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Monday Jan 7, 2013 #
1 PM
Orienteering 14:50 [5]
A very cool and tricky map around Parliament and the neighbouring block with schools, cathedrals, embassies and houses.
Bit uncertain on no.1 as there was a large climb on the ground that was hard to see beneath the detail on the map. Once I'd settled in though I got into a comfortable flow. Up the hill to 2 and 3, with a wide route choice to 2 but pretty 50-50 I think. Then all the way down to 4 via the steps to the right, ran into Mace (literally!) on the stairs. 5 and 6 were straight forward, as was 7, although I hesitated at the end, not recognising the feature in the middle of the car park.
Chose the right hand route choice to 8, which on hindsight was definitely the slower option. Absolute killer heading up the hill - who knew wellington was so hilly?!
Lost a bit of time on 9, having taken the left hand route, I got a bit confused around the covered stairs zigzagging up from the tennis courts. Just hesitation though really.
Out to the road rather than twist through 10-11. Made a mess of the map change like a number of people, as the tape which marked the route to it was teh same as that used around uncrossable gardens - and was on the edge of a garden! Having found my 2nd map things slipped into place. May have taken the slower route out of the spectator area, but not overly fussed.
And I predicted the final 2 controls correctly from the Arena pic in the bulletin :)
Awesome arena and atmosphere. Cool to have some of my non-orienteering friends show up to support too :-)
Bit uncertain on no.1 as there was a large climb on the ground that was hard to see beneath the detail on the map. Once I'd settled in though I got into a comfortable flow. Up the hill to 2 and 3, with a wide route choice to 2 but pretty 50-50 I think. Then all the way down to 4 via the steps to the right, ran into Mace (literally!) on the stairs. 5 and 6 were straight forward, as was 7, although I hesitated at the end, not recognising the feature in the middle of the car park.
Chose the right hand route choice to 8, which on hindsight was definitely the slower option. Absolute killer heading up the hill - who knew wellington was so hilly?!
Lost a bit of time on 9, having taken the left hand route, I got a bit confused around the covered stairs zigzagging up from the tennis courts. Just hesitation though really.
Out to the road rather than twist through 10-11. Made a mess of the map change like a number of people, as the tape which marked the route to it was teh same as that used around uncrossable gardens - and was on the edge of a garden! Having found my 2nd map things slipped into place. May have taken the slower route out of the spectator area, but not overly fussed.
And I predicted the final 2 controls correctly from the Arena pic in the bulletin :)
Awesome arena and atmosphere. Cool to have some of my non-orienteering friends show up to support too :-)
Running warm up/down 25:00 [3]
Sunday Jan 6, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering 40:09 [5]
Middle out at Waikawa.
Awesome map featuring highly technical detail on open sand dunes. Unfortunately I just didn't have my technique right for the type of terrain.
The first 4 controls in the forest were fine and eased me into the race, calming the nerves. On the long leg from 4-5 I could see Grace 60m or so infront of me across the flat plain. I knew if I could catch her then we'd have a good chance of pushing eachother through the course with minimal mistakes. This was my downfall though, as Grace slipped in and out of 5 cleanly. Meanwhile, I hit the circle, but then couldn't make sense of the details. So wasted 1.5mins inside the circle, as each small feature was so deep! Eventually bumbled across the control, by which time Grace and the Finn infront of her were well gone.
6 was a short leg, OK. 7 and 8 back in patches of forest. 8 was scrappy but I think I executed it alright. 8-9 I got stuck in a lot of lupin as I tried to traverse the wrong side of a dune. Silly stuff, but it cost me a minute! Crazy! Made me feel sorry for La and the other girls who went out right at the front of the field!
10 was another longer leg diagonal across the dunes. And again, I executed my plan perfectly until I hit the circle. But I stopped short, and then couldn't match up the details. Another minute lost within the circle!
11 OK.
12, again, longer leg. again, as with 5 and 10. Thought the left hand entry to the control would be easier to navigate. However got epically stuck in lupin, and then lost contact on the circle. Sigh. Should have gone right.
Knew I'd messed up my race pretty bad by that point, and motivation was hitting a low. 13 and 14 were alright through the spectator. Then 15. AGAIN. DAMN IT. This time in the Macrocarpa strip, tiring on the dunes, I hit the circle, standing on top of the ridge above the control - but there was no control?! having spent 20s or so there confused, I moved a bit to my right, and there was the control hiding behind a tree!!
