Jug Bay Beer Chase - Jun 1, 2014

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The weather was very agreeable although I wouldn't have minded if it had been a bit cooler.

I got a bit of a head rush after I finished. I'm blaming it on the quantity of beer I consumed. I wasn't feeling bad at all until after I went looking for something to eat after I finished. I sat in my car, in the shade, for a while after having a few bites to eat. I gradually started to feel better.

I probably lost 30 seconds (which is meaningless considering where I finished) looking for the control to punch after drinking a beer between the first and second loops. If any of the volunteers manning the beer station pointed it out to me then it went in one ear and out the other. I probably should have been able to spot it without any help but I didn't.

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Jug Bay Beer Chase - Jun 3, 2012

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The weather was warm but not too warm or too humid for the 2012 Beer Chase.

I forgot to bring my boots so I orienteered in the old pair of walking shoes that I put on that morning. I got my feet a little wet and muddy but not excessively so. The wetlands were not as wet as they often are.

For the most part I did fairly well when it came to finding controls. I made a few mistakes. When leaving the first control in the first loop I made a 45 degree error. I headed ESE when I should have headed ENE. I realized my mistake when I spotted a field that should not have been there. The problem wasn't that I set my compass wrong just that I didn't take notice of how I had the map oriented in my hand.

While searching for the 2nd control on the 2nd Loop I arrived at a control that was on the 3rd loop. Forgetting that I had the map for the 3rd loop on the flip side of the 2nd loop map I took a guess as to where I was and headed off in the wrong direction. It wasn't until after I spent 5 minutes searching for the control unsuccessfully that it occurred toe to flip the map over. After that I found the control fairly quickly.

I overshot the 1st control of the 3rd loop. It was much closer to the field I was coming from than I thought it would be. Also the stream bed on the map where the control was supposed to be was more or less non-existent in reality. So I kept walking east until I found a stream bed, the wrong stream bed. I searched along it for a few minutes without finding the control. After studying the map again it became clear to me that I was searching the wrong stream bed. I headed west and found the control fairly quickly.

I felt pretty good about my performance at the chase but I still finished next to last in my group, not counting MPs and DNFs. I guess the more things change the more they remain the same. I managed to finish ahead of 2 or 3 people who opted to do the short course.

Loop: 1 [6 controls; 2.8 km 85 m]
Time: 47:12

Loop: 2 [5 controls; 1.9 km; 30m]
Time: 38:06

Loop: 3 [5 controls; 1.7 km, 20m]
Time: 30:45

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