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Sunday Aug 15, 2010 #
Running warm up/down 19:00 [1]
10 min before race, 9 min after race, chatting with Louise
Orienteering 52:35 [4] 6.3 km (8:21 / km) +330m 6:37 / km
21c
WOC Relay, Leg #2
Wowzer! Well Sam had an amazing run and started me off in 7th place, really right in the thick of things! It was a super-duper fun race, and although I dropped from 7th to 12th, I didn't make any huge mistakes, and had the 12th fastest time on my leg.
I'm most happy that I didn't get badly distracted by folks going to different controls. Control #1, I went to my control, not at all tempted to follow Maja the wrong way. Control #5, I was maybe tricked into a slightly non-optimal approach to the control because the French and Czech girls had a different one, but was a viable option. The third fork, I didn't even notice.
My biggest problem was to the final control. It was the same final control as all week, so I just figured if I could get out into the ski-tracks, I'd have no issues getting to it. Except somehow the green pushed me uphill, I lazily didn't double-check the map, and I took an extra 50 seconds to that final control! Ug. Else I would have come in right with the Russian and Ukrainian. Lesson to never give up focus!
82/2000
Wowzer! Well Sam had an amazing run and started me off in 7th place, really right in the thick of things! It was a super-duper fun race, and although I dropped from 7th to 12th, I didn't make any huge mistakes, and had the 12th fastest time on my leg.
I'm most happy that I didn't get badly distracted by folks going to different controls. Control #1, I went to my control, not at all tempted to follow Maja the wrong way. Control #5, I was maybe tricked into a slightly non-optimal approach to the control because the French and Czech girls had a different one, but was a viable option. The third fork, I didn't even notice.
My biggest problem was to the final control. It was the same final control as all week, so I just figured if I could get out into the ski-tracks, I'd have no issues getting to it. Except somehow the green pushed me uphill, I lazily didn't double-check the map, and I took an extra 50 seconds to that final control! Ug. Else I would have come in right with the Russian and Ukrainian. Lesson to never give up focus!
82/2000
Friday Aug 13, 2010 #
Running warm up/down 13:40 [1]
Cruise to the start for today's WOC Tour race. Beautiful day, again, we are soooo lucky!
Orienteering race 47:55 [4] 4.8 km (9:59 / km)
12c
WOC Tour day 3, Middle, Granåsen-vest
(territory of yesterday's long final)
Had a goal of running under 10 min/k in this terrain, so just snuck under that! But there were a few legs that went not so excellently and lost time.
There were tons of people out there on the course together- 150 starting in a 2h timeblock! When I got there, they had just given up on starting 1 per minute and just let people start as soon as they got their map in the case and control descriptions in the holder.
1- Easily found, direct route, but possibly faster to trail -> marsh and in.
2- Easy, straight.
3- Silly me. Bad route choice down to big track and then back up. Especially as to get to the road I had to battle through tons of green.
4- Attacked from fence junction, easy from there.
5- Decided to head through marshes, then up and in, but I didn't take into account the deep green covering the first marsh, bad decision, it was very slow. And the I ran right past the knoll because I missed the first open yellow patch, not a great one.
6- Most of this leg should have been done on paths, I kept going through green, and then brashing yellow, poor choice.
7- Down to path, missed the ride I wanted because it was actually a stream at the beginning (as mapped, I just didn't notice), but headed in and hit the rough open anyways, along the top of that and into control.
8- Followed elephant track to wrong control, but quickly corrected.
9- Long leg. I had a serious pause to consider routes. Saw 2- one along marshes, one a long a nice big track. Opted for the track, think it was a pretty good choice although may not have been too much different.
10- A slog up, but clean in.
11- Should have shot over to the top of the ski jump then down, but didn't, went extra up then down really steeply. Again a poor choice!
12- Pre-sprint.
13- Sprint in! But Eddie won. =)
Takeaway: On most legs, should have had slightly more patience and considered routes for a few seconds more. Because I'd say I made 4 pretty poor route choices out there today.
