Training Log Archive: El Chucko

West Point Long. Pretty terrible race overall, especially my "adventure" on control 4... won't really get into it except to say that on that leg I stopped orienteering and instead was just some guy running around with a sheet of paper in his hand. Also lost 4 minutes total on controls 2 and 3, and 3 minutes total on 7/8. Had problems navigating on the intricate sloping hillside. Parts of the rest of the race were alright, but I had no energy between controls 4 and 11 and my double caffeine gel just before 11 was the only thing that powered me through the final loop. 36 minutes time loss total.

1/5 satisfaction

Blue Long - Splits

Event: 33rd West Point A Meet
 

15 minutes warmup for the Middle, 10 minutes for the sprint

West Point Middle. First orienteering meet of the season, pretty terrible race overall. Was rusty navigationally, mentally and physically. ~34 minutes of errors. Most of them originated from minor attack misses that then spiraled out of control. Control 2 was in a pretty tricky spot and I must have been within 20m of it 5 or 6 times and lost 9 minutes. Control 8 I stopped just short of the flag (was hidden around the corner of a cliff base, didn't check my control description closely enough) and ended up wasting 7 minutes looking for it after bailing. Control 13 I must have been standing directly above before finding (was tucked away in a little nook) and I lost 4 minutes. Control 17 I blew because I was trying to beat Serghei L. into the finish line and ended up running near full speed without a plan of attack...ended up losing 7-8 minutes.

1/5 overall satisfaction

West Point Sprint. Legs didn't have any kick after running the middle a couple of hours before. Pretty clean but slow race overall, a few little hesitations and poor routes, however the big thing was control 9 where I blew the attack 9 (drifted after getting out of some nasty cutline overgrowth: 30s loss). I thought the obstacle course was pretty neat. Around 65s total time loss.

4/5 satisfaction

Wow, that is pretty cool (and depressing) that I ran exactly 10 minutes faster per kilometer in the sprint relative to the middle.

Blue Sprint - Splits

Blue Middle - Splits

10 minute warmup, 7 minutes between intervals, 7 minute cooldown

7*400m intervals at the track. Ran really fast on the 3rd one because my supervisor's son's preschool was cheering me on (they were killing time before going swimming)

Splits
1-70.5
2-78.0
3-73.1
4-83.3
5-80.6
6-80.8
7-87.4
Avg-79.1

I should be a couple seconds faster on these (although I think I killed myself on the 3rd interval)

Good pickup game in lower field