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Sunday Dec 7, 2014 #
Orienteering race 1:34:42 [3] *** 6.6 km (14:21 / km) +230m 12:13 / km
19c shoes: Icebug olx 2nd
QOC Prince William Red. I figured I'd try for a comfortable pace and keep it up for the distance. I got that part of it o.k., but the actual orienteering was another story. I had an inordinate amount of trouble with all of the pit controls. Good attacks, reasonable position knowledge, but all of that wasn't good enough to spot the feature or the control. Except #12, in the clearing on the ridge, which I powered straight into, reading the reentrants above the river. #13 being especially frustrating, with such a short attack from the road where the linear ditch comes down, and inspecting so many pits before seeing the right one.
And, yeah, I completely blew #3, getting sucked into the wrong reentrant far, far to the north. What was I thinking? I did check the control code, and knew I had gone too far (duh!) so when I backtracked and found another ditch control I didn't think too hard about the code on that one. Two extra punches, neither one the right one. Wasn't going to be a stellar run anyway.
And, yeah, I completely blew #3, getting sucked into the wrong reentrant far, far to the north. What was I thinking? I did check the control code, and knew I had gone too far (duh!) so when I backtracked and found another ditch control I didn't think too hard about the code on that one. Two extra punches, neither one the right one. Wasn't going to be a stellar run anyway.
Saturday Dec 6, 2014 #
Orienteering 1:30:00 [3] 4.0 km (22:30 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Oroc 280
Picking up controls after the Pax River NJROTC event. A steady downpour pretty much the whole time. Valerie had the pickup really well organized, and handed me a bagged and sealed map with a course consisting of 8 controls, 2.4k. There was a fairly long trail run getting in to the first one. Trouble with #2, got to one of those big ravines with complex topography and couldn't locate myself. Then, what a disaster on the 4th control, a ditch in thick vegetation and fiddly little contours, which I couldn't read very well in the conditions, and I just couldn't find it. Tried 3 different attacks and finally succeeded by bouncing off some larger reentrants on the far side. At least a half hour on that.
At this point it was already getting dark, and still raining, and I had 4 more to go, but fortunately they were in a more open area of woods and went quickly. There was one steep slope that was unstable due to the wet leaves and mud, which I MacGyvered up using the technique of repeatedly jamming a control stand into the slope and bracing my foot against it. Oh yeah, it was fun.
At this point it was already getting dark, and still raining, and I had 4 more to go, but fortunately they were in a more open area of woods and went quickly. There was one steep slope that was unstable due to the wet leaves and mud, which I MacGyvered up using the technique of repeatedly jamming a control stand into the slope and bracing my foot against it. Oh yeah, it was fun.