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Saturday Jun 6, 2015 #
8 AM
Adventure Race 7:45:00 [3]
shoes: Brooks Cascadia 8s
Fantastic and especially gorgeous Silver Lake edition designed by MarkVT. Excellent course design.
I nailed the first two CPs, then suffered an embarrassing O 101 meltdown that would put us some 20-30 minutes out of contention.
Loved figuring out what the UFO was on the dune during the paddle. (Matt from MAR under a pop up shade).
Threw down in the next section - anxious to see how our split fairs. I felt like I got my mojo back. Did mostly well in the next sections, other than missing low and not seeing the correct reentrant on a massive hillside, successfully finding it from the top. Then a moment of panic on one point where I arrived at the reentrant, did not see the flag, and panicked because it had a tri split at the top...as did the NEXT one on the map! Oh no, was the USGS generalized, or did we overshoot? Hooray for Maria's young eyes.
The dune section was AWESOME. The map is so precise. If you did not let your guard down, it was super crazy accurate. But there are a lot of parallel/similar features, so if you did let your guard down, you were going to be in big trouble. Eventually realized using the forests as references was a key for us.
Ran out of gas to attack much on the bike, and worried about me cramping up for Shades of the Epic, so we bailed after only one bike point. Looks like getting all bike points and then going to the dunes was more lucrative. Big key would be: don't make 20-30 mistakes and be in it to win it.
Props to Igor for a beautiful map. I hope Mark uses this venue again - so much great scenery. You might climb a huge hill, then be "why this hill?" then pow, beautiful view of Lake Michigan.
Loved it! PS my teammate is awesome.
Watch caught all of the o, but I was only home for 20 minutes, so maybe no tracks for a week or month or something.
I nailed the first two CPs, then suffered an embarrassing O 101 meltdown that would put us some 20-30 minutes out of contention.
Loved figuring out what the UFO was on the dune during the paddle. (Matt from MAR under a pop up shade).
Threw down in the next section - anxious to see how our split fairs. I felt like I got my mojo back. Did mostly well in the next sections, other than missing low and not seeing the correct reentrant on a massive hillside, successfully finding it from the top. Then a moment of panic on one point where I arrived at the reentrant, did not see the flag, and panicked because it had a tri split at the top...as did the NEXT one on the map! Oh no, was the USGS generalized, or did we overshoot? Hooray for Maria's young eyes.
The dune section was AWESOME. The map is so precise. If you did not let your guard down, it was super crazy accurate. But there are a lot of parallel/similar features, so if you did let your guard down, you were going to be in big trouble. Eventually realized using the forests as references was a key for us.
Ran out of gas to attack much on the bike, and worried about me cramping up for Shades of the Epic, so we bailed after only one bike point. Looks like getting all bike points and then going to the dunes was more lucrative. Big key would be: don't make 20-30 mistakes and be in it to win it.
Props to Igor for a beautiful map. I hope Mark uses this venue again - so much great scenery. You might climb a huge hill, then be "why this hill?" then pow, beautiful view of Lake Michigan.
Loved it! PS my teammate is awesome.
Watch caught all of the o, but I was only home for 20 minutes, so maybe no tracks for a week or month or something.
Sunday May 31, 2015 #
Event: SMOC Chilson
1 PM
Orienteering 1:10:23 *** 5.48 mi (12:51 / mi) +146m 11:52 / mi
ahr:164 max:191 spiked:10/12c
Prepping the house is every bit the misery I worried it would be.
On the upside, great course and run today at Chilson. If I heard correctly in my foggy state, seven seconds ahead of Igor...which means possibly stolen in the finish chute. Hooray for big tapers. Given the light attendance, that might be good enough for the win. Felt bad ditching on control pickup, but back to work.
On the upside, great course and run today at Chilson. If I heard correctly in my foggy state, seven seconds ahead of Igor...which means possibly stolen in the finish chute. Hooray for big tapers. Given the light attendance, that might be good enough for the win. Felt bad ditching on control pickup, but back to work.