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Sunday Apr 13, 2014 #
8 AM
run/walk warm up/down 15:00 [1]
stretch 1 [0]
orienteer 1:37:55 5.0 km (19:35 / km) +319m 14:51 / km
ahr:68 max:93
walk warm up/down 15:00 [1]
West Point, day 2
I was determined not to have the same problems as yesterday. But that was going to be hard, when I realized that another F50 runner was starting only 2 minutes after me. I took it as a real challenge.
I had a hard time getting into the map as I ran along the road towards 1, but I worked hard on concentrating my focus. By the time I got to 1, I was doing OK. Continued on to 2 just fine, and had a bobble on 3. But this time I stopped and looked at my map and figured out where I was and where I needed to go. I did have some help, as the other F50 runner was approaching 3, to confirm where it was.
So now I had a really big challenge: we were together going to 4. She was faster and was ahead of me on the trail. I kept telling myself to ignore her and read my map. When the trail ended, she stopped and I passed by. I felt confident of where I was and where I wanted to go. I told myself to keep going and not look back, and this time it worked! Hit 4, and didn't see her again. (For a while, at least).
This course was more physical than day 1, and I was moving slowly and getting a bit tired. When I saw the route to 7, I was a bit scared to go straight along the contour; how would I know where I was? So I tried to follow the intermittent trail. I lost it once or twice along the way. But I knew I was looking for a cut in the cliffs. So I finally came across the cut, and it had a red-blazed “trail” going down it. Eureka! It was very scary going down (loose leaves, etc. I hate steep !!!) but near the end I could see a marker. Ran to it, and it was not mine. Ok, time to re-group. I was looking for a 5 m boulder. Look around, there it is! Run to it; no marker. Look all around it, in case the marker is hidden. Not there. Look at map. am I in the right spot? Yes, down the trail, turn right. I started to slowly check out all the other boulders. At this point, another runner came by and ran towards a boulder on the other side of the trail. I looked at my map again: I was on the correct side of the trail. I was still mucking around in the rocks when two other Green Y runners came by (including the other F50 I had seen at 3). They were contouring across, and went past me to the boulder on the other side of the trail. So I followed them (sometimes, one DOES have to pay attention to others :) When we got there (of course the marker was there!), I said out loud: this marker is on the wrong boulder. The second runner commented that there were two trails leading down through the cliffs. What? I stopped and looked really closely at my map. Argh!! A classic parallel error. I can forgive myself for the initial error, but not for all the time I lost mucking around. Stop and reassess the situation!
The next leg sucked. It had rained briefly, just enough to make this a steep hillside of mud and wet leaves. The three of us slowly slogged up the hill (me more slowly than the others). I stopped to eat and drink on the way up, but mostly it was an excuse to rest.
I was within sight of the second Green Y runner for the rest of the course. I tried very hard to concentrate on my own navigation and to ignore her. I had some small bobbles (like losing the trail towards 10) but I beat her to 9, 10, 11 and 12. But I didn't get cocky, and I just kept plugging along.
So, I was again frustrated with a huge mistake due to a lack of focus. But I was able to recover, do well on some other controls (9 and 13) and ignore another runner close by. My route
I was determined not to have the same problems as yesterday. But that was going to be hard, when I realized that another F50 runner was starting only 2 minutes after me. I took it as a real challenge.
I had a hard time getting into the map as I ran along the road towards 1, but I worked hard on concentrating my focus. By the time I got to 1, I was doing OK. Continued on to 2 just fine, and had a bobble on 3. But this time I stopped and looked at my map and figured out where I was and where I needed to go. I did have some help, as the other F50 runner was approaching 3, to confirm where it was.
So now I had a really big challenge: we were together going to 4. She was faster and was ahead of me on the trail. I kept telling myself to ignore her and read my map. When the trail ended, she stopped and I passed by. I felt confident of where I was and where I wanted to go. I told myself to keep going and not look back, and this time it worked! Hit 4, and didn't see her again. (For a while, at least).
This course was more physical than day 1, and I was moving slowly and getting a bit tired. When I saw the route to 7, I was a bit scared to go straight along the contour; how would I know where I was? So I tried to follow the intermittent trail. I lost it once or twice along the way. But I knew I was looking for a cut in the cliffs. So I finally came across the cut, and it had a red-blazed “trail” going down it. Eureka! It was very scary going down (loose leaves, etc. I hate steep !!!) but near the end I could see a marker. Ran to it, and it was not mine. Ok, time to re-group. I was looking for a 5 m boulder. Look around, there it is! Run to it; no marker. Look all around it, in case the marker is hidden. Not there. Look at map. am I in the right spot? Yes, down the trail, turn right. I started to slowly check out all the other boulders. At this point, another runner came by and ran towards a boulder on the other side of the trail. I looked at my map again: I was on the correct side of the trail. I was still mucking around in the rocks when two other Green Y runners came by (including the other F50 I had seen at 3). They were contouring across, and went past me to the boulder on the other side of the trail. So I followed them (sometimes, one DOES have to pay attention to others :) When we got there (of course the marker was there!), I said out loud: this marker is on the wrong boulder. The second runner commented that there were two trails leading down through the cliffs. What? I stopped and looked really closely at my map. Argh!! A classic parallel error. I can forgive myself for the initial error, but not for all the time I lost mucking around. Stop and reassess the situation!
The next leg sucked. It had rained briefly, just enough to make this a steep hillside of mud and wet leaves. The three of us slowly slogged up the hill (me more slowly than the others). I stopped to eat and drink on the way up, but mostly it was an excuse to rest.
I was within sight of the second Green Y runner for the rest of the course. I tried very hard to concentrate on my own navigation and to ignore her. I had some small bobbles (like losing the trail towards 10) but I beat her to 9, 10, 11 and 12. But I didn't get cocky, and I just kept plugging along.
So, I was again frustrated with a huge mistake due to a lack of focus. But I was able to recover, do well on some other controls (9 and 13) and ignore another runner close by. My route