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Saturday Feb 9, 2019 #
10 AM
orienteer 1:42:49 [3] 6.3 km (16:19 / km) +143m 14:39 / km
PTOC event at Blue and Gray. -7C but no wind. There was a dusting of snow over the ice from earlier this week, so the footing was slick and weird. Sometimes you could run easily on top, other times you broke through with each step. Going down hills was tough. Also, many tree branches were coated in ice, making it extra hard to move through the woods.
At the last event, I made a mistake on the first control because my mind wasn't into the game yet. I tried to do better this week, but had no success. I did a huge parallel error which took me through ugly woods and wasted almost 10 minutes.
I quickly figured out that the woods were too thick and I should stick to the trails (although sometimes they were deep horse-pocked trails, which were also tough). That planned worked much better.
There were no bathrooms at the start and I really had to go, but there were always too many people around. Then as I went from 209 to 211, I saw a port-a-potty right on the road! Looked in and there was toilet paper available, so I stopped. When I finished I almost ran into Paul, who was quite surprised to see the door open up!
I was not happy with all the road running at the end (no challenge). I thought I was concentrating very well as I looked for the trail to get me to 217, but I missed it. I didn't know it until I saw another runner come out of the woods and get on the road toward the finish.
I felt OK on this run physically, but I'm not happy with my navigation.
http://sprintseries.org/doma/show_map.php?user=map...
At the last event, I made a mistake on the first control because my mind wasn't into the game yet. I tried to do better this week, but had no success. I did a huge parallel error which took me through ugly woods and wasted almost 10 minutes.
I quickly figured out that the woods were too thick and I should stick to the trails (although sometimes they were deep horse-pocked trails, which were also tough). That planned worked much better.
There were no bathrooms at the start and I really had to go, but there were always too many people around. Then as I went from 209 to 211, I saw a port-a-potty right on the road! Looked in and there was toilet paper available, so I stopped. When I finished I almost ran into Paul, who was quite surprised to see the door open up!
I was not happy with all the road running at the end (no challenge). I thought I was concentrating very well as I looked for the trail to get me to 217, but I missed it. I didn't know it until I saw another runner come out of the woods and get on the road toward the finish.
I felt OK on this run physically, but I'm not happy with my navigation.
http://sprintseries.org/doma/show_map.php?user=map...