Training Log Archive: oxensd

Event: Troll Cup and Junior National Champs
 

First time ar Mt. Tom and signed up for red/M45. Had I known the punishing terrain and competition I might have gone green instead...

Two mistakes, maybe 6.5 minutes total. #2 went straight from the path but got confused by multiple reentrants and small streams, one or two not on the map, went too low and ended up at the last stream before the path, and doubled back. 3 mins.

#8 with brain too tired after major 130m climb from #7, veered left, didn't read the contours correctly, and made a nice parallel error resulting in rounding the swamp. 3.5 mins.

Probably lost a little on way to #4 by coming down too low for the path in the middle.

More or less spiked everything else. Route choice to #11 might on second glance be wrong, I went for the road but probably running along the swamp would have been faster.

This was a tough course physically, more than even the 370m climb indicates. Not sure why exactly, I didn't have legs today even though my treadmill times are materially better than last year. Walked on many of the uphills, and pretty slow on several of the downhills as well.

Map and GPS:
http://www.oxenstierna.com/davidoxenstierna/orient...

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