okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Saturday's middle race
I had a lot of fun at the middle distance race. Check out the map with Peter Gagarin's routes on the F21 course. I ran M21 but I haven't gotten around to posting the map.
More interesting than it looks
The orienteering was more interesting than it looks like from the map for two reasons:
1. The reentrants, ditches and gullies are steeper and deeper (and hence harder to cross) than you might guess by looking at the map.
2. The weather -- cool and rainy -- meant the terrain was slippery and tough to run through.
1 + 2 = more route choice options. Several times I went out of my way to avoid a gully or ditch that I'd normally have run through. I looked further off the line to see good routes.
How'd I do?
I usually have a couple of goals for most races. For the team trials, one goal was to finish ahead of someone who wanted to make the WOC team. It wasn't an important goal, just something for fun.
I had a good race.
The U.S. men who will run the WOC are: Eric Bone, Sergey Velichko, Dan Stoll-Hadayia and Boris Granovskiy.
I finished 38 seconds behind Eric and 8 seconds behind Sergey. I beat Dan by 40 seconds and Boris by 45.
Beating people who made the team exceeded my expectations. It felt good.
posted by Michael |
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