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Sunday Apr 6, 2008 #
Orienteering 3:02:00 [3] **** 13.2 km (13:47 / km) +365m 12:07 / km
20c
Excluding rogaines, this is definitely the longest orienteering course I've ever done (both in distance & time). The first bit was alright, although my route choices on a couple of the long legs probably could have been better. I made one really unfortunate error by convincing myself that the huge inlet coming off of a lake was actually just a slightly-flooded pond :-). Then I just started getting tired in the second half of the course and had to walk/jog/plod a lot of it...that was frustrating since it's pretty much the first time I've been limited in orienteering by my running speed instead of navigation. I guess I need to train more for longer distances.
It was also tough because the terrain wasn't very forgiving...the woods was a mixture of white and varying shades of green. A lot of it looked runnable, but it was filled with Texas-like wait-a-minute vines that I kept getting caught on. It was extremely muddy, so that it was sometimes a toss-up whether it was faster to run through the woods next to the paths or to fight through the horse-hoof-grooved mud on the trails.
The other challenge was the steepness--the map was cut with these massive St. Edwards-style ravines. I had some trouble getting up/down them even with spikes, and I had to crawl/pull myself up on branches & roots for some of them.
Overall, it was definitely an experience to run a long course but I think I prefer sprint/middle/classic :-).
It was also tough because the terrain wasn't very forgiving...the woods was a mixture of white and varying shades of green. A lot of it looked runnable, but it was filled with Texas-like wait-a-minute vines that I kept getting caught on. It was extremely muddy, so that it was sometimes a toss-up whether it was faster to run through the woods next to the paths or to fight through the horse-hoof-grooved mud on the trails.
The other challenge was the steepness--the map was cut with these massive St. Edwards-style ravines. I had some trouble getting up/down them even with spikes, and I had to crawl/pull myself up on branches & roots for some of them.
Overall, it was definitely an experience to run a long course but I think I prefer sprint/middle/classic :-).
Saturday Apr 5, 2008 #
Orienteering race (sprint) 18:56 [4] 2.9 km (6:32 / km)
shoes: Brooks
Morning sprint.
Campus map, so easy navigation. I didn't make any navigational mistakes, & it felt like I was running pretty fast, but it's much harder for me to keep up with footspeed on red than on green.
Campus map, so easy navigation. I didn't make any navigational mistakes, & it felt like I was running pretty fast, but it's much harder for me to keep up with footspeed on red than on green.
Orienteering race (sprint) 20:21 [4] 2.7 km (7:32 / km)
shoes: orienteering shoes
Afternoon sprint.
More-interesting sprint in the woods around some apartment buildings. It was very similar to WIOL (fast & lots of trails), but there was one leg that was neat since it was faster to cut through among some reentrants than to go around. There was also one really long leg, but I don't think I made a good route choice since Andy's time was almost 1 min faster than mine and he went around instead of cutting through the woods (but it was open woods, not green!!).
More-interesting sprint in the woods around some apartment buildings. It was very similar to WIOL (fast & lots of trails), but there was one leg that was neat since it was faster to cut through among some reentrants than to go around. There was also one really long leg, but I don't think I made a good route choice since Andy's time was almost 1 min faster than mine and he went around instead of cutting through the woods (but it was open woods, not green!!).
Friday Apr 4, 2008 #
Event: Flying Pig XII
Orienteering 39:21 [4] 4.3 km (9:09 / km)
shoes: orienteering shoes
Flying Pig middle distance.
I had a good run except for controls 10 and 13. Will write more about them later.
REALLY muddy! It was hard to run in places because the mud was so thick.
My foot felt fairly good, which was surprising & good because I found out that the Long on Sunday is 13.2 km!
I had a good run except for controls 10 and 13. Will write more about them later.
REALLY muddy! It was hard to run in places because the mud was so thick.
My foot felt fairly good, which was surprising & good because I found out that the Long on Sunday is 13.2 km!