Training Log Archive: X8A7

Commute, back to the salt mine.

C • salt mine 2

warmup.

Rocky Mt. Goat. The day before during secret orienteering, my ham and right Achilles bugged me a bit and I was worried that I wasn't gong to be 100%, but all felt good before the start and my ankle felt the best by far since the catastrophic ankle failure some time (months now) back. Bought a new compass and clue sheet holder the day before, as a gift to myself for the hard work on the courses the day before, and was concerned about the old rule of thumb of not trying anything new on race day. But both proved to be very wise investments. It was a great course as usual, so another hat's off to Swampfox for providing such a great experience. 1, 2, and 3 were the only three that had traffic, and there was a lot of tactics with not letting people out of sight, even if you though they were slightly off (because, what if you were wrong and they were right?), but ran to 4 mostly alone as OB and others went further east, but joined OB again just before the stream crossing. Had a headache from 2 to 4, but the H2O at 4 solved that. After that, OB and I were back and forth, never more than 40m away, always choosing very similar routes. Kept really good contact with the map in all critical situations and was able to kick it in for the win, but really loosing to OB would have been fine given how we both ran clean.

Results: http://www.attackpoint.org/discussionthread.jsp/me...

C • very nice job on the goat a... 4

Secret orienteering.

Setting for any meet, much less an "A" meet, has proven to be fairly stressful. It takes a lot of time and a small mistake could null the results, and/or piss off a lot of people. Fortunately none of those things occurred and I appreciated all the positive comments I got regarding how fun the courses were, how challenging (in a good way) the courses were, and how well designed they were. I'm glad the work paid off.

warmup

Western State Champs, blue course. I was pre-running, starting at 7am. Low sun on the horizon made running east challenging. Ran quite well, was concerned about the ankle and navigating well in general. Took it easy up the hill to 2, body wasn't awake yet, got pushed too far west, but quickly corrected. Still wasn't up to speed on 3, 4, and 5. 5 was slow also because I could see that this was a leg that I could really blow it on and was determined not to do that. From there I picked up speed having no navigation issues and good speed. A couple pauses in the circle to find the control occurred but, I never worry about that. The biggest mistake, and it wasn't big, was at 18, had to do a small circle to find the right rock, but if that was the worst, then I shouldn't complain. OB just seconds ahead, but I'm calling it a draw because I woke up nearly all controls, thus loosing time on each.

Secret orienteering. As usual, saw some cool stuff, but it has to remain a secret.

Day 1 (Saturday) - Blue - Splits

Secret orienteering, running.

Secret orienteering, hike.

Running club. 4x6min. Had not warm up, so was slow on the first 800 of the first one, mile times were 6:00, 5:55, 5:53, 5:43. A good strong workout.

A brisk cool down.

Event: 2012 Laramie Daze
 

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