Running29:08 3.0 mi (9:43 / mi) +39m9:20 / mi ahr:130 max:140
12 PM
Orienteering2:45:44 7.46 mi (22:13 / mi) +291m19:49 / mi ahr:137 max:165
Great course by Jens! :)
Learned some more about my strengths and challenges with this one! In short, I can be overconfident on bearing when not focused, should visualize more what I should see, and still overshooting. S to 1: I just walked up, punched and started. I should get in the practice of a little jog around and get focused. 1 to 2: Very tentative. Set up as a trap! Was about 10m north of the flag when I saw it. 2 to 3: Catastrophe! I wasn’t watching my compass, landed on the N/S road and hit a trail then looked. GAH. Then turned north , picked up the small trail then went to pick up the other trail and made a huge parallel error. Once I realized, corrected and hit it. 3 to 4: Got pushed around by the green and didn’t watch my compass. Hit the trail and reattacked. I thought it had fallen. Came to realize (at the end) that Jens hung to A meet standards. 4 to 5: Fine other than tentative again. Plan worked. 5 to 6: Another catastrophe. I had planned to string together open areas, and then hit a wall of green. Got to a super clearing and stopped with a pace count. It didn’t seem right. In hindsight I should have gone west for a backstop instead of continuing south. Saw buildings and doubled back. Landed at the same clearing and got the flag. Ugggghhhhhhh 6 to 7: Tentative again, and walked right past it. Started to go down, and realized I shouldn’t’ have been, heard some rustling, turned around and could see it. 7 to 8: Fine, tentative, but fine. 8 to 9: Fine, but ran past again. Will this ever end? 9 to 10: Followed the plan and kept double checking because of the 2 ridges. 10 to 11: Looked at the other lines and I just didn’t see the other way. I think part of the allure of the 2 marshes was to stay on a line. But messed it up anyway! 11 to 12: Executed the plan but didn’t see the 2 corners I could have cut. Almost overshot! 12 to 13: Should have trusted the dot ditch a little more….but the previous short stint was a hot mess. 13 to 14: AAARGH! Thought just follow the spur, but hit the wrong way on it and thoroughly confused myself. Once I sorted the swamps…. 14 to F: Go Igor! I thought about dropping down, but thought the trail is so short. And of course, I overshot the F punch!
Orienteering38:12 1.24 mi (30:49 / mi) +66m26:27 / mi ahr:114 max:132