61/2000
(territory of yesterday's long final)
Had a goal of running under 10 min/k in this terrain, so just snuck under that! But there were a few legs that went not so excellently and lost time.
There were tons of people out there on the course together- 150 starting in a 2h timeblock! When I got there, they had just given up on starting 1 per minute and just let people start as soon as they got their map in the case and control descriptions in the holder.
1- Easily found, direct route, but possibly faster to trail -> marsh and in.
2- Easy, straight.
3- Silly me. Bad route choice down to big track and then back up. Especially as to get to the road I had to battle through tons of green.
4- Attacked from fence junction, easy from there.
5- Decided to head through marshes, then up and in, but I didn't take into account the deep green covering the first marsh, bad decision, it was very slow. And the I ran right past the knoll because I missed the first open yellow patch, not a great one.
6- Most of this leg should have been done on paths, I kept going through green, and then brashing yellow, poor choice.
7- Down to path, missed the ride I wanted because it was actually a stream at the beginning (as mapped, I just didn't notice), but headed in and hit the rough open anyways, along the top of that and into control.
8- Followed elephant track to wrong control, but quickly corrected.
9- Long leg. I had a serious pause to consider routes. Saw 2- one along marshes, one a long a nice big track. Opted for the track, think it was a pretty good choice although may not have been too much different.
10- A slog up, but clean in.
11- Should have shot over to the top of the ski jump then down, but didn't, went extra up then down really steeply. Again a poor choice!
12- Pre-sprint.
13- Sprint in! But Eddie won. =)
Takeaway: On most legs, should have had slightly more patience and considered routes for a few seconds more. Because I'd say I made 4 pretty poor route choices out there today.
61/2000
Thursday Aug 12, 2010 #
Orienteering 49:12 [3]
13c
Middle/Long Model event- Solemsåsen
Drew a course between the controls, and treated it like a course, except a few times went back to do controls over when I wasn't happy.
Didn't like 31 and 32, scary controls without good attackpoints. I found them both ok, but felt slightly lucky. I think both might have been a bit more secure if I really paid attention to the shape of the reentrants they were in. I redid 34-35 twice, and really wasn't happy with it. Not much to go to between the two besides a bearing and distance judgment and neither of those seemed to be working well for me. By the distance on the map, should be around 50 paces, but was 70ish, maybe in the densish woods, had to pick my way around stuff too much and take more steps. A good thing to know.
Really dark green seems to mean lots of deadfall- much more difficult to get through than the next lighter green. Little blue streams are ditches, which are evident when you go over them, but not much before. Picking out the ski tracks (yellow rides) can be difficult too.
49/2000
Drew a course between the controls, and treated it like a course, except a few times went back to do controls over when I wasn't happy.
Didn't like 31 and 32, scary controls without good attackpoints. I found them both ok, but felt slightly lucky. I think both might have been a bit more secure if I really paid attention to the shape of the reentrants they were in. I redid 34-35 twice, and really wasn't happy with it. Not much to go to between the two besides a bearing and distance judgment and neither of those seemed to be working well for me. By the distance on the map, should be around 50 paces, but was 70ish, maybe in the densish woods, had to pick my way around stuff too much and take more steps. A good thing to know.
Really dark green seems to mean lots of deadfall- much more difficult to get through than the next lighter green. Little blue streams are ditches, which are evident when you go over them, but not much before. Picking out the ski tracks (yellow rides) can be difficult too.
49/2000
Wednesday Aug 11, 2010 #
Running warm up/down 6:00 [1]
Just on the way to the start, and a bit of prancing about in the field once we got there.
Orienteering (sprint) 16:04 [5] *** 2.6 km (6:11 / km)
19c
Open Sprint Race, Kristiansten festning
Gorgeous day, fun sprint race! More or less same area as sprint final, but most of it wasn't too familiar. In general went pretty well, made some good quick route choices, but a few issues- out of #2 had a slow descision, should have looked at map more on way in, and also from #14 was a bit silly, ended up going through more nettles, and slower. Ross caught me at #5, and we had a good battle throughout the really urban part, I had a few better chosen controls, but he totally took off up the hill after #12 and I couldn't keep up.
