Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 Am I so slow?At the U.S. Champs in Telemark my splits for the run-in were slow. I didn't quite jog from the last control, but I didn't push myself either. That's just lazy and dumb. So at the middle champs last weekend I decided I work hard on the run-in.I looked at the split times. Mary ran the finish chute in 18 seconds. Jennifer Knowles, who won F21, took 20 seconds. Sharon Crawford, who finished 2nd in F21 and who is known as a slow sprinter, took 24 seconds. A couple of M21s ran it in 14 seconds. Brian May, who won M21, took 16 seconds. My split time was 30 seconds. 30 seconds?! I looked at the splits for maybe 10 different classes and didn't see any other split that slow. The closest was Martin Kunz, who won M40, with 29 seconds. Am I really that slow? I don't think so. I hope not. The split time must be wrong. I think Sportident has a clock in each punch unit. Maybe the unit that Martin and I punched had the wrong time. That would explain the strange splits. But as I looked through the split times it looks like Martin and I are the only ones with such slow times. Could Martin and I be the only ones affected? If I remember correctly the last control had two SI units. Could it be that Martin and I were the only two who used a particular unit? Mary asked me if I used the unit on the left or the right. I don't remember. It seems strange that everyone except Martin and I would use one unit. Martin and I were both early starters and among the earliest finishers. Could the unit have somehow changed (i.e. gotten on the right time) after we'd finished? That seems a bit far fetched. I guess I'll never know how fast I ran the finish chute. posted by Michael | 7:12 PM 
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