16 was a physical struggle. And 17, I tried to follow the ridge, but lost track of distance and was looking for the control far too early. Another minute gone. Atleast all I really had to do from there was run to the finish!
So yeap. A very disappointing run. I should have been much more at home given the technical terrain, but I didn't adapt my techniques to the terrain enough. Needed to navigate right onto the control, rather than to the circle as is more usual in NZ or Aus. Making 5 1min+ mistakes is just not acceptable in a world cup race.
Awesome map featuring highly technical detail on open sand dunes. Unfortunately I just didn't have my technique right for the type of terrain.
The first 4 controls in the forest were fine and eased me into the race, calming the nerves. On the long leg from 4-5 I could see Grace 60m or so infront of me across the flat plain. I knew if I could catch her then we'd have a good chance of pushing eachother through the course with minimal mistakes. This was my downfall though, as Grace slipped in and out of 5 cleanly. Meanwhile, I hit the circle, but then couldn't make sense of the details. So wasted 1.5mins inside the circle, as each small feature was so deep! Eventually bumbled across the control, by which time Grace and the Finn infront of her were well gone.
6 was a short leg, OK. 7 and 8 back in patches of forest. 8 was scrappy but I think I executed it alright. 8-9 I got stuck in a lot of lupin as I tried to traverse the wrong side of a dune. Silly stuff, but it cost me a minute! Crazy! Made me feel sorry for La and the other girls who went out right at the front of the field!
10 was another longer leg diagonal across the dunes. And again, I executed my plan perfectly until I hit the circle. But I stopped short, and then couldn't match up the details. Another minute lost within the circle!
11 OK.
12, again, longer leg. again, as with 5 and 10. Thought the left hand entry to the control would be easier to navigate. However got epically stuck in lupin, and then lost contact on the circle. Sigh. Should have gone right.
Knew I'd messed up my race pretty bad by that point, and motivation was hitting a low. 13 and 14 were alright through the spectator. Then 15. AGAIN. DAMN IT. This time in the Macrocarpa strip, tiring on the dunes, I hit the circle, standing on top of the ridge above the control - but there was no control?! having spent 20s or so there confused, I moved a bit to my right, and there was the control hiding behind a tree!!
16 was a physical struggle. And 17, I tried to follow the ridge, but lost track of distance and was looking for the control far too early. Another minute gone. Atleast all I really had to do from there was run to the finish!
So yeap. A very disappointing run. I should have been much more at home given the technical terrain, but I didn't adapt my techniques to the terrain enough. Needed to navigate right onto the control, rather than to the circle as is more usual in NZ or Aus. Making 5 1min+ mistakes is just not acceptable in a world cup race.
Orienteering warm up/down 30:00 [3]
Saturday Jan 5, 2013 #
Orienteering 40:00 [3]
Out on the model for the middle distance. Mixture of open dunes, tricky forest, and lupin.
Orienteering 40:00 [3]
Model map.
Knee tweaking a couple of times. Stuff in the forest was hard to interpret. Not much in the open dunes to really get a look for what was in store
Knee tweaking a couple of times. Stuff in the forest was hard to interpret. Not much in the open dunes to really get a look for what was in store
Friday Jan 4, 2013 #
Orienteering 34:14 [3]
Ran half of the oceania day 1 course on Fusilier. beautiful, flat open pine forest. Knee was good for the main part, got the occasional twinge gloing up dunes but reassuringly ok.
Pulled the pin before I got too tired, or pushed the knee too far. First 4 controls wereat a good race pace though. Lost a couple of mins on 5 when I hit the green but didn;t have a good enough plan. Bit of a good reminder to sharpen up!
Pulled the pin before I got too tired, or pushed the knee too far. First 4 controls wereat a good race pace though. Lost a couple of mins on 5 when I hit the green but didn;t have a good enough plan. Bit of a good reminder to sharpen up!
Running 10:00 [3]
short warmup to ensure the knee would be ok with a bit of orienteering. not much of a warmdown, opted to scare people by sitting in the back of the ambulance whilst icing my knee intead ;)