The times on the o-festivalen website include yesterday and today added together because it was a chasing start from yesterdays results, so for those of us who ran the world cup our time has had our start time added to it, even so we didnt have very good runs.
Lizzie was the best of the girls by about 8 minutes. Georgia had a good run too but mispunched on the last control. Angela hurt her back yesterday and struggled with the running in terrain. Shes going to have a day off tomorrow to rest it. AFter a days rest it will be all right.
The boys all made big mistakes, all on different controls and up to 20 minutes long. Most of them were due to going too fast in terrain that we're still not used to. Struggling with trying to figure out what they map as yellow and what they don't.
The last two days have really put in perspective how good the top people are. When the top guys are runing 6 minute k's through terrain like today it makes us all have so much respect for kiwis like Ross and Tania who can get good results. It's been great watching the world cup grades, seeing Minna Kauppi run through the field from 9th to easily win. Then seeing Thierry Georgiou appear to win by 4 minutes, only to have missed a butterfly loop.
Tomorrow we have relays. The girls have Greta, Kate, Georgia and Lizzie in that order. While the guys are Tom, Scott, Jack, Simon. Another day will bring more experience and hopefully a bit more accuracy.
Scott coming out of todays spectator, for more photos check out Norm's Picassa Web album, should be a link on maptalk.co.nz
3 comments:
Scott, have you lost weight?
Hi Team!
When running in new terrain you should always focus on what is unique in that terrain.
In Scandinavia it is not the clearings - and especially not the small ones - they are typically indistinct without well-defined boundaries.
You should instead focus on things such as marshes, significant rocks and contours. And generally run higher on the hill-tops rather than in valleys. This is because the vegetation will be lusher in valleys where it's wetter. The other thing is from the tops you see more - Scandivaian terrain is almost always mapped positively unlike a lot of NZ terrain.
You should also try and run as straight as possible because:
1. It's usually fastest
2. It minimizes the chance you make a mistake.
3. The locals run that way so if you want to pick up a tow on a leg or two you're unlikely to see them running around the tracks.
4. The tracks are often not much faster than the terrain.
5. It's not the hills that are energy draining running straight - it's the terrain underfoot.
That's not to say you shouldn't run around sometimes to give yourself a mental and physical break.
So don't be lazy running around 2-4 contour hills in this terrain thinking you can find controls on the hillsides.
Otherwise, good skills and good luck!!!
Cheers,
AL
hey guys, looks like great fun, sounds like your all loving it and doing well.
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