Training Log Archive: El Chucko

to/from Terwillegar Park

Testing my orienteering course for the Wednesday night event in 2 weeks that I am putting on. They were about 1/4 too short as I didn't realize that the map was actually 1:7500 until it was too late

Forest B event at Oskahtak. Finished in 1st place, +8:29 ahead of Geraint (2nd) and +10:11 ahead of Wil C (3rd). Good race, ran hard and was simplifying and focusing well. First time I have had a dominating (+5min) win at a forest event, which is something I have had the physical and even technical skill to do before but perhaps not mental. Had 3 attacking errors, losing about 1 minute each, but overall my navigation was smooth and bang on. Won 12/22 fastest splits, and my time loss (behind winner) on the 10 legs that I lost was 3:52, leaving an ideal time of 44:54.

to/from Hawrelak

Wednesday night orienteering at Hawrelak Park, final one of the season. Beat Wil C. by over 2 minutes. This year, out of 8 City Cup events that I attended, with age handicaps figured in, I had 6 1st place finishes and 2 2nd place finishes

against scott, 7-5, 0-6, first time I have ever beaten him in a set