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Thursday Feb 23, 2023 #
6 PM
Orienteering - Night 58:16 [3] 6.19 km (9:25 / km) +280m 7:41 / km
slept:6.5 (sick) shoes: Adidas Terrex Speed SG (21)
Habberley Valley
The traditional Harlequins style of map everything at least one undergrowth screen faster than reality, map lots of other things slightly wrong, or not at all, and put all the controls in the most inaccessible sites possible (and maybe not always inside the circle?). Not totally miserable - good to explore and to practice in terrain I don’t like for training once in a while.
4.2km linear score. I managed 80% in the hour and health/fitness wasn’t the problem.
1. Quickly realised the map made no sense at all. Not so quick to find control - expected it to be more accessible from above.
7. On edge of circle and relocated ok. Overshot completely as was looking for a feature but the form line hill was pretty flat and not visible below undergrowth.
9. 3 mins spent here looking for one of 4 bushes in runnable open. Only the runnable open was covered in brambles and dead bracken or something, and the bushes just seemed to be less penetranble bracken/bramble combination. Gave up and moved on as 100% sure I was in the right place (and still so having looked at GPS). Looking at other strava plots appears it was over a circle diameter outside the circle to the south.
10 - got this fine but on the approach met somebody coming down having given up looking. I carried on anyway and found it, and called the guy back.
12 - dangerous planning. Map was hopeless and encouraged a route that involved 30m scramble up steep loose bank covered in bramble, to get to a 10m high cliff, and attempting to go along base would have been near shear contouring through shoulder deep dense bramble. Had to abandon and go right around the bottom. Pleased to descend so easily and safely - soil was behaving like sand.
Tried for 14/15 but followed the paths as mapped and that took me into the big out of bounds area instead. Found somebody else in there sounding unhappy too. Worked out where I was by logic that contours couldn’t be anywhere actually on the map.
17 - overshot slightly as paths didn’t match quite as I had expected. Knew where I was but involved crawling through holly bushes to get out.
19 - skipped 18 as was up a steep bank in dark green. This was literally just off the path but to make it harder was at the top of a 4ft high unstable wall and surrounded on other 3 sides by dense bramble.
All set to call it a day there (I’d officially given up to just run instead the first time on the way to 12) but the bottom loop actually looked to be more hospitable so went with it and accept any penalty for being late. All ok apart from now waking all the controls up. Just 26 was a bit awkward being top of 10m high brambly bank.
Not dreadful, but I won’t be rushing back here. Makes you appreciate just how much better mapping and planning has got if an informal event stands out for being of the same quality as was still normal for local events most of the time 10 years ago.
https://www.strava.com/activities/8610916560
The traditional Harlequins style of map everything at least one undergrowth screen faster than reality, map lots of other things slightly wrong, or not at all, and put all the controls in the most inaccessible sites possible (and maybe not always inside the circle?). Not totally miserable - good to explore and to practice in terrain I don’t like for training once in a while.
4.2km linear score. I managed 80% in the hour and health/fitness wasn’t the problem.
1. Quickly realised the map made no sense at all. Not so quick to find control - expected it to be more accessible from above.
7. On edge of circle and relocated ok. Overshot completely as was looking for a feature but the form line hill was pretty flat and not visible below undergrowth.
9. 3 mins spent here looking for one of 4 bushes in runnable open. Only the runnable open was covered in brambles and dead bracken or something, and the bushes just seemed to be less penetranble bracken/bramble combination. Gave up and moved on as 100% sure I was in the right place (and still so having looked at GPS). Looking at other strava plots appears it was over a circle diameter outside the circle to the south.
10 - got this fine but on the approach met somebody coming down having given up looking. I carried on anyway and found it, and called the guy back.
12 - dangerous planning. Map was hopeless and encouraged a route that involved 30m scramble up steep loose bank covered in bramble, to get to a 10m high cliff, and attempting to go along base would have been near shear contouring through shoulder deep dense bramble. Had to abandon and go right around the bottom. Pleased to descend so easily and safely - soil was behaving like sand.
Tried for 14/15 but followed the paths as mapped and that took me into the big out of bounds area instead. Found somebody else in there sounding unhappy too. Worked out where I was by logic that contours couldn’t be anywhere actually on the map.
17 - overshot slightly as paths didn’t match quite as I had expected. Knew where I was but involved crawling through holly bushes to get out.
19 - skipped 18 as was up a steep bank in dark green. This was literally just off the path but to make it harder was at the top of a 4ft high unstable wall and surrounded on other 3 sides by dense bramble.
All set to call it a day there (I’d officially given up to just run instead the first time on the way to 12) but the bottom loop actually looked to be more hospitable so went with it and accept any penalty for being late. All ok apart from now waking all the controls up. Just 26 was a bit awkward being top of 10m high brambly bank.
Not dreadful, but I won’t be rushing back here. Makes you appreciate just how much better mapping and planning has got if an informal event stands out for being of the same quality as was still normal for local events most of the time 10 years ago.
https://www.strava.com/activities/8610916560