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Thursday Aug 6, 2009 #
Orienteering race 1:13:24 [4] **** 6.5 km (11:18 / km) +95m 10:31 / km
spiked:16/19c slept:7.5 shoes: VJ Falcons
Scottish 6 Days, Day 4 - Tentsmuir, W35L (course 37)
Position: 20/34
Probably my favourite day, but then I like this sort of complex, sand-dune area (but where there's grass on the dunes, so I'm not running on sand, which is physically draining).
I didn't make many mistakes, either, and I kept running, which is probably why I got a good result.
#1: I found it hard-going through the brashings & wondered whether I was going to be able to run at all for the race. I wasn't really sure what I was looking for, as I was struggling to interpret the contours, and so I was hesitant & unsure on my way in & wobbled a bit, before finding it.
Lost 30 seconds.
1-2: I mis-remembered the control description & thought I was looking for the eastern re-entrant, not the western one, and was a bit surprised not to find the flag in it, before re-checking the control descriptions & realising my mistake.
Lost 20 seconds.
14-15: Having run down the path to minimise the amount of running through the bracken, and taken advantage of the elephant tracks through the bracken (I was glad I was not first off) I then didn't think to pace count to know where I was & couldn't see the land shapes because of the bracken. So I stopped too soon and started looking around on an earlier hill for my control, but nothing fit. Having realised my mistake, I found the bracken ended before my hill and found my control easily (since I could now see the contours).
Lost 90 seconds.
I forgot to reset my GPS watch, so no distance & no heartrate information, just a GPS track.
Position: 20/34
Probably my favourite day, but then I like this sort of complex, sand-dune area (but where there's grass on the dunes, so I'm not running on sand, which is physically draining).
I didn't make many mistakes, either, and I kept running, which is probably why I got a good result.
#1: I found it hard-going through the brashings & wondered whether I was going to be able to run at all for the race. I wasn't really sure what I was looking for, as I was struggling to interpret the contours, and so I was hesitant & unsure on my way in & wobbled a bit, before finding it.
Lost 30 seconds.
1-2: I mis-remembered the control description & thought I was looking for the eastern re-entrant, not the western one, and was a bit surprised not to find the flag in it, before re-checking the control descriptions & realising my mistake.
Lost 20 seconds.
14-15: Having run down the path to minimise the amount of running through the bracken, and taken advantage of the elephant tracks through the bracken (I was glad I was not first off) I then didn't think to pace count to know where I was & couldn't see the land shapes because of the bracken. So I stopped too soon and started looking around on an earlier hill for my control, but nothing fit. Having realised my mistake, I found the bracken ended before my hill and found my control easily (since I could now see the contours).
Lost 90 seconds.
I forgot to reset my GPS watch, so no distance & no heartrate information, just a GPS track.