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Sunday Aug 6, 2017 #
Event: Canadian Championships Long
10 AM
Orienteering race (long) 1:45:57 **** 5.86 km (18:05 / km) +100m 16:40 / km
ahr:120 max:159 spiked:7/11c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Foley Mtn CA, 1:10000, 5m; 3.9km course with 100m climb advertised. Mostly clear morning with a breeze and temps in the low 60s.
Took the trail to a safe attackpoint to 1 when I probably could have gone straight, but I found it confidently. On the long leg to 2, I ran the trail and road until just before the OOB buildings' driveway where I headed north and stayed in or alongside yellow/open areas, passed the cliffs, and to the knoll. Good to three, a short leg.
To 4 I took the slight left route, crossing the marshy/wet area where it wasn't too green; didn't really see the ride but found the trail through the pine woods which I followed to the open area which looked a lot like the Barrens near Carp. Hooked into it from the north, not quite a spike.
Not careful on my bearing to the next one, and I believe I crossed the stream at the cliffs WNW of the ones before my control and investigated the rises and open areas behind them for too long. Should have backtracked to the stream sooner, and made sure of the cliffs. At least 10 minutes lost.
Okay for about two-thirds of the next leg, checking features, getting into the area of our control 2 from the middle yesterday, then I lost contact and confidence and checked several other dot-knoll-y thngs with flags but didn't find the right number. I eventually came to yesterday's first control (just outside the control circle) and found it from there. Ugh. Then on the short leg to 7 I think I went by the top of the correct rocky reentrant and looked down, but did not see a flag (and didn't want to climb down the rocks), and so I continued to check other reentrants before circling back to it from below. I'm sure it was just out of sight from above, but I lost about 7 min here.
To 8 I wanted to get off that hill so I angled down to the trail to run it past the junction near Saturday's start. Went as far as the spur near trail before I crossed the marshy stream and crossed the N end of the clearing to the control. SW to the road, hitting it near the bend and crossed the stream on it before heading west to find the reentrant on the hillside which several others were also headed for making it easy to find. Then straight to 10, mostly straight (on trails) to the final control, and then was just happy we didn't have the same uphill climb we had yesterday (thank you, course designer!).
Kitty Jones is remarkable to make it around that course in ~54 minutes! Such confidence in navigation and woods speed. And Janet F did well too, getting around in ~1:10 for silver!
Relive my mistakes and loop-de-loops.
Relive videos don't seem to be useful for much to me at this point, but they're kinda fun.
Took the trail to a safe attackpoint to 1 when I probably could have gone straight, but I found it confidently. On the long leg to 2, I ran the trail and road until just before the OOB buildings' driveway where I headed north and stayed in or alongside yellow/open areas, passed the cliffs, and to the knoll. Good to three, a short leg.
To 4 I took the slight left route, crossing the marshy/wet area where it wasn't too green; didn't really see the ride but found the trail through the pine woods which I followed to the open area which looked a lot like the Barrens near Carp. Hooked into it from the north, not quite a spike.
Not careful on my bearing to the next one, and I believe I crossed the stream at the cliffs WNW of the ones before my control and investigated the rises and open areas behind them for too long. Should have backtracked to the stream sooner, and made sure of the cliffs. At least 10 minutes lost.
Okay for about two-thirds of the next leg, checking features, getting into the area of our control 2 from the middle yesterday, then I lost contact and confidence and checked several other dot-knoll-y thngs with flags but didn't find the right number. I eventually came to yesterday's first control (just outside the control circle) and found it from there. Ugh. Then on the short leg to 7 I think I went by the top of the correct rocky reentrant and looked down, but did not see a flag (and didn't want to climb down the rocks), and so I continued to check other reentrants before circling back to it from below. I'm sure it was just out of sight from above, but I lost about 7 min here.
To 8 I wanted to get off that hill so I angled down to the trail to run it past the junction near Saturday's start. Went as far as the spur near trail before I crossed the marshy stream and crossed the N end of the clearing to the control. SW to the road, hitting it near the bend and crossed the stream on it before heading west to find the reentrant on the hillside which several others were also headed for making it easy to find. Then straight to 10, mostly straight (on trails) to the final control, and then was just happy we didn't have the same uphill climb we had yesterday (thank you, course designer!).
Kitty Jones is remarkable to make it around that course in ~54 minutes! Such confidence in navigation and woods speed. And Janet F did well too, getting around in ~1:10 for silver!
Relive my mistakes and loop-de-loops.
Relive videos don't seem to be useful for much to me at this point, but they're kinda fun.
Hiking warm up/down (to start) 8:00 [2] 0.5 km (16:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
I didn't have my watch on, but this was a physical climb to start, about as much as yesterday's walk to start. Glad I got there early enough to chill for awhile; it gave me time to see where other F55s were starting before and after me, which may or may not have been a good thing.