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Sunday Feb 24, 2008 #
Running warm up/down (Trail) 8:00 [2] 0.8 mi (10:00 / mi)
slept:7.5
Western States Championships & Intercollegiate Championships in the Coronado National Forest near Sonoita, AZ. I jogged up to the start area with plenty of time before my race. I was to start with Peggy and chase Ed White by two minutes. I was about 1 minute behind Ed in the standings from the day earlier. Just as it was time to go to the call up line, I saw the e-punch and realized I'd left mine back at the car. I ran back, got it, then ran to the start again. Fortunately, I didn't have to wait long to find get a new start time; just a few minutes past my original start of 10:30am.
Orienteering (Foot) 59:30 [4] *** 7.01 km (8:29 / km) +255m 7:11 / km
ahr:158 max:170 spiked:10/14c
Western States Championships & Intercollegiate Championships in the Coronado National Forest near Sonoita, AZ. This was run on the Kentucky Camp map, 1:10,000. I started out okay. For the first few controls the best way seemed to be straight over several ridges. These were somewhat long legs. It got a little less steep after that but I felt the need to pace myself by half-way and probably was too conservative--it had been a long 4 days of orienteering leading up to this.
I bobbled #6 by reading the short leg incorrectly. I went too low; nearly to the bottom of the reentrant, then had to climb back up. I was pretty clean after that until #10. This seemed to be in the area where made my first error in the sprint. Coming perpendicular over a ridge I was a bit to the right. I saw a control in a reentrant to my right and checked it, then came back and found the control on the saddle tucked low. I felt the placement was a bit off (in a reentrant rather than a saddle) but I am not sure. Getting tired and drawn off a bit by other orienteers, I messed-up #12 coming down one spur too early and going too far down. This was my biggest error of the day. My pulse dropped down to 130 while I was figuring things out. It cost me about a minute. Going to #13 after this, I had a good line initially but not thinking carefully enough, I just took a bearing over a bland hill into the wrong spur. I should have cut left a bit more first to get a closer attack point.
This was a good run for me but not as good as the day before. I was generally slower; the course was steeper. I made more errors and got sloppy toward the end. My consolation was that I managed to luck into 3rd in the M45+ age group. Ed White had a larger error on #8 which I spiked with just a bit of hesitation. Tom Hollowel was again 8 minutes ahead of me and Greg Balter was about 11 minutes up. I look forward to getting in better physical shape but know it will be a long road ahead. My left knee has been aching a bit after the last 4 days--part of it might have come from resting with my weight on my knees while typing Attackpoint entries on Friday--having the notebook located high was the best way to get wireless connectivity.
I bobbled #6 by reading the short leg incorrectly. I went too low; nearly to the bottom of the reentrant, then had to climb back up. I was pretty clean after that until #10. This seemed to be in the area where made my first error in the sprint. Coming perpendicular over a ridge I was a bit to the right. I saw a control in a reentrant to my right and checked it, then came back and found the control on the saddle tucked low. I felt the placement was a bit off (in a reentrant rather than a saddle) but I am not sure. Getting tired and drawn off a bit by other orienteers, I messed-up #12 coming down one spur too early and going too far down. This was my biggest error of the day. My pulse dropped down to 130 while I was figuring things out. It cost me about a minute. Going to #13 after this, I had a good line initially but not thinking carefully enough, I just took a bearing over a bland hill into the wrong spur. I should have cut left a bit more first to get a closer attack point.
This was a good run for me but not as good as the day before. I was generally slower; the course was steeper. I made more errors and got sloppy toward the end. My consolation was that I managed to luck into 3rd in the M45+ age group. Ed White had a larger error on #8 which I spiked with just a bit of hesitation. Tom Hollowel was again 8 minutes ahead of me and Greg Balter was about 11 minutes up. I look forward to getting in better physical shape but know it will be a long road ahead. My left knee has been aching a bit after the last 4 days--part of it might have come from resting with my weight on my knees while typing Attackpoint entries on Friday--having the notebook located high was the best way to get wireless connectivity.
Note
After the racing, Peggy, Max and I toured Colossal Cave. It was about a half mile hike with somewhere over 100ft. of climb. It loosened us up but made us late for dinner with Christina, some of her friends, Kris Beecroft and Michael Platt. It was a nice way to end the weekend. The cave was not as interesting as Luray Caverns in Virginia but was interesting because it was different.