Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Bush event 20
And so ended my first WMOC as a competitor. Probably my last as well. I hate qualifying races I have decided. It was disappointing to be in the B final, but the terrain was almost as good as the model and the rain held off for my run.
Again, two massive errors and one minor.
15 seconds at the 8th
5 minutes at 9. I saw it was dangerously vague. Didn't stay on bearing and had no idea, so went for road to relocate.
8 minutes at 14. Lots of people had trouble in here. I thought I used the veg boundary as an attack point but it didn;t make sense.
17% error time is not very good. Not even respectable in a B final.
So, despite being disappointed, I have to admit I managed to get through all the races against expectations. The lack of fitness due to the 8 week taper prior to the carnival was not my biggest problem. The problem was navigation. No amount of fitness would compensate for those bigger errors.
And I am still on target for my goal for 2017. Twenty forest events so far. And that is not including the Vic Relays at Brimbank.

Bush event 19
This was the race to get me into the A final. It didn't. Two massive errors. I couldn't tell up from down. Once again gave up on glasses and relied on one very short sighted eye.
3-4. Massive error, a parallel on a road... novice stuff. Lost 8 minutes. I wasn't the only one. There was one Australian who gave up. Even after working out the error I made another by confusing up with down and running along a sand ridge when the control was in a longitudinal depression. Go figure.
5-5 lost 5 minutes. Can't work out how. I must have been in brain oxygen starved mode after the slog up the steep sand hill.
I may have spiked 11 of 13 controls, running fast (for me) and navigating well. But a 19% error time was never going to get me into an A final.

Bush event 18
A reasonable performance that left me just within the A final cut-off.
Confused at 2 and lost 2.30. Ran around and hoped.
Ran past 4 and didn't recognise the feature. Lost 1.25.
Lost 25 seconds at 9. Slightly to the right. You could almost call it aiming off.
Total loss 4.25 or 9%.

C • That looks like my course! 2

Bush event 17
The Long Model. We had planned to skip this and do some sight seeing. At the last minute we changed our mind. Great terrain. Best of the carnival. Great weather at last. Great walk in very technical terrain, the highlight being a beach walk with the Tasman Sea and black sand sparkling in the sun.
Counting this as one of my bush orienteering events of the year, Made a mistake despite the lack of pressure.
Bush event number 17 for year.

WMOC Sprint final.
Bit of an anticlimax starting as a very early starter in B final.
One big error, totally misunderstanding the map. It wasn't just me. A member of the IOF Foot Commission made the same error and was less than impressed with the mapping. Amused.