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Thursday Jan 31, 2013 #
6 PM
Orienteering 43:22 5.3 km (8:11 / km) +106m 7:26 / km
ahr:147 max:164
Hugsett Wood night training.
Great practice for Tankersley BNC. Got completely lost a couple of times, but managed to relocate quickly, and was never far from being in the right place. Just need to spot the trickiest controls and slow down a bit more for them.
Great practice for Tankersley BNC. Got completely lost a couple of times, but managed to relocate quickly, and was never far from being in the right place. Just need to spot the trickiest controls and slow down a bit more for them.
Sunday Jan 27, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 22:47 2.17 mi (10:30 / mi) +142m 8:44 / mi
ahr:171 max:177
Edinburgh Chasing Sprint - Prologue, Whinny Hill
Somewhat tired after yesterday's city race, and I knew this would be a steep and potentially tough course on which errors could be costly, so the tactic was just to have a steady but clean run, and save energy for head-to-head racing in the chase. Went to plan, and I was within 20 seconds of the leader in 2nd place anyway.
Somewhat tired after yesterday's city race, and I knew this would be a steep and potentially tough course on which errors could be costly, so the tactic was just to have a steady but clean run, and save energy for head-to-head racing in the chase. Went to plan, and I was within 20 seconds of the leader in 2nd place anyway.
1 PM
Orienteering race 18:46 1.87 mi (10:02 / mi) +21m 9:42 / mi
ahr:152 max:183
Edinburgh Chasing Sprint - Chase.
Well it was fun, with lots of head-to-head racing, lots of changes in the lead (Linnea, Jase, Robin and me), and some quite tricky controls. I had assumed that no butterflies meant it was just a straight race with everyone on the same course, so was using "navigation" to try to take and extend a lead, but using "following" when I just needed to catch up.
Controls 9 and 10 were tricky, so we were all in there at the same time, and I managed to work out where #10 was first, so got away heading into 11 and 12. At 12 Linnea caught me, and then overtook me on the way into the Dynamic Earth complex for 13. Stupidly I decided I was racing her (didn't want womens elite beating us old men!), so I then followed her through 13, 14 and towards 15. However, she went to the wrong 15, I saw the code was wrong and checked my map and descriptions, and then had to correct myself having lost about a minute. In that time Jase had gone through (on a different gaffle!?), and took the win - well done.
I should have read the map and descriptions, but got carried away with the "chase". Lesson learnt!
Well it was fun, with lots of head-to-head racing, lots of changes in the lead (Linnea, Jase, Robin and me), and some quite tricky controls. I had assumed that no butterflies meant it was just a straight race with everyone on the same course, so was using "navigation" to try to take and extend a lead, but using "following" when I just needed to catch up.
Controls 9 and 10 were tricky, so we were all in there at the same time, and I managed to work out where #10 was first, so got away heading into 11 and 12. At 12 Linnea caught me, and then overtook me on the way into the Dynamic Earth complex for 13. Stupidly I decided I was racing her (didn't want womens elite beating us old men!), so I then followed her through 13, 14 and towards 15. However, she went to the wrong 15, I saw the code was wrong and checked my map and descriptions, and then had to correct myself having lost about a minute. In that time Jase had gone through (on a different gaffle!?), and took the win - well done.
I should have read the map and descriptions, but got carried away with the "chase". Lesson learnt!
Saturday Jan 26, 2013 #
1 PM
Orienteering race 35:16 4.61 mi (7:39 / mi) +87m 7:14 / mi
ahr:174 max:188
Edinburgh City Race. M40+, DSQ.
A good course with a nice mix of long and short legs, and good use made of some of the trickier parts of the city. With a late start I'd seen that good times were around 36 minutes, and I was going well with only minor hesitations having lost me a few seconds here and there (plus an unmapped passageway that cost me some time, but probably cost others time as well). At about 30 minutes into the race, coming through the Meadows, I checked my watch and realised 35 minutes might be possible, so I pushed hard on the easy controls. Then I caught someone else who was obviously on my course in the intricate section of controls 23/24/25, and pushed even harder to get past them. In doing so, I completely missed the fact that I hadn't punched #25, despite running within 2m of it. Idiot.
Disqualified as a result of pushing too hard, just like at Dunblane last season. A pity, because I'd have won M40+ by over a minute.
