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Saturday Oct 31, 2015 #
7 AM
Running (road) warm up/down 11:16 2.0 km (5:38 / km) +24m 5:19 / km
ahr:113 max:144 shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212
Warm up down the road the bus came in on. Legs feeling fairly tired.
Garmin is back to life!!?
Garmin is back to life!!?
Orienteering race 51:41 7.29 km (7:05 / km) +279m 5:57 / km
ahr:160 max:171 spiked:16/19c shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212
Istanbul 5 day, stage 5, 6.0km 265m - Map
Ended up 6th on the day, 9 mins behind the Finnish guy (Juha something) and 5 on Marcus, so he won 3-2. Better than the first day orienteering wise but still a lot to work on. The real problem was the lack of leg strength on the hills and bad focus near the end. Positively though, mostly better judgement of slope height (use features!) and focus.
3rd overall and got on the podium with the two Marcus' (Pinker having won the overall on countback). Got a glass medal thingy which is ornamentally nice, but the sprint winners got a compass which would have been much nicer! We were later recognised in a restaurant by some passing orienteers I have never seen before.
Race:
90 degress bend out of the start lane to number 1 and I found it hard to get the right line. Did ok but hesitated a small bit into the control. Then missed no. 2 in the usual way, had little clue of my height on the slope and reached the re-entrant and went down.
Tidyied up then and was clean but had very little oomph in my legs on the flats, but especially on the hills. Went straight for 6 since around was too far but had to walk the big climb. My 3 minute man, the Finnish guy went past me here, but I had a better line than him to the control. Was pretty much with him until 7 but the single contour climb out of 7 killed me off. Good then as far as 11. Keeping my attention on the map and looking up well to see the features. Straight again to 12 but I needed to be more aggressive on the climb (surprise surprise). Control was easy.
For 14 I had no idea what the contours were doing and took an around route choice. Mistook the north line for a stream and created a fictional valley in my mind that I had to go around. It made the control easy though.
Clearly I was struggling to keep my concentration as 15 was more sillyness where I decided to go around when straight had maybe 2 contours more climb and then I was timid in what I did. For 16 I managed to drag myself up the hill but lost too much height on the way down and had to relocate. 17-finish was a matter of suffering around. My brain was frazzled and my legs shot.
Ended up 6th on the day, 9 mins behind the Finnish guy (Juha something) and 5 on Marcus, so he won 3-2. Better than the first day orienteering wise but still a lot to work on. The real problem was the lack of leg strength on the hills and bad focus near the end. Positively though, mostly better judgement of slope height (use features!) and focus.
3rd overall and got on the podium with the two Marcus' (Pinker having won the overall on countback). Got a glass medal thingy which is ornamentally nice, but the sprint winners got a compass which would have been much nicer! We were later recognised in a restaurant by some passing orienteers I have never seen before.
Race:
90 degress bend out of the start lane to number 1 and I found it hard to get the right line. Did ok but hesitated a small bit into the control. Then missed no. 2 in the usual way, had little clue of my height on the slope and reached the re-entrant and went down.
Tidyied up then and was clean but had very little oomph in my legs on the flats, but especially on the hills. Went straight for 6 since around was too far but had to walk the big climb. My 3 minute man, the Finnish guy went past me here, but I had a better line than him to the control. Was pretty much with him until 7 but the single contour climb out of 7 killed me off. Good then as far as 11. Keeping my attention on the map and looking up well to see the features. Straight again to 12 but I needed to be more aggressive on the climb (surprise surprise). Control was easy.
For 14 I had no idea what the contours were doing and took an around route choice. Mistook the north line for a stream and created a fictional valley in my mind that I had to go around. It made the control easy though.
Clearly I was struggling to keep my concentration as 15 was more sillyness where I decided to go around when straight had maybe 2 contours more climb and then I was timid in what I did. For 16 I managed to drag myself up the hill but lost too much height on the way down and had to relocate. 17-finish was a matter of suffering around. My brain was frazzled and my legs shot.
Running (road) warm up/down 5:01 0.67 km (7:27 / km)
ahr:112 max:121 shoes: Inov8 X-Talon 212
A small cool down back past the finish.