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Saturday Apr 6, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 54:33 5.25 km (10:23 / km) +231m 8:31 / km
ahr:139 max:162 slept:7.5 shoes: 2012 MT101 Green
Flying Pig Brown Long Distance race at Yellowwood State Park. Not so long, especially compared to the other courses. First two controls were quite long, but the rest was pretty normal. Not as fast as the speedsters dwildfogel and walk, but no real problems and plugged along ok.
Left the big trail sooner than I should, and had a more difficult trip to the control as a result, including missing out on seeing it from a distance. Long slog uphill to 2, fighting around and through a lot of blowdown across the mapped trail, then a minor stop to check a code in an earlier reentrant and some head scratching in two other unmapped reentrants before the right one. 3,4 and 5 feeling in control. For 6 I took the switchbacks trail, climbing up to it, then down, up and down again before jumping off near the control. I totally missed the much more efficient road route to the right. Otherwise fine, and no problems with the various tender parts.
Map and route.
1. Lack of patience. I was struggling on the big trail and got tired of it, so I lost my plan and jumped off early, down the really steep skid road, and then had to climb a spur before getting down to the big stream. Just some extra work and lost time compared to staying on the big stream at the top. Then to add insult to injury, I couldn't see the flag from the direction I was coming and climbed on the hill first, before having to climb down to see it on the stream side. People coming the right direction saw it from a distance. The cost - a good 1:30.
2. Really tough climb out of there. Lots of large uprooted trees across the trail, and lots of green briar trying to go around them. Slow, slow, slow. At the top I went left, kind of afraid to go straight through the green. Should have known it wasn't bad. Off on the bigger trail, angling to the smaller trail heading north, hopping off at the bend and down to the reentrant junction, across the spur and in. Sucked off momentarily by a control in an earlier reentrant, and then another reentrant that seems not to be mapped. So maybe another 1:30 slower than an optimal performance.
3. Crossed the stream, hugged the bottom of the hillside, straight in. Just fine.
4. Also fine, pretty straight.
5. Straight to the trail, angling uphill and taking the trail left to the top of the bend and then angling down the spur, hitting it right on. Dennis saved a couple of lines of climb, had a little faster time.
6. Took the wiggly up and down trail right of the line, but didn't look nearly far enough right. The road was much faster, but I didn't even register it.
7. Out to the road (a big surprise to find out it was there). Planned to take it to the ride and follow that, but again lost patience and fought through on a straight line, losing a bit of time and fumbling a bit.
8. Through the clearing to avoid the fence. No problem.
9. Didn't see the bridge until too late, but fine to go around.
Left the big trail sooner than I should, and had a more difficult trip to the control as a result, including missing out on seeing it from a distance. Long slog uphill to 2, fighting around and through a lot of blowdown across the mapped trail, then a minor stop to check a code in an earlier reentrant and some head scratching in two other unmapped reentrants before the right one. 3,4 and 5 feeling in control. For 6 I took the switchbacks trail, climbing up to it, then down, up and down again before jumping off near the control. I totally missed the much more efficient road route to the right. Otherwise fine, and no problems with the various tender parts.
Map and route.
1. Lack of patience. I was struggling on the big trail and got tired of it, so I lost my plan and jumped off early, down the really steep skid road, and then had to climb a spur before getting down to the big stream. Just some extra work and lost time compared to staying on the big stream at the top. Then to add insult to injury, I couldn't see the flag from the direction I was coming and climbed on the hill first, before having to climb down to see it on the stream side. People coming the right direction saw it from a distance. The cost - a good 1:30.
2. Really tough climb out of there. Lots of large uprooted trees across the trail, and lots of green briar trying to go around them. Slow, slow, slow. At the top I went left, kind of afraid to go straight through the green. Should have known it wasn't bad. Off on the bigger trail, angling to the smaller trail heading north, hopping off at the bend and down to the reentrant junction, across the spur and in. Sucked off momentarily by a control in an earlier reentrant, and then another reentrant that seems not to be mapped. So maybe another 1:30 slower than an optimal performance.
3. Crossed the stream, hugged the bottom of the hillside, straight in. Just fine.
4. Also fine, pretty straight.
5. Straight to the trail, angling uphill and taking the trail left to the top of the bend and then angling down the spur, hitting it right on. Dennis saved a couple of lines of climb, had a little faster time.
6. Took the wiggly up and down trail right of the line, but didn't look nearly far enough right. The road was much faster, but I didn't even register it.
7. Out to the road (a big surprise to find out it was there). Planned to take it to the ride and follow that, but again lost patience and fought through on a straight line, losing a bit of time and fumbling a bit.
8. Through the clearing to avoid the fence. No problem.
9. Didn't see the bridge until too late, but fine to go around.