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Sunday Apr 14, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 2:01:39 [4] 12.66 km (9:37 / km) +473m 8:06 / km
shoes: Integrator
LOC Long Graythwaite.
As always, some good some very bad. I suppose you can only get lucky some of the time, meaning if your technique isn't 100% secure, errors are inevitable...
The terrain arguably defeated me, but certainly defeated my kit; O-top has a large tear, trousers an even larger one and shoes are almost sole-less. Thought they felt loose towards the end...
The (lengthy) time loss list:
#1 Aimed for yellow passage but got stuck in loads of grot. 1m
#5 Initially looking too high. 45s
#7 Poor route through loads of slow rocky terrain. 30s
#10 Took a tour of the circle. 30s
#11 Indecisive over route choice, chose slower option then toured the crags in the circle. 2m 30s
#15 Ran straight past knoll but quick correction. 20s
#16 Tried to avoid climbing the hill and reading the map to run quicker. Succeeded on all three accounts, but then had to do both the former at a slower pace to actually go where I was supposed to be. 2m
#20 Flushed with my success on the previous couple of controls (5th on both splits here) I rushed off, taking a poor direction out of the control. When the flag didn't appear as expected (and the map didn't make sense) I simply ran from open patch to open patch until I got lucky... 5m 30s
#21 Unsure of route - very slow throughout. 1m
#28 Should have maintained height. 30s
14m 35s of errors... ouch. Obviously well off the pace, but navigational mistakes when the map is reliable are so frustrating. #16 and #20 were eminently avoidable = 7m 30s... I can handle being trounced on the physical side given the amount and relevance of training the majority of people undertake (and my injury status). However, major technical errors of over 1m are inexusable. Currently, eradicating mistakes will save more than running fractionally quicker... For all the orienteering I have done since the 1999 British Champs, have I improved technically? I'm not sure. I certainly seem to have gone backwards lately.
One positive was that I didn't collapse physically - in fact I gained 6 places from #20 to the end. I possibly paced myself better than of late, but it was also shorter and, following sage advice, I took some wine gums :)
12th of 23 (+4)
As always, some good some very bad. I suppose you can only get lucky some of the time, meaning if your technique isn't 100% secure, errors are inevitable...
The terrain arguably defeated me, but certainly defeated my kit; O-top has a large tear, trousers an even larger one and shoes are almost sole-less. Thought they felt loose towards the end...
The (lengthy) time loss list:
#1 Aimed for yellow passage but got stuck in loads of grot. 1m
#5 Initially looking too high. 45s
#7 Poor route through loads of slow rocky terrain. 30s
#10 Took a tour of the circle. 30s
#11 Indecisive over route choice, chose slower option then toured the crags in the circle. 2m 30s
#15 Ran straight past knoll but quick correction. 20s
#16 Tried to avoid climbing the hill and reading the map to run quicker. Succeeded on all three accounts, but then had to do both the former at a slower pace to actually go where I was supposed to be. 2m
#20 Flushed with my success on the previous couple of controls (5th on both splits here) I rushed off, taking a poor direction out of the control. When the flag didn't appear as expected (and the map didn't make sense) I simply ran from open patch to open patch until I got lucky... 5m 30s
#21 Unsure of route - very slow throughout. 1m
#28 Should have maintained height. 30s
14m 35s of errors... ouch. Obviously well off the pace, but navigational mistakes when the map is reliable are so frustrating. #16 and #20 were eminently avoidable = 7m 30s... I can handle being trounced on the physical side given the amount and relevance of training the majority of people undertake (and my injury status). However, major technical errors of over 1m are inexusable. Currently, eradicating mistakes will save more than running fractionally quicker... For all the orienteering I have done since the 1999 British Champs, have I improved technically? I'm not sure. I certainly seem to have gone backwards lately.
One positive was that I didn't collapse physically - in fact I gained 6 places from #20 to the end. I possibly paced myself better than of late, but it was also shorter and, following sage advice, I took some wine gums :)
12th of 23 (+4)