Cold snowy fun weekend orienteering in Buena Vista.
Huddled around the campfire waiting for it to get dark enough to start.
Results May 14, 2011 Night - Green
Results May 15, 2011 Day - Red
Orienteer
race 2:24:10 [1] 4.4 mi (32:46 / mi) +1630ft 24:15 / mi
Green Night-O at
Buena Vista. Finished!!! Shamelessly followed footprints in the snow and
noticed other people around. I did find some completely on my own
without major navigational errors.
#9 was really my only panicky one, but I saw people... I was being led by people at 11 and it messed me up I think. I should have ignored them, I was pretty sure we hadn't gone far enough while they all thought they had gone too far up the spur. Confidence would have helped here. I was especially happy with my 5 and 6 where that were my relative fastest splits except the finish and I didn't see people going in or out of them. In fact, I think I led people to them. I just think its hilarious that I had the least "lost" time on this course. Consistently very slow and careful and I had the brightest light.
#9 was really my only panicky one, but I saw people... I was being led by people at 11 and it messed me up I think. I should have ignored them, I was pretty sure we hadn't gone far enough while they all thought they had gone too far up the spur. Confidence would have helped here. I was especially happy with my 5 and 6 where that were my relative fastest splits except the finish and I didn't see people going in or out of them. In fact, I think I led people to them. I just think its hilarious that I had the least "lost" time on this course. Consistently very slow and careful and I had the brightest light.
shoes: 2nd pair - Saucony Guide 3
Red. I walked most of it. It turns out I can actually follow a bearing when I'm walking. I felt pretty much spot on through 7, made a pretty big mistake on my way to 8, a smaller mistake on the way to 9, and I took a "longer than necessary but I knew where I was the whole time" way to 10. I'm pretty happy with it. That's definitely the best my navigation has been. I wish I could run and navigate at the same time, but that will take more practice. I really like the map.
I started very cautiously since I've been blowing the first control pretty consistently lately. Last place on 1 and 2 but not after that. I got caught picking my way through a bunch of downed trees before 5. I gradually started moving faster and was running for 6 and 7. I *really* felt awesome after 7.
I of course go on to butcher 8, but there are no circles in my route. There was plenty of slow going up the reentrant when it seemed like I had gone too far, there were too many rocks on the right, and then there was a bend in the reentrant that caused me to finally figure out my actual location. I figured out where I was and moved on. I made a route choice error on 9. I should have taken the trail down rather than the reentrant which was steep on the sides and filled with tumbleweed. I'm not sure why I started looking at the wrong pile of rocks, that was just stupid, but I realized where I was quickly and didn't walk all the way around the wrong pile of rocks first.
After those two blunders I did some careful navigating on a safe route to 10. I came out of 10 in the wrong direction. It cost me time, but I knew where I was and recovered. I'm very happy with that overall. I'm especially pleased that there are no aimless circles on my track. Now I need to be able to navigate and run at the same time like I did at 6 and 7. That was my best red course ever but it had the most walking time ever too... In theory I should be faster if I run more, not less.
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