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Tuesday Jun 26, 2018 #
Event: 5 days of Italy 2018
5 PM
orienteering race (Madonna di Campiglio) 23:42 [4] 3.0 km (7:54 / km) +45m 7:21 / km
shoes: Asics Nimbus 19
I took full advantage of the hotel's buffet breakfast before going off to climb mountains - up to Lago Malghette at 1900m (a beautiful little alpine lake where the rifugio is not just a hut, but a full-on restaurant) and then to the top of the Pradalago chairlift at 2109m, from which I could see across the valley to yesterday's training area and the big tent being set up for the arena on Groste for days 2 & 3 also at 2100m. It's impossible to describe just how beautiful it was being up in the mountains on a perfectly clear day, and I was sorry to go back down. Decided my knees wouldn't enjoy 550m descent and therefore, despite my fear of heights, took the chairlift - which was back down in Madonna di Campiglio approx 10 min later.
As a bonus, later in the day it was possible to take the cabinovia up to Passo Groste at 2440m, armed with a copy of the orienteering map and in the company of the mapper, with whom I debated which trees should have been individually mapped or not above the snowline. The actual orienteering event back down in the village was kind of an anticlimax - I had entered the long EOD course which was a bit bland but this didn't stop me from doing a couple of dumb things despite having previously walked around the village more than once. I certainly wasn't running very fast but did seem to have a bit of oxygen debt; hopefully more due to tired mountain-legs than general lack of fitness?
As a bonus, later in the day it was possible to take the cabinovia up to Passo Groste at 2440m, armed with a copy of the orienteering map and in the company of the mapper, with whom I debated which trees should have been individually mapped or not above the snowline. The actual orienteering event back down in the village was kind of an anticlimax - I had entered the long EOD course which was a bit bland but this didn't stop me from doing a couple of dumb things despite having previously walked around the village more than once. I certainly wasn't running very fast but did seem to have a bit of oxygen debt; hopefully more due to tired mountain-legs than general lack of fitness?