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Sunday Oct 23, 2011 #
10 AM
Orienteering 1:17:54 *** 8.9 km (8:45 / km) +186m 7:55 / km
ahr:139 max:173 spiked:13/15c slept:6.75 shoes: 2011 NB MT101 black
Long distance race at Middlesex Fells. Definitely a runners course, and I do better at this sort of thing than at more precise navigation, even if I am basically pretty slow. Didn't see the superior left trail route to #1 and thrashed through a lot of nasty green, including some particularly unpleasant smilax greenbrier, so slow, if no problem finding it. Then pretty good work 2-4, in good contact. Inexplicably left 4 the wrong direction - saw the trail below and thought I wanted to be on it. Then another wrong decision - should have just sucked it up and climbed back up and over, but I went all the way around to the S on trail. Approaching the control I got stuck in waist deep mud and had a lengthy time extricating myself. Seems the same thing happened to Charlie Shahbazian. Then easy to 6 and long trail run to 7. Saw Dennis coming back from 7 along the trail toward 8. Got a little confused up top and missed 7 to the left, wandering a bit until I just went down to the trail on the other side. Lost about 4 minutes or so here. Then trail to 8, where I saw George Minarik the same way I had seen Dennis earlier. Jeff S, much faster, went by between 8 and 9, as did Craig W, a little faster. Craig still in sight to 10, but when I cut off on trail to 11 he pushed on for the next trail and I didn't see him again. Passed by a group of red and blue runners on the trail as I was heading to 12. No problems from there on, hustling pretty hard to 15 and the finish, and apparently picking up a few places, as I was only 2 seconds in front of Craig and 15 in front of Phil. Generally a pretty satisfactory run. Somehow lucky enough to eke out a silver medal. Amazing.
When we were leaving and going under the tunnel that had 13 on top, I saw about 6 brown runners streaming down the hillside and examining the tunnel from underneath, having a hard time comprehending that the control was on top. It was pretty amusing. Of course I do stuff like that all the time, but mercifully off in the woods and not for public display.
my route
When we were leaving and going under the tunnel that had 13 on top, I saw about 6 brown runners streaming down the hillside and examining the tunnel from underneath, having a hard time comprehending that the control was on top. It was pretty amusing. Of course I do stuff like that all the time, but mercifully off in the woods and not for public display.
my route