Training Log Archive: WileyKyO-T

12km Long course at Flying Pig---and it felt long. Performance wise, not a good showing for me, but I'm hopeful that I will learn from my painful mistakes on controls 5, 8, and 10. I had to bail out to the nearest trail on each of these points and re-attack. These resulted, respectively, from poor pacing, poor attack point selection, and trail junction confusion. By point 11, at which time I was already over 2 hours, I was exhausted and the objective shifted to simply finishing under 3. I suppose I thought that the couple meets I've done recently would get me back in good orienteering shape, but the reality is that a blue course is tougher than a red and tougher, navigationally, than a rogaine. Looking forward to the winsplits/routegadget to analyze the course further.

Long - 12 Blue - Splits

Event: Flying Pig XIX - U.S. Individual Champs - Sprint-Middle-Long
 

Some fun in the model course area--basically ran a course but re-ran a couple of the legs where I wanted to compare different route choices.

3.4km straight line sprint course at Morehead State University. Not a great race mostly due to a wrong turn on one leg, but even so a few of my other controls were sloppy and I only learned halfway in how vital the clue sheet descriptions were when I stared down at a control from high above.

Sprint - 11 M-20 12 M-21 - Splits

Two hours into my drive to the Flying Pig, I stopped at the Rockwoods Range permanent O-course for some practice. Only got four points in, but a useful session.

First leg of a 3 part run. Started at the apartment, ran through Aubudon Park and the Fly to the Great Tree (planted in 1740).

Second leg of a 3 part run: the Great Tree to 1st and Laurel, all on Laurel Street.

Final leg of my run, 1st Street to CVS, mostly along Pyrtania but along St. Chuck for a few blocks.