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Sunday Apr 27, 2014 #
2 PM
Football 1:30:00 [4]
(sick)
Playing a full game of football was about the last thing I felt like. But survived. Probably cos we were camped in our own half for 2/3 of the game!
Football warm up/down 20:00 [2]
Saturday Apr 26, 2014 #
10 AM
Orienteering 1:11:00 [4]
NSW Long champs.
Really happy with 95% of my run. Went to plan and felt strong, if very tired after the last week. The first 2/3 was classic spur-gully. Fast running, compass bearings, termite mounds. Then, after a brutal, (and needless?!) leg up and over a spur, we effectively had a middle distance course through the rock detail to finish. I consciously slowed down, as Yvette suggested after the middle last week. And nailed every control. But coming into the control before the spectator I could feel my body hitting the wall. By the spectator my legs were lead, my breathing was shallow and gone to shot, and my vision was blacking in. So I sat down, in full view of the spectators. And waited for it to pass enough to keep going.
Apologies to Jas, who was just behind me and was seriously worried when I slowed to a walk, then a stagger, then sat down! But thanks for making sure I was OK before you kept going! :)
Eventually I got up, punched and walked off. But my brain was gone, and I wandered off my bearing. Ended up in the wrong erosion gully. But (and add this to my rant from yesterday), the gully I was in was COMPLETELY (bar one dot) obliterated by the uncut circle of the last control. I went back to the cave, renavigated. Ended up at the same gully. Went to the last control. Renavigated, further up the hill this time. Found nothing. Was joined by Hanny, Anna and Claire B, all of us relocated to the original erosion gully... By this time I'd wandered around long enough that my breathing was fine again...
Far out.
Eventually Hanny and Anna got the control and guided me to it.
Lost 6mins on Jas from when I sat down. All with <400m of course to go.
Even more frustrating than yesterday... I can't do much about my body packing in on the day. My body does that when it's too stressed. PhD, orienteering, soccer and life has me run down to about rock bottom at the moment. I've had underlying sickness for 3 weeks now and my iron levels must be the lowest they've ever been. It's time to sort out my health before heading to Europe.
On a course note - I'd realised early on that lines and circles weren't cut. The circle at #6 covered 2 vital termite mounds. the line to #7 likewise. the number 12 obliterated rock detail that had me confused for a couple of seconds. and #24 just screwed us all over. Covering up a parallel feature to the control feature... Again, it was a protestable issue. It cost me 2nd place, even with my body fail.
Strangely though, a couple of circles were cut. Why them but nothing else??!!!
I feel like a right bitch complaining about all these things, but can't we get the basics right?!
Also. Thanks to everyone for their concern after the races. I promise to sort my shit out and get healthy! But apologies in advance for being shitty the rest of the year with my Phd...
Really happy with 95% of my run. Went to plan and felt strong, if very tired after the last week. The first 2/3 was classic spur-gully. Fast running, compass bearings, termite mounds. Then, after a brutal, (and needless?!) leg up and over a spur, we effectively had a middle distance course through the rock detail to finish. I consciously slowed down, as Yvette suggested after the middle last week. And nailed every control. But coming into the control before the spectator I could feel my body hitting the wall. By the spectator my legs were lead, my breathing was shallow and gone to shot, and my vision was blacking in. So I sat down, in full view of the spectators. And waited for it to pass enough to keep going.
Apologies to Jas, who was just behind me and was seriously worried when I slowed to a walk, then a stagger, then sat down! But thanks for making sure I was OK before you kept going! :)
Eventually I got up, punched and walked off. But my brain was gone, and I wandered off my bearing. Ended up in the wrong erosion gully. But (and add this to my rant from yesterday), the gully I was in was COMPLETELY (bar one dot) obliterated by the uncut circle of the last control. I went back to the cave, renavigated. Ended up at the same gully. Went to the last control. Renavigated, further up the hill this time. Found nothing. Was joined by Hanny, Anna and Claire B, all of us relocated to the original erosion gully... By this time I'd wandered around long enough that my breathing was fine again...
Far out.
Eventually Hanny and Anna got the control and guided me to it.
Lost 6mins on Jas from when I sat down. All with <400m of course to go.
Even more frustrating than yesterday... I can't do much about my body packing in on the day. My body does that when it's too stressed. PhD, orienteering, soccer and life has me run down to about rock bottom at the moment. I've had underlying sickness for 3 weeks now and my iron levels must be the lowest they've ever been. It's time to sort out my health before heading to Europe.
On a course note - I'd realised early on that lines and circles weren't cut. The circle at #6 covered 2 vital termite mounds. the line to #7 likewise. the number 12 obliterated rock detail that had me confused for a couple of seconds. and #24 just screwed us all over. Covering up a parallel feature to the control feature... Again, it was a protestable issue. It cost me 2nd place, even with my body fail.
Strangely though, a couple of circles were cut. Why them but nothing else??!!!
I feel like a right bitch complaining about all these things, but can't we get the basics right?!
