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Friday Mar 21, 2014 #
Event: Run Black Diamond
3 PM
Orienteering race (Middle) 1:29:55 [4] ***** 4.56 km (19:43 / km) +345m 14:18 / km
20c (sick)
Today was the middle distance courses for Run Black Diamond, at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. I ran red.
With this course, my troubles started immediately. I think that I attacked #1 fairly well, but when I got to the control location, I ran right by it, because it was hidden in a very steep reentrant. I looked around the entire area before finally finding it.
I left #1 on a bad bearing and found the wrong trail. I had to relocate, and I lost significant time again.
After this I proceeded with caution. I made no serious mistakes to #3, but I did get there very slowly.
Numbers 4,5 and 6 were quite difficult in terms of navigation and the terrain was also very difficult to get through. Each of these I got to very slowly.
After this, my race really started to improve. I felt as though I understood the map more, and I also was moving through the terrain faster. I made it to numbers 7,8,9 and 10 with no real mistakes.
After this however, I began to feel much more tired physically. This is partially due to the cold that's been bothering me for a few days. For the rest of the race, I didn't really have any navigational difficulties, but I felt completely exhausted.
I finished 17th out of 29 finishers.
With this course, my troubles started immediately. I think that I attacked #1 fairly well, but when I got to the control location, I ran right by it, because it was hidden in a very steep reentrant. I looked around the entire area before finally finding it.
I left #1 on a bad bearing and found the wrong trail. I had to relocate, and I lost significant time again.
After this I proceeded with caution. I made no serious mistakes to #3, but I did get there very slowly.
Numbers 4,5 and 6 were quite difficult in terms of navigation and the terrain was also very difficult to get through. Each of these I got to very slowly.
After this, my race really started to improve. I felt as though I understood the map more, and I also was moving through the terrain faster. I made it to numbers 7,8,9 and 10 with no real mistakes.
After this however, I began to feel much more tired physically. This is partially due to the cold that's been bothering me for a few days. For the rest of the race, I didn't really have any navigational difficulties, but I felt completely exhausted.
I finished 17th out of 29 finishers.
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.5 km (10:00 / km) +120m 7:09 / km
(sick)
Thursday Mar 20, 2014 #
Note
(sick)
Still feeling pretty terrible...
Wednesday Mar 19, 2014 #
Note
(sick)
Nasty cold... Hopefully I will be able to run well this weekend at Run Black Diamond.
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014 #
7 PM
Strength Exercises 15:00 [5]
Sunday Mar 16, 2014 #
Event: BAOC: Pt Pinole
10 AM
Orienteering race (Point Pinole) 41:09 [4] *** 6.1 km (6:45 / km) +100m 6:14 / km
30c
BAOC C-meet at Point Pinole Regional Park. This course was middle distance but felt more like a sprint because there were many controls with short legs in between and sharp changes in direction. I had very few costly mistakes, but I often wasted between 5 and 15 seconds looking for the control bag once I had already made it into the area of the control. These small errors really do add up, especially when there are so many controls. I ended up 8th out of 48 finishers.
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.36 km (11:00 / km)
2 PM
Orienteering Training (Briones) 1:00:30 [3] **** 5.3 km (11:25 / km) +240m 9:18 / km
9c
This was a steep middle-distance course designed by Lubomir Sebo. I made several very costly mistakes, all when I was right in the area of the control. For next time, I will work on reading the map carefully when entering the control circle.
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 0.91 km (11:00 / km)