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Sunday Aug 10, 2014 #
12 PM
Orienteering race 58:53 [4] *** 8.17 km (7:12 / km) +108m 6:46 / km
spiked:12/14c shoes: VJ Falcons 5
US Classic Champs Day 2 on Round Mountain map. Significant overlap with yesterday's map, including sharing a control location (approached from a different angle). I thought the course was rather uninspired, with 12 of the 14 legs being straight runs to a point feature (granted, you had to pay attention to stay on line and read small features). The course avoided the more technical rocky area which Green X and Brown X used. The one leg close to the rocks had the obvious route choice to run around the rocks through open area.
Another fail. Missed a little on the first control and then lost contact on the way to #2, losing 7 - 8 minutes. Saw several controls from the Trail-O still out (Apparently at least one of them was within the circle of a control on another course - not good. Did those who had done the Trail-O have an unfair familiarity with the terrain of the Day 2 courses?) Ran well the rest of the way except for drifting left going to 12 and hitting the fence (not literally). Running speed from #2 on was about the same as the leaders in M60, but I had already blown any chance to be competitive.
Straight line distance 6.7 km.
Another fail. Missed a little on the first control and then lost contact on the way to #2, losing 7 - 8 minutes. Saw several controls from the Trail-O still out (Apparently at least one of them was within the circle of a control on another course - not good. Did those who had done the Trail-O have an unfair familiarity with the terrain of the Day 2 courses?) Ran well the rest of the way except for drifting left going to 12 and hitting the fence (not literally). Running speed from #2 on was about the same as the leaders in M60, but I had already blown any chance to be competitive.
Straight line distance 6.7 km.
Saturday Aug 9, 2014 #
12 PM
Orienteering race 1:20:52 [4] *** 9.78 km (8:16 / km) +181m 7:34 / km
spiked:11/15c shoes: VJ Falcons 5
US Classic Champs Day 1 on Badger Gulch map near Lake George, CO. Very open and runnable with lots of small rocky point features, some of which were mapped, and a technical rocky area. Good course with several controls in the rocky area and a very fast second half in the flatter area.
Not my day. Big error on the first control, then some GI issues which made it so I had to do quite a bit of walking in the second half of the course (altitude may have also been a factor). Way down in the placings and about 13 minutes behind the fastest M60. 10 minutes of navigational error plus a few minutes lost walking. Straight line distance 7.5km.
Not my day. Big error on the first control, then some GI issues which made it so I had to do quite a bit of walking in the second half of the course (altitude may have also been a factor). Way down in the placings and about 13 minutes behind the fastest M60. 10 minutes of navigational error plus a few minutes lost walking. Straight line distance 7.5km.
Friday Aug 8, 2014 #
Orienteering 20:00 [2] *** 1.0 mi (20:00 / mi)
shoes: NB878 - #12
Phone-O at Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Interesting exercise.
Thursday Aug 7, 2014 #
5 PM
Orienteering 24:38 [2] *** 3.31 km (7:27 / km) +34m 7:05 / km
spiked:9/10c shoes: VJ Falcons 5
Model event at Round Mountain. Terrain looks to be a bit quicker than Whistler. :-)
Wednesday Aug 6, 2014 #
Note
(rest day)
Travel day. SEA - DEN. All the physical activity associated with air travel, walking in and around airports and schlepping luggage around. No issues, just the normal irritations of travel.
Tuesday Aug 5, 2014 #
Walking 40:00 [1] 2.0 mi (20:00 / mi)
shoes: NB878 - #12
Walk from parking to relay arena and back afterward.
2 PM
Orienteering race 39:30 [4] *** 3.85 km (10:16 / km) +139m 8:42 / km
spiked:14/15c shoes: VJ Falcons 5
Relay Leg 3 on Lost Lake map at Whistler. SL distance 3.0km.
Monday Aug 4, 2014 #
2 PM
Orienteering race 1:42:07 [4] *** 6.73 km (15:11 / km) +294m 12:27 / km
spiked:13/16c shoes: VJ Falcons 5
COC Long on Black Magic map at Whistler. SL 5.2km. Ski lift ride followed by 10 minute downhill walk to the start. Spectacular scenery. Very convenient since it was about a three minute walk to the lift from where we were staying. Could see the arena from our room (and went there after running to watch live results on line rather than wait for printouts to be posted). :-)
Physically challenging course with advertised climb of 230m and a net descent of 400m from start to finish, some of it pretty steep. Woods were thickish with many areas of limited visibility, so fairly slow going. There was one untimed stream crossing which involved about 5 contours of descent (rope aided at one point) and 5 contours of climb, with the horizontal distance for the leg at about 70m. We were allowed 5 minutes to cross, which gave me about a minute of recovery time. The course also had about 600m of streamered routes, all through the woods, all of questionable necessity.
My run was OK except for one major error on control #11, which was the last control on the course with challenging navigation (the last five controls transported us across and down the ski area to the finish). About halfway to 11 I misread where I was and ended up descending about 7 steep contours through light green junk only to have to climb 5 contours back up to the control after I relocatedon a trail. That pretty much sapped any energy I had left and cost about 8 minutes. Also lost a couple of minutes on #6 searching a bit for a saddle in an area with several small hills (and therefore several saddles). I think I just didn't see the flag due to vegetation on my first pass. Ended up 6th out of about 25 in M55. 3rd was achievable without the screw-up on 11.
Physically challenging course with advertised climb of 230m and a net descent of 400m from start to finish, some of it pretty steep. Woods were thickish with many areas of limited visibility, so fairly slow going. There was one untimed stream crossing which involved about 5 contours of descent (rope aided at one point) and 5 contours of climb, with the horizontal distance for the leg at about 70m. We were allowed 5 minutes to cross, which gave me about a minute of recovery time. The course also had about 600m of streamered routes, all through the woods, all of questionable necessity.
My run was OK except for one major error on control #11, which was the last control on the course with challenging navigation (the last five controls transported us across and down the ski area to the finish). About halfway to 11 I misread where I was and ended up descending about 7 steep contours through light green junk only to have to climb 5 contours back up to the control after I relocatedon a trail. That pretty much sapped any energy I had left and cost about 8 minutes. Also lost a couple of minutes on #6 searching a bit for a saddle in an area with several small hills (and therefore several saddles). I think I just didn't see the flag due to vegetation on my first pass. Ended up 6th out of about 25 in M55. 3rd was achievable without the screw-up on 11.