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Buffalo Orienteering
Today I ran at the Buffalo Orienteering Festival in NY, USA, after a week working in Ohio.This is defined as an A-meet here, but is significantly smaller than a national event back at home. The organisation, however, is at a very high level. The middle distance in the morning (map…
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below) was not too difficult, but I was not used to this type of terrain, and lost some time (in tiny increments) hesitating while trying to read all the paths. I finished 4th (M40), one second behind 3rd, in 34:53 for the 4km course.The afternoon sprint was not much of an orienteering challenge - easy parkland, running mostly in straight lines on grass, which favoured the fast runners. I really enjoyed it, but a perfect run was only good enough for 5th place.Tomorrow is the long distance, where Ill be trying to get into the top three. Its supposed to…
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