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Sunday May 28, 2006 #
Orienteering Forest race (long) 1:01:35 [3] 5.8 km (10:37 / km)
The second day at Newcastle Island. Pretty much a perfect race for this area! Spiked everything and I had as good a flow as you could ever have on this map. Again the course was set so that there was almost no trail running and I almost made 10 min/km :)
Had a little bit more energy today. Maybe I can start training next week? Sick and no training for almost a month... too bad. I had been looking forward to being in great shape for Barebones and just go for broke, but now I'll focus on being clean instead. Still, that can go a long way in very technical terrain.
Had a little bit more energy today. Maybe I can start training next week? Sick and no training for almost a month... too bad. I had been looking forward to being in great shape for Barebones and just go for broke, but now I'll focus on being clean instead. Still, that can go a long way in very technical terrain.
Saturday May 27, 2006 #
Orienteering Forest race (long) 1:14:25 [2] 5.8 km (12:50 / km)
After the weekend of running in St Louis, I though I was healthy from the virus and ready to start training. That turned out to be wrong... On Tuesday the sore throat returned and it was another week of no activity, trying to recover. Towards the end of the week, I was starting to feel a bit better again and there is no way I would miss the yearly 2-day Newcastle Island meet!
This place is a small island just outside of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. It's more of a social meet with nice camping and a pub on the water. Orienteering is not the highest priority. The terrain is extremely slow with areas of salal up over your head and also the map is not the best quality either. If the course is set so that you can't run around on the trails, then faster than 10 minutes per kilometer is almost impossible to acheive. But the event is still a lot of fun as everyone comes back, all bruised up by the vegetation, to tell stories of their adventures on the course!
On the first day, the course was particularly evil, sending us through the worst stuff several times. I did pretty well and didn't make much mistakes, but at several controls I lost time because I couldn't spot the flag in the jungle, even though I knew I was in the right area.
This place is a small island just outside of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. It's more of a social meet with nice camping and a pub on the water. Orienteering is not the highest priority. The terrain is extremely slow with areas of salal up over your head and also the map is not the best quality either. If the course is set so that you can't run around on the trails, then faster than 10 minutes per kilometer is almost impossible to acheive. But the event is still a lot of fun as everyone comes back, all bruised up by the vegetation, to tell stories of their adventures on the course!
On the first day, the course was particularly evil, sending us through the worst stuff several times. I did pretty well and didn't make much mistakes, but at several controls I lost time because I couldn't spot the flag in the jungle, even though I knew I was in the right area.