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Saturday May 1, 2010 #
Event: USMA West Point A-Meet 2010
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:02:44 [4] *** 4.3 km (14:35 / km) +180m 12:04 / km
spiked:4/12c slept:6.75
West Point Middle - Red.
A very sloppy run. Tried to be careful on the first leg, but still ran up the wrong hill. I was mediocre for a while, until I head nate's footsteps on the way to C7. I ended up drifting left quite a bit and did not use my head to relocate, but wandered a bit first. Ended up losing over 5 minutes, and I think I distracted nate, who lost as much time. I was OK for a few controls, but had fairly big misses on the last two controls - C11 I ran to the wrong rootstock and ended up going too far left, then too far right, before finding the flag. And I made poor choices going to C12, finding some nasty running, and then going around to the right before recovering.
A very sloppy run. Tried to be careful on the first leg, but still ran up the wrong hill. I was mediocre for a while, until I head nate's footsteps on the way to C7. I ended up drifting left quite a bit and did not use my head to relocate, but wandered a bit first. Ended up losing over 5 minutes, and I think I distracted nate, who lost as much time. I was OK for a few controls, but had fairly big misses on the last two controls - C11 I ran to the wrong rootstock and ended up going too far left, then too far right, before finding the flag. And I made poor choices going to C12, finding some nasty running, and then going around to the right before recovering.
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.71 mi (8:45 / mi)
Some w/up before the Middle, including part of the trip to the start (part was walking, thanks to the climb and traveling with Luke). Some w/up before the Sprint.
2 PM
Orienteering race 32:09 [4] *** 2.84 km (11:20 / km) +80m 9:56 / km
spiked:12/18c
West Point Sprint @ Camp Buckner
What an awful, awful race. I thought I was ready for the Sprint, but obviously not.
AP reports 11:06 in lost time, which is certainly on the conservative side, as it only reports 3 legs with lost time, and reality was at least six with significant losses. As it was, I had more lost time than the top 30 finishers, combined.
It started with holding the map upside down and I couldn't get things to make sense, and then I recovered with a bad route to the first control. Did fine on C2-C4, but then I completely lost track of the 1:5 scale (and the 2.5m contours), overran (and overclimbed) C5 badly and went right off the map. I tried to relocate off of the water tower at the top of the hill, but couldn't find it on the map. There were also some big trails up there, but I couldn't get them to line up with any trails on the map - it never occurred to me that I could be off the map. I ran well past C6 also, and saw an obvious rootstock that was almost on my line. It ended up being the wrong code and I guessed the wrong rootstock on the map and had to try again. At that point Angelica and someone else punched just ahead of me. I had a nice back-and-forth battle with her the rest of the way, as I kept running ahead, getting a lead for a few controls, then making an error.
What an awful, awful race. I thought I was ready for the Sprint, but obviously not.
AP reports 11:06 in lost time, which is certainly on the conservative side, as it only reports 3 legs with lost time, and reality was at least six with significant losses. As it was, I had more lost time than the top 30 finishers, combined.
It started with holding the map upside down and I couldn't get things to make sense, and then I recovered with a bad route to the first control. Did fine on C2-C4, but then I completely lost track of the 1:5 scale (and the 2.5m contours), overran (and overclimbed) C5 badly and went right off the map. I tried to relocate off of the water tower at the top of the hill, but couldn't find it on the map. There were also some big trails up there, but I couldn't get them to line up with any trails on the map - it never occurred to me that I could be off the map. I ran well past C6 also, and saw an obvious rootstock that was almost on my line. It ended up being the wrong code and I guessed the wrong rootstock on the map and had to try again. At that point Angelica and someone else punched just ahead of me. I had a nice back-and-forth battle with her the rest of the way, as I kept running ahead, getting a lead for a few controls, then making an error.