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Monday Mar 19, 2018 #
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Forerunner and Garmin Connect aren't speaking to each other this afternoon, so I'll try to download and write up my race later.
Suffice it to say that at ~46:30 I was 20 minutes behind the leader :-O :-)
Nominal stats: 3.2 km, 70 m climb; 1:7500 map with 2.5m contour interval
12 minutes behind the fastest woman (Sue Kuestner ... this map favored runners by a large margin); 6th woman on Brown, 19th overall of about 33 or 34; first F65 since Penny wasn't there.
Suffice it to say that at ~46:30 I was 20 minutes behind the leader :-O :-)
Nominal stats: 3.2 km, 70 m climb; 1:7500 map with 2.5m contour interval
12 minutes behind the fastest woman (Sue Kuestner ... this map favored runners by a large margin); 6th woman on Brown, 19th overall of about 33 or 34; first F65 since Penny wasn't there.
10 AM
Walking warm up/down 11:40 1.12 km (10:26 / km)
ahr:106 max:122 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
To start at Point Pinole Regional Park, from the assembly area (which was about a 5 minute walk from parking). Temp was in the 50s, and it was sunny, which made it a considerably nicer day than yesterday.
I was able to get a start time a few minutes earlier than my assigned (when another Brown runner came up and requested one, as hers was almost an hour later).
I was able to get a start time a few minutes earlier than my assigned (when another Brown runner came up and requested one, as hers was almost an hour later).
Orienteering race 46:33 *** 3.8 km (12:14 / km) +40m 11:38 / km
ahr:138 max:161 spiked:14/17c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
COW Stage 3 at Point Pinole, 1:7500 map and courses by Steve Gregg.
Fast park with not much climb, especially the first half or so; lots of open land (mapped as rough open) with varying lengths of grass.
Steve Tarry passed me on the way into 3 (he saw me punch) and led the way to 4 which came up sooner than I expected (then he disappeared). Passed several slower Brown competitors on the way to 13 and 14, and was passed by Tori Campbell and someone from BAOC to the penultimate control which made it easier to find. Navigated the rest of them by myself, mostly with good results.
Coming out of the woods from 1, I could see a flag in the distance and thought it was mine but when I was halfway across the field (after crossing the ditch) I realized that it was on a thicketed ruin and I was looking for a ditch so I corrected.
Coming out of 7 I looped around to the left and had more of a detour than I expected from the map; apparently a patch of poison oak had sprung up in the last two weeks which affected route choice. Those who looped around to the right had no problem; so that cost me a bit of time although I had no trouble finding control 8 (just getting to it without getting tangled in either poison oak or a downed tree).
As I was crossing the grassy field after 8, my toe caught on a poison oak vine and I fell (fortunately just landed in a grassy area, not more P.O.). I got up and dusted myself off and again headed to 9, which I found with no problem. I didn't do the right type of navigation to 10 through featureless woods (bearing and pace counting!) but just headed off in the mostly right direction and eventually found it (sloppily). Didn't take water because I was carrying a water bottle waist belt. 11 was a short leg to a distinct tree--easy.
As I reached for my water bottle I realized it wasn't there, but I wasn't about to go looking for it; I thought it might have fallen out between 10 and 11 but that wasn't a sure thing, so I finished the race with no more problems.
Then I went looking for my bottle (Camelbak brand so a very nice one).
Fast park with not much climb, especially the first half or so; lots of open land (mapped as rough open) with varying lengths of grass.
Steve Tarry passed me on the way into 3 (he saw me punch) and led the way to 4 which came up sooner than I expected (then he disappeared). Passed several slower Brown competitors on the way to 13 and 14, and was passed by Tori Campbell and someone from BAOC to the penultimate control which made it easier to find. Navigated the rest of them by myself, mostly with good results.
Coming out of the woods from 1, I could see a flag in the distance and thought it was mine but when I was halfway across the field (after crossing the ditch) I realized that it was on a thicketed ruin and I was looking for a ditch so I corrected.
Coming out of 7 I looped around to the left and had more of a detour than I expected from the map; apparently a patch of poison oak had sprung up in the last two weeks which affected route choice. Those who looped around to the right had no problem; so that cost me a bit of time although I had no trouble finding control 8 (just getting to it without getting tangled in either poison oak or a downed tree).
As I was crossing the grassy field after 8, my toe caught on a poison oak vine and I fell (fortunately just landed in a grassy area, not more P.O.). I got up and dusted myself off and again headed to 9, which I found with no problem. I didn't do the right type of navigation to 10 through featureless woods (bearing and pace counting!) but just headed off in the mostly right direction and eventually found it (sloppily). Didn't take water because I was carrying a water bottle waist belt. 11 was a short leg to a distinct tree--easy.
As I reached for my water bottle I realized it wasn't there, but I wasn't about to go looking for it; I thought it might have fallen out between 10 and 11 but that wasn't a sure thing, so I finished the race with no more problems.
Then I went looking for my bottle (Camelbak brand so a very nice one).
12 PM
Orienteering 57:24 4.05 km (14:11 / km) +24m 13:47 / km
ahr:117 max:138 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
After maps had been handed out (meaning all starters had started), I checked with Vicki and headed out up the park road to see if I could recover my water bottle, thinking I'd check between 10 and 11 where I thought I'd dropped it.
As I was walking/jogging on the road I remembered that I fell coming out of 8, which could very well have launched the bottle out of the belt, so I started looking there (didn't see it, but wasn't sure exactly where I'd crossed the field...there were a lot of elephant tracks in the grass). Tried to follow my path through 11 but didn't see it anywhere. Then I decided to give the field after 8 one more try, found the vine that tripped me up, and a few feet beyond it was my water bottle, nose down in the grass. Yay!!
The walk out to that area (about as far from finish as it could be since 8-9 was where the course turned and we headed back toward the finish area) was nice as there were several thickets with birds flitting around (think I saw a western bluebird), and areas of California poppies starting to pop us as well. I'm hoping we'll see hillsides full of them sometime this week, but I'll take patches here and there. They really need the rain they've been getting this week.
Saw a group of folks near one of the large eucalyptus near the finish (6-7' diameter) and thought it was a birder group we'd seen near parking, but it was Peter Goodwin's mapping session. :-)
As I was walking/jogging on the road I remembered that I fell coming out of 8, which could very well have launched the bottle out of the belt, so I started looking there (didn't see it, but wasn't sure exactly where I'd crossed the field...there were a lot of elephant tracks in the grass). Tried to follow my path through 11 but didn't see it anywhere. Then I decided to give the field after 8 one more try, found the vine that tripped me up, and a few feet beyond it was my water bottle, nose down in the grass. Yay!!
The walk out to that area (about as far from finish as it could be since 8-9 was where the course turned and we headed back toward the finish area) was nice as there were several thickets with birds flitting around (think I saw a western bluebird), and areas of California poppies starting to pop us as well. I'm hoping we'll see hillsides full of them sometime this week, but I'll take patches here and there. They really need the rain they've been getting this week.
Saw a group of folks near one of the large eucalyptus near the finish (6-7' diameter) and thought it was a birder group we'd seen near parking, but it was Peter Goodwin's mapping session. :-)