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Sunday Apr 11, 2010 #
Real Orienteering race (Glenbrook) 1:09:13 [4] **** 8.96 km (7:44 / km) +255m 6:46 / km
spiked:9/13c shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5
ACT Long Champs.
Glenbrook. Great map. Open country, scattered trees, complex granite. Friendly for the running but capable of catching the lax navigators... like me.
Lets see. 1,2,3 OK. Took a silly route choice far to the left for 4, then spent some time in the wrong gully looking for 4. I was having trouble understanding how yellow was mapped. Next error was 8 with the same cause. I misinterpreted yellow again. I saw more on the ground than the mapper. Ran right past 10 but didn't notice it.... literally within 3 metres and wasted a little time lower in the gully wondering how it could really be down there.Then I took a deep breathe and did the next long leg up and over the main hill. I should have done it the first time. Messy on 12. All up a loss of about 6 minutes. Room for improvement.
The day had three highlights or lowlights depending on your perspective.
1. The wind was gale force. It was hard running into it on the downhill even. Running with the wind in the finish chute was great fun! And for the first time this carnival I beat Jools! Every other day she did me in the chute. She has a fast sprint! I wonder how many people dropped their map on the course. In the wrong place (like up over the main hill) one might have lost a lot of time chasing it into the receding distance.
2. Both Jools and Ilka were dnfed for missing a control. Both had SI-6 sticks and again this day was using the OANSW boxes with the faulty firmware upgrade. Both were reinstated after the boxes were checked. I am having second thoughts about buying another SI-6 stick.
3. Had a minor role in an entanglement with a bloke who has spent the carnival trying hard to win a nomination for OOY (Odious Orienteer of the Year). I doubt there will be any competition given the standard of the 'performance'. It was a display of dangerous and rude driving, gratuitous immaturity, physical intimidation and extreme self-centredness I found this incident breathtaking and eventually amusing in the extreme. Apparently he was very unhappy with the organisers of the event. I'm hoping this unhappiness is so great he decides not to bother attending in future. I think that would be a win-win from everyone's perspective. We'll see if a complaint is made officially. I wasn't the one head-butted so Its not up to me.
Glenbrook. Great map. Open country, scattered trees, complex granite. Friendly for the running but capable of catching the lax navigators... like me.
Lets see. 1,2,3 OK. Took a silly route choice far to the left for 4, then spent some time in the wrong gully looking for 4. I was having trouble understanding how yellow was mapped. Next error was 8 with the same cause. I misinterpreted yellow again. I saw more on the ground than the mapper. Ran right past 10 but didn't notice it.... literally within 3 metres and wasted a little time lower in the gully wondering how it could really be down there.Then I took a deep breathe and did the next long leg up and over the main hill. I should have done it the first time. Messy on 12. All up a loss of about 6 minutes. Room for improvement.
The day had three highlights or lowlights depending on your perspective.
1. The wind was gale force. It was hard running into it on the downhill even. Running with the wind in the finish chute was great fun! And for the first time this carnival I beat Jools! Every other day she did me in the chute. She has a fast sprint! I wonder how many people dropped their map on the course. In the wrong place (like up over the main hill) one might have lost a lot of time chasing it into the receding distance.
2. Both Jools and Ilka were dnfed for missing a control. Both had SI-6 sticks and again this day was using the OANSW boxes with the faulty firmware upgrade. Both were reinstated after the boxes were checked. I am having second thoughts about buying another SI-6 stick.
3. Had a minor role in an entanglement with a bloke who has spent the carnival trying hard to win a nomination for OOY (Odious Orienteer of the Year). I doubt there will be any competition given the standard of the 'performance'. It was a display of dangerous and rude driving, gratuitous immaturity, physical intimidation and extreme self-centredness I found this incident breathtaking and eventually amusing in the extreme. Apparently he was very unhappy with the organisers of the event. I'm hoping this unhappiness is so great he decides not to bother attending in future. I think that would be a win-win from everyone's perspective. We'll see if a complaint is made officially. I wasn't the one head-butted so Its not up to me.
