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Sunday Mar 12, 2017 #
Real Orienteering (Pittwater Dunes) 54:00 [3] ***** 4.9 km (11:01 / km)
spiked:13/15c shoes: Salamon Speed Cross 4 Black
Bush event #7
Day 2 Pittwater Dunes
Started in light rain. This revealed some issues. I had abandoned contact lens because I can't read the map with them. I chose to wear glasses instead. But the humidity meant they were continually fogged. So I removed them and ran without visual assistance. To read the map I needed to read it close to my face with my short sighted eye. Every map read meant standing still.
Made two significant locational errors on 4 and 5. Each cost 4 minutes. Four was particularly annoying as I was very close but didn't see it as it was obscured by a pine tree. I was convinced I was in the correct place and almost was. It seems my troubles always occur in the combination of scattered trees and undergrowth hatching which makes it very hard to read the map. The map would have been more fun at 1:5000 or with the brown darker and thicker. Once we were back in the more readable white I spiked the rest.
Julie won her class today.
Day 2 Pittwater Dunes
Started in light rain. This revealed some issues. I had abandoned contact lens because I can't read the map with them. I chose to wear glasses instead. But the humidity meant they were continually fogged. So I removed them and ran without visual assistance. To read the map I needed to read it close to my face with my short sighted eye. Every map read meant standing still.
Made two significant locational errors on 4 and 5. Each cost 4 minutes. Four was particularly annoying as I was very close but didn't see it as it was obscured by a pine tree. I was convinced I was in the correct place and almost was. It seems my troubles always occur in the combination of scattered trees and undergrowth hatching which makes it very hard to read the map. The map would have been more fun at 1:5000 or with the brown darker and thicker. Once we were back in the more readable white I spiked the rest.
Julie won her class today.