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Wednesday Jun 15, 2011 #
6 PM
Orienteering race 22:00 [4] 2.1 km (10:29 / km) +105m 8:23 / km
ROC Meet at Mendon Ponds - Sprint course
Started off well - not real fast, but right on the flags. Then started screwing up. Going to C6, I took the trail partway up the hill, then went straight up. Tried to keep the hilltop to my left, since the flag was on the other side, but I misread the spurs and followed the wrong one down - didn't correct until I got all the way to the swamp.
C8 was a huge disaster. I ran out to the trail on a rough bearing, but was on the trail to the east of the desired trail, so I didn't see the flag (or the small pond). I thought that I knew where the pond was, but it was taking awhile to get there, so didn't seem right. After I got to the end of the marsh, I realized there was no pond there, relocated and had to retrace my steps all the way back. A solid 3 min error. It took the wind out of my sails, so the later slowness was more lost enthusiasm and speed, rather than poor navigation.
Eyesight bummer of the day: in the woods, I was unable to read the control codes that were on the clue sheet that was printed on the map. I could read them when I was back in the clear daylight at the parking lot.
Started off well - not real fast, but right on the flags. Then started screwing up. Going to C6, I took the trail partway up the hill, then went straight up. Tried to keep the hilltop to my left, since the flag was on the other side, but I misread the spurs and followed the wrong one down - didn't correct until I got all the way to the swamp.
C8 was a huge disaster. I ran out to the trail on a rough bearing, but was on the trail to the east of the desired trail, so I didn't see the flag (or the small pond). I thought that I knew where the pond was, but it was taking awhile to get there, so didn't seem right. After I got to the end of the marsh, I realized there was no pond there, relocated and had to retrace my steps all the way back. A solid 3 min error. It took the wind out of my sails, so the later slowness was more lost enthusiasm and speed, rather than poor navigation.
Eyesight bummer of the day: in the woods, I was unable to read the control codes that were on the clue sheet that was printed on the map. I could read them when I was back in the clear daylight at the parking lot.
Running warm up/down 3:00 [2] 0.33 mi (9:00 / mi)
Very short w/up, anxious to get out on the Sprint and avoid time pressure.
7 PM
Orienteering race 56:00 [4] 7.0 km (8:00 / km)
ROC Score-O at Mendon Ponds
Very interesting Score-O set up by Tyler today. There were 20 controls pre-printed on the map, and an additional 9 controls that were available on about 4 or 5 maps at specified controls. The point values of the controls ranged from 2 to about 30 or so. This was part of my downfall - as I went on, I realized that I couldn't really read many of the codes that were printed on the map. I was sure that one said 194, but there was no 194 on the clue sheet. But it was at the top of a huge hill, so I figured it had to be valuable. It turned out it was 154 and only worth 2 points.
I had a couple of strategic errors as well. I had time to visit all 20 controls on the map and I had a rough plan of an order from the start, but when I was in the middle of the course, I broke from my plan (in order to get "194", in fact), making it so that I would not be able to get two controls that were northeast of the finish (one of which had a high-point hidden control close to the finish). I should have stuck with the original plan.
I also did not deal with the extra controls very well. Nate ignored the low-point extra controls and focused on remembering the locations of higher points. I treated every control equally (mostly because I planned on getting them all). I also should have altered my route to make sure that I got to all of the controls that had others mapped, sooner in my trip.
The navigation went generally well, but most controls were easily attacked from trails. My speed was decent most of the time, although I did hit a couple of sluggish sections. But with the poor strategy, I finished well down the standings.
Very interesting Score-O set up by Tyler today. There were 20 controls pre-printed on the map, and an additional 9 controls that were available on about 4 or 5 maps at specified controls. The point values of the controls ranged from 2 to about 30 or so. This was part of my downfall - as I went on, I realized that I couldn't really read many of the codes that were printed on the map. I was sure that one said 194, but there was no 194 on the clue sheet. But it was at the top of a huge hill, so I figured it had to be valuable. It turned out it was 154 and only worth 2 points.
I had a couple of strategic errors as well. I had time to visit all 20 controls on the map and I had a rough plan of an order from the start, but when I was in the middle of the course, I broke from my plan (in order to get "194", in fact), making it so that I would not be able to get two controls that were northeast of the finish (one of which had a high-point hidden control close to the finish). I should have stuck with the original plan.
I also did not deal with the extra controls very well. Nate ignored the low-point extra controls and focused on remembering the locations of higher points. I treated every control equally (mostly because I planned on getting them all). I also should have altered my route to make sure that I got to all of the controls that had others mapped, sooner in my trip.
The navigation went generally well, but most controls were easily attacked from trails. My speed was decent most of the time, although I did hit a couple of sluggish sections. But with the poor strategy, I finished well down the standings.