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Sunday Jul 30, 2017 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (ECOC Day 2, Middle) 34:45 [4] 3.5 km (9:56 / km) +12m 9:46 / km
Second day of Eastern Canadian Championship, in Pierrefonds, 20 miles W of Montreal. Middle distance, 3.5km, I competed in M45, actual distance run 4.1km according to GPS.
A decent run, felt hotter than yesterday but my running was OK (improving!). A lot drier, no water on trails and swamps were OK. Came in 8th in a field of 21, 7 minutes after the winner. I would have come in second or third in M55 based on my time/km, though they had a different course.
Lost 2.5 minutes on 1, combination of suboptimal route choice (took the path to the south, would have been faster and safer to go straight / slightly to the N and hit the stone wall, but I thought the path would be faster than the green), and veering too much E and N on the approach, missing the control by 50-75 meters, then struggled to figure out where I was, then slow going back.
Lost 10-20s on 2, too far N, went for the rock NE of the control.
Then clean until 7 where I veered to the right and had to come back, lost 1 minute.
Rest was clean.
Map with GPS track here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxensnas/Archive/Archive/...
A decent run, felt hotter than yesterday but my running was OK (improving!). A lot drier, no water on trails and swamps were OK. Came in 8th in a field of 21, 7 minutes after the winner. I would have come in second or third in M55 based on my time/km, though they had a different course.
Lost 2.5 minutes on 1, combination of suboptimal route choice (took the path to the south, would have been faster and safer to go straight / slightly to the N and hit the stone wall, but I thought the path would be faster than the green), and veering too much E and N on the approach, missing the control by 50-75 meters, then struggled to figure out where I was, then slow going back.
Lost 10-20s on 2, too far N, went for the rock NE of the control.
Then clean until 7 where I veered to the right and had to come back, lost 1 minute.
Rest was clean.
Map with GPS track here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxensnas/Archive/Archive/...
Saturday Jul 29, 2017 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (ECOC Day 1, Long) 58:48 [4] 5.6 km (10:30 / km) +15m 10:22 / km
First day of Eastern Canadian Championship, on l'Ile de Perrot, 20 miles W of Montreal. Long distance, 5.6km, I competed in M45 (could have run M55 instead), actual distance run 7.1km.
A good run, felt good physically. Came in 7th in a field of about 18, Greg Balter won by a few minutes before number two but after him the field was tight, I was last in a field of 5-6 who were within 2-3 minutes. I would have come in second in M55 based on my time/km, though they had a different course.
No mistakes until 7, where I got confused about which path I was on, turned out I passed within 5 meters of the control which was at the bottom of a tiny cliff but I didn't see it. Lost probably 1 minute. Lost 2-3 minutes on #8, was quite confused by all the paths and clearings and figured out where I was only when I ended up in the swamp N of the control. GPS track shows I veered to the W which I didn't realize in the forest.
Forest was wet, most trails were extremely muddy, usually faster to run off trail. Swamps were wet and deep...So fairly slow running, made up for by flat terrain. Although the area is very flat I found the contour lines fairly distinct much of the time, perhaps my orienteering on Gotland a few weeks ago helped.
Map with GPS track here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxensnas/Archive/Archive/...
A good run, felt good physically. Came in 7th in a field of about 18, Greg Balter won by a few minutes before number two but after him the field was tight, I was last in a field of 5-6 who were within 2-3 minutes. I would have come in second in M55 based on my time/km, though they had a different course.
No mistakes until 7, where I got confused about which path I was on, turned out I passed within 5 meters of the control which was at the bottom of a tiny cliff but I didn't see it. Lost probably 1 minute. Lost 2-3 minutes on #8, was quite confused by all the paths and clearings and figured out where I was only when I ended up in the swamp N of the control. GPS track shows I veered to the W which I didn't realize in the forest.
Forest was wet, most trails were extremely muddy, usually faster to run off trail. Swamps were wet and deep...So fairly slow running, made up for by flat terrain. Although the area is very flat I found the contour lines fairly distinct much of the time, perhaps my orienteering on Gotland a few weeks ago helped.
Map with GPS track here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxensnas/Archive/Archive/...
