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Saturday Aug 27, 2005 #
running 1:10:00 [2] *
Parc de Sceaux, trying to read cassière map from a few days back. I think it'll be worth either getting a loupe or stopping to read the map - take in info faster than while running at reduced pace... to consider
Thursday Aug 25, 2005 #
running 25:00 [1]
recuperation jog, morning after the week before...
C • WOC? 3
Wednesday Aug 24, 2005 #
orienteering 1:20:00 [3] ***** 4.6 km (17:23 / km)
21c
La Cassière,
Aydat
Belgian Training Camp day 3, a little middle distance to finish up!!
Back is a bit stiff after yesterday (and the day before, i suppose - this terrain doesn't let up).
1:10000 map, one of the best around, took me a little time to get into it. Got the first couple of controls ok, but the 5th I was running to hit a wall, nothing simpler, but then got worried and semi-convinced I had passed it wihout noticing (not that this was possible). So I spent 5 minutes relocating in a wee area. Lots of people overtook me off to the side as I had dliberately taken a slightly roundabout "faster" route.
Caught up and overtook several on the 6th which I took nicely, then leapfrogging with Vincent (or was it Nicolas :) S for a few controls. A mistake on the 10th and others overtook, alternative route well-executed to the 11th and I wsa in "second", a little behind V. Meet V and MatthiasG at the 12th, a little behind at the 13th (independently) get 14 in the lead, mistake allows those two to atch up for 15, ahead again at 16, run to linear feature failed again on the way to 17, stopped too soon, then ran down the wrong re-entrant when I did get there... doh... didn't lose much on the last few.
What a fantastic map!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jon Are Myhren was best running 56 minutes, 12 minute ks, and he is GOOD. Shall we have a 2km middle qualifier next year????
Aydat
Belgian Training Camp day 3, a little middle distance to finish up!!
Back is a bit stiff after yesterday (and the day before, i suppose - this terrain doesn't let up).
1:10000 map, one of the best around, took me a little time to get into it. Got the first couple of controls ok, but the 5th I was running to hit a wall, nothing simpler, but then got worried and semi-convinced I had passed it wihout noticing (not that this was possible). So I spent 5 minutes relocating in a wee area. Lots of people overtook me off to the side as I had dliberately taken a slightly roundabout "faster" route.
Caught up and overtook several on the 6th which I took nicely, then leapfrogging with Vincent (or was it Nicolas :) S for a few controls. A mistake on the 10th and others overtook, alternative route well-executed to the 11th and I wsa in "second", a little behind V. Meet V and MatthiasG at the 12th, a little behind at the 13th (independently) get 14 in the lead, mistake allows those two to atch up for 15, ahead again at 16, run to linear feature failed again on the way to 17, stopped too soon, then ran down the wrong re-entrant when I did get there... doh... didn't lose much on the last few.
What a fantastic map!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jon Are Myhren was best running 56 minutes, 12 minute ks, and he is GOOD. Shall we have a 2km middle qualifier next year????
orienteering 15:00 [2]
went out picking up four controls, ones I had got pretty well. This didn't stop me losing contact a few times. 10 mins trail running plus twenty minutes walk-jogging in the forest.
Talking with the mapper wsa interesting before the course, apparently he's gone through two mapping controllers already and the third has yet to be seen. He agrees that the 1:15k map scale is ridiculous - it will lead to simpler courses because the detail won't fit, reminiscent of orienteering back in the very beginning - run 2km SSE to the top of a 45m hill... great...
running speed here is low with stones and veget, and this also makes the map-reading difficult.
Talking with the mapper wsa interesting before the course, apparently he's gone through two mapping controllers already and the third has yet to be seen. He agrees that the 1:15k map scale is ridiculous - it will lead to simpler courses because the detail won't fit, reminiscent of orienteering back in the very beginning - run 2km SSE to the top of a 45m hill... great...
running speed here is low with stones and veget, and this also makes the map-reading difficult.
Tuesday Aug 23, 2005 #
orienteering 1:31:00 [3] ***** 7.2 km (12:38 / km)
Belgian Training Camp Day 2
Volvic
Les Sources
Isn't life great?! Beatiful, technical terrain. The only bémol is the excess of stones around controls 16 and 17 which made moving hard. These were also two controls I made mistakes on, or at least went unreasonably slowly. Well, 17 I fell upon par hasard... also was off on 19, 24, 25, 26 but relocated ok amazingly.
Owe the belgians so much for this camp!!!
