Surebridge Challenge, Harriman State Park, New York, 21-22 April 2007!
Tuesday, 24. April 2007, 15:52:56
This past weekend I flew out to New York state for a National A meet at Harriman State Park. Harriman is one of the most technically difficult and challenging terrain in the US. Many have compared it to the woods of Sweden. Also, the World Orienteering Championships were held here in 1993. The trip overall was awesome! My races were just OK. I've also posted a brief summary on my Attackpoint log.
Saturday started well, I was running strong, navigating very precicesly and spiked all but one control until I got to the 9th control. I navigated to the circle but didn't find the flag, then I did a stupid thing, instead of searching because I knew I was in the right spot, I tried to re-locate. Re-locating in Harriman is almost futile, but as I was doing it I kept pointing back to where I originally thought the control should be. By the time I figured it all out I wound up right back where I started only this time I found it. This cost me more than 20 minutes. Of course this also sapped most of my energy and I was now running much slower for the rest of the race. No mistakes though.
Sunday was much much better, except that I had no energy, speed, strength, or stamina. My navigation was dead accurate, and the one small mistake I made was easilly corrected and maybe cost me a minute, I just felt totally out of shape and had to resort to the "Sharon Crawford Shuffle" for the majority of the race. Overall though it was great, maybe not an improvement over the North Carolina meet, other than finishing both courses, but it certainly won't hurt me...
I've posted both of my maps with my route, along with a variety of pictures that other people have taken, including a few of me coming shortly, in the Photos section of this site. Check my Attackpoint log for splits and results.
In two weeks I fly to Detroit for the US Team Trials. This is also a National A race and a World Ranking Event, so even though I may not make the team, it'll still be an awesome event to compete in! My Attackpoint log also had a schedule of events I'm hoping to attend in the future.
Saturday started well, I was running strong, navigating very precicesly and spiked all but one control until I got to the 9th control. I navigated to the circle but didn't find the flag, then I did a stupid thing, instead of searching because I knew I was in the right spot, I tried to re-locate. Re-locating in Harriman is almost futile, but as I was doing it I kept pointing back to where I originally thought the control should be. By the time I figured it all out I wound up right back where I started only this time I found it. This cost me more than 20 minutes. Of course this also sapped most of my energy and I was now running much slower for the rest of the race. No mistakes though.
Sunday was much much better, except that I had no energy, speed, strength, or stamina. My navigation was dead accurate, and the one small mistake I made was easilly corrected and maybe cost me a minute, I just felt totally out of shape and had to resort to the "Sharon Crawford Shuffle" for the majority of the race. Overall though it was great, maybe not an improvement over the North Carolina meet, other than finishing both courses, but it certainly won't hurt me...
I've posted both of my maps with my route, along with a variety of pictures that other people have taken, including a few of me coming shortly, in the Photos section of this site. Check my Attackpoint log for splits and results.
In two weeks I fly to Detroit for the US Team Trials. This is also a National A race and a World Ranking Event, so even though I may not make the team, it'll still be an awesome event to compete in! My Attackpoint log also had a schedule of events I'm hoping to attend in the future.
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