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Sunday May 8, 2011 #
Event: Lac Beauchamp B-meet
7 AM
Note
stretching - 20 min
10 AM
Running warm up/down 12:59 2.3 km (5:38 / km) +7m 5:33 / km
ahr:145 max:159 shoes: Newbalance 758 Gray
Warm up before the prologue
Orienteering 15:42 *** 2.11 km (7:26 / km) +8m 7:17 / km
ahr:175 max:187
The Prologue - the course was only 1.5 ish km and I should have been around 10.5 min.
So many things contributed to this going so wrong. Brian had gotten back before I left with a time of 10 and a half minutes and challenged me to get under 10 min. So I went off borderline too fast - the first two controls were fine but then I relied too heavily on my compass to 3 and didn't slow down in the control circle... At this point Alex (Teutsch) was catching me because Robbie let him start roughly 10 seconds behind me. This of course threw me off even more and I lost 2 or 3 minutes which then made it that much harder to focus for the rest. 4 was ok because the boulder was quite visible but I was way off on my compass bearing to 5 and ended up in a parallel set of marshes and lost another couple of minutes...
I've noticed that when I treat courses as races I far too often make mistakes because I think speed is more (too) important. I really need to figure out how to deal with that.
So many things contributed to this going so wrong. Brian had gotten back before I left with a time of 10 and a half minutes and challenged me to get under 10 min. So I went off borderline too fast - the first two controls were fine but then I relied too heavily on my compass to 3 and didn't slow down in the control circle... At this point Alex (Teutsch) was catching me because Robbie let him start roughly 10 seconds behind me. This of course threw me off even more and I lost 2 or 3 minutes which then made it that much harder to focus for the rest. 4 was ok because the boulder was quite visible but I was way off on my compass bearing to 5 and ended up in a parallel set of marshes and lost another couple of minutes...
I've noticed that when I treat courses as races I far too often make mistakes because I think speed is more (too) important. I really need to figure out how to deal with that.
Orienteering race 45:19 *** 6.48 km (6:59 / km) +46m 6:45 / km
ahr:172 max:185 shoes: Inov-8 Orocs
This was the chase portion. I made a bunch of errors/ sloppy orienteering in the first several controls because I still hadn't recovered mentally from my disaster earlier in the morning. I cleaned up my act around control 5 as I got out of the North-western section of the map into the flatter faster stuff. Then I had a pretty clean good race.
Could have been better though...
Could have been better though...
Running warm up/down (Control pick-up) 5:00 [2] 0.5 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Orocs
Picking up a few controls after the race