Volvic
Les Sources
Isn't life great?! Beatiful, technical terrain. The only bémol is the excess of stones around controls 16 and 17 which made moving hard. These were also two controls I made mistakes on, or at least went unreasonably slowly. Well, 17 I fell upon par hasard... also was off on 19, 24, 25, 26 but relocated ok amazingly.
Owe the belgians so much for this camp!!!
orienteering 10:00 [2]
control pick-up
orienteering 1:26:28 [3] ***** 6.5 km (13:18 / km)
Mazaye
Same map as the IR back in April (24th?), but concentrated in a different part. Fantastic stuff. Incredible complicated area with green and fallen trees and stuff with four controls, missed the last one and lost a lot of time, another control I lost a few minutes on was due to not seeing the pile of stones on the wee spur I navigated really well to.... really annoyed me. I make mistakes here, but when it goes well it gives an incredible feeling, really amazing - it seems so improbable that one can match map to terrain and navigate here... special.
In general all the courses set have been very well planned. Lots of interesting orienteering!!! and only a couple of misplaced controls over the three days. really impressive. Belgians are great!!!
Same map as the IR back in April (24th?), but concentrated in a different part. Fantastic stuff. Incredible complicated area with green and fallen trees and stuff with four controls, missed the last one and lost a lot of time, another control I lost a few minutes on was due to not seeing the pile of stones on the wee spur I navigated really well to.... really annoyed me. I make mistakes here, but when it goes well it gives an incredible feeling, really amazing - it seems so improbable that one can match map to terrain and navigate here... special.
In general all the courses set have been very well planned. Lots of interesting orienteering!!! and only a couple of misplaced controls over the three days. really impressive. Belgians are great!!!
Monday Aug 22, 2005 #
orienteering 1:10:45 [2] *****
Belgian Training Camp Day 1
Aydat
(site d'orientation) 1:5000
Used the permanent controls (isn't this fantastic? Permanent, ultra-technical orienteering courses).
Found it tough navigationally, I suspect that now, after the camp is over, I'd find it pretty easy. Towards the end we had a nice little balade into the green. Surprised myself by finding the controls without much problem (but very reduced speed).
Aydat
(site d'orientation) 1:5000
Used the permanent controls (isn't this fantastic? Permanent, ultra-technical orienteering courses).
Found it tough navigationally, I suspect that now, after the camp is over, I'd find it pretty easy. Towards the end we had a nice little balade into the green. Surprised myself by finding the controls without much problem (but very reduced speed).
orienteering 1:13:00 [2] *****
Volvic,
Les Sources
Permanent controls again. 1:5000 map.
Started with Circuit A in the Green, technicallissimo and fantastic. Such pleasure... and head-wrecking. - 39 minutes
Then 33 minutes for circuit B, not so interesting, map had changed a bit so took a bit longer than it would have otherwise, also getting tired...
Les Sources
Permanent controls again. 1:5000 map.
Started with Circuit A in the Green, technicallissimo and fantastic. Such pleasure... and head-wrecking. - 39 minutes
Then 33 minutes for circuit B, not so interesting, map had changed a bit so took a bit longer than it would have otherwise, also getting tired...
trail run 10:00 [2] **
Instead of C, went out for a jog on the trails, cut through a nice area of "white" forest also, reading map along the way...
Sunday Aug 21, 2005 #
trail run warm up/down 10:00 [3]
Relay got washed and fogged out (what wusses :)
so went with the belgians to French Middle CHamps area for a bit of training. Ran UP to the start of the middle final to say hello to the tree that beat me. It's still scary.
so went with the belgians to French Middle CHamps area for a bit of training. Ran UP to the start of the middle final to say hello to the tree that beat me. It's still scary.
orienteering 1:00:00 [4]
Championnats de France
Moyenne Distance Finale Hommes
Take Two.
To get rid of demons decided this had to be run. Not à fond, but completed... Really nice course, sorry I couldn't have run it in compn. Stones, slopes, vegetation, well-planned. Messed up one route choice and a couple of controls (both on 15, where I had a straighter heavy on climb route and then was two contours lower than where the control would have been).
Nasty weather. cold and wet.
Good orienteering, although downhills were slippy and rough on the back.
Moyenne Distance Finale Hommes
Take Two.
To get rid of demons decided this had to be run. Not à fond, but completed... Really nice course, sorry I couldn't have run it in compn. Stones, slopes, vegetation, well-planned. Messed up one route choice and a couple of controls (both on 15, where I had a straighter heavy on climb route and then was two contours lower than where the control would have been).
Nasty weather. cold and wet.
Good orienteering, although downhills were slippy and rough on the back.