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Sunday Oct 1, 2017 #
5 PM
Orienteering race 27:28 [4] *** 2.2 km (12:29 / km)
spiked:12/16c slept:9.0 shoes: 2012 MT101 Black
Sprint race in Santa Tecla, just a walk from the hotel. A serious fail from the Garmin, which seems to have both failed to download the race and erased it from the watch. It was on there when I started the download, but all it downloaded was the jog to the start. Not sure what this means.
Anyway, a bit of difficulty reading the map and forgot I had my magnifier on the compass until I finished. It would have helped.
1. Choice of going through a lemon grove to a control in the grove, or going around on the road. Failed to see that there was a fence 2/3 of the way there, so I had to go out to the road anyway. Otherwise easy.
2. Short, easy, still in the lemons.
3. Easy.
4. Easy.
5. Easy, just counting buildings and streets.
6. Didn't see that there was a shorter trail around to the left, so out to the street and around the block. The magnifier would have shown where the trail goes through.
7 and 8 were doglegs, not sure if there was any better way to do it.
9. Easy.
10-. had to find a gap in the wall, successful, and then turn left at the bend in the road. Not successful. Ran past for about 60 meters and had to turn back. Ugly.
11. Again, the magnifier would have figured this out. Had to climb one set of stairs to get to another set that had the control. Climbed the first set and didn't find it, didn't realize I had to keep going, so down and fool around for a bit before back up. Ugly.
12-16. The rest was pretty straightforward. 15 was easy enough navigation, but hard to get to because it was out on the big chunks of lava. Just had to pay attention and hop from chunk to chunk.
Ended up 10th of 17 on the day. Certainly could have done better.
Stage 1 Santa Tecla
Anyway, a bit of difficulty reading the map and forgot I had my magnifier on the compass until I finished. It would have helped.
1. Choice of going through a lemon grove to a control in the grove, or going around on the road. Failed to see that there was a fence 2/3 of the way there, so I had to go out to the road anyway. Otherwise easy.
2. Short, easy, still in the lemons.
3. Easy.
4. Easy.
5. Easy, just counting buildings and streets.
6. Didn't see that there was a shorter trail around to the left, so out to the street and around the block. The magnifier would have shown where the trail goes through.
7 and 8 were doglegs, not sure if there was any better way to do it.
9. Easy.
10-. had to find a gap in the wall, successful, and then turn left at the bend in the road. Not successful. Ran past for about 60 meters and had to turn back. Ugly.
11. Again, the magnifier would have figured this out. Had to climb one set of stairs to get to another set that had the control. Climbed the first set and didn't find it, didn't realize I had to keep going, so down and fool around for a bit before back up. Ugly.
12-16. The rest was pretty straightforward. 15 was easy enough navigation, but hard to get to because it was out on the big chunks of lava. Just had to pay attention and hop from chunk to chunk.
Ended up 10th of 17 on the day. Certainly could have done better.
Stage 1 Santa Tecla
8 PM
Note
Pretty classic Sicilian dinner. Served at the tables, four first plates, slender penne with a tomato sauce, risotto with shellfish, slightly larger penne with a mushroom cream sauce, black squid ink spaghetti. Remarkable. Then several second plates: very thinly sliced swordfish in lemon sauce, marinated octopus, tiny fried anchovies and shrimp, so tiny you just ate them whole, stuffed mussels (too much breading), mussels cooked with a little wine (delicious) all with local wine from the vineyard that belongs to the restaurant. Then a small lemon granita. Very nice. Took quite a while, though.