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Sunday Sep 11, 2011 #
10 AM
Orienteering (Map hike) 1:32:47 [0] 6.25 km (14:51 / km) +105m 13:42 / km
8c shoes: 201004 Inov8 X-Talon 212
While I held up well yesterday, I found that I had no stamina today. I warmed up for about fifteen minutes and felt ok (though sluggish compared to my peak performance in Spring 2010), but I ran out of gas almost immediately out of the start, and decided to hike some of the controls before bailing for the DNF.
The course was more typical for a blue - 9.2 km compared to yesterday's 7.5; before I started, I thought to myself that I was being foolish, and a shorter course would be better for me. However, I had already copied the map, so I went with blue anyway. I ran on the trail en route to pt 2 until it became indistinct, then did my best to decipher the contours. I was paying attention to fine details on the way to 3, and spent some time reflecting on the need to notice small scale features even while simplifying. This is particularly relevant at night, when the largest scale features (like big hills) are often not apparent. After crossing the stream and hitting the pond, I somehow got confused by the knolls around 3 - not enough visualization of the area around the control, I suppose.
On the way to 4, even though I was walking, I was actually completely lost. My plan was to run lower - hit the peanut hill and pond right of the line, run down the broad reentrant on the line, over the saddle, and into the control, but I couldn't figure out where I actually was (apart from to the right of the broad hill). When I realized I was contouring while going east, I broke away and relocated off the small hill and marshes.
While chugging along to 5, just north of the capital "B" in Big Island on the map, a distressed woman hailed me and explained that she was lost. She was running orange, which passed through the Big Island area, and apparently had been wandering around for about 45 minutes. At my request, she showed me her atypical compass technique, and I took a moment to refresh my captive audience about orienting the map. She was very grateful when we hit the trail by pt 5, and we parted; I also saw Izzy "The Yellow Dart" Bryant at 5.
After the woman and I parted company, I continued my map hike to 8 and bailed. Examining the features at a slow speed was helpful, though there is no substitute for practicing race conditions. I messed up my route on the way to 7, in particular at the pair of marshes midway from 6-7 near the big boulder. I'm disappointed that I lacked the stamina to run today, but my body hasn't been exposed to the stress of high activity density. Running that much is out of the question, so I mean to do some long bike rides and kayaking to try to build up my stamina and recovery speed.
I talked with Magnus after his race, his first at Pawtuckaway. His reaction to Pawtuckaway was something to the effect of "I had no idea the Northeastern US actually had maps that correspond to the terrain!!" P-way has forever ruined Estabrook Woods for him. He had a very good run through some tricky terrain. I also met Carol Ross for the first time, who seems to fit the mold of small, happy, fast Canadiannes I have met, eh?
45/2000 (I do not count Canoe-O)
Quickroute
The course was more typical for a blue - 9.2 km compared to yesterday's 7.5; before I started, I thought to myself that I was being foolish, and a shorter course would be better for me. However, I had already copied the map, so I went with blue anyway. I ran on the trail en route to pt 2 until it became indistinct, then did my best to decipher the contours. I was paying attention to fine details on the way to 3, and spent some time reflecting on the need to notice small scale features even while simplifying. This is particularly relevant at night, when the largest scale features (like big hills) are often not apparent. After crossing the stream and hitting the pond, I somehow got confused by the knolls around 3 - not enough visualization of the area around the control, I suppose.
On the way to 4, even though I was walking, I was actually completely lost. My plan was to run lower - hit the peanut hill and pond right of the line, run down the broad reentrant on the line, over the saddle, and into the control, but I couldn't figure out where I actually was (apart from to the right of the broad hill). When I realized I was contouring while going east, I broke away and relocated off the small hill and marshes.
While chugging along to 5, just north of the capital "B" in Big Island on the map, a distressed woman hailed me and explained that she was lost. She was running orange, which passed through the Big Island area, and apparently had been wandering around for about 45 minutes. At my request, she showed me her atypical compass technique, and I took a moment to refresh my captive audience about orienting the map. She was very grateful when we hit the trail by pt 5, and we parted; I also saw Izzy "The Yellow Dart" Bryant at 5.
After the woman and I parted company, I continued my map hike to 8 and bailed. Examining the features at a slow speed was helpful, though there is no substitute for practicing race conditions. I messed up my route on the way to 7, in particular at the pair of marshes midway from 6-7 near the big boulder. I'm disappointed that I lacked the stamina to run today, but my body hasn't been exposed to the stress of high activity density. Running that much is out of the question, so I mean to do some long bike rides and kayaking to try to build up my stamina and recovery speed.
I talked with Magnus after his race, his first at Pawtuckaway. His reaction to Pawtuckaway was something to the effect of "I had no idea the Northeastern US actually had maps that correspond to the terrain!!" P-way has forever ruined Estabrook Woods for him. He had a very good run through some tricky terrain. I also met Carol Ross for the first time, who seems to fit the mold of small, happy, fast Canadiannes I have met, eh?
45/2000 (I do not count Canoe-O)
Quickroute