Orienteering race 53:56 [4] 8.3 km (6:30 / km)
spiked:12/15c shoes: Inov8 MudRoc
Orienteering on Mount Royal Park. Felt that my conditioning wasn't good enough to do the US Team Trials without embarrassing myself. Finished in 2nd place, 2:30 behind Francis in 1st and only 10 seconds ahead of 3rd. Lost about 3 minutes due to sloppy navigation (30s on 1, 30s on 3, 90s on 8, 10s here and there) and 2 minutes because of poor conditioning (jogged/walked in a couple of sections). Need to really ramp up my base training next year if I want to get some good results in Alberta at the COCs 2012, and possibly some events in Europe next summer. Also I am looking at competing in a few events in the fall (US S/M/L and Ontario O champs).
This will probably be it for my logging of training until August, I am heading up to the Arctic in a couple of weeks. Hopefully I can use all the hiking mileage as a base and do some interval training to regain some top flight speed quickly.
