trail run warm up/down 15:00 [1]
to start, only halfway to yesterday's one, and they kept the climb for after the start :(
orienteering race 2:31:14 [3] *** 14.0 km (10:48 / km) +720m 8:36 / km
19c
gigasport cp long distance
after yesteday's rather long middle distance i feared the worst today, ad got hit by it... completely ran out of sugar.
had a great night's sleep in the tesla brno clubhouse (thank you!!!) and felt better than the day before mentally.
didn't have any sports drink powder stuff with me so i just put about a litre of slightly salty water in my camelbak.
map was 1:15, and we avoided the most interesting areas so it was plenty sufficient.
1->2 i chose the path option which gave me time aplenty to plan the three other long legs. it seemed a bit simple. the shorter legs were much more interesting in general.
2 was a long way down and going back up to the extremely uninteresting 3rd control (50m climb along a stream to a marsh. wow) before continuing uphill to cross the spur to head to 4 was ridiculous, it seemed like climb for the sake of it - over 250m of it. i was already knackered by this point. 5,6,7 were shorter and somewhat technical. 7 i reckon was close to halfway... 7 to 8 there was another uphill... guh... but it was a nice leg despite the lack f route choice. 9->10 i chose the path route witha little extra climb at the end over the forest route as i was zajebany.
12 was a big downhill which i just managed to run. rather stupidly i took the straight-line route which involved 30+m of v steep climb at the end. By now zajebanissimo, i couldn't read the map going down the slope to 13 and i looked hopefully at a couple of cliffs before settling on the right one.
14 and 15 i walked mostly, uphill. 16 i broke into a jog, 17 i jogged too. 18 was downhill and i barely managed it.
By this stage I was so hungry for sugar I had drunk all my salty water ;)
18 the map actually seemed strange, i didn't really understand... i wonder wheher a control wasn't misplaced or the map was misproportioned... but i wasn't really in a fit state to judge.
stumbled along to the last control and up the finish chute...
a couple of sportsdrinks later i tottered back to my bags and munched biscuit after biscuit to try to get the energy to change my clothes before hopping back in the car for warsaw.
munched munchies all the way back and by the time (9:40pm) i was home i felt better. walked around town half the night with a friend. ate some soup and bigos. mmm bigos... it's worth the farts...
was cold walking around, also tired. must be careful not to get sick...
wow, smola ran this course in 91:17, the beast. halfway around i was on course for 130 mins, after that things got really bad.
i reckon in the past i have been capable of running this sort of race in sub120.
110 is probably wocqualifying standard... i've a long long way to go.
in my defence, this has been a way heavier week than any in the not-so-distant past (but there is no defence for that) so it was perhaps normal that i explode...
NB: Earlieer version was down as 1:51, not 151 minutes... made me look much less crap
Note
'twas a lovely weekend of orienteering. it's a very pretty part of the czech republic, not very developed due to poor transport routes apparently. nice hills, nice weather, nice forest, nice orienteering... ahhh... :)