Training Log Archive: Boyzone

IOC Classic, Brockagh, Wicklow - Great area, technical and physical and a proper classic length. Decided to take it steady today and cut out the mistakes (since I had clocked up 23minutes of mistakes from the previous 4 races at JK and IOC middle). It seemed to work with much fewer mistakes - main ones were at 13, and 14, costing in total less than the 3minute winning margin. All splits roughly within 20% of fastest (bar run in as I decided to follow the string course for a wee while!) Delighted to finish in third.

Splits
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Route course 1
http://orienteering.ie/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?a...

M21E - Splits

IOC Middle, Glendoo, Wicklow - Great course on fun area of peat cuttings. This was definitely a race of "what could have been" as everyone made mistakes with the exception of Bill who easily took the title. Anyone one of 10 or more of us could have won (or at least got second) with a clean run. My mistakes were at 4 (where I was drawn towards the marsh which appeared to me as the re-entrant, no excuse really as I was much too high). At 6, I looked up for the knoll just before the depression - I set out for the high point and alas the control wasn't behind it, was the map spot on here, should there have been a knoll/hill mapped?, should I have put in an appeal?. Ran relatively cleanly then until I allowed myself to get distracted by others going to different control at the second last and lost a further minute, total time lost 5-6 minutes.

http://orienteering.ie/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?a...

M21E - Splits