A good course with a nice mix of long and short legs, and good use made of some of the trickier parts of the city. With a late start I'd seen that good times were around 36 minutes, and I was going well with only minor hesitations having lost me a few seconds here and there (plus an unmapped passageway that cost me some time, but probably cost others time as well). At about 30 minutes into the race, coming through the Meadows, I checked my watch and realised 35 minutes might be possible, so I pushed hard on the easy controls. Then I caught someone else who was obviously on my course in the intricate section of controls 23/24/25, and pushed even harder to get past them. In doing so, I completely missed the fact that I hadn't punched #25, despite running within 2m of it. Idiot.
Disqualified as a result of pushing too hard, just like at Dunblane last season. A pity, because I'd have won M40+ by over a minute.
Tuesday Jan 15, 2013 #
8 AM
Running 46:09 6.99 km (6:36 / km) +193m 5:48 / km
ahr:124 max:144
Pre-breakfast run in the Rotorua Redwoods with Lesley.
Sunday Jan 13, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 46:53 4.89 km (9:36 / km) +192m 8:01 / km
ahr:160 max:174
Oceania Festival Day 7, The Slump, M45A. DNF.
This race was squeezed in between the World Cup Prologue and the World Cup Chasing Start races on the same area, so had to be over quickly. The organisers chose to make it a mass start, without gaffling, with all classes on the same course starting at once.
On our course the M18s were the ones who went out fastest, and I went with them, ahead of Charlie, Bill, Eddie Wymer and others on M45. While that was great fun to start with (and I was 2nd on the course for some of the early controls) the pace took its toll, and I completely died! So much so that I could barely orientate the map, remember which control I had last been to, or work out where I was. It was ridiculously hot, the sun was strong, and I didn't need to finish in order to get an overall result (six scores out of seven), so retiring seemed like the best option.
Charlie won M45, and in doing so took 3rd overall in the Oceania competition, pushing me down to 4th. I was pleased with a top 5.
This race was squeezed in between the World Cup Prologue and the World Cup Chasing Start races on the same area, so had to be over quickly. The organisers chose to make it a mass start, without gaffling, with all classes on the same course starting at once.
On our course the M18s were the ones who went out fastest, and I went with them, ahead of Charlie, Bill, Eddie Wymer and others on M45. While that was great fun to start with (and I was 2nd on the course for some of the early controls) the pace took its toll, and I completely died! So much so that I could barely orientate the map, remember which control I had last been to, or work out where I was. It was ridiculously hot, the sun was strong, and I didn't need to finish in order to get an overall result (six scores out of seven), so retiring seemed like the best option.
Charlie won M45, and in doing so took 3rd overall in the Oceania competition, pushing me down to 4th. I was pleased with a top 5.
Saturday Jan 12, 2013 #
12 PM
Orienteering race 1:10:09 7.99 km (8:47 / km) +293m 7:25 / km
ahr:162 max:176
Oceania Festival Day 6, Smedley, M45A. 6th.
Very hot, and a strange area with deep gulleys/streams surrounded by impassable cliffs. My start time 2 mins ahead of Al C-W, 4 mins ahead of Al Landells and 6 mins ahead of Charlie meant I was bound to see at least some of them. Got the route to #1 wrong, then got lost approaching the control, so no surprise to see Al C-W straight away who helped me find it. I expected him to run off and beat me by 10 minutes, but in fact he made some mistakes and overtook me at least a couple more times before the end of the course. Al Landells caught me at #14 and we ran together for the next 4, until all three of us came together at #18 which we all missed.
Very hot, and a strange area with deep gulleys/streams surrounded by impassable cliffs. My start time 2 mins ahead of Al C-W, 4 mins ahead of Al Landells and 6 mins ahead of Charlie meant I was bound to see at least some of them. Got the route to #1 wrong, then got lost approaching the control, so no surprise to see Al C-W straight away who helped me find it. I expected him to run off and beat me by 10 minutes, but in fact he made some mistakes and overtook me at least a couple more times before the end of the course. Al Landells caught me at #14 and we ran together for the next 4, until all three of us came together at #18 which we all missed.
Thursday Jan 10, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:19:26 9.51 km (8:21 / km) +331m 7:07 / km
ahr:162 max:174
Oceania Festival Day 5, Ngatawhai, M45A. 13th.
A hot day and a tough steep area. I took it steady and was going reasonably well but took a poor route on the long leg, and also fell over a crag while doing it, which cost me 4 minutes. Luckily nothing broken, though I ripped the skin off a couple of fingers while trying in vain to stop myself slipping down the increasing steep rocky bank at the top of the crag.
