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Friday Oct 10, 2014 #
6 PM
Running warm up/down 12:00 [3] 1.6 mi (7:30 / mi)
7 PM
Running warm up/down 4:00 [3] 0.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
Urban Orienteering race 24:06 [4] 2.7 mi (8:56 / mi) +20m 8:44 / mi
Race the Castles Sprint - 63rd, 24:06
Possibly my worse race ever, or at least for a few years and that includes terrain orienteering
Messed up #3, as I suspect a lot of people did
Might sound like sour grapes but map v difficult to interpret, mainly thanks to the dashed lines, which had very little, if any impact on my course and so I think should have been omitted.
Why I decided to run to the next bridge east before realising I had to go round to the north I don't know.
Then went west from 5 trying to get to 6 without realising I was 1 round south
Then followed someone into wrong courtyard to 7, and followed the same person off the map to 9 over the tram tracks, lazy and silly errors.
10-17 went well, except for being heavily distracted by the person about 50 yds behind shouting a lot to his mate on the way to 14, thought he was shouting I'd run out of bounds or something
Realise now should have gone to steps to NE of 17 on way to 18 but had seen ramp to W of 19 on way to 3 and so went that way
Only hadn't seen wall half way down which is maked uncrossable (the horizontal 'Y')
Now in reality the ramp disappears under the building next to 19 and you can do a 180 and continue on the ramp northwards to 18
However this is not mapped so I assumed, honestly? naively? that this was OOB, esp given marshall at top of ramp
So went round to east in the end, but saw people running up and down the partially unmapped ramp so came out that way
It isn't mapped correctly should have some dotted lines maybe in an inverse c shape going right from the vertical thick black line.
But my own fault for a poor route choice
Then stupidly dropped a level to 20 very wrong, and went down the wrong steps at 21
All in all, a shambles
Luckily this was the warm up!
Must do much better tomorrow, at least this has given my the motivation to do so, however must be careful not to run like a headless chicken...
Possibly my worse race ever, or at least for a few years and that includes terrain orienteering
Messed up #3, as I suspect a lot of people did
Might sound like sour grapes but map v difficult to interpret, mainly thanks to the dashed lines, which had very little, if any impact on my course and so I think should have been omitted.
Why I decided to run to the next bridge east before realising I had to go round to the north I don't know.
Then went west from 5 trying to get to 6 without realising I was 1 round south
Then followed someone into wrong courtyard to 7, and followed the same person off the map to 9 over the tram tracks, lazy and silly errors.
10-17 went well, except for being heavily distracted by the person about 50 yds behind shouting a lot to his mate on the way to 14, thought he was shouting I'd run out of bounds or something
Realise now should have gone to steps to NE of 17 on way to 18 but had seen ramp to W of 19 on way to 3 and so went that way
Only hadn't seen wall half way down which is maked uncrossable (the horizontal 'Y')
Now in reality the ramp disappears under the building next to 19 and you can do a 180 and continue on the ramp northwards to 18
However this is not mapped so I assumed, honestly? naively? that this was OOB, esp given marshall at top of ramp
So went round to east in the end, but saw people running up and down the partially unmapped ramp so came out that way
It isn't mapped correctly should have some dotted lines maybe in an inverse c shape going right from the vertical thick black line.
But my own fault for a poor route choice
Then stupidly dropped a level to 20 very wrong, and went down the wrong steps at 21
All in all, a shambles
Luckily this was the warm up!
Must do much better tomorrow, at least this has given my the motivation to do so, however must be careful not to run like a headless chicken...