Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005 West Point SprintI had a melt down on the red course at West Point on Saturday. I just wasn't paying attention to orienteering. After I got to 5, I stopped and went to the finish. DNF.The afternoon sprint gave me a chance to redeem myself. Could get my act together and pay attention? It was nice to have a chance to put it all together on the same day as I'd had a melt down. You can see the map with the course here. I'll upload the map with my routes later. I tried a few minutes ago and there was an upload error. I had a decent sprint race. I didn't boom any controls and felt reasonably strong. I was very satisfied to be able to concentrate after having struggled so much in the morning. I also had a lot of fun. I spent a few minutes looking at the splits. I did relatively best on two legs: 2 and 9. To 2 I didn't hesitate at all. I went straight to the road and through the field to the control. I think a lot of people either went straight or spent some time thinking about going straight. To 9 I went below the cliffs. Maybe others went over the top and maybe that cost them some time. I did relatively worst on two legs: 1 and 14. To 1 I just ran slowly. In part this was a reaction to my horrible experience earlier. I conciously started at a relaxed pace. I also had a bit of trouble seeing the start triangle (though I knew the direction to start and probably could have started a bit faster). To 14 I picked a good route and executed it well. I just didn't run fast enough. Or perhaps the difference is that others on the course picked up the pace on the long leg, while I just ran at my normal pace (the same pace I'd run all of the other legs except 1). posted by Michael | 6:07 PM 
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