The end of the course felt more like survival than racing - I was just pleased to finish, and not surprised that I was some way down the results
A hot day and a tough steep area. I took it steady and was going reasonably well but took a poor route on the long leg, and also fell over a crag while doing it, which cost me 4 minutes. Luckily nothing broken, though I ripped the skin off a couple of fingers while trying in vain to stop myself slipping down the increasing steep rocky bank at the top of the crag.
The end of the course felt more like survival than racing - I was just pleased to finish, and not surprised that I was some way down the results
Tuesday Jan 8, 2013 #
3 PM
Orienteering race 16:50 [4] 3.0 km (5:37 / km) +100m 4:49 / km
Oceania Festival Day 4, Middle Earth (Wellington College), M45A. 5th.
A really varied Sprint area, starting on steep wooded hillside, and finishing in the complex Wellington College grounds. I should have been 90-120 seconds faster which would have got me 2nd place, but made a couple of small errors due to lack of concentration. I couldn't have done Al's time of just over 14 mins.
A really varied Sprint area, starting on steep wooded hillside, and finishing in the complex Wellington College grounds. I should have been 90-120 seconds faster which would have got me 2nd place, but made a couple of small errors due to lack of concentration. I couldn't have done Al's time of just over 14 mins.
Sunday Jan 6, 2013 #
4 PM
Orienteering race 30:29 4.18 km (7:17 / km) +4m 7:15 / km
ahr:167 max:175
Oceania Festival Day 3, Manga Pirau, M45A. 1st.
Another sand dunes area, but this time with a reasonable amount of the course in open dunes rather than forest. I got lucky! Rob Jessop came and introduced himself to me at the start (aparently we'd run against each other years ago at an OK Nuts Trophy race). Rob then started 2 minutes ahead of me, but blew the first control, so just as I was approaching it he was arriving from the opposite direction. He then sprinted off towards number 2, and I did my best to hang on to him. I managed to hang on, but only just - he was doing the navigation, and I was map reading only enough to know roughly where we were if it all went wrong.
On a leg through some crappy bushy stuff he took a different route and I got ahead, but I then hesitated and he came by again. He did finally break away at the end, to finish 20 seconds before me. Had I not got a tow, Rob would have won by a deecent margin.
Another sand dunes area, but this time with a reasonable amount of the course in open dunes rather than forest. I got lucky! Rob Jessop came and introduced himself to me at the start (aparently we'd run against each other years ago at an OK Nuts Trophy race). Rob then started 2 minutes ahead of me, but blew the first control, so just as I was approaching it he was arriving from the opposite direction. He then sprinted off towards number 2, and I did my best to hang on to him. I managed to hang on, but only just - he was doing the navigation, and I was map reading only enough to know roughly where we were if it all went wrong.
On a leg through some crappy bushy stuff he took a different route and I got ahead, but I then hesitated and he came by again. He did finally break away at the end, to finish 20 seconds before me. Had I not got a tow, Rob would have won by a deecent margin.
Saturday Jan 5, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:18:13 10.18 km (7:41 / km) +34m 7:34 / km
ahr:157 max:176
Oceania Festival Day 2, Osgiliath, M45A. 9th.
Another sand dunes area, and another good run apart from one control, which was really bad. This time I binned 7 minutes on the penultimate (#22), and dropped from 5th to 9th.
Another sand dunes area, and another good run apart from one control, which was really bad. This time I binned 7 minutes on the penultimate (#22), and dropped from 5th to 9th.
Friday Jan 4, 2013 #
12 PM
Orienteering race 48:15 8.15 km (5:55 / km) +19m 5:51 / km
ahr:168 max:177
Oceania Festival Day 1, Fusilier, M45A. 7th.
A nice sand-dunes area, with some low vis stuff near the coast. I was leading after 2 controls but managed to bin 4 minutes at #3, when I had spotted it would be difficult.
A nice sand-dunes area, with some low vis stuff near the coast. I was leading after 2 controls but managed to bin 4 minutes at #3, when I had spotted it would be difficult.
Tuesday Jan 1, 2013 #
4 PM
Running 43:08 6.29 km (6:51 / km) +328m 5:26 / km
ahr:152 max:161
Same Waikawau loop, but just with Al, and in reverse without the viewpoint extensions and stops. Hills hurt as much as yesterday.