Also. Thanks to everyone for their concern after the races. I promise to sort my shit out and get healthy! But apologies in advance for being shitty the rest of the year with my Phd...
Friday Apr 25, 2014 #
1 PM
Orienteering warm up/down 20:00 [3]
turned up to discover I was first leg, rather than last like I thought. So a bit of a less relaxed than normal warm up!
Orienteering 14:44 [4]
My first mixed sprint relay. Heading out on first leg for our rather stacked Cockies team of Me - Craney - Lachy - Jo.
A fun format and awesome to have a mixed gender competition (as to be honest, I don't often take huge notice on what happens in the men's field...terrible but true!)
I came in 1s ahead of Aislinn and 15 ahead of Rachel and handed over to Craney who smashed 2nd leg. As did Lachy and Jo to bring us in well ahead for the win.
WARNING: RANT AHEAD.
However, the race was rather ruined for me by #62 and #64 being accidentally put out in each other's places.
I'd already made mistakes in the first few controls (one driven by an unmapped uncrossable fence...), so was 15-20m behind Rachel and Aislinn, who both punched #5 and went off. I punched, got 5m away and then clicked that the control was #64, not #62 like it should be. Went back. Checked. checked my descriptions. Definitely wrong. Checked the map, could it be a split? No. definitely the right place. WTF?! Eventually kept going once Suzanne got there and agreed with me, but I'd lost 20-25s on the others, massive in a sprint race!
From there I lost motivation, as the 2nd loop was mainly straight running, and what point was there if it was to be invalidated?
But I gained time on Rachel and Aislinn on a route choice entering the final loop, and from there my competitive spirit took over. Skipped Rachel on a route choice, and edged past Aislinn, though she was right on my heels (especially as I was now turning on the controls...in a National level sprint race (or really any sprint race) it's really unforgivable to not turn on the controls pre race!!).
I'm not sure what the overall decision was on the wrong control, I think the results have stood as they were?
Left feeling highly frustrated and sick to death of this sort of thing. Most people didn't lose any time on the control as they weren't checking numbers. (a tricky thing in a sprint relay as they're only on the map. Side note - I have to come up with a way to deal with this at WOC)
But I'm a careful orienteer - I never cross gardens if I don't have time to check but think it may be olive green. I always follow a compulsary route. Even if it's poorly marked and I've missed the start of it/missed it completely. I will go back and rerun it so that I'm not DSQ'd (Sprint Canberra and last weekend). And I always check my numbers, especially in a sprint, especially in a relay, and Especially a Sprint Relay! But I keep being left feeling like I miss out for being careful and fair. People crossing olive green and not being dsq'd (not in this case, just a general comment). People not following compulsary routes. And this case, wrongly placed controls or wrong numbers that I pick up on but some others don't.
Like I said after the NOLs in Brisbane, we seem to have a nature here of not protesting as we don't want to upset people. I'm guilty of that. But even if no-one protests. If the organisers know that something is wrong, and the race wasn't fair because of it - surely they should have the guts to annul the race?! A wrong number, or a wrongly placed control, should be an automatic invalidation.
And yes. I know how much effort organiser's put in to putting on events. I have been planner for national level events. I am forever in debt and grateful for the huge volunteer effort and time put into our sport. And I appreciate how disappointing it is for all involved to have to annull a race. But sometimes it has to be done. And perhaps we need to. Because these mistakes keep happening. Perhaps if we have a big race that is invalidated, future planners and controllers will take note and make 100% sure that it doesn't happen at their event.
Please. I don't give a crap about radio controls, gps, butterflies, spectator controls etc etc. Just give me a decent course, with all of the basics right!
Rant over. Maybe. Sorry.
A fun format and awesome to have a mixed gender competition (as to be honest, I don't often take huge notice on what happens in the men's field...terrible but true!)
I came in 1s ahead of Aislinn and 15 ahead of Rachel and handed over to Craney who smashed 2nd leg. As did Lachy and Jo to bring us in well ahead for the win.
WARNING: RANT AHEAD.
However, the race was rather ruined for me by #62 and #64 being accidentally put out in each other's places.
I'd already made mistakes in the first few controls (one driven by an unmapped uncrossable fence...), so was 15-20m behind Rachel and Aislinn, who both punched #5 and went off. I punched, got 5m away and then clicked that the control was #64, not #62 like it should be. Went back. Checked. checked my descriptions. Definitely wrong. Checked the map, could it be a split? No. definitely the right place. WTF?! Eventually kept going once Suzanne got there and agreed with me, but I'd lost 20-25s on the others, massive in a sprint race!
From there I lost motivation, as the 2nd loop was mainly straight running, and what point was there if it was to be invalidated?
But I gained time on Rachel and Aislinn on a route choice entering the final loop, and from there my competitive spirit took over. Skipped Rachel on a route choice, and edged past Aislinn, though she was right on my heels (especially as I was now turning on the controls...in a National level sprint race (or really any sprint race) it's really unforgivable to not turn on the controls pre race!!).
