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Sunday Apr 11, 2010 #
1 PM
Orienteering race 1:41:34 [4] **** 7.8 km (13:01 / km) +1342ft 10:19 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Mudroc 290
French Creek East -- Red Course
Distance Run: 6.53mi (hahah ... 10.5k or 144% of course length)
Incredibly great day weather-wise, and Juliet & June came along and did the White course -- June's first orienteering adventure! That's about where the good times stopped for me.
Route 1 was closed for some kind of work, so we were stuck in traffic on 76W for ages (it seemed like), arriving in the nick of time to head out at 1pm. Long jog to the start. Felt LATE. So started off hard, and kept making major mistake after major mistake -- and I mean truly major -- check out my GPS track, and RouteGadget should be a hoot.
I felt completely off the map. Running around in circles. A couple of careful, slowly-walking pace-counters beat me on two legs in a row. I felt like an idiot, couldn't figure out what was wrong ... and didn't remember until after the race that FCE is 1:15K. Really. I haven't made that mistake in ... a while. If ever? Wow. Just wow.
Woods were tough, as FCE always is. Climb tough. Visibility was probably about as good as it gets, but still tough for me, particularly the leaves on the rocks ... I'm generally pretty good on FC rocks, but they were still pretty well covered with leaves. I found myself doing a lot of stumbling, fell a few times, and bopped my knee into the end of a log pretty hard, it's bruised but probably not anything long-term.
Control analysis isn't really necessary ... pretty much all incorrect pace and or poor compass work. I would have been faster if I had walked. Maybe then I would have noticed the map scale. :)
Distance Run: 6.53mi (hahah ... 10.5k or 144% of course length)
Incredibly great day weather-wise, and Juliet & June came along and did the White course -- June's first orienteering adventure! That's about where the good times stopped for me.
Route 1 was closed for some kind of work, so we were stuck in traffic on 76W for ages (it seemed like), arriving in the nick of time to head out at 1pm. Long jog to the start. Felt LATE. So started off hard, and kept making major mistake after major mistake -- and I mean truly major -- check out my GPS track, and RouteGadget should be a hoot.
I felt completely off the map. Running around in circles. A couple of careful, slowly-walking pace-counters beat me on two legs in a row. I felt like an idiot, couldn't figure out what was wrong ... and didn't remember until after the race that FCE is 1:15K. Really. I haven't made that mistake in ... a while. If ever? Wow. Just wow.
Woods were tough, as FCE always is. Climb tough. Visibility was probably about as good as it gets, but still tough for me, particularly the leaves on the rocks ... I'm generally pretty good on FC rocks, but they were still pretty well covered with leaves. I found myself doing a lot of stumbling, fell a few times, and bopped my knee into the end of a log pretty hard, it's bruised but probably not anything long-term.
Control analysis isn't really necessary ... pretty much all incorrect pace and or poor compass work. I would have been faster if I had walked. Maybe then I would have noticed the map scale. :)
Monday Apr 5, 2010 #
Note
Think I might do the Hawk Mountain sprints instead of FCE next weekend ... what's everyone else doing? I LOVE FCE ... but I didn't go last year, and they are the same courses. Or maybe I'll do a NC, just to get out there on FCE ... hmm. Well, we'll see what the weather is like I suppose, and what the ladies want to do.
Note
Also noticed that FCE from last year is up on RouteGadget still, in case anyone wanted to take a look. And Andis went out of bounds from 2 to 3 so should be DQ. :)
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Are we REALLY re-running these courses? Was there some insane weather event that I'm not remembering? Winning time on YELLOW of 55 minutes? Red 86 minutes? Wow. Just purely a 'fight' issue?
12 PM
Running 45:23 5.0 mi (9:05 / mi) +492ft 8:18 / mi
ahr:144 max:177 weight:160lbs shoes: Asics Gel DS Trainer 12
Gym down to the end of boathouse row and back. Incredible day, felt HOT in the sun!