Training Log Archive: TomN

I got a tick. It must have been there since Sunday. It was a rather difficult extraction. A brown dog tick, I believe.

Georgia Navigator Cup Day 2 Brown. I was first in my age group both days, also first overall on Brown, but I'm not happy with my performance. Today, two 5-min errors, so easily avoided! In both cases, I had a solid plan and was right on route when I was distracted by a control not on my course, thinking it was what I was going for. If I had just stopped and checked what direction it was in, I would have been able to ignore it. But instead I assumed it was right and I was wrong (and lucky!). Both times, I couldn't guess the control's actual location on the map after I got there, so I backtracked to relocate, and eventually got back on the originally planned route, losing 5 min in the process.

Like yesterday, the woods were fast and open, great for running. And yeah, I ran. It's clear that I lose some cognition when I go fast. My thinking gets muddled, and what's insidious about it is I'm too impaired to even be aware there's a problem. In fact, running fast is kind of euphoric, so I don't sense the danger.

Day 2 - Brown - Splits

Georgia Navigator Cup, Day 1 Brown. Hey, it's the first color change in my orienteering lifetime, and also the last one. The woods were fast and open, and there was not much climb on this course -- mainly in the long uphill to the top of the ridge before #4.

I had a little bit of trouble finding #1 in the pit, a bingo control. Fast on the long leg to #3, went just high enough on the hill to count the reentrants, and spiked the control coming down. But an amazing screw-up on the next long leg to #6. Something went wrong after I left #5, and I lost track of where I was. Pushed on towards the west and came to a big creek, but which one was it? Oh, they all join just to the north, so I'll find that and everything will be great. Well, I must have already been north of the junction, because I got nearly up to the lake (which was off the map). I angled back to the SW and finally got to the dirt road, which was actually my original plan of attack.

Day 1 - Brown - Splits

Event: GNC 2017: Georgia Navigator Cup
 

Hey, finally, a bike to work day! Getting out on that route today was really fine. There was sun in places, but the trails and roads were kind of wet, and I picked up a lot of road splatter. Most of it stuck on my hydration pack, which now boasts a great looking black dotted pattern.

Neighborhood run in the morning. It was just above freezing, and the roads were slippery in places, but the potential for warmth was in the air. By 10 a.m. it was mid 40s.

A modified Daily Challenge. Lost the ling plank and wall-sit, added figure-8s.