Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: QOC Patapsco Granite
 

Event: The 'Hood Hunt: Kansas City Plaza
 

Event: 2013 IS IC Championships
 

OK and Possumtrot: Heart Brain Courage U.S. Intercollegiate Interscholastic Orienteering Championships in Shawnee Mission Park, KS. From the assembly area to the start. It was windy but running up the hill warmed me up.

OK and Possumtrot: Heart Brain Courage U.S. Intercollegiate Interscholastic Orienteering Championships in Shawnee Mission Park, KS. It was fun running today. I wasn't very fast--lacking leg speed. I had a hesitation on #1, a questionable route choice and change of direction on#4 and #9, climbed just a
Iittle higher than needed on #10, and made another poor route choice on #16. The rest was pretty clean.

OK and Possumtrot: Heart Brain Courage U.S. Intercollegiate Interscholastic Orienteering Championships in Shawnee Mission Park, KS. From the assembly area to the start so that I could shadow Max on the White course.

OK and Possumtrot: Heart Brain Courage U.S. Intercollegiate Interscholastic Orienteering Championships in Shawnee Mission Park, KS. Max has been out on plenty of orienteering courses before. Most have been when out with friends or shadowed by them. Going with his parents is more challenging. Today on the White course, I was trying to get him used to doing all of it by his self. The frustration started early when he didn't know what the dots for the vegetation boundary (field and forest) leaving the start were. My mantra had been mostly for Max to use his compass and read the map. It was frustrating for me to see him angrily reply with "I read the map!", then go and run off in the wrong direction. On #1, Max pulled up short of the control where I was just high enough to see it. Telling him to use his compass resulted in him leaving the field, and running north into the open woods where he found 2 controls that weren't his. He backtracked to the field, found #1, then #2 quickly. The trail to #3 was on a north slope and so it was a slush and plain flooded mess. Max pulled up early at a yellowish control off trail on a ditch but knew where he was when checking the code and finding it to be wrong. He picked his way through green parallel to the trail going onward because the trail was flooded and his feet were freezing wet. He finally got to #3 but not without some drama and encouragement to finish. Going out of the trail intersection, Max went the wrong way. He understood this after a short way and turned around. Back at #3, he was lackadaisical with orienting the map. He had it in his mind to go north to find #4, and that to him meant going back through the slush and green woods toward #2. We got back to the control on a ditch just off trail, then a little past it before the realization that #2 wasn't near #4, set in. Tears set in too. More encouragement and funneling of anger got him going--he stomped through the freezing puddles of water and slush for the third time. Telling him that this would be the worst part of the race may have helped though I wasn't sure of the truth of it. Max finally got back to #3. To his credit, I think there was a small map error in which a bend shown at #3 was further ahead. There were some more errors getting to #4 including Max going off trail again. Going to #5 was smooth. We passed Peggy and Mook going the other way over the stony causeway. Going to #6 across the field was no problem for Max. He visually found #7 about 2 steps out of #6. Leaving #7, he found a nearby red control but got to the corner of the ball field before not knowing what to do. Looking for a field, he saw a control in a field far off across the main park road back past where we'd come from. My mantra resulted in Max again repeating his standard reply. Once at the wrong control, I told Max to look for big features that would help him. He found the baseball field and connected it with the map. Then he was off and running hitting #8, and not even stopping to look at the map before the run in. He chased and caught a teenager at the end. I hope it was a learning day for him and that it will help for tomorrow. It was a learning patience day for me.

OK and Possumtrot: Heart Brain Courage U.S. Intercollegiate Interscholastic Orienteering Championships in Shawnee Mission Park, KS. I split some control pickup with Mike Eglinski. I was slightly off on one cliff. The controls were on stands. They were going to set them out again for day 2 so I just pulled them up all assembled. In some places where there was snow, fog was rising.

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Day 1 - Red - Splits

From Northfield Rd., to Arlington Rd. with Max on his bike. It was windy but we had a tailwind. After dropping him off, I proceeded to the Bethesda Metro Statiion.

From the Bethesda Metro Station, to Arlington Rd. After picking up Max and his bike, we rode together to Northfield Rd. it was a little windy.

From Northfield Rd., to Georgetown Pike via Greenwich Park, to Beech Ave., to Anniston Rd., to Ewing Dr., to Roosevelt St., to Jefferson St., to Northfield Rd. I worked late. I got out to run to keep from being a complete sloth. Taking my car in for maintenance and picking it up the last two evenings reduced some opportunities to train but taking a break also seemed in order. My quads were better today but not really where I expect to be in terms of speed. I could have used a bathroom for much of the run. It was about 42 F outside.

Spinning and watching a movie. I did spin better than I had been doing the last several times.

Washington, D.C. From 12th & Independence Ave., SW, onto The Mall, past the Washington Monument and down betwee the Reflecting pool and the Vietnam War Memorial to Lincoln Circle. to Ohio Dr. to the Rock Creek Trail, to Calvert St., NW to the Woodley Park/Zoo Metro Station. After a day of rest, I felt pretty good starting out. It was less cold than I expected it to be and the wind had died down much from earlier in the day. As I waited to start at a traffic light, a guy around my age went running past along 14th St. in a jacket similar to mine. There were other runners out that got me moving a bit faster than I have been doing lately. The Washington Monument was fenced off for repair work--needed after the earthquake that hit DC over a year ago. It looked rather nice with being lit-up at dusk. It was interesting that the guy with the similar jacket converged with me just past the Lincoln Memorial. I was going slightly faster than him but he was using shorter routes here and there. When I finally caught-up, we talked a bit about how run commuting was a pretty nice way to go. I started feeling a bit tired about then and got winded as we spoke. He broke off at Georgetown to run into Arlington and I ran up the dark Rock Creek Trail. I was going pretty well except when going up hills. There is residual soreness ini my quads but they are much better than they have been.

I was going to get out to do some field checking but the weather just wasn't that pleasant. Instead, I did some draft course setting on paper for what QOC is planning on bidding an A-meet for in 2014.