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Sunday Oct 8, 2006 #
trail running 10:00 [2]
shoes: new Integrators
Warm-up.
orienteering 55:29 [3] 6.1 km (9:06 / km)
shoes: new Integrators
NAOC "long" -- ran my age group (M55-64), pretty good run, first by about 9 minutes. A little slow in a couple of complicated areas, but that was ok. Not sure if I got the best route on the long leg, crossing one marsh and then a big semi-open area were both worse than the map would indicate, but then another marsh was better than mapped, so maybe things balance out. Anyway, pretty happy with the run, certainly better than yesterday.
Only downside was a fall about 2 minutes before the finish, got my left hamstring, bad enough that it hurt pretty good, not bad enough that I couldn't keep running. Will have to see how it is in the morning and if I want to do the Wine-O before heading home.
Only downside was a fall about 2 minutes before the finish, got my left hamstring, bad enough that it hurt pretty good, not bad enough that I couldn't keep running. Will have to see how it is in the morning and if I want to do the Wine-O before heading home.
Note
Maps from the weekend:
Sprint (M21)
Middle (M21)
Long (M55)
Notes on today's long course (though 6.1 km isn't exactly long):
On the way to 1, saw that the trail went reasonably close to the control, and then immediately thought, wait, there's supposed to be route choice, and spotted the left route, which I'm pretty sure was faster.
To 3, resisted the temptation to cut the corner.
To 5, woods south of 4 were trashy enough to make getting to the main trail a priority.
To 6, very hard to read the map, eventually came up from the pond just heading for the center of the circle, eyes open for a control.
To 8, wanted to get to the main E/W trail. Decided to risk the straight route, figuring the first marsh was quite narrow and rest would be not so bad, light green having been mostly ok. So the first dark green marsh was at most light green and I was feeling like I'd struck gold on the route, but then the second marsh had a narrow band of alders (or something similar) on the near side, took me the better part of a minute to go about 10 meters. Got across the open water ok, just a little over knee deep, but then the semi-open area was a lot more bushes and thickets than open, and I had to zig-zag quite a bit on the first half of it to find places I could run. So by the time I got to the little trail on the west side of the "clearing" I felt like I given back whatever advantage I might have gained. And certainly wondered if the mapper had been where I had. (The other place i wondered about the mapping was when I left the main E/W trail -- there was a little piece of semi-open marsh with widely spaced vertical green lines. Started to go across there, but it looked totally impassible, so I went further south before leaving the trail.)
The rest was just keeping track of the trails.
Despite my reservations about the map on the way to 8, the course was a lot of fun, a nice mix of fast and slow, easy and hard, with some good choices to be considered.
Sprint (M21)
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Middle (M21)
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Long (M55)
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Notes on today's long course (though 6.1 km isn't exactly long):
On the way to 1, saw that the trail went reasonably close to the control, and then immediately thought, wait, there's supposed to be route choice, and spotted the left route, which I'm pretty sure was faster.
To 3, resisted the temptation to cut the corner.
To 5, woods south of 4 were trashy enough to make getting to the main trail a priority.
To 6, very hard to read the map, eventually came up from the pond just heading for the center of the circle, eyes open for a control.
To 8, wanted to get to the main E/W trail. Decided to risk the straight route, figuring the first marsh was quite narrow and rest would be not so bad, light green having been mostly ok. So the first dark green marsh was at most light green and I was feeling like I'd struck gold on the route, but then the second marsh had a narrow band of alders (or something similar) on the near side, took me the better part of a minute to go about 10 meters. Got across the open water ok, just a little over knee deep, but then the semi-open area was a lot more bushes and thickets than open, and I had to zig-zag quite a bit on the first half of it to find places I could run. So by the time I got to the little trail on the west side of the "clearing" I felt like I given back whatever advantage I might have gained. And certainly wondered if the mapper had been where I had. (The other place i wondered about the mapping was when I left the main E/W trail -- there was a little piece of semi-open marsh with widely spaced vertical green lines. Started to go across there, but it looked totally impassible, so I went further south before leaving the trail.)
The rest was just keeping track of the trails.
Despite my reservations about the map on the way to 8, the course was a lot of fun, a nice mix of fast and slow, easy and hard, with some good choices to be considered.