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Saturday Apr 30, 2005 #
Event: West Point
Orienteering race 2:13:54 [3] **** 9.0 km (14:53 / km)
16c
West Point Day One (Blue)
More orienteering in the rain. Started the course slow. Took a bit to get used to the slanted northing lines. The landscape was also much different then what I'm "used" to orienteering on (not like I've done a lot of orienteering). Should have taken the road to C1, instead ran the ridge before eventually cutting down. Clean but slow. Fumbled C2 a bit, area was just generally hard for me to read. C3 was a freakin disaster (24:58). C4 was no problem. C5's split wasn't great but I thought I was really clean and steady. The rest really went pretty well with a small miss on C6, trouble with fog on C9 made me miss slightly high. Found C10 beautifully but failed to read my control descrition and lost time at C being confused about where on the cliff it was. Such stupid roockie mistakes. C11 I decided to climb it out to a safe attack point but it paid off nailing the control in a solid 10:38. C12 ran to the boulder cluster just a little low of where I needed to be. C13 missed slightly left. The rest were cake.
So overall not a great run but lots of good lessons for next time. Looking forward to O'ing again.
More orienteering in the rain. Started the course slow. Took a bit to get used to the slanted northing lines. The landscape was also much different then what I'm "used" to orienteering on (not like I've done a lot of orienteering). Should have taken the road to C1, instead ran the ridge before eventually cutting down. Clean but slow. Fumbled C2 a bit, area was just generally hard for me to read. C3 was a freakin disaster (24:58). C4 was no problem. C5's split wasn't great but I thought I was really clean and steady. The rest really went pretty well with a small miss on C6, trouble with fog on C9 made me miss slightly high. Found C10 beautifully but failed to read my control descrition and lost time at C being confused about where on the cliff it was. Such stupid roockie mistakes. C11 I decided to climb it out to a safe attack point but it paid off nailing the control in a solid 10:38. C12 ran to the boulder cluster just a little low of where I needed to be. C13 missed slightly left. The rest were cake.
So overall not a great run but lots of good lessons for next time. Looking forward to O'ing again.
Sunday Apr 24, 2005 #
Trail Running race 1:45:39 [4] 14.0 mi (7:33 / mi)
The Muddy Moose Trail race. It lived up to it's name. I'm still not sure how I was convinced to run a 14 mile race for the hell of it. Poor sleep, an upset stomach, and a general feeling of just not wanting to be there made for a mediocre effort. I placed 6th. The winning time was an impressive 1 hr, 33min, considering all the mud. In all of the cross country meets I've been to I've never experienced this amount of mud.