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Saturday Sep 22, 2007 #
Orienteering race (Sprint) 25:13 [4] *** 2.22 km (11:22 / km) +51m 10:11 / km
shoes: Nike Trail (Blue)
Sprint A, Course 3 (Red/Blue).
I had trouble seeing the first leg, so I just attacked the first route I saw, which was down the trail to the yellow, left on the trail, then right. I thought, "Wow---that was quick". I do love 1:4000 maps. (EricW and I had a discussion about them on Sunday). Leaving 1, I felt 2 or 3 bees around the back of my neck, and I swatted at them as I ran away. No stings, luckily.
The first sprint was really fun. The start interval was 30 seconds, and there were people everywhere. There was forking between Course 2 and 3, so people were going in all different directions, which was really cool.
I got too far left at 10, and found some smaller unmapped rocks before I turned right and got 10.
A really fun course. It's interesting to me that sprints are often considered to have trivial navigation. I much prefer this type with lots of quick decisions to be made and essentially non-trivial navigation. If I had one criticism of the courses, and realize this is a total nitpick, it was that it needed maybe 3 more controls added with really short leg lengths. I don't get the "sprint feeling" unless I have a few controls that are crazy fast, close-together, with direction change, and yeah, trivial navigation.
I had trouble seeing the first leg, so I just attacked the first route I saw, which was down the trail to the yellow, left on the trail, then right. I thought, "Wow---that was quick". I do love 1:4000 maps. (EricW and I had a discussion about them on Sunday). Leaving 1, I felt 2 or 3 bees around the back of my neck, and I swatted at them as I ran away. No stings, luckily.
The first sprint was really fun. The start interval was 30 seconds, and there were people everywhere. There was forking between Course 2 and 3, so people were going in all different directions, which was really cool.
I got too far left at 10, and found some smaller unmapped rocks before I turned right and got 10.
A really fun course. It's interesting to me that sprints are often considered to have trivial navigation. I much prefer this type with lots of quick decisions to be made and essentially non-trivial navigation. If I had one criticism of the courses, and realize this is a total nitpick, it was that it needed maybe 3 more controls added with really short leg lengths. I don't get the "sprint feeling" unless I have a few controls that are crazy fast, close-together, with direction change, and yeah, trivial navigation.
Orienteering race (Sprint) 25:45 [4] *** 2.33 km (11:03 / km) +52m 9:57 / km
shoes: Nike Trail (Blue)
Sprint B, Course 3 (Red/Blue)
Turn the map over, and...a long leg. I totally missed the trail in the big reentrant (I didn't see it on the map), so I clipped the top of the reentrant and went straight at it. I ended up on a trail going down the steep section, so I thought I was perfectly lined up. I ended up about 1cm away WNW on the large boulder (with a flag on it), where I saw the code was wrong. I saw Cristina looking confused going N (to my left), but I was sure I needed to go right. Probably 45 seconds lost. My fastest split was 2-3, 58 seconds, but probably 15 of that was me hesitating, getting left (yeah, I know), and having to change direction to avoid the earthwalls.
I went left on 8, through the little saddle, and on a bearing North. I ended up 40m left of the control, which I think is a pretty big miss. I didn't take the trail because of all the contour lines. Let's think that through: 5 contour lines. 1.5m contours. 7.5m of climb. Compare that to my route: 7.5m climb. Sheesh.
My nitpick for this course. Not enough controls. I think John Fredrickson is on to something there.
Later we laughed about the "long" first leg. It's 375m. Isn't that funny?
Turn the map over, and...a long leg. I totally missed the trail in the big reentrant (I didn't see it on the map), so I clipped the top of the reentrant and went straight at it. I ended up on a trail going down the steep section, so I thought I was perfectly lined up. I ended up about 1cm away WNW on the large boulder (with a flag on it), where I saw the code was wrong. I saw Cristina looking confused going N (to my left), but I was sure I needed to go right. Probably 45 seconds lost. My fastest split was 2-3, 58 seconds, but probably 15 of that was me hesitating, getting left (yeah, I know), and having to change direction to avoid the earthwalls.
I went left on 8, through the little saddle, and on a bearing North. I ended up 40m left of the control, which I think is a pretty big miss. I didn't take the trail because of all the contour lines. Let's think that through: 5 contour lines. 1.5m contours. 7.5m of climb. Compare that to my route: 7.5m climb. Sheesh.
My nitpick for this course. Not enough controls. I think John Fredrickson is on to something there.
Later we laughed about the "long" first leg. It's 375m. Isn't that funny?
Orienteering race (Sprint) 28:59 [5] *** 3.15 km (9:12 / km) +33m 8:45 / km
shoes: Nike Trail (Blue)
Sprint C, Variation 6. (This means my loop order was South, East, North.)
The Sprint Series Final Course. We got to watch the 2 Sprint Finals, with extreme spectator visibility (and PG heckling Sam). The men's race was so amazing---on the second loop, I think, 5 competitors hit the common control at almost the same time.
The first map had the three loops, and a more conventional yellow-course like difficulty, but then, it did have a 3 loop butterfly with all the readability issues---which is part of the game.
The second map was much more difficult navigationally. It had two "long legs" of 400m and 360m (again, that is so funny).
The course was amazing fun to run, and very fun to watch. The excitement got to me, and I was running much harder than I normally think I can. I did walk up the hills, and I used "reading the map" as an excuse to catch my breath. I need a lot of work on reading while running. I'm able to do it somewhat, but I usually default to the cautious, slow method of walking to read the map.
The Sprint Series Final Course. We got to watch the 2 Sprint Finals, with extreme spectator visibility (and PG heckling Sam). The men's race was so amazing---on the second loop, I think, 5 competitors hit the common control at almost the same time.
The first map had the three loops, and a more conventional yellow-course like difficulty, but then, it did have a 3 loop butterfly with all the readability issues---which is part of the game.
The second map was much more difficult navigationally. It had two "long legs" of 400m and 360m (again, that is so funny).
The course was amazing fun to run, and very fun to watch. The excitement got to me, and I was running much harder than I normally think I can. I did walk up the hills, and I used "reading the map" as an excuse to catch my breath. I need a lot of work on reading while running. I'm able to do it somewhat, but I usually default to the cautious, slow method of walking to read the map.