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Sunday Feb 16, 2020 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (Brown) 1:34:40 **** 6.01 km (15:45 / km) +107m 14:27 / km
ahr:127 max:168 spiked:9/12c shoes: 2017 Inov8 ArcticClaw 300
Brown classic at Catalina SP, 4.3 km, 130m climb. Sunny and 60s to low 70s.
Two bigger errors, which moved me down the list a bit. But there were two MPs and 4 DNFs too at that point.
Start-1
Found the trail heading south and started up the one towards the out-of-bounds (native American settlement) hoping to contour above the mapped green but decided I couldn't go that way and turned back, for a small time loss. Went up the wash instead.
Getting out of the wash is mapped as light green but it was worse, thicker and prickly, and extended farther up the reentrant sides than mapped. Eventually got to a relatively open area and moved along to 2.
Did fine the rest of the way to 2 and 3. On the leg to 3 I saw a jackrabbit (I saw one yesterday too), and an unusual bird which was just sitting on a rock. It might have been a roadrunner but I'll need to see what size their bodies are and what they look like when resting. EDIT: it *was* a roadrunner...first wild sighting of one! Its crest was flattened which made it harder to identify.
3-4
Had "runnable" terrain 2/3 of the way there, then terrain didn't match what I was expecting and I saw a wash bend to my left when I expected one to the right. So I dropped to the wash and determined I was too far left and was looking at another wash bend where the wash is wider. Found it from there. This was when I realized that the north lines were at an angle to the sides of the paper (but the control numbers were not), which might explain why terrain didn't appear as i expected it to.
Fine to 5-6. But then I got over-confident about moving through this terrain.
6-7
Attempted to do this leg on a bearing, but I was pushed around by rocks and vegetation more than I thought and I ended up too far to the right of the line and checked up a reentrant well beyond the control. Eventually turned south to relocate. Didn't have to go all the way to the trail because I started seeing people and then a flag, which was mine.
The rest went well but slowly for the most part because of the rocks and vegetation. Somewhere in the last section I hit a prickly pear which left some spines above my left ankle, but not too many and they didn't irritate much so I left them there until I finished.
I had the only key to the car so was happy to see Glen wasn't back from his red course yet (and mad at me for being locked out) when I finished, considering the extra time I'd taken on 4 and 7 (at least 8 minutes between the two, maybe more).
Two bigger errors, which moved me down the list a bit. But there were two MPs and 4 DNFs too at that point.
Start-1
Found the trail heading south and started up the one towards the out-of-bounds (native American settlement) hoping to contour above the mapped green but decided I couldn't go that way and turned back, for a small time loss. Went up the wash instead.
Getting out of the wash is mapped as light green but it was worse, thicker and prickly, and extended farther up the reentrant sides than mapped. Eventually got to a relatively open area and moved along to 2.
Did fine the rest of the way to 2 and 3. On the leg to 3 I saw a jackrabbit (I saw one yesterday too), and an unusual bird which was just sitting on a rock. It might have been a roadrunner but I'll need to see what size their bodies are and what they look like when resting. EDIT: it *was* a roadrunner...first wild sighting of one! Its crest was flattened which made it harder to identify.
3-4
Had "runnable" terrain 2/3 of the way there, then terrain didn't match what I was expecting and I saw a wash bend to my left when I expected one to the right. So I dropped to the wash and determined I was too far left and was looking at another wash bend where the wash is wider. Found it from there. This was when I realized that the north lines were at an angle to the sides of the paper (but the control numbers were not), which might explain why terrain didn't appear as i expected it to.
Fine to 5-6. But then I got over-confident about moving through this terrain.
6-7
Attempted to do this leg on a bearing, but I was pushed around by rocks and vegetation more than I thought and I ended up too far to the right of the line and checked up a reentrant well beyond the control. Eventually turned south to relocate. Didn't have to go all the way to the trail because I started seeing people and then a flag, which was mine.
The rest went well but slowly for the most part because of the rocks and vegetation. Somewhere in the last section I hit a prickly pear which left some spines above my left ankle, but not too many and they didn't irritate much so I left them there until I finished.
I had the only key to the car so was happy to see Glen wasn't back from his red course yet (and mad at me for being locked out) when I finished, considering the extra time I'd taken on 4 and 7 (at least 8 minutes between the two, maybe more).