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Friday Sep 23, 2011 #
3 PM
Orienteering race 45:59 [5] *** 4.5 km (10:13 / km) +185m 8:29 / km
spiked:15/19c slept:6.0 shoes: Inov-8 X-Talons 212
SA Champs Middle. Mokobulaan - Zomerplaats, Lydenburg.
Not very happy with my race. The terrain was fast and the course was quite long so I struggled. Lots of small misses at the beginning (in the circle mistakes) - lost 10sec on #2 and 30 sec on #3. Struggled up the hill to #5 but kept it moving and closed in on Zoe (8 min). Had a clean middle section spiking #8 to #16. Lost 30 sec on #17. Easy control but lost focus. Lost the race to #18. Had a 50 sec lead. Went straight which was probably the better option but wasn't moving well and wasn't confident about hitting the root stock. Lost about a minute and a half.
Ended up 3rd with Tania 16 sec ahead and Zig 2nd 9 sec ahead. Close race! Really blew it at the end so rather disappointing.
Good lesson learned though. Should have taken a better look at the course as a whole so I could pace myself better. I started too fast and took major strain towards the end. Of course being fitter would solve that problem too.
Not very happy with my race. The terrain was fast and the course was quite long so I struggled. Lots of small misses at the beginning (in the circle mistakes) - lost 10sec on #2 and 30 sec on #3. Struggled up the hill to #5 but kept it moving and closed in on Zoe (8 min). Had a clean middle section spiking #8 to #16. Lost 30 sec on #17. Easy control but lost focus. Lost the race to #18. Had a 50 sec lead. Went straight which was probably the better option but wasn't moving well and wasn't confident about hitting the root stock. Lost about a minute and a half.
Ended up 3rd with Tania 16 sec ahead and Zig 2nd 9 sec ahead. Close race! Really blew it at the end so rather disappointing.
Good lesson learned though. Should have taken a better look at the course as a whole so I could pace myself better. I started too fast and took major strain towards the end. Of course being fitter would solve that problem too.
Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] 2.93 km (6:50 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talons 212
Good warm up to the start.
Forgot to go for a warm down jog straight after the event but had promised myself I'd do thing properly this weekend so went for a short jog later on at the school so I was warm for a good stretch.
Forgot to go for a warm down jog straight after the event but had promised myself I'd do thing properly this weekend so went for a short jog later on at the school so I was warm for a good stretch.