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Monday May 27, 2013 #
Orienteering race (SINS Brown Clee) 1:07:43 [4] 8.16 km (8:18 / km) +205m 7:22 / km
slept:4.25 weight:72.1kg shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
7.2km short brown course.
Got to the start kite with no nav problems but then lost 3 mins on the short leg to 1. Stupidly went to the parallel but unmapped earth bank alongside the gully north of the earth bank I wanted. Mark caught up and found the wrong control, punched and ran off. I went down the gully to find the right one so that I then didn't need to even try the rest of the course to beat him...
Very slow 2-3. No pace in legs at all. Found 7 and 6 on the way but messed up between 6 and 3 as couldn't match the green blobs to anything. Surprised Joe only caught me up at the control. Another balls up on 4 as confused by the big green thicket not existing and lost my bearing in one of the marshes. Relocated from a distinct veg boundary. Didn't do 6 very well.
Going well 6-11, despite the head wind and climb. Slightly off on 12 and lost 45s or so. Went too high up on 18 so had to come back down - may have helped me if the line was broken so as to make the contours more clear. Managed to keep going to the finish.
Pretty bad run, annoyed at 1. As with all days had lost my 4 mins lead in the first few controls, often, I would argue, due to map rather than me. Probably about 8 mins of mistakes in total today - 5 I would accept as being wholly my own fault.
Nice area and nice course at least.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911049
Got to the start kite with no nav problems but then lost 3 mins on the short leg to 1. Stupidly went to the parallel but unmapped earth bank alongside the gully north of the earth bank I wanted. Mark caught up and found the wrong control, punched and ran off. I went down the gully to find the right one so that I then didn't need to even try the rest of the course to beat him...
Very slow 2-3. No pace in legs at all. Found 7 and 6 on the way but messed up between 6 and 3 as couldn't match the green blobs to anything. Surprised Joe only caught me up at the control. Another balls up on 4 as confused by the big green thicket not existing and lost my bearing in one of the marshes. Relocated from a distinct veg boundary. Didn't do 6 very well.
Going well 6-11, despite the head wind and climb. Slightly off on 12 and lost 45s or so. Went too high up on 18 so had to come back down - may have helped me if the line was broken so as to make the contours more clear. Managed to keep going to the finish.
Pretty bad run, annoyed at 1. As with all days had lost my 4 mins lead in the first few controls, often, I would argue, due to map rather than me. Probably about 8 mins of mistakes in total today - 5 I would accept as being wholly my own fault.
Nice area and nice course at least.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911049
C • no 1 5
Sunday May 26, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race (SINS Hopton) 1:19:44 [4] 7.56 km (10:33 / km) +375m 8:27 / km
slept:4.0 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
SINS day 2 at Hopton, 6km short brown.
Started out badly with a 2 min loss on 1 - Approaching from the hill top north didn't work - in wrong place? - had assumed that the runnability direction was wrong. Some way off and hit an unmapped path. On exit, made similar mistake to on entry and missed the junction for turning down to 2 - another 2 mins lost.
Very slow on 3, was contouring and climbing yet ended up several contours lower than I should have, on a huge unmapped platform. I continued on whilst everybody else milling around turned back. I found the control first...
More minutes lost in the grot at 4. Hit a veg boundary that wasn't mapped and got confused. Should have realised I was far too close to the path and continued. Another balls up on 7.
Didn't follow the taped route 8-9 (went diagonally up the hill, as per the non-OOB) so assumed I had to disqualify myself when I finished. The taped route went left into the OOB and crossed the stream by the fence, then straight up the hill - surely anybody who followed went OOB and should also be disqualified?). Then pretty much gave up. Next controls fairly easy but a slog. Got to 16 and was so fed up with fighting through trees, getting my arms and torso ripped to shreds and not being able to run at all (4.8kph av speed) that I broke with convention, found a nice path to run down to stretch my legs and skipped the last controls.
Definitely a worse area than Ringwood, not sure yet of Worlebury standard. Would take a hell of a lot of persuading to get me back here again.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911152
Started out badly with a 2 min loss on 1 - Approaching from the hill top north didn't work - in wrong place? - had assumed that the runnability direction was wrong. Some way off and hit an unmapped path. On exit, made similar mistake to on entry and missed the junction for turning down to 2 - another 2 mins lost.
Very slow on 3, was contouring and climbing yet ended up several contours lower than I should have, on a huge unmapped platform. I continued on whilst everybody else milling around turned back. I found the control first...
More minutes lost in the grot at 4. Hit a veg boundary that wasn't mapped and got confused. Should have realised I was far too close to the path and continued. Another balls up on 7.
Didn't follow the taped route 8-9 (went diagonally up the hill, as per the non-OOB) so assumed I had to disqualify myself when I finished. The taped route went left into the OOB and crossed the stream by the fence, then straight up the hill - surely anybody who followed went OOB and should also be disqualified?). Then pretty much gave up. Next controls fairly easy but a slog. Got to 16 and was so fed up with fighting through trees, getting my arms and torso ripped to shreds and not being able to run at all (4.8kph av speed) that I broke with convention, found a nice path to run down to stretch my legs and skipped the last controls.
Definitely a worse area than Ringwood, not sure yet of Worlebury standard. Would take a hell of a lot of persuading to get me back here again.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911152
7 PM
Orienteering - Urban race (SINS Ludlow) 39:08 [5] 7.37 km (5:19 / km) +100m 4:58 / km
shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 g
Ludlow urban. 5km men's open course.