I'm not sure what the overall decision was on the wrong control, I think the results have stood as they were?
Left feeling highly frustrated and sick to death of this sort of thing. Most people didn't lose any time on the control as they weren't checking numbers. (a tricky thing in a sprint relay as they're only on the map. Side note - I have to come up with a way to deal with this at WOC)
But I'm a careful orienteer - I never cross gardens if I don't have time to check but think it may be olive green. I always follow a compulsary route. Even if it's poorly marked and I've missed the start of it/missed it completely. I will go back and rerun it so that I'm not DSQ'd (Sprint Canberra and last weekend). And I always check my numbers, especially in a sprint, especially in a relay, and Especially a Sprint Relay! But I keep being left feeling like I miss out for being careful and fair. People crossing olive green and not being dsq'd (not in this case, just a general comment). People not following compulsary routes. And this case, wrongly placed controls or wrong numbers that I pick up on but some others don't.
Like I said after the NOLs in Brisbane, we seem to have a nature here of not protesting as we don't want to upset people. I'm guilty of that. But even if no-one protests. If the organisers know that something is wrong, and the race wasn't fair because of it - surely they should have the guts to annul the race?! A wrong number, or a wrongly placed control, should be an automatic invalidation.
And yes. I know how much effort organiser's put in to putting on events. I have been planner for national level events. I am forever in debt and grateful for the huge volunteer effort and time put into our sport. And I appreciate how disappointing it is for all involved to have to annull a race. But sometimes it has to be done. And perhaps we need to. Because these mistakes keep happening. Perhaps if we have a big race that is invalidated, future planners and controllers will take note and make 100% sure that it doesn't happen at their event.
Please. I don't give a crap about radio controls, gps, butterflies, spectator controls etc etc. Just give me a decent course, with all of the basics right!
Rant over. Maybe. Sorry.
5 PM
Running 27:00 [3] 5.0 km (5:24 / km)
evening yog with Aislinn. Down to Govett's leap lookout, where the cloud had cleared just enough to see across the valley to the cliffs. Stunning views and worth the uphill slog home :)
Thursday Apr 24, 2014 #
Note
(rest day)
finished off work in the lab and travelled back to aussie
Wednesday Apr 23, 2014 #
6 PM
Running 45:00 [2]
O-gang run from the O'sullivans. Up through the girl-guide woods to the ridge, then along and down the electricity board road. where we turned off onto magnus and jamie's work-in-progress mtn bike track...
Missioning 35:00 [2]
...which quickly turned from nice even track, to rough marked gap in bushes, to no gap but a few tapes, to pure bush bashing and no real idea where we were going! Jamie led a scramble through steep native bush, blackberry and ongaonga, whilst the rest of us had a good time joking around behind him. (thanks Jamie!). A number of times we could see light from houses about 50-100m away, but no chance of getting to them without full body ongaonga stings. Eventually though we crawled out of the bushes onto a random driveway. I reckon no-one had been in that bush for over 50 years?!
Did I mention I didn't have a headlamp? Just for extra adventure.
Did I mention I didn't have a headlamp? Just for extra adventure.
Tuesday Apr 22, 2014 #
4 PM
Running 28:00 [3] 4.7 km (5:57 / km)
Cruisey jog with the Ramstein sisters up among the windmills above Palmy. Looked like the Wairarapa was in the middle of the apocalypse, whilst the West side of the island was in sunshine.
Monday Apr 21, 2014 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 27:17 [5]
Nationals Relay for WOC team 2.
Jamie and George had great runs to set me out in 4th place. Not much hope of chasing down NW's team1, but confident i could catch Renee and Alice (apologies if it wasn't them, I'm writing this a week later...).
Wasn't too stoked to have Ed C-W on my tail though. He's fast.
Unfortunately for our hopes. The course was lightning fast, and definitely orange nav. Nick (PAPO) came blazing past me at #3 leaving a burnt trail in his wake. No hope of keeping up!
I had a clean run, bar a disappointing mis-bearing on 5 which will have cost me 30-45s.
Came in to find I was 6th, not 3rd as I kind of expected! Turned the junior men aren't just fast...they're ninjas too! Each of them took 4-5mins out of me on the 5km course. Did the best I could, but didn't have a chance really!
Jamie and George had great runs to set me out in 4th place. Not much hope of chasing down NW's team1, but confident i could catch Renee and Alice (apologies if it wasn't them, I'm writing this a week later...).
Wasn't too stoked to have Ed C-W on my tail though. He's fast.
Unfortunately for our hopes. The course was lightning fast, and definitely orange nav. Nick (PAPO) came blazing past me at #3 leaving a burnt trail in his wake. No hope of keeping up!
I had a clean run, bar a disappointing mis-bearing on 5 which will have cost me 30-45s.
Came in to find I was 6th, not 3rd as I kind of expected! Turned the junior men aren't just fast...they're ninjas too! Each of them took 4-5mins out of me on the 5km course. Did the best I could, but didn't have a chance really!
1 PM
Orienteering 15:00 [2]
control collection