36/2000
Gorgeous day, fun sprint race! More or less same area as sprint final, but most of it wasn't too familiar. In general went pretty well, made some good quick route choices, but a few issues- out of #2 had a slow descision, should have looked at map more on way in, and also from #14 was a bit silly, ended up going through more nettles, and slower. Ross caught me at #5, and we had a good battle throughout the really urban part, I had a few better chosen controls, but he totally took off up the hill after #12 and I couldn't keep up.
36/2000
Tuesday Aug 10, 2010 #
11 AM
Running warm up/down 11:00 [2]
Up up and more up to the start for the WOC Tour open race, chatting with Thomas (Canadian) on the way up. They had run out of the Open A1 course map (longest) so we all had a bit more chill time up top.
Orienteering race 1:06:43 [4] 6.2 km (10:46 / km)
17c
WOC Tour Day 2 - Long - A1 course
Went lots better than yesterday. A silly 3 min error on #1, but not other big mistakes. Was fun to compare splits to Eddie and Nikolay afterwards, they pretty steadily gained throughout. More and more comfortable through out the race with marshes and cliffs and all the details.
Most psyched about the long legs going well today, planned and executed well!
Notes:
1- So what happened here, is I thought I found the yellow marsh that I wanted to turn up at and went up looking for my reentrant. But I hadn't gone far enough. I was very puzzled, and didn't put thing together particularly quickly. Went back to the marsh to relocate and realized what was up.
2- Prob faster to run around the hill than up through the saddle.
5- Went to the low side of the hill, missed the thin yellow which would have been a faster approach.
7- Prob should have gone straighter.
8- Happy long leg! Eddie had caught me at 7, I thought he would just run away quickly, so thought up my route and started off. Was still near him in a big open marsh though, so decided to try to keep up! But then he turned a different way than my plan a bit later, so I stayed with my plan. We ended up at 9 about at the same time, so pretty good!
9- Ooh, this was a bit of a mistake actually. A bit off on my bearing and was relying on that too much.
12- Slowed *way* down, in a super tricky bit. Nikolay was about a minute faster on a 2.5 min control, jeez! But I'm not sure I could have gone much faster and remained in contact with the map...
13- In the zone of my big mistake yesterday, nervous! But went ok this time!
Takeaway: Pretty good stuff, could have been more focused at the beginning. And running on just a compass bearing is silly here, the features are really helpful and should be used!
17/2000 =)
Went lots better than yesterday. A silly 3 min error on #1, but not other big mistakes. Was fun to compare splits to Eddie and Nikolay afterwards, they pretty steadily gained throughout. More and more comfortable through out the race with marshes and cliffs and all the details.
Most psyched about the long legs going well today, planned and executed well!
Notes:
1- So what happened here, is I thought I found the yellow marsh that I wanted to turn up at and went up looking for my reentrant. But I hadn't gone far enough. I was very puzzled, and didn't put thing together particularly quickly. Went back to the marsh to relocate and realized what was up.
2- Prob faster to run around the hill than up through the saddle.
5- Went to the low side of the hill, missed the thin yellow which would have been a faster approach.
7- Prob should have gone straighter.
8- Happy long leg! Eddie had caught me at 7, I thought he would just run away quickly, so thought up my route and started off. Was still near him in a big open marsh though, so decided to try to keep up! But then he turned a different way than my plan a bit later, so I stayed with my plan. We ended up at 9 about at the same time, so pretty good!
9- Ooh, this was a bit of a mistake actually. A bit off on my bearing and was relying on that too much.
12- Slowed *way* down, in a super tricky bit. Nikolay was about a minute faster on a 2.5 min control, jeez! But I'm not sure I could have gone much faster and remained in contact with the map...
13- In the zone of my big mistake yesterday, nervous! But went ok this time!
Takeaway: Pretty good stuff, could have been more focused at the beginning. And running on just a compass bearing is silly here, the features are really helpful and should be used!
17/2000 =)
Monday Aug 9, 2010 #
7 AM
Running 16:00 [1]
Woke up with tight-ish hamstrings, so decided to head out for a little jog and stretch.
