Monday, May 19, 2008

Score orienteering in Shenzhen, China


I went north to the mainland China for this score orienteering event on 18th. It's a local orienteering series, with about 200~300 people taking part. The venue, Lianhuashan Park, is the largest park in Shenzhen.

I'm not feeling well these days so I did the course at a very slow speed. The sequence is:
S>5>19>13>3>1>2>11>16>17>14>10>
4>9>15>8>7>18>12>6>20>F.
I used 59:48 to finish it while the winning time is below 40.

What I have to do now is to recover asap and train hard for APOC.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Back to orienteering

Finally, I finished all of the annoying Advanced Level Exams.!
I started my trainings and competitions since May. Currently I'm preparing for APOC in Korea on 25~30 July, and maybe the All-China Student Orienteering Championships in mid July. And of course the preparation work of Y2Y Sprint keeps going at the same time.

I did the Bank of China (Hong Kong) 51st of Sport - Orienteering 100M Orienteering Championships on 1st of May. I made a stupid mistake, see the video below (I was in yellow jersey).


On 4th I ran a City-Orienteering score competition. Danial, Black Lo and I formed the Black & White Banana team to join the student category's race. There are bad news and good news. The bad news is I could hardly run during the 2-hours race. And the good news is we captured the champion, with cash coupons as the prize.

Two days ago I had an orienteering training at Rotary Park on Tai Mo Shan, which is organized by KK Yeung. Again, I was still too weak to run but I really enjoyed the wonderful course. It was 5.5km/205m with 21 controls. The route choices are interesting and it's tricky to have some map details missed out. I took 101min. to finish it.