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Saturday Nov 3, 2012 #
10 AM
PT 1 [0]
orienteer race 1:30:21 7.0 km (12:54 / km) +195m 11:20 / km
ahr:161 max:179 17c
Local race at Tall Oaks. I signed up for red because I wanted a long practice. But I regretted it as I went towards 1. I forgot how crappy the woods are here: lots of underbrush and thorns. I should have done a shorter course. Also, I forgot to bring any gel shots or food with me on the course, and definitely needed it by the end.
Loss of concentration at 4 and 5 led to me over shooting the control. On 7, I over thought it a bit. I figured, with this being a local meet, the control could be in any reenetrant. So I decided to go across the top and look in every one. But somehow I missed it on the first pass. In retrospect, I should have stayed on the east side until I saw the control across the way (visibility was good here).
By 13, I was getting tired. I was a bit dismayed to see the long leg to 14. But I slogged on to the finish.
Good thing I started early. Later, a park employee decided we shouldn't have controls on the challenge course (14-17), and she just took them down. How frustrating for the late runners to get to the end of the course, and find no controls. Poor PTOC having to have all of these DNFs on the courses.
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Loss of concentration at 4 and 5 led to me over shooting the control. On 7, I over thought it a bit. I figured, with this being a local meet, the control could be in any reenetrant. So I decided to go across the top and look in every one. But somehow I missed it on the first pass. In retrospect, I should have stayed on the east side until I saw the control across the way (visibility was good here).
By 13, I was getting tired. I was a bit dismayed to see the long leg to 14. But I slogged on to the finish.
Good thing I started early. Later, a park employee decided we shouldn't have controls on the challenge course (14-17), and she just took them down. How frustrating for the late runners to get to the end of the course, and find no controls. Poor PTOC having to have all of these DNFs on the courses.
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Friday Nov 2, 2012 #
Note
So thrilled that Garmin will be our sponsor! Great that our local company is finally linked to an O event. Hope you all come out and talk to the rep, and try to win a Fenix.
Wednesday Oct 31, 2012 #
weights 1:00:00 [3]
Sunday Oct 28, 2012 #
11 AM
orienteer 1:18:43 *** 6.6 km (11:56 / km) +132m 10:51 / km
ahr:156 max:181 17c
Training at Woodridge with Jenny and Mike. We need to update the map before our event there on Dec 8th. Mike downloaded the lidar data, and marked some vegetation boundaries with purple lines.
They ran from control to control, taking different routes and meeting at the control. I ran by myself, as a standard course. I was pleasantly surprised that I could keep them in sight for the first half of the course. It was hard to move through the woods (first time this season) with all the underbrush. We had a discussion afterwards: walk slowly, or try to run faster through the thick stuff? Of course, one has to have the ability to move fast through this stuff.
The vegetation near 14 is no longer an open field: it was quite overgrown and green, so I decided to skip it.
It was the perfect day to be out in the woods: cloudless skies and temps in the 40's. Fun.
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They ran from control to control, taking different routes and meeting at the control. I ran by myself, as a standard course. I was pleasantly surprised that I could keep them in sight for the first half of the course. It was hard to move through the woods (first time this season) with all the underbrush. We had a discussion afterwards: walk slowly, or try to run faster through the thick stuff? Of course, one has to have the ability to move fast through this stuff.
The vegetation near 14 is no longer an open field: it was quite overgrown and green, so I decided to skip it.
It was the perfect day to be out in the woods: cloudless skies and temps in the 40's. Fun.
route