Training Log Archive: El Chucko

Long, fairly clean race. Running intensity 3.5/5, managed to carry it the whole way through the race without fading late. Had no problems on my attacks and didn't really lose any time there. Made about 4 minutes of total errors, had a poor route on 6 (+3 min) where I should have gone over the large hill instead of around it and had a poor direction out of 11 towards control 12 (+1 min). To my knowledge Kirsi N was second in 2:11 (didn't wait around for everybody to finish, but I was the last starter so nobody could have beaten my time). Had the fastest TPK out of any of the finishers on the advanced courses (nobody was really near 10 min/km)

Alberta Orienteering Championships at Tiger Lily (Fort Assiniboine). With Damian K at Sage Stomp and Will C. in England swept the weekends's races fairly easily. Won 41/51 fastest splits by course on the weekend. Focussed on having clean races and achieved that in 2/3 races (defined by less than 5% error compared to "clean" total time). Heavy rain and light snow Friday night/Saturday morning combined with lots of green on the maps made it difficult to get fast TPKs. Was in Calgary all week so did a bunch of walking around but no running training (hostel was in a dodgy part of downtown)

Middle, fairly clean race. About 1 minute of total mistakes, no true errors but a few bobbles up to 15s. Running intensity 3.5/5. Chris S was second in 53 minutes. Fastest TPK of any of the advanced courses.

Sprint, poor race. Started out quickly and nailed 1, but had not done any sprint/park/enlarged scale orienteering yet this year. About 3 minutes of total errors. Big mistake on 2, followed the high contour instead of the low contour and had poor direction, lost 2 minutes and was disgusted with myself (unacceptable for a sprint). Also had 15s errors on 3, 6, 10 and 16. Running intensity 4/5. Chris S was second in 22 minutes, Jon W was 23 and Claire C was 26. 2nd fastest TPK of all the advanced courses behind Christine L.