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Sunday Nov 29, 2009 #
Event: NEOC - Mt. Tom
Orienteering 1:08:22 [4]
Mt. Tom Western Mass Score-O
Whew, 3rd race in 4 days- practice for summer multidays? Also a super-gorgeous day and nice woods. Anyways, if yesterday my focus was on navigating well, today I was trying to be fierce and ferocious through the woods, without of course, totally losing track of where I was. I think I was slightly faster per k today? I made a few more mistakes than yesterday (3 vs. 1, although none of todays were as big as the one yesterday) and 3 more ankle crunches (one kinda bad, argh!).
So, what was up with the mistakes? 16 -> 13 I think I didn't pay enough attention to my bearing, was dragged down the hillside a bit between streams, then mistook the nearest pile of rocks for the pile of rocks I actually wanted to be near. 6 -> 11 goofed up leaving the trail far too late and then still being unsure where exactly where I was when I left the trail. 11 -> 10 headed too far south, hit the trail below. Revamped plan to attack from the trail corner, but even messed up that plan by heading down when I hit the hillside scar instead of up, major whoops.
Some other controls were spot-on (but not all). Definitely fell like I was running a bit less timid today. Hopefully I can finally get rid of this ankle crunch over the winter!
Thanks to Phil for organizing/planning and PG, Gail and all others who helped! Was loads of fun!
Whew, 3rd race in 4 days- practice for summer multidays? Also a super-gorgeous day and nice woods. Anyways, if yesterday my focus was on navigating well, today I was trying to be fierce and ferocious through the woods, without of course, totally losing track of where I was. I think I was slightly faster per k today? I made a few more mistakes than yesterday (3 vs. 1, although none of todays were as big as the one yesterday) and 3 more ankle crunches (one kinda bad, argh!).
So, what was up with the mistakes? 16 -> 13 I think I didn't pay enough attention to my bearing, was dragged down the hillside a bit between streams, then mistook the nearest pile of rocks for the pile of rocks I actually wanted to be near. 6 -> 11 goofed up leaving the trail far too late and then still being unsure where exactly where I was when I left the trail. 11 -> 10 headed too far south, hit the trail below. Revamped plan to attack from the trail corner, but even messed up that plan by heading down when I hit the hillside scar instead of up, major whoops.
Some other controls were spot-on (but not all). Definitely fell like I was running a bit less timid today. Hopefully I can finally get rid of this ankle crunch over the winter!
Thanks to Phil for organizing/planning and PG, Gail and all others who helped! Was loads of fun!
Orienteering (control collecting) 25:00 [2]
Control collecting with Eric afterwards: 15, 18, 17, 16, 14. I navigated to 15 and 17, let him to 18, 16, 14. He hadn't been able to find 16 or 14 during the race, so think he was psyched to be able to find them later! Is more detailed and tricky terrain up that side of the road!
Headed into Northampton for pizza afterwards, unfortunately did not find the same pizza joint as others, but was too starving to look long...
Headed into Northampton for pizza afterwards, unfortunately did not find the same pizza joint as others, but was too starving to look long...
Running warm up/down 4:30 [1]
Short warm up before heading out.