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Sunday Apr 20, 2014 #
1 PM
Orienteering race 1:13:22 [5] 12.0 km (6:07 / km) +280m 5:29 / km
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212 Blue
JK Long - M18E - 11.2km - 5th, 7 mins behind Simon.
The most extreme orienteering I have done. Compulsory cagoules, hats and whistles (for those who weren't there). Me and Oleg opted for rolling our cagoule into a sausage, taping it since we were never going to put it on, and tying it round our waists as belts. Slightly uncomfortable but it was compulsory. Buff as an emergency had around my wrist. A crack of lightning exploded above the assembly just as I left the tent. Something was telling me it wasn't going to be a good race.
Not sure why everyone swerved left at the start. I went straight and turned out fine. Absolutely nailed number 1. Then ticking off features well to 2 and 3. By here I was cheesing at how well it was going, which is probably why my mistake to 4 happened. Straight into the wind, and my compass looking like it was blowing in every direction. So it took me up the re-entrant, and it wasn't until I spotted the cairn that I realised I had done a 90 degree error. Gutted, I headed through 7 and got 4 spot on after that. Amazingly only lost me a minute but I was convinced that the Swede would be catching the 3 minutes on me for this mistake alone.
Legged it to 5 and hit it perfectly. Poor plan to 6, and I lost 3 minutes looking for that bingo pit, which I was almost on top of 3 minutes before I found it. This had blown it for sure. I slogged up to 7 considering calling it a day, but I looked at what was coming up and it looked fun. Hit 7 and Samuel the Swede was catching fast. He stuck to me going to 8, and again, I was right on top of it but couldn't see it. The (rude word) behind me spotted it, punched it, and ran off before I noticed. I spent 2 minutes chasing him, realising he had got it, and heading back..... We later made amends though.
I got some new motivation going to 10, kept almost perfectly on line and nailed it. Caught 2 others who I couldn't recognise at all but happy with that. The control pick in the quarry was mostly good, except I lost 30s on 13 going the wrong way round. 17 and 18 looked like traps waiting to happen so I took extra care and got them both. Across the road with Dane and Jackie shouting me on which was helpful for this last bit. Hit 20 bang on, just slowly, whilst so many others failed and overtook Nathan. Spotted Aidan chasing me down though and pushed hard through the last few to the finish with him. He may have beaten me by 12 minutes, but I hadn't done as badly as I thought.
On a day without a cold I'd like to think I could have run much better. Simon's time was definitely withing reach for me if I had only concentrated a little bit more. Thankfully everyone found today pretty tricky, and I ended up being 2nd Brit, 4th Brit u20 behind Alistair who had a solid run. Selection races done, now a long wait.
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
http://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#49
The most extreme orienteering I have done. Compulsory cagoules, hats and whistles (for those who weren't there). Me and Oleg opted for rolling our cagoule into a sausage, taping it since we were never going to put it on, and tying it round our waists as belts. Slightly uncomfortable but it was compulsory. Buff as an emergency had around my wrist. A crack of lightning exploded above the assembly just as I left the tent. Something was telling me it wasn't going to be a good race.
Not sure why everyone swerved left at the start. I went straight and turned out fine. Absolutely nailed number 1. Then ticking off features well to 2 and 3. By here I was cheesing at how well it was going, which is probably why my mistake to 4 happened. Straight into the wind, and my compass looking like it was blowing in every direction. So it took me up the re-entrant, and it wasn't until I spotted the cairn that I realised I had done a 90 degree error. Gutted, I headed through 7 and got 4 spot on after that. Amazingly only lost me a minute but I was convinced that the Swede would be catching the 3 minutes on me for this mistake alone.
Legged it to 5 and hit it perfectly. Poor plan to 6, and I lost 3 minutes looking for that bingo pit, which I was almost on top of 3 minutes before I found it. This had blown it for sure. I slogged up to 7 considering calling it a day, but I looked at what was coming up and it looked fun. Hit 7 and Samuel the Swede was catching fast. He stuck to me going to 8, and again, I was right on top of it but couldn't see it. The (rude word) behind me spotted it, punched it, and ran off before I noticed. I spent 2 minutes chasing him, realising he had got it, and heading back..... We later made amends though.
I got some new motivation going to 10, kept almost perfectly on line and nailed it. Caught 2 others who I couldn't recognise at all but happy with that. The control pick in the quarry was mostly good, except I lost 30s on 13 going the wrong way round. 17 and 18 looked like traps waiting to happen so I took extra care and got them both. Across the road with Dane and Jackie shouting me on which was helpful for this last bit. Hit 20 bang on, just slowly, whilst so many others failed and overtook Nathan. Spotted Aidan chasing me down though and pushed hard through the last few to the finish with him. He may have beaten me by 12 minutes, but I hadn't done as badly as I thought.
On a day without a cold I'd like to think I could have run much better. Simon's time was definitely withing reach for me if I had only concentrated a little bit more. Thankfully everyone found today pretty tricky, and I ended up being 2nd Brit, 4th Brit u20 behind Alistair who had a solid run. Selection races done, now a long wait.
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
http://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#49
Path/Terrain warm up/down 20:00 [3] 3.5 km (5:43 / km) +50m 5:20 / km
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212 Blue
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