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Saturday Oct 4, 2014 #
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Dinner tonight was at Rorhbach's brewpub on the west side of Rochester. Recommended! Beer was great (I had a sampler of their fall-type brews), and food was good too (I had the Park Ave Panini, a nice blend of flavors). Worth a trip if you're in the area.
11 AM
Orienteering warm up/down 9:06 [3] 0.61 km (14:52 / km) +76m 9:10 / km
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Walk to start from bus drop-off; meet notes said 1.1 km with 70m climb. They got the climb right, but it was only half the distance so I didn't need to hurry as much as I thought.
Temp when we woke up was in the upper 50s, probably mid 50s by the time we raced, then dropped as the afternoon wore on. 46F by the time we left the park around 4:45!
Temp when we woke up was in the upper 50s, probably mid 50s by the time we raced, then dropped as the afternoon wore on. 46F by the time we left the park around 4:45!
Orienteering race 1:15:00 [4] 5.57 km (13:27 / km) +128m 12:04 / km
spiked:9/10c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
US Champs Long, SL 4.2 km, 90 m climb
Well, except for number 1 which I botched by over 11 minutes, I had a pretty good race. I would have been happy with my time having those 11 minutes back. AP's error finder says I had an error at 3 but it was just in the execution of the leg, not finding the control (after having been in the green on my first attempt to #1, I wanted to avoid it from 2-3 so I swung wide right before crossing the stream and hitting the trail, then it was fine). Error from 6-7 was from not climbing immediately to run the ridge; instead I side-hilled. Again I found it without trouble, but not the ideal way to get there.
To 4 I went west, around the marsh and then up the hill to the trails, then cut in at the water-drop along the trail. 7-8 I managed to stay in the white woods SSW from the control back to the intermittent trail. When Charlie saw me I was going up and over the little spur and east of the green blob. Cristina went zooming -- and I mean zooming! -- past me here, in her recently re-acquired US Team uniform. There was a crowd on the trail heading toward 8 so I dropped down the hillside early and caught everyone coming in from above to easily spot the flag. Then it was zoom-as-much-as-possible from there to the finish.
Like others I was surprised at the non-green thicket for the Go control. I went right by the large mapped tree in the white woods N of the thicket and then came out into the field and saw the flag to my right and not my left as expected.
Marion Owen (Canada) again had a splendid run and won F60 again by a lot, with a time of not quite 53 minutes (to PG's not quite 37). Sandy was 1st US, with Mary Jo not too far behind and me about 5 minutes behind Mary Jo (who also had a lot of trouble with #1).
Well, except for number 1 which I botched by over 11 minutes, I had a pretty good race. I would have been happy with my time having those 11 minutes back. AP's error finder says I had an error at 3 but it was just in the execution of the leg, not finding the control (after having been in the green on my first attempt to #1, I wanted to avoid it from 2-3 so I swung wide right before crossing the stream and hitting the trail, then it was fine). Error from 6-7 was from not climbing immediately to run the ridge; instead I side-hilled. Again I found it without trouble, but not the ideal way to get there.
To 4 I went west, around the marsh and then up the hill to the trails, then cut in at the water-drop along the trail. 7-8 I managed to stay in the white woods SSW from the control back to the intermittent trail. When Charlie saw me I was going up and over the little spur and east of the green blob. Cristina went zooming -- and I mean zooming! -- past me here, in her recently re-acquired US Team uniform. There was a crowd on the trail heading toward 8 so I dropped down the hillside early and caught everyone coming in from above to easily spot the flag. Then it was zoom-as-much-as-possible from there to the finish.
Like others I was surprised at the non-green thicket for the Go control. I went right by the large mapped tree in the white woods N of the thicket and then came out into the field and saw the flag to my right and not my left as expected.
Marion Owen (Canada) again had a splendid run and won F60 again by a lot, with a time of not quite 53 minutes (to PG's not quite 37). Sandy was 1st US, with Mary Jo not too far behind and me about 5 minutes behind Mary Jo (who also had a lot of trouble with #1).