Last week I was busy participating in my first Orienteering event, the Vienna Orienteering Challenge.
On Thursday I did my first orienteering run in Türkenschanzpark and ended 24th of a 26 people field. I was so excited, that I forgot to start my watch, so no livelox. I also forgot to turn the map, in a detour of several minutes.
On Friday Leg 1 of the challenge happened in the Otto-Probst-Siedlung. I had expected the run to take place in Wienerberg area, so I had the wrong shoes. Still I managed to finish the “Newcomer” course in a good time.
So on Saturday I decided to run the “Men Open” course. The area was the MQ and I managed a surprising good result finishing third.
Unfortunately on Sunday I had exhausted my luck and finished only 9th out of 10. I had problems with three control points and my back tracking/ recovering strategy was “run around in circles”, which is not the most efficient way to find something.
I am looking forward to my next orienteering run.
- Splits Thursday
- Splits Friday
- Livelox Friday
- Splits Saturday
- Livelox Saturday
- Splits Sunday
- Livelox Sunday
