Orienteering race 1:29:06*** 7.66 km (11:38 / km) +245m10:02 / km ahr:150 max:171 spiked:22/31c shoes: Inov 340 Pair #2
2014 OLOU Goat at Cave Creek, 8.9k/365m/35C
A contrast to the previous race, much slower travel due to greener woods and more technical navigation, in part due to lower visibility.
The course was a bit odd due to park-imposed limits (all announced beforehand), using many controls on a largish 1:5000 map. To get the distance there was a map exchange at the halfway pt and there were 0 forks/2 skips per map. For me, map 1 was fine but I really struggled to find good routes to the controls. I made one egregious mistake at #6 confusing two roads and heading down a steep spur only to have to reverse myself (4 min). The ROWST on the longest leg to #7 was terrible running, some knee high mutant fern/juniper plants that obscured the footing. I compensated by staying in the slightly less annoying woods. #15 could have been taken more conservatively. It was a small cliff on the side of a reentrant and swinging safely low would have ensured hitting it the first time. Overall, I was in third.
The Map 2 was much better and I picked up the pace significantly and pushed up into second place. Only two distinct errors on this part, #5 intersecting a reentrant at a less well defined place and heading 10 steps down before reversing course (45 s) and #11 rolling too far across a green slope before being caught by #14 (1 min). The benefit was that I realized this was likely to happen so there was little loss of confidence and also the navigation back to #11 was very easy.
Road running39:45 5.0 mi (7:57 / mi) +14m7:53 / mi ahr:153 max:167 shoes: Saucony Progrid Wide 2
Hard to get out this past week and some irritated wack-a-mole issues with my left leg have been slightly discouraging. Rolling and stretching are increasing again to suppress them.
Warmup-down12:19 0.23 mi (54:01 / mi) +1m53:17 / mi ahr:106 max:133 shoes: Saucony Progrid Wide 2