Training Log Archive: El Chucko

Western Canadians Long Event. Worse race. Ended up being more of a battle of me against the elements than the actual orienteering course. Course was super physical with a lot of running through tall grass and a ton of climb, and it was an absolute scorcher, must have been well above 35 degrees with the sun. Right from the get go I was felt tired and mentally unfocused. A 5 minute mistake on the first control let me know right away what type of day it would be. My orienteering was actually pretty decent in parts, but it seemed like I made an error about every 20 minutes or so. The first hour I was able to run slowly and work my way through the course fairly normally, the second hour I was becoming more and more tired and resorted to increasing amounts of walking, and in the third hour I was absolutely spent and beginning to feel the early affects of heat stroke so it was a struggle to make it out of the woods. One tricky 200m leg took me 20 minutes, and by the time I made it to the finish I was only able to move at a slow trudge with sitting down every minute or so and massive cramps.

did the model map and warmup, felt good

Western Canadians Middle. decently bad race. was doing alright up until 4/5 of the way through the race, and then at the 40 minute mark I had a concentration lapse during my attack of the 13th control and was unable to regroup. Lost 6 minutes and 2 places as a result. Finished 8/10, immediately behind Alaric and Ross but ahead of Steven and Thomas. Winning time was around 40 minutes, Bryan May

Event: Western Canadian Orienteering Championship 2008
 

Basic summary of my weekend: MATT + HEAT = SLOW + STUPID.
It was above plus 30 this weekend, extremely hot with the sun, and I was just not used to it as we had a cool June where it barely cracked above +20. I seem to be affected a lot worse than other people, and pretty much just orienteered like I did when I was 15 years old. My biggest problem was that I was unable to catch errors in their early stages and I was unable to deal with them when they occurred.

Wednesday evening event at Hermitage Park. First place, which normally is no big deal (I have been winning these things routinely the last three years now) except I beat managed to beat Geir. It was only by 2 seconds, but it shows that he is human after all

C • nice work! 1