Orienteering race 16:40 [5] *** 1.6 mi (10:25 / mi)
spiked:19/19c shoes: Salomon SC 3 blue
Totem Park (on the UBC campus), Vancouver. Sprint Camp Session 5, Race 3. Mass start Farsta, 2.2 km, no climb. This was really fun, all about keeping your head. I navigated extremely well but didn't go all out physically (the races tomorrow are the ones I really want to go for). My time of 16:40 is from when I punched at the Start Triangle. My official time was 1:20 mins slower, with :50 of that due to my misunderstanding the start procedure.
Went to the meet in the Ellis' car. Got there just in time, but no time for a warmup. Though I heard some instructions for the mass start (in four waves), including that we weren't standing in the start triangle, I didn't get that we were supposed to go to the start triangle and punch before heading to #1. So, I start heading for 1, wondering why no one else was going that way. After a bit, figured out that everyone was going to the start triangle and punching, so I had to go all the way back and do that. Cost me about 50 secs.
After that, navigated extremely well and without much hesitation, only once or twice missing the optimal route, but not by much. Did particularly well (reflected in the split rankings) on the first leg of each succeeding loop, which I was able to do by reading ahead on the next map while I approached the Finish on the current one. Also did really well on course B leg 4 (determined S route was best while running on the road to 3) and 4th course, leg 2 (found the middle way, with Marie-Josee in hot pursuit).
Note: My ordering of the first 3 courses was BCA. Other people had different permutations, making the split rankings in AP meaningless. Easy to identify course C because it had 5 controls and the others had 4, and also it had one extremely short leg. Better yet, in Winsplits the legs are rearranged so that the splits ARE comparable, though the legs are not necessarily in the order you did them.
Unfortunately, the gps couldn't seem to get the signal in the start area, which was among some very tall trees.
[Orienteering Race - Sprint]
Running warm up/down 6:00 [2] 0.4 mi (15:00 / mi)
shoes: Salomon SC 3 blue
Cool down (hadn't been time for a warm up), partly with Joanne Woods.