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Sunday Mar 13, 2011 #
Event: Sothern Champs, Hambleden
Orienteering race (Southern Champs) 1:30:49 [4] 10.93 km (8:19 / km) +330m 7:13 / km
(sick) shoes: inov8 Roclite295 (1)
Nice area, nice course. Did the 9.5km M21 "Short" course which was only 1.4km shorter than the women's elite!
No problems with navigation except 10 (no 139) where I navigated to the end of the earthbank, only to find that the earthbank continued for much longer on the ground than it did on the map! 2 mins lost.
My long leg - 13 to 14 - seemed to take a long time. It was the only point where I felt that the map was 1:15k as everything else seemed to come along quite quickly. No idea why I had a string of TD1 and TD2 controls near the end. A bit boring to say the least...
Disappointed that I hadn't shaken the cold before now as I should have been able to knock a good 10-15 mins off by just keeping to a sensible pace - just didn't have any energy today.
Wildlife - numerous kites, buzzards, pheasants, deer and what I think were hares - never seen any before but these were rabbit things with very long legs.
http://connect.garmin.com/player/72837676
No problems with navigation except 10 (no 139) where I navigated to the end of the earthbank, only to find that the earthbank continued for much longer on the ground than it did on the map! 2 mins lost.
My long leg - 13 to 14 - seemed to take a long time. It was the only point where I felt that the map was 1:15k as everything else seemed to come along quite quickly. No idea why I had a string of TD1 and TD2 controls near the end. A bit boring to say the least...
Disappointed that I hadn't shaken the cold before now as I should have been able to knock a good 10-15 mins off by just keeping to a sensible pace - just didn't have any energy today.
Wildlife - numerous kites, buzzards, pheasants, deer and what I think were hares - never seen any before but these were rabbit things with very long legs.
http://connect.garmin.com/player/72837676
Note
12 months today since we held BUCS at Sallowvallets.
Am still not an elite orienteer, and BUCS still haven't paid the Forestry Commission invoice for land access. I wonder which will (both big ifs...) happen first?
Am still not an elite orienteer, and BUCS still haven't paid the Forestry Commission invoice for land access. I wonder which will (both big ifs...) happen first?
Saturday Mar 12, 2011 #
Event: WNL, Eastnor
Orienteering - Night race (WNL Eastnor) 59:38 [4] 6.07 km (9:49 / km) +250m 8:09 / km
(sick) shoes: inov8 Roclite295 (1)
Pretty poor performance overall - was wondering as I was going around why I always perform so badly when in my home county. Probably because the choice of venues is always the grottiest bramble-fest that the organisers could possibly dream up. Suspect that pretty much every control description tonight could have been "bramble patch, marshy"...
Went S-11-14-9-15-24-25-17-23-19-26-16-6-7-8-13-12-5-22-4-10-2-1-F.
Cold and lack of fitness from a week of no training meant I was struggling with the gentle-ish slope up from the start. Really wasn't going fast at all and for a lot of the way was just walking slowly.
Made a big balls up of 24, spent ages stopped wondering where I was when I was probably in the control circle all along. Contouring along to 25 was difficult due to slope and poor balance, made worse when finding I was a good 20m+ below the control. After 19 went down hill with the aim of going onto the real hills. Had a change of heart and decided I should instead try and get all the rest from the park.
26 and 22 very brambly and horrible. Disappointed that I just didn't have enough time to get 3 at the end.
No positives apart from coming back in time. So, how the hell was I only 9 points behind Ifor and third overall?
http://connect.garmin.com/player/72673294
Went S-11-14-9-15-24-25-17-23-19-26-16-6-7-8-13-12-5-22-4-10-2-1-F.
Cold and lack of fitness from a week of no training meant I was struggling with the gentle-ish slope up from the start. Really wasn't going fast at all and for a lot of the way was just walking slowly.
Made a big balls up of 24, spent ages stopped wondering where I was when I was probably in the control circle all along. Contouring along to 25 was difficult due to slope and poor balance, made worse when finding I was a good 20m+ below the control. After 19 went down hill with the aim of going onto the real hills. Had a change of heart and decided I should instead try and get all the rest from the park.
26 and 22 very brambly and horrible. Disappointed that I just didn't have enough time to get 3 at the end.
No positives apart from coming back in time. So, how the hell was I only 9 points behind Ifor and third overall?
http://connect.garmin.com/player/72673294