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Sunday Aug 9, 2015 #
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Pretty worn out and a bit sick. Bagged all thoughts of going somewhere for a hike.
Saturday Aug 8, 2015 #
orienteering 1:35:14 [3]
Day 6. So glad I decided to go out today. My knee was really sore this morning - both knees actually - and I have a bit of a cold (cough and stuffy nose mostly) so i thought about just bagging it. But I can relax tomorrow and Samantha Saeger and Alex Jospe both said the terrain was wonderful so I decided to at least start but be sensible and quit if my knee was a problem. So I hiked up to the start (it was steep and fairly long). And the terrain was just fabulous. So different than yesterday.
I orienteered reasonably well except for leaving 3 and putting my compass down as if I was leaving 4 and heading to 5 and while things sort of made sense they didn't match exactly so I stopped and luckily realized what I had done. Only lost 3 minutes or so as I was able to head off to 4 pretty easily. Most other controls popped up just as I expected them with maybe 2-3 others just a little further than when I started thinking I should be seeing them or at least the biggish feature I was aiming for.
I had a pretty horrible placing despite having a "good" run. The majority of the course was downhill and many people just came flying by me. The ground was reasonably runnable although a bit hummocky so even in the flat bits I wasn't willing to run. And any time I tried to jog just a bit, my knee really hurt so I just walked. Even the finish chute.
I've been icing this evening and taking ibuprofen and hopefully I'll be fine in a day or two.
The terrain really was quite wonderful and lots of fun to orienteer on and I'm so happy to finish on a successful (for me) outing and not yesterday's disaster. I heard someone describe Glen Affric as "magical" and after yesterday I thought they were crazy. But after today I can see why they thought it was so special.
And bonus - it didn't start raining until we were done for the day.
I orienteered reasonably well except for leaving 3 and putting my compass down as if I was leaving 4 and heading to 5 and while things sort of made sense they didn't match exactly so I stopped and luckily realized what I had done. Only lost 3 minutes or so as I was able to head off to 4 pretty easily. Most other controls popped up just as I expected them with maybe 2-3 others just a little further than when I started thinking I should be seeing them or at least the biggish feature I was aiming for.
I had a pretty horrible placing despite having a "good" run. The majority of the course was downhill and many people just came flying by me. The ground was reasonably runnable although a bit hummocky so even in the flat bits I wasn't willing to run. And any time I tried to jog just a bit, my knee really hurt so I just walked. Even the finish chute.
I've been icing this evening and taking ibuprofen and hopefully I'll be fine in a day or two.
The terrain really was quite wonderful and lots of fun to orienteer on and I'm so happy to finish on a successful (for me) outing and not yesterday's disaster. I heard someone describe Glen Affric as "magical" and after yesterday I thought they were crazy. But after today I can see why they thought it was so special.
And bonus - it didn't start raining until we were done for the day.
Friday Aug 7, 2015 #
orienteering 2:27:56 [3]
Day 5. Well that was embarrassing. Just could not focus and kept making errors. And the terrain was absolutely brutal. I would come to a stream with a 20 foot sheer drop and think "they can't possibly have meant for me to be doing this" but then 5 runners would come barreling by and hop down the bank and I would realize yes, this exactly what I'm supposed to be doing. So I slogged around the course and totally trashed my knee. Fell twice crossing streams and was totally soaked. Good thing the waterproof map paper is really quite good. Hopefully I will feel okay for tomorrow.
Thursday Aug 6, 2015 #
orienteering 58:48 [3]
Day 4. Another day at beautiful Darnaway but a new section - the area used for the WOC relay. I think I liked this terrain even better. Had lots of fun and again even jogged in a few places where the woods were just long sloping downhill of wide open woods with soft leaves underfoot. Very happy with this outing with my only "errors" of the hesitation variety. Another good result.
Wednesday Aug 5, 2015 #
orienteering 45:33 [3]
Day 3. Beautiful woods today. Lots of hills and depressions with virtually no undergrowth. They kept us out of the nasty sections that the WOC middle competitors had to run through. I tried to jog in a few places since the woods were so nice and promptly overran a few controls. But no big time losses; only 30 seconds or a minute at most. So ended up with a good result (at least for me).
Monday Aug 3, 2015 #
orienteering 1:07:32 [3] 3.8 mi (17:46 / mi)
Day 2. Pretty much the same as yesterday. Walked all but a short bit of the run in. Made a handful of small bobbles but all in the 10 to 15 second range except 12 where I was a good bit right but Janet told me where it was. We ended up starting 30 seconds apart and saw each other most of the course although we took lots of different micro routes. There was a huge delay on the road since cars were getting stuck trying to get into the parking field and lots of people missed their start times so they were feeding late starters in every 30 seconds.
I had a really late start so there were trails through all the vegetation by the time I got there. Would have been brutal to go early. Very physically tiring today.
I had a really late start so there were trails through all the vegetation by the time I got there. Would have been brutal to go early. Very physically tiring today.