My Weird World

Travelled first to Phoenix where my Dad lives then the two of us drove down to Tuscon on Friday for the Compass Training. We were the last ones there but were still able to run it. I jogged it easy and still flew through it. I also didn't have any trouble with it, other than hesitating in one wash and going to the wrong Saguaro cactus another time.

Then it was off to the meet site to set up our camp.

Saturday Day 1 Blue:
A good run but with about 7 minutes of mistakes, most of them on one control. Another control I didn't look to the right, where the control was and turned left instead, missing it. The last two were not quite perfect spikes costing me 30-45 seconds each.

I finished well, 6th on the day!

Saturday Sprint:
The sprint! I like sprints and did well on this one. One small mistake going up a parallel re-entrant to the right, once it started looking wrong I checked my map and immediately saw what I'd done and went right to the control, only a 15 second mistake!

Finished 7th overall!

Sunday Day 2 Blue:
Tired today. Made fewer mistakes and only one big one that cost me about 3 minutes, but I just couldn't get my legs to move at any speed. I'm definitely tired from yesterday.

I also began to notice a trend in my races. I'll run the beginning of the race very well, clean and fast, then in the middle of the race I begin to make mistakes, then near the end of the race my splits get slower and slower as I get more tired, and possibly can't get back into the flow of things after the mistakes in the middle part of the run. All three races this weekend followed that exact pattern!

I finished a slow-ish 7th on the day but maintained my 6th overall, and 4th for the Western States Champs! Definitely a good weekend of Orienteering.


This was a very fun, very well organized A meet hosted by the Tuscon O Club! Very social and it was good to see O friends who are scattered throughout the country, and making several new friends too!

It was also a very good weekend of Orienteering for me. I still need more long/endurance runs because of my fatuige on the second day and as always I could benefit from running in denser more vegetated terrain as opposed to open grasslands like we have in CO, WY and AZ.

Maps and phtotos in the newest album above...

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AP Log

Results

Day 1:
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Sprint:
Splits
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Day 2:
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