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Sunday Oct 11, 2015 #
Event: SMOC Waterloo HQ
Orienteering (Waterloo SMOC Meet) 1:31:42 [4] 5.0 mi (18:20 / mi)
Only big error was overshooting 10, but I quickly realized my mistake and corrected. Overall the navigation went really well. I had no trouble using the landscape features. I would like to believe my nav skills are improving, but it helped that most of the features were pretty large :) There were times I think I could have picked a more efficient route, especially toward the end when I was getting tired. Getting better at jogging through the woods while navigating! Really happy with how I did. BF beat me by about 30 sec, I was so close!! He definitely had the advantage with the fair amount of road running though.
Saturday Oct 10, 2015 #
Adventure Race (Art Prize) 3:48:28 [3] 25.0 mi (9:08 / mi)
We knew before race day that there was going to be a foot section and a bike section and had decided we wanted to start on foot. Got our maps and made a plan. BF took the lead on navigation since he had done an urban orienteering meet before.
We started with all the co-ed teams and it seemed a majority headed to the bikes first, only one other team chose the same first checkpoint as we did. We were worried about lines at the challenges, but they were all laid out really well and we never had to wait. The first one I had to describe to BF a piece of art and he had to go find it in the gallery...my describing skills weren't that great, but he eventually found the right one! The second challenge we had to write down all the market stalls with leaves on their signs, we found 9 and there were only supposed to be 7...everything looked like a leaf. Those were our worst challenges, the rest were very quick. Starting out our plan was to run a much as we could and we ended up running nearly the entire section. Was about 7 miles in total. A couple minor navigation blunders, but overall the foot section went really well.
Hopped on our bikes to head to the second half of the course. Biking in the city was frustrating, we had to wait for so many lights. Hit the first few points without trouble. Then our biggest mistake of the race. We had been navigating based on road names and one of the names didn't match the maps. Ended up biking quite a ways past it before BF recognized the mistake and we turned back around. All the challenges on this section went really quickly. There was about a mile of two track that was a little rough, but we made it through with no crashes!
Near the end of our bike route was a quick foot orienteering section. Still had the energy left to jog most of this section. The first 4 points we found with no trouble. Wandered around a bit on the last point before realizing we had walked within 10 feet of it on the way in...not sure how we missed that. On the way back to the bikes I smashed my knee pretty hard, but luckily I was able to walk it off.
All we had left was the bike to the finish with 3 check points along the way. Made it back with no trouble, again had to stop at a few lights. Finished with time to spare! Placed 5/100 co-ed and 7/185 overall. Very happy with how we did. Definitely had a very different feel than more traditional races. I had a great time, but prefer woodland races :)
We started with all the co-ed teams and it seemed a majority headed to the bikes first, only one other team chose the same first checkpoint as we did. We were worried about lines at the challenges, but they were all laid out really well and we never had to wait. The first one I had to describe to BF a piece of art and he had to go find it in the gallery...my describing skills weren't that great, but he eventually found the right one! The second challenge we had to write down all the market stalls with leaves on their signs, we found 9 and there were only supposed to be 7...everything looked like a leaf. Those were our worst challenges, the rest were very quick. Starting out our plan was to run a much as we could and we ended up running nearly the entire section. Was about 7 miles in total. A couple minor navigation blunders, but overall the foot section went really well.
Hopped on our bikes to head to the second half of the course. Biking in the city was frustrating, we had to wait for so many lights. Hit the first few points without trouble. Then our biggest mistake of the race. We had been navigating based on road names and one of the names didn't match the maps. Ended up biking quite a ways past it before BF recognized the mistake and we turned back around. All the challenges on this section went really quickly. There was about a mile of two track that was a little rough, but we made it through with no crashes!
Near the end of our bike route was a quick foot orienteering section. Still had the energy left to jog most of this section. The first 4 points we found with no trouble. Wandered around a bit on the last point before realizing we had walked within 10 feet of it on the way in...not sure how we missed that. On the way back to the bikes I smashed my knee pretty hard, but luckily I was able to walk it off.
All we had left was the bike to the finish with 3 check points along the way. Made it back with no trouble, again had to stop at a few lights. Finished with time to spare! Placed 5/100 co-ed and 7/185 overall. Very happy with how we did. Definitely had a very different feel than more traditional races. I had a great time, but prefer woodland races :)
Thursday Oct 8, 2015 #
Bike (Commute ) 30:00 [3] 5.0 mi (10.0 mph)
Climbing 45:00 [3]
Bouldered for a while. Finished 1 V3, close on 2 others. Switched to top roping. Solid attempt at a new 5.11+, made it about 3/4 but my arms were shot. Finished with a super crimpy 5.10.
Wednesday Oct 7, 2015 #
Run 28:50 [3] 3.0 mi (9:37 / mi)
Trails around home
Bike (Commute) 30:00 [3] 5.0 mi (10.0 mph)
Tuesday Oct 6, 2015 #
Bike (Commute) 30:00 [3] 5.0 mi (10.0 mph)
Bike (Mtn) 1:03:36 [3] 15.0 mi (14.2 mph)
Out Joy Rd. Legs were a little tired from yesterday.
Monday Oct 5, 2015 #
Run 59:07 [3] 6.4 mi (9:14 / mi)
Night run down to campus and back up Green.