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Sunday Oct 5, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 3.0 km (6:40 / km) +40m 6:15 / km
shoes: O-Icebug - Blk Spirit II OLX 2
Decent warm-up, though in pieces, walking kids toward their start, and actually 10 sec. late to my start given my over-parenting...
And a slow but several minute cooldown after a long finish chute battle with Nik (that I lost) left my hamstrings tweaky.
And a slow but several minute cooldown after a long finish chute battle with Nik (that I lost) left my hamstrings tweaky.
Orienteering race 41:22 5.5 km (7:31 / km) +200m 6:22 / km
shoes: O-Icebug - Blk Spirit II OLX 2
US Champs Middle Distance - again 6th US.
Nik Duca caught me early (2 min) but I hadn't fully realized he was on my course, so didn't use him as we went back forth after that.
Overall, I'm again a bit disappointed with my speed vs. the leaders - even after Nik caught me...
Best and worst
#12 - 89.2 - To road, along road, and stayed on a bit longer than most, judging distance from paved road to cut up at a bit sharper than 45 degree angle - nice straight shot in, knowing I couldn't miss it given the field behind it. Was slowly passing some reasonably fast older guy as some incentive apparently.
#8 - 87.4 - Contouring out, and realizing I needed to climb up the spur, and the various traffic in the area - incl. Nik just ahead at that point, helped confirm.
#18 - 86.3 - Took the spur-on-line down - good gentle use of climb - and recognized the need to bank right at the trail junction before cutting out cleanly to the field. Trying (successfully) to hold off Nik (right behind me) on this one.
... now the worst....
#4 - 62.5 - Drifted a bit right around vegetation, and, post-creek was looking wide left/right and saw it way below me. Given the vagueness of the terrain en-route, should've either followed the bearing better, or better tracked how far right of bearing I'd gone, such that I could correct after the creek.
#6 - 65.2 - Contoured/dropped a bit, seeing creek bend and thinking I was on track to firmly relocate at #2 - which I didn't see - and then the attempt to drift/climb toward never spotted the ponds, eventually, slowly, correcting left/up enough - much more than expected to a eventual spur. Should've better held to bearing on way out - contouring out w/drift downhill was quite wasteful and set up a low/confused traverse. On the line, the first stream bends, followed by the steep edge above 2 would've kept me on track.
Nik Duca caught me early (2 min) but I hadn't fully realized he was on my course, so didn't use him as we went back forth after that.
Overall, I'm again a bit disappointed with my speed vs. the leaders - even after Nik caught me...
Best and worst
#12 - 89.2 - To road, along road, and stayed on a bit longer than most, judging distance from paved road to cut up at a bit sharper than 45 degree angle - nice straight shot in, knowing I couldn't miss it given the field behind it. Was slowly passing some reasonably fast older guy as some incentive apparently.
#8 - 87.4 - Contouring out, and realizing I needed to climb up the spur, and the various traffic in the area - incl. Nik just ahead at that point, helped confirm.
#18 - 86.3 - Took the spur-on-line down - good gentle use of climb - and recognized the need to bank right at the trail junction before cutting out cleanly to the field. Trying (successfully) to hold off Nik (right behind me) on this one.
... now the worst....
#4 - 62.5 - Drifted a bit right around vegetation, and, post-creek was looking wide left/right and saw it way below me. Given the vagueness of the terrain en-route, should've either followed the bearing better, or better tracked how far right of bearing I'd gone, such that I could correct after the creek.
#6 - 65.2 - Contoured/dropped a bit, seeing creek bend and thinking I was on track to firmly relocate at #2 - which I didn't see - and then the attempt to drift/climb toward never spotted the ponds, eventually, slowly, correcting left/up enough - much more than expected to a eventual spur. Should've better held to bearing on way out - contouring out w/drift downhill was quite wasteful and set up a low/confused traverse. On the line, the first stream bends, followed by the steep edge above 2 would've kept me on track.