Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Sunday, October 06, 2002 Local O' season is officially underwayThe local O' season started today. PTOC hosted a 2-hour score O' at Shawnee Mission Park.PTOC hosted a 2-hour score O' at Shawnee Mission Park in the spring. They didn't use all the maps they pre-printed, so instead of a new course, they just re-used the same course from the spring. Not the best, but I won't complain. I appreciate the work they put into putting out the markers. I remembered most of the controls from the spring. But, the terrain is different enough at this time of year, that I took a lot of different routes between the controls. In the spring the woods are much more open and you can see further. You could run straighter and a bit rougher near the controls. With the leaves still out, routes that went further out of the way seemed better. With the leaves out, you couldn't see very far and it paid to be a bit extra careful in the circle. I am not thrilled with how I ran. I started at a pace I figured I could keep up for nearly two hours. After about 65-70 minutes I slowed a lot. It wasn't hot, but it was warmer than ideal. That probably played a part in how I felt. Of course, I haven't really trained much in the last year -- so I probably shouldn't have expected to feel good for the entire run. I shouldn't have expected to have a good sense of pace. I haven't trained in the terrain much (you can't really get in the forests around here during the summer) and I probably suffered a bit because of my relatively weak woods-running form. Terhi bashed around in the woods for over two hours. She seemed to have fun, but she didn't say she liked the terrain. I guess most people don't like running in thorns. posted by Michael | 7:28 PM 
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