Bit surprised to be called up 25 minutes in advance of my time due to them apparently starting the race late. Continues the 100% record of WRE making a mess of start times at the competitions I attend. Did mean there were lots of people out at the same time.
First 5 controls all easy. For 6 went through the graveyard to the south then left to the north for 7. West route to 8 which I think was marginally quicker. Ramp SW of 10 was mapped a bit dodgy - caused a bit of confusion. Through the pub both in and out of 11. Spotted the trick at 13.
Gave a lot of though to 15 early on and disregarded the route most people in my group took - thought about going right round but as so high at 14 went by 1 albeit slowly. Went up the road 19-20 rather than through the nettles and didn't lose much as it conveniently got me into the castle just in time to see the rest of the pack realise the control was under the bridge.
Had visited Ludlow Castle three or four times - most recent being 1998ish. Surprised how much I remembered so navigating from 23 to the finish was almost effortless.
Good fun. Hard running. Restored my faith in orienteering somewhat.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911101
Bit surprised to be called up 25 minutes in advance of my time due to them apparently starting the race late. Continues the 100% record of WRE making a mess of start times at the competitions I attend. Did mean there were lots of people out at the same time.
First 5 controls all easy. For 6 went through the graveyard to the south then left to the north for 7. West route to 8 which I think was marginally quicker. Ramp SW of 10 was mapped a bit dodgy - caused a bit of confusion. Through the pub both in and out of 11. Spotted the trick at 13.
Gave a lot of though to 15 early on and disregarded the route most people in my group took - thought about going right round but as so high at 14 went by 1 albeit slowly. Went up the road 19-20 rather than through the nettles and didn't lose much as it conveniently got me into the castle just in time to see the rest of the pack realise the control was under the bridge.
Had visited Ludlow Castle three or four times - most recent being 1998ish. Surprised how much I remembered so navigating from 23 to the finish was almost effortless.
Good fun. Hard running. Restored my faith in orienteering somewhat.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911101
Saturday May 25, 2013 #
Orienteering race (SINS Croft Castle) 1:05:14 [3] 8.77 km (7:26 / km) +235m 6:34 / km
slept:5.5 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
7.3km short brown course.
After 1 found veg much worse than expected from map. Backed out of going acros and went by the big thicket so as to hit the path. Then turned off too early and lost 2 mins looking in the wrong place - think the black X on the map was lower down than mapped.
Tired by 3. Didn't spot best routechoice to 5 and lost a lot of time trying to find a way of getting down. Not fun. At least found nice contouring track 5-6 although lost 1 min finding control (warned in start lanes it was dodgy).
No pace up the hill out of 9, 10 ok; alongside Paul had issue with mapping of paths on way to 11 then messed it up. Not convinced by it's location but GPS implies it wasn't wrong in the way I had thought. Kept just above the steep bit to 12 then Mark S overtook as I fought my way over brambles.
Going well across the common to 16 and 17 but had lost the path and thought I'd gone too low so went wrong way for control.
Worked out I'd lost around 10 mins in total. Apart from 4-5 being awful terrain for me, it was quite nice but wouldn't be rushing back here in a hurry.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911181
After 1 found veg much worse than expected from map. Backed out of going acros and went by the big thicket so as to hit the path. Then turned off too early and lost 2 mins looking in the wrong place - think the black X on the map was lower down than mapped.
Tired by 3. Didn't spot best routechoice to 5 and lost a lot of time trying to find a way of getting down. Not fun. At least found nice contouring track 5-6 although lost 1 min finding control (warned in start lanes it was dodgy).
No pace up the hill out of 9, 10 ok; alongside Paul had issue with mapping of paths on way to 11 then messed it up. Not convinced by it's location but GPS implies it wasn't wrong in the way I had thought. Kept just above the steep bit to 12 then Mark S overtook as I fought my way over brambles.
Going well across the common to 16 and 17 but had lost the path and thought I'd gone too low so went wrong way for control.
Worked out I'd lost around 10 mins in total. Apart from 4-5 being awful terrain for me, it was quite nice but wouldn't be rushing back here in a hurry.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911181
Wednesday May 22, 2013 #
Orienteering race (Warmley) 33:00 [3] 6.28 km (5:15 / km) +60m 5:01 / km
slept:5.0 weight:73.9kg shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
BOK event at Warmley. 5.4km long course.
Running pace felt steady but not quick. Managed to keep going throughout without slowing but surprised at how hot I felt.
No mistakes, good route choices. Only problem was that I found I didn't seem to get the chance to read the map fully so was missing features in the circle.
Was within a few seconds of having overtaken all starters ahead of me. 20s off Burley, about 5 mins down on Adam. Good to see so many fellow NGOC out, sounds like there could be enthusiasm for some of my ideas...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/316646526
Have to hope for more ok runs like this if I stand any chance of holding off Mark (1-2 mins behind) and Joe (4 mins) on any of the days this weekend...
Running pace felt steady but not quick. Managed to keep going throughout without slowing but surprised at how hot I felt.
No mistakes, good route choices. Only problem was that I found I didn't seem to get the chance to read the map fully so was missing features in the circle.
Was within a few seconds of having overtaken all starters ahead of me. 20s off Burley, about 5 mins down on Adam. Good to see so many fellow NGOC out, sounds like there could be enthusiasm for some of my ideas...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/316646526
Have to hope for more ok runs like this if I stand any chance of holding off Mark (1-2 mins behind) and Joe (4 mins) on any of the days this weekend...