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Saturday Apr 25, 2009 #
Field Checking 2:48:20 [2]
Sprague Brook Park
Vetting final flag placements and control descriptions. Mostly walking with some jogging thrown in when the back would permit it. Swept the park although two control locations and the finish had no vetting flags. Funny thing, all three sites are very accessible by car, so it's hard to say why - forgotten or moved. One flag had obviously been "human relocated" but I could see it and moved it back.
Times for this venue will be VERY FAST unless it greens up a bit. I could see some vetting tapes from 50-100m. Real controls would be even more obvious.
Vetting final flag placements and control descriptions. Mostly walking with some jogging thrown in when the back would permit it. Swept the park although two control locations and the finish had no vetting flags. Funny thing, all three sites are very accessible by car, so it's hard to say why - forgotten or moved. One flag had obviously been "human relocated" but I could see it and moved it back.
Times for this venue will be VERY FAST unless it greens up a bit. I could see some vetting tapes from 50-100m. Real controls would be even more obvious.
Sunday Apr 19, 2009 #
Walking/Hiking 5:00 [1]
Walk to start for Day 2 of West Point event...
Nowhere nearly as long as advertised although there was probably some debate about the initial point for measuring.
Nowhere nearly as long as advertised although there was probably some debate about the initial point for measuring.
Orienteering race 1:10:45 [3] 6.1 km (11:36 / km) +190m 10:02 / km
West Point A meet - Day 2
A decent race that gets downgraded to "not bad" due to three errors.
On the way to number one, I felt a cramp in my back. I tried to run through it with good success (doubt it cost me more than the five seconds I stopped to stretch it right then and there). Went high around the reentrant and up the hill above the stone wall only to discover that I had no epunch when I got to the control. I remembered scraping my hands on the cliffs so I went back down them found it and got to do the hill (or two-thirds of it) a second time.
Blew #3 as I was too far downstream at a similar feature (about three minutes), but was clean after than through #8. Going to #9, I flew, found the reentrant, but it looked all wrong even as I descended three contours instead of 1. Realizing my probable error, I climbed and sure enough found the water stop at #10. Back to #9 for a five minute goof. On the way to #11, I heard a scream behind me and saw Ron Bortz and some guy in a green suit. The guy in the green suit was screaming in pain and hopping like he had a broken ankle or something. I stopped and headed back, yelling "Are you okay?" Apparently he said, "yes" because Ron blew by him without stopping. As I approached, he limped down the hill to the road without acknowledging me so I returned to the course with "30 seconds of sporting withdrawal". To make matters worse, he beat me to #11 by about 10 seconds! Ron and I chased each other in; he's faster than me, but I was able to out micro-navigate him into 13 and out of 14 so it was pretty competitive until he pulled away at #17.
Not great, but not a bad run and my best three-race set in years.
A decent race that gets downgraded to "not bad" due to three errors.
On the way to number one, I felt a cramp in my back. I tried to run through it with good success (doubt it cost me more than the five seconds I stopped to stretch it right then and there). Went high around the reentrant and up the hill above the stone wall only to discover that I had no epunch when I got to the control. I remembered scraping my hands on the cliffs so I went back down them found it and got to do the hill (or two-thirds of it) a second time.
Blew #3 as I was too far downstream at a similar feature (about three minutes), but was clean after than through #8. Going to #9, I flew, found the reentrant, but it looked all wrong even as I descended three contours instead of 1. Realizing my probable error, I climbed and sure enough found the water stop at #10. Back to #9 for a five minute goof. On the way to #11, I heard a scream behind me and saw Ron Bortz and some guy in a green suit. The guy in the green suit was screaming in pain and hopping like he had a broken ankle or something. I stopped and headed back, yelling "Are you okay?" Apparently he said, "yes" because Ron blew by him without stopping. As I approached, he limped down the hill to the road without acknowledging me so I returned to the course with "30 seconds of sporting withdrawal". To make matters worse, he beat me to #11 by about 10 seconds! Ron and I chased each other in; he's faster than me, but I was able to out micro-navigate him into 13 and out of 14 so it was pretty competitive until he pulled away at #17.
Not great, but not a bad run and my best three-race set in years.