Training Log Archive: mintore

Event: 2016 Ontario Orienteering Championships
 

Ontario Champs meet by STARS, Middle Course 6, 3.6 km
Meet 16, course 21

Course was similar in character to the middle from 2012.

However, this was my typical rotten first run or middle run (I am not sure which is most true). Really, the course was not to difficult but I had hill vs valley issues approaching 4 and got very close to the control, but as it was over the crest of the ridge and I never crested, it was a touch hard to see. Otherwise, slow but not very accurately to C1, didn't read clue at C9 resulting in 20 s lost, C13 was harder than it looked with the vegetation leaving C12, and finally grossly underestimated how high the go (C14) was. Weather held and I got stretched out.

Ontario Champs meet by STARS, Sprint Course 5, 2.9 km
Meet 16, course 22

This was a really good run for me. I was up by 2:13 at C15 and over 3 min at the finish in M45-54. My time wouldn't have even been terrible in M21.

The only significant lost time was at C2 which was an exceptionally well set and confusing leg in the residences. Fun looping as well, kudos to the course setter. There was one mistake on my part. Apparently, C17 was planned in a location that was fenced in by construction so we needed to skip it. So this rattled around in my head until control 15. There I punched and remembered there was supposed to be a monitor to remind us to skip. Still I needed to skip so I did go on to C18. I After I finished I was unsettled and confused. I watched some other runners finish, stood in the DL line for a while when I asked Jon Torrance whether C17 was the skip. Seemed to be the case, then it donned on me. I had just left C15. Argh! So, I printed my mp and went to see a high school buddy living in Guelph.

Middle Course 6 - Splits

Sprint Course 5 - Splits

short run with Aragorn

Blustery and damp, felt more like fall than spring. Decent effort given my low enthusiasm.

Warmer than I thought it might be, a bit of a run with A down to the trails at Marott. Sprinkly, with a bit of map reading

Event: SMOC Peach Mountain
 

Peach Mountain meet by SMOC, 12 k
Meet 15, course 20

Fun course, terrain was interesting
20 min whopper on the 5th leg of this score-O. Lost contact, and any sense of distance. Didn't stop fast enough but realized that I needed to get back to something I could recognize. Blindly fought through the mist, briars and dying pine seedlings ultimately back to a trail. Trail lead to road. Checked it out and was pretty sure where I was but the trails didn't all match up so I still thought I had overrun myself further. Off to a trail junction, seemed correct, back down the trail, noticed a Y-ed dotted ditch and felt comforted. Went on my merry way. Took most of 10 legs to get my head cleared out. Glad I went to this event, still cleared only 30 min behind Aragorn and dersu, and felt like most but not all of my other navigation was good.

Lesson learned: relocate off of at least 3 features if possible. If one (in this case a segment of trail that had overgrown to the point of invisibility) doesn't make sense but two others work, go for it. If you are right, map contact from there on out will seal the deal.

Added: 2 km added before I turned my watch on.


31-32-35-45-58-64-51(very slow av +3 min)-40-55-43-63(went around the med and light green to E on trail, apparently unnecessarily, + 90s)-60-53-49-71(route to S might have been quicker but the trail was fast and a known quantity)-44-48-47-54(poor route choice S then traversed E, 2.5 min)-56-52-59-61-57-42-41-65(57-41-65-42 would have been better wrt climb as was made clear to me after)-73-34-33-F