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Wednesday Jul 16, 2008 #
orienteering 34:41 [3] *** 4.9 km (7:05 / km)
spiked:10/14c
WOC spectator races- P8 open race
half the team went to the middle model map, and the rest of us headed to the spectator races to run some courses. WOC runners get to run for free in the open races, and so all we needed to do was show up at the start with our ID tag.
Sam, Hill and I ran the P8 class which is basically like open-Red in the US. There were a lot of other WOC runners too, so the competition was quite tough. The map and the terrain were gorgeous, and it was a great day to run. Apart from the 200 extra meters that we needed to run up the trail to get to the start triangle, I loved this course.
I had a mistake on control 5, where I crossed the road in a different spot, farther right than I expected, and headed up into the woods on the other side. It took me a little bit to recover my senses and swing back. I was clearly running too fast on the way to 3 and 4 to make such a silly mistake.
felt really fast and really clean for the most part.
good to see some of the other US and Canadian runners hanging out in the finish arena.
half the team went to the middle model map, and the rest of us headed to the spectator races to run some courses. WOC runners get to run for free in the open races, and so all we needed to do was show up at the start with our ID tag.
Sam, Hill and I ran the P8 class which is basically like open-Red in the US. There were a lot of other WOC runners too, so the competition was quite tough. The map and the terrain were gorgeous, and it was a great day to run. Apart from the 200 extra meters that we needed to run up the trail to get to the start triangle, I loved this course.
I had a mistake on control 5, where I crossed the road in a different spot, farther right than I expected, and headed up into the woods on the other side. It took me a little bit to recover my senses and swing back. I was clearly running too fast on the way to 3 and 4 to make such a silly mistake.
felt really fast and really clean for the most part.
good to see some of the other US and Canadian runners hanging out in the finish arena.
Tuesday Jul 15, 2008 #
orienteering 1:22:14 [3] 10.9 km (7:33 / km) +420m 6:20 / km
WOC Men B Qualifier Long Distance--
Great day for orienteering, felt great warming up, very happy to be racing at WOC. Started near the end of the middle start bloc which was pretty ideal for me. I had a pretty good race, had one big mistake, the kind where I really should know better, but the rest of the course I kept on the rails. Not bad for my freshman effort. I haven't really checked splits but maybe 4-5 minutes lost because I wasn't paying enough attention and running behind another runner in the woods.
first 6 controls were in a very hilly area. I was a bit off on the first control, I was reading the map well, but the other two runners that I started with had controls higher on the hill, which made me lose confidence and I had to drop a couple of contours to get to my knoll. the string of cliffs from 3-5 were tricky but I was feeling okay because I was spiking the controls even if contouring around the hills seemed slow. the 9th control was my big mistake, I left the control at the same time as a Finnish woman, and I was running hard to keep with her through the slash. when I got to her control (#59) I was well aware that it wasn't mine and that I was too far to the right. I started running off to my left, and forced myself to bail out to the big field, and come back in again. I lost a bunch of time by not running straight and then trying to relocate off some of the rides as I was bailing to the field. My route to 10 was also kinda crappy ( down 2 minutes though fairly well executed) I should have swung left below the green. The rest of the course was really quite good for me. Not as fast as the elite runners passing me in the forest, but I have no trouble letting Mattias Merz run away from me, he's pretty much a god. The last loop 16-20 were really tricky and i was happy that I didn't have any big mistakes, a bit off on 20. The finish chute seemed long and I was just happy to be done.
Afterwards my legs still felt great, I was pretty happy ( except control 9) and proud of some of the other results that my fellow athletes posted.
Great day for orienteering, felt great warming up, very happy to be racing at WOC. Started near the end of the middle start bloc which was pretty ideal for me. I had a pretty good race, had one big mistake, the kind where I really should know better, but the rest of the course I kept on the rails. Not bad for my freshman effort. I haven't really checked splits but maybe 4-5 minutes lost because I wasn't paying enough attention and running behind another runner in the woods.
first 6 controls were in a very hilly area. I was a bit off on the first control, I was reading the map well, but the other two runners that I started with had controls higher on the hill, which made me lose confidence and I had to drop a couple of contours to get to my knoll. the string of cliffs from 3-5 were tricky but I was feeling okay because I was spiking the controls even if contouring around the hills seemed slow. the 9th control was my big mistake, I left the control at the same time as a Finnish woman, and I was running hard to keep with her through the slash. when I got to her control (#59) I was well aware that it wasn't mine and that I was too far to the right. I started running off to my left, and forced myself to bail out to the big field, and come back in again. I lost a bunch of time by not running straight and then trying to relocate off some of the rides as I was bailing to the field. My route to 10 was also kinda crappy ( down 2 minutes though fairly well executed) I should have swung left below the green. The rest of the course was really quite good for me. Not as fast as the elite runners passing me in the forest, but I have no trouble letting Mattias Merz run away from me, he's pretty much a god. The last loop 16-20 were really tricky and i was happy that I didn't have any big mistakes, a bit off on 20. The finish chute seemed long and I was just happy to be done.
Afterwards my legs still felt great, I was pretty happy ( except control 9) and proud of some of the other results that my fellow athletes posted.
C • Nice 4