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Saturday Sep 12, 2009 #
Event: North Chagrin
Orienteering -race race 1:10:41 [5] *** 6.7 km (10:33 / km) +198m 9:11 / km
15c slept:8.0 weight:175.5lbs shoes: Innov8 Mudclaw 330 #2
North Chagrin Red course. Gorgeous late summer day, 75F and clear. This park is always thick, but it was better than usual. Nice course by Fred Mailey. Pretty good effort on my par t, with good aiming off, decent bearings, and pretty good map contact. Although the veg was thick, i made good progress through it for the most part, and used trails pretty well.
Although generally a good effort, I had about 4 notable errors, and my tendency to err late in the course continued. The first error was partly inattention to map detail and partly luck of the draw in terms of a bad treefall on the approach I took to #5 - went on northern spur to get to reentrant, when southern was nicely direct - didn't see that on the 1:15 map; also didn't notice the reentrant top was halfway up to the plateau, and overshot. Coming down ran into some thick treefall. 2-3 minutes lost.
Second was a minor bobble on #9, where I took the straight shot, wandered right, caught the trail and slowly picked my way through brush from the s. side instead of attacking from the n side, which would have probably avoided that. 1 minute lost.
Third, on 11 the control wasn't visible from my line in, so thinking i misread the veg I headed west, slowly realized my error, and corrected. 1-2 minutes lost.
Finally, for 14 I made the wise decision not to take the straight line (avoiding a lot of deadfall), but completely didn't realize that the fast route was the eastern trail, not the western. 1-2 minutes.
Didn't have as much in the tank at the end as I would have liked - perhaps that ultralong next week will be more of a challenge than I thought. 4 minutes behind stan, 6 ahead of olga, 13 ahead of bob.
Although generally a good effort, I had about 4 notable errors, and my tendency to err late in the course continued. The first error was partly inattention to map detail and partly luck of the draw in terms of a bad treefall on the approach I took to #5 - went on northern spur to get to reentrant, when southern was nicely direct - didn't see that on the 1:15 map; also didn't notice the reentrant top was halfway up to the plateau, and overshot. Coming down ran into some thick treefall. 2-3 minutes lost.
Second was a minor bobble on #9, where I took the straight shot, wandered right, caught the trail and slowly picked my way through brush from the s. side instead of attacking from the n side, which would have probably avoided that. 1 minute lost.
Third, on 11 the control wasn't visible from my line in, so thinking i misread the veg I headed west, slowly realized my error, and corrected. 1-2 minutes lost.
Finally, for 14 I made the wise decision not to take the straight line (avoiding a lot of deadfall), but completely didn't realize that the fast route was the eastern trail, not the western. 1-2 minutes.
Didn't have as much in the tank at the end as I would have liked - perhaps that ultralong next week will be more of a challenge than I thought. 4 minutes behind stan, 6 ahead of olga, 13 ahead of bob.
Orienteering 25:00 [3] *** 2.5 km (10:00 / km) +132m 7:55 / km
7c
control pickup. Had no get up and go in my legs on the last half (after the big uphill, and through pretty thick deadfall).