2 PM
Running warm up/down 5:00 [1]
Warm up running first.
Orienteering warm up/down 6:00 [1]
Backwards around the warmup course. Kinda green. Not feeling confident.
3 PM
Orienteering 40:58 [3] *** 3.1 km (13:13 / km) +155m 10:34 / km
9c
WOC Middle Qual, Course A, Jervskogen
Well, first half went really well, second half not so much, particularly control #6 where I lost ~6 min at least. Gosh! A bit disappointing, was in 10th til then. But mistakes are part of the game, and almost everyone lost some time out there.
1- Most proud of this really. Despite the girls I started with being around, I was focused and went straight to my control. It was tough too, uphill, in green.
2- Straight up hill.
3- I choose to head to the pond as my route choice, which I think was fine. Let me know I was exactly there, then come through a rentrant, well setup to the control.
4- Not that fast, picked my way this way and that way, but didn't totally lose contact. Actually, my GPS track (ie. the truth) went up a different little reentrant than I thought I did, so not in perfect contact, but added things up quickly enough that no damage.
5- Down the marsh, and to the wrong cliff. Gr. Came back and found the right one.
6- Oh, so painful to watch my GPS track. I went down to the marsh, then through the rocky gap, so knew exactly where I was. Then stayed in that deep reentrant a bit too much, and headed up the linear marsh to a marsh, instead of the dry hillside which was earlier. Then didn't realize things weren't adding up immediately, and tried to execute a plan that made no sense. Eventually relocated coming all the way back to the big cliffs, and even then, didn't do a very good job, so frustrating!!!
7- Well, this was also painful. Went straight to the control, but then looked at the number on my control description thought I needed 118, and saw 74 on the control. There was a guy at it taking pictures or radioing, so I went off, embarrased trying to figure out where I was again, but no, actually was my control, I read the next control number by mistake...
8- Down to trail along, into woods to all the cameramen, which made it pretty obvious.
9- Took the straight, level, route choice through some gaps in trees, think that was good.
Finish- Slightly twisted right ankle on way down. Gr. But it's not bad at all really.
Takeaway- Need more experience in this stuff, should have earlier suspicions and double-checks on #6.
Well, first half went really well, second half not so much, particularly control #6 where I lost ~6 min at least. Gosh! A bit disappointing, was in 10th til then. But mistakes are part of the game, and almost everyone lost some time out there.
1- Most proud of this really. Despite the girls I started with being around, I was focused and went straight to my control. It was tough too, uphill, in green.
2- Straight up hill.
3- I choose to head to the pond as my route choice, which I think was fine. Let me know I was exactly there, then come through a rentrant, well setup to the control.
4- Not that fast, picked my way this way and that way, but didn't totally lose contact. Actually, my GPS track (ie. the truth) went up a different little reentrant than I thought I did, so not in perfect contact, but added things up quickly enough that no damage.
5- Down the marsh, and to the wrong cliff. Gr. Came back and found the right one.
6- Oh, so painful to watch my GPS track. I went down to the marsh, then through the rocky gap, so knew exactly where I was. Then stayed in that deep reentrant a bit too much, and headed up the linear marsh to a marsh, instead of the dry hillside which was earlier. Then didn't realize things weren't adding up immediately, and tried to execute a plan that made no sense. Eventually relocated coming all the way back to the big cliffs, and even then, didn't do a very good job, so frustrating!!!
7- Well, this was also painful. Went straight to the control, but then looked at the number on my control description thought I needed 118, and saw 74 on the control. There was a guy at it taking pictures or radioing, so I went off, embarrased trying to figure out where I was again, but no, actually was my control, I read the next control number by mistake...
8- Down to trail along, into woods to all the cameramen, which made it pretty obvious.
9- Took the straight, level, route choice through some gaps in trees, think that was good.
Finish- Slightly twisted right ankle on way down. Gr. But it's not bad at all really.
Takeaway- Need more experience in this stuff, should have earlier suspicions and double-checks on #6.