Occassional thoughts about orienteering
|
|
| okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering |
|
|
Monday, April 19, 2004 A few notes from the weekendA few quick notes from the weekend's races in Ohio and Indiana:Maps: Randy posted the M21 maps with his routes. Check out his report. Juniors: The event was the U.S. Interscholastic Champs. A lot of kids ran. It is quite cool to see so many kids at a race. I haven't seen the results, but I know some of the juniors from the Texas training camp had good races. Course setting: Three days, three different course setters...I liked the courses on Saturday (here are Randy's routes, part I and part II). Saturday's race was a mass start with forking. I wish more A-meets used that format for one of the days. It makes for some fun head-to-head racing, adds some challenges, and makes good use of a small area. Vlad noted that the entire course was in an area of the map just 1.4 square km. Sunday's course wasn't nearly as interesting. Maybe the course setter had some constraints that I don't know about. Maybe they focused on the interscholastic courses and maybe those were more interesting. I don't know. But, I didn't find the M21 course especially interesting. Check out Randy's map. What's up with a leg like 4-5? My races: I can't say I'm happy with my races. I didn't run especially well. I made some bad decisions on the courses. My mind wasn't working right. On the other hand, I saw some positives. While I didn't run well, I didn't so much feel out of shape as just not in form. The warm weather (yesterday's high in Rushville, Indiana was 86 F, which is 29 C) didn't help things for me. I had a few legs where things clicked. I learned a few things that should help me in the next few weeks when I'm running three more A-meets. posted by Michael | 8:17 PM 
Comments:
Post a Comment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
||||
|
|||||
