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Tuesday Jun 28, 2022 #
2 PM
Run race ((orienteering)) 23:25 [3] *** 3.3 km (7:06 / km) +45m 6:39 / km
spiked:22/22c
This isn't my first time in Fredericia - I stayed here overnight while travelling in Europe in the summer of 1989, a stop determined by the primary criteria I used on that trip - it had a station and a hostel. I presume I went for a run here but have no recollection of where it was, and certainly wouldn't have been sizing up the town's suitability for sprint orienteering when sprint orienteering didn't exist in any meaningful sense for the best part of another decade (even middle distance, or short as it was then, was in its infancy - I ran my first in early 1990).
The run was an interlude on a long day. I had hoped for something better than earlier in the week but it was quickly apparent that my back wasn't happy today (I sort of knew this when bending down earlier after watching the qualifying). Walked for a couple of minutes in the hope of settling it down, and did so enough to be able to jog the rest of the course (except for the short steep climb up onto the fortifications coming back), but second-last was about what this run deserved. Hopefully this doesn't happen on any of the WMOC days. Lots of fairly simple legs but a few interesting route choice (though not really on the two long legs). And at least my SI Air card was found...
The event itself was very successful - it's unlikely ever to be more than a niche format in the broader orienteering community but it's a great spectacle (especially when you get races like the slightly crazy final women's semi). I thought it was almost certain we'd have some significant jury work, given all the things that can go wrong in a knockout sprint, but we didn't (only a preliminary discussion on a complaint which wasn't carried through to a protest over Alexandra Hornik's disqualification). Impressed with Aston's performance, and Ewan should be happy with his day's work too, having got closer to qualifying than I think anyone expected (although it will still be frustrating to be four seconds out).
Very late return back to town, although at least, unlike a previous such occasion at WOC, the existence of a pizza place near the station that's open until 2am meant that I didn't have to resort to Macca's (Danish Macca's, on the evidence I've seen, seem mostly to be at motorway service centres anyway).
The run was an interlude on a long day. I had hoped for something better than earlier in the week but it was quickly apparent that my back wasn't happy today (I sort of knew this when bending down earlier after watching the qualifying). Walked for a couple of minutes in the hope of settling it down, and did so enough to be able to jog the rest of the course (except for the short steep climb up onto the fortifications coming back), but second-last was about what this run deserved. Hopefully this doesn't happen on any of the WMOC days. Lots of fairly simple legs but a few interesting route choice (though not really on the two long legs). And at least my SI Air card was found...
The event itself was very successful - it's unlikely ever to be more than a niche format in the broader orienteering community but it's a great spectacle (especially when you get races like the slightly crazy final women's semi). I thought it was almost certain we'd have some significant jury work, given all the things that can go wrong in a knockout sprint, but we didn't (only a preliminary discussion on a complaint which wasn't carried through to a protest over Alexandra Hornik's disqualification). Impressed with Aston's performance, and Ewan should be happy with his day's work too, having got closer to qualifying than I think anyone expected (although it will still be frustrating to be four seconds out).
Very late return back to town, although at least, unlike a previous such occasion at WOC, the existence of a pizza place near the station that's open until 2am meant that I didn't have to resort to Macca's (Danish Macca's, on the evidence I've seen, seem mostly to be at motorway service centres anyway).