Note
The long drive home. Its really impressive scenery from Kiandra to Tumbarumba. The rest is all too familiar.
C • OOY 6
Saturday Apr 10, 2010 #
Real Orienteering race 44:44 [5] *** 5.65 km (7:55 / km) +210m 6:41 / km
spiked:11/15c shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5
ACT Middle Champs at Buckenderra.
Physically tough course for a middle. Had a perfect first half on the uphill, then lost concentration on the return journey in mostly downhill running. Ran past 7, the shortest leg of the course. Stopped too early and lost a couple of minutes looking for 8. Took a silly route choice for 9 and didn't deserve to spike it. The control found me rather than the other way around. Fluke. So not counting it as spiked. On the downward traverse to 10 I again stopped early. All up I estimate a loss of of 6-7 minutes based on comparable splits.
Great event when you can camp at the assembly area with facilities and wake up to a view out over Lake Eucmbene to the Snowy Mountains. It almost erases the memory of the last visit when Evan ended up in intensive care in Canberra Hospital after drinking too much water.
Physically tough course for a middle. Had a perfect first half on the uphill, then lost concentration on the return journey in mostly downhill running. Ran past 7, the shortest leg of the course. Stopped too early and lost a couple of minutes looking for 8. Took a silly route choice for 9 and didn't deserve to spike it. The control found me rather than the other way around. Fluke. So not counting it as spiked. On the downward traverse to 10 I again stopped early. All up I estimate a loss of of 6-7 minutes based on comparable splits.
Great event when you can camp at the assembly area with facilities and wake up to a view out over Lake Eucmbene to the Snowy Mountains. It almost erases the memory of the last visit when Evan ended up in intensive care in Canberra Hospital after drinking too much water.
Friday Apr 9, 2010 #
Event: Snow Treble
Note
Driving to Buckenderra with a visit to Mimosa Rocks National Park,
Thursday Apr 8, 2010 #
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More beach and dune wandering south of Tuross near Potato Point.
Wednesday Apr 7, 2010 #
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Wandering through the dunes at Tuross Head. Nice area for a dunes sprint event. Dreaming.
Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 #
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Paris Masters exhibition. What's that painting? Oh. Starry Night. Now I understand.
Monday Apr 5, 2010 #
Real Orienteering race (Collector Hill) 53:41 [5] *** 5.65 km (9:30 / km) +195m 8:06 / km
spiked:17/18c shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5
Straight line 4.8k
Collector Hill. A contrast with the previous day, being much tougher underfoot withlots of loose rock and fallen timber. The navigation wasn't very hard. The main feature of the map was a line of cliffs of about 600 metres in the middle of themap. The course setter made the most of this with 8 controls on or close to the cliff line. I managed only one error, costing perhaps 15 seconds. Fitness was again a problem and I came in 15th. With the 5 above me all within a minute, it was a close race. And in contrast to Kowen Pines, my 15th place pulled me up from 13th to 11th. In the end I just missed out on my target of 10th. I lost that place on the first day and the easier navigation in the following two days meant there was little chance to catch up.
Question: If there is only one technical terrain, perhaps we could think about using it on day 3 rather than day 1? I suspect many classes were decided on day 1 and the following two days changed little.
Collector Hill. A contrast with the previous day, being much tougher underfoot withlots of loose rock and fallen timber. The navigation wasn't very hard. The main feature of the map was a line of cliffs of about 600 metres in the middle of themap. The course setter made the most of this with 8 controls on or close to the cliff line. I managed only one error, costing perhaps 15 seconds. Fitness was again a problem and I came in 15th. With the 5 above me all within a minute, it was a close race. And in contrast to Kowen Pines, my 15th place pulled me up from 13th to 11th. In the end I just missed out on my target of 10th. I lost that place on the first day and the easier navigation in the following two days meant there was little chance to catch up.
Question: If there is only one technical terrain, perhaps we could think about using it on day 3 rather than day 1? I suspect many classes were decided on day 1 and the following two days changed little.
Note
Spent this evening at the Folk Festival (as the two evenings before as well. Managed 39 hours at the festival as well as three days of orienteering. The week to come will be spent recovering sleep etc.