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Saturday Apr 18, 2009 #
Event: West Point A-Meet
Orienteering race 22:40 [3] 2.56 km (8:51 / km)
West Point Sprint on their campus.
A very nice Sprint course, with nice changes of pace between some technical terrain and some campus running, with a few tricks of uncrossable walls, stairs and pass-thrus to keep the map reading challenging.
Sadly, my groin was aching before the start and got much worse early on, and I had difficulty moving.
A very nice Sprint course, with nice changes of pace between some technical terrain and some campus running, with a few tricks of uncrossable walls, stairs and pass-thrus to keep the map reading challenging.
Sadly, my groin was aching before the start and got much worse early on, and I had difficulty moving.
Orienteering race 1:00:57 [3] 4.23 km (14:25 / km)
spiked:7/14c
West Point Middle at Victor Constant Ski Slope
So, my groin was quite sore following the Sprint. I even came across Sandy and officially requested that the Middle not count in my rating. Not that the rating means anything for an also-ran like me, but I am hoping to continue my YOY improvement, and did not want this performance to hurt those chances.
I knew that I would be slow - I wasn't sure that I'd even be able to finish - but I didn't think my navigation would also be so poor: I lost significant time on each of the first six controls. I don't have the map handy and I can't get Route Gadget up (it claims I don't have a JVM, which seems strange since I even downloaded a JDK when I installed NetBeans), so I can't relive the ordeal right now. I do remember having difficulty coming down the hill from the penultimate control to the go control and into the finish, having to shorten the stride length to avoid pain.
So, my groin was quite sore following the Sprint. I even came across Sandy and officially requested that the Middle not count in my rating. Not that the rating means anything for an also-ran like me, but I am hoping to continue my YOY improvement, and did not want this performance to hurt those chances.
I knew that I would be slow - I wasn't sure that I'd even be able to finish - but I didn't think my navigation would also be so poor: I lost significant time on each of the first six controls. I don't have the map handy and I can't get Route Gadget up (it claims I don't have a JVM, which seems strange since I even downloaded a JDK when I installed NetBeans), so I can't relive the ordeal right now. I do remember having difficulty coming down the hill from the penultimate control to the go control and into the finish, having to shorten the stride length to avoid pain.
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 2.31 mi (8:40 / mi)
Decent w/up before the Sprint; sporadic jogging on the way to the Middle start (although much of the walking could have been counted as a w/up) and some w/dn after the Sprint (walking only after the Middle).