people who started from start 2 went (tried not to get rattled by the proportion of them who were running faster than me). The train went through me at 18 but this one definitely wasn't stopping at my station (contained three coming from behind me, plus the fast-but-erratic Swede who started two minutes before me whom I must have gone through at some stage, and I seemed to be tiring a bit in the last 20 minutes.
Probably couldn't have got above 14th even with a good run. As noted above Grant had a bad run, and Jon must have too because he was about 5 minutes behind me after being that margin ahead of me in both qualifiers. Eric best Australian at 11th; Ivaylo Ivanov beat Carsten by 10 seconds with a time around 65.
It's a little unusual to have as much a feature race of the season as a WMOC final so early in the year. Will probably have a fairly quiet week before launching back into training, with some level of confidence that my body can now support a reasonable training load. Doing NSW Championships in two weeks (21s in the middle, 45s in the long) and QB3, but otherwise most of what I'm building to from here is in late winter or spring.
2 was a long leg largely on tracks which gave me a chance to plan and settle after a somewhat unconfident 1. In general I used tracks a lot, partly for safety, partly because, although the coastal macrocarpa was very open underneath, I expected that going up and down the dunes would be draining after a while. Eric went through me at 7 (a bit earlier than I'd expected, so he must have started well), then I started seeing a lot more people after 14 when we got into the area where people who started from start 2 went (tried not to get rattled by the proportion of them who were running faster than me). The train went through me at 18 but this one definitely wasn't stopping at my station (contained three coming from behind me, plus the fast-but-erratic Swede who started two minutes before me whom I must have gone through at some stage, and I seemed to be tiring a bit in the last 20 minutes.
Probably couldn't have got above 14th even with a good run. As noted above Grant had a bad run, and Jon must have too because he was about 5 minutes behind me after being that margin ahead of me in both qualifiers. Eric best Australian at 11th; Ivaylo Ivanov beat Carsten by 10 seconds with a time around 65.
It's a little unusual to have as much a feature race of the season as a WMOC final so early in the year. Will probably have a fairly quiet week before launching back into training, with some level of confidence that my body can now support a reasonable training load. Doing NSW Championships in two weeks (21s in the middle, 45s in the long) and QB3, but otherwise most of what I'm building to from here is in late winter or spring.
8 PM
Note
Bizarre stat of the day: #23, my most significant error of the day navigation-wise, was my best split placing of the day (12th). (The AP splits show me with a bigger time loss on #5 and #7, but #5 was mostly a route choice, #7 was getting caught in some green).
When virtually the entire field in a WMOC A final, which presumably contains some competent navigators, loses time on a control (Ivaylo Ivanov did in the 1.20s and no-one else broke 2), it does make you think something was a bit odd. (My feeling is that it was probably the mapping of the vegetation boundary, which I and probably most others used as an attack point, relative to the control feature). Doesn't take away from an excellent event.
When virtually the entire field in a WMOC A final, which presumably contains some competent navigators, loses time on a control (Ivaylo Ivanov did in the 1.20s and no-one else broke 2), it does make you think something was a bit odd. (My feeling is that it was probably the mapping of the vegetation boundary, which I and probably most others used as an attack point, relative to the control feature). Doesn't take away from an excellent event.