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Saturday Apr 7, 2012 #
11 AM
Orienteering 1:05:58 6.59 km (10:01 / km) +866ft 8:21 / km
ahr:174 max:185 spiked:9/15c
First outing for the season, and a great opportunity to remember that I've forgotten everything over the winter. Particularly the exact same lessons at Prospect last year about unnecessary elevation and crappy sidehilling.
Per usual, a standout performance in lost time - five minutes more than anyone else in the top 19. Thought I had no meltdowns, just bobbles, but 3 was worse that I remembered. Didn't process that the boundary of the out-of-bounds was a fence, and got confused. Happy with the second best first and last splits, though.
1) killed it
2) decent, but seems like i was slow to put together a plan
3) total crap. somehow convinced myself that the border fence was the stone wall, and didn't realize the fence was the (clearly mapped) edge of the out-of-bounds. scrambled up the nearby boulder, looked around, figured it out, and killed it.
4) lost it in the trail network in the middle of the leg. shoulda aimed off
5) drifted right. dean did a great job of placing a lot of controls you couldn't see from obvious attackpoints. that didn't help, but was rewarding, eventually
6) it was long and i'm slow, but i'm happy with the nav
7) bit of a moment here, again, lost it in an indistinct trail network.
8) real happy with this one, up until wiping out on a pile of loose bricks. neither shin survived.
9) little slow, working out the fresh brick-dents
10) bobbled it at the end in an indistinct clearing. saw the same old streamer that alex did, and fell for it.
11) real happy with this as well (4th!). had a plan, went for it. hesitated tor 10-20s at the top of the huge drop, then went straight down the steepest nonsense. paid off
12) i was doing awesome on this one, until a crisis of confidence. this was probably the first leg ever i was finding targets on my bearing and running to them, instead of trying to watch the compass. i screwed myself really badly in this area last year, stopped to think, and totally lost the plot. bah.
13) up 'n atom. thought i wouldn't go the hero route, kept getting pushed back on that line, then sucked it up and went over the top. the terrain under the radio tower really, really blows. drifted north on the final approach
14) feeling it at this point. had a plan, but not the gas
15) hammer down on a easy leg
Per usual, a standout performance in lost time - five minutes more than anyone else in the top 19. Thought I had no meltdowns, just bobbles, but 3 was worse that I remembered. Didn't process that the boundary of the out-of-bounds was a fence, and got confused. Happy with the second best first and last splits, though.
1) killed it
2) decent, but seems like i was slow to put together a plan
3) total crap. somehow convinced myself that the border fence was the stone wall, and didn't realize the fence was the (clearly mapped) edge of the out-of-bounds. scrambled up the nearby boulder, looked around, figured it out, and killed it.
4) lost it in the trail network in the middle of the leg. shoulda aimed off
5) drifted right. dean did a great job of placing a lot of controls you couldn't see from obvious attackpoints. that didn't help, but was rewarding, eventually
6) it was long and i'm slow, but i'm happy with the nav
7) bit of a moment here, again, lost it in an indistinct trail network.
8) real happy with this one, up until wiping out on a pile of loose bricks. neither shin survived.
9) little slow, working out the fresh brick-dents
10) bobbled it at the end in an indistinct clearing. saw the same old streamer that alex did, and fell for it.
11) real happy with this as well (4th!). had a plan, went for it. hesitated tor 10-20s at the top of the huge drop, then went straight down the steepest nonsense. paid off
12) i was doing awesome on this one, until a crisis of confidence. this was probably the first leg ever i was finding targets on my bearing and running to them, instead of trying to watch the compass. i screwed myself really badly in this area last year, stopped to think, and totally lost the plot. bah.
13) up 'n atom. thought i wouldn't go the hero route, kept getting pushed back on that line, then sucked it up and went over the top. the terrain under the radio tower really, really blows. drifted north on the final approach
14) feeling it at this point. had a plan, but not the gas
15) hammer down on a easy leg