Training Log Archive: smoke

map with routes

1 - took right hand route because it seemed like less climb - took it slowly and stayed in contact. should have gone above stream at end to rough open and attacked from above

2 - was south of where I intended to go, but the vegetation gave it away - nasty climb down muddy hill to reach control

3 - almost went wrong way at stream - should have used trail until last bit of swamp - stayed to west to get nice attackpoint from trail junction

4 - seemed that staying further north (closer to stream) was more runnable (which was clear on the map) - stopped for water

5 - still can't figure out how I got off the trail and messed this up so badly - this mistake cost me a medal

6 - not sure that this was a good route as it was so far around - but was easy running, and let me relax a bit - think it helped me focus again later.

7 - climbed a few meters too high, but the climb was much easier than straight up from the stream

8 - easy, but running out of steam

9 - camelback came undone and couldn't seem to get it on again - was worried about hitting the right re-entrant if i got off bearing but worked out fine

10 - just trails (would never have seen the top of the trail if there wasn't a control at the junction - spotted control early

11 - down and up the same damn ravine - tucked map in my shorts at 10 so I could use my hands to get up - not much left at the finish after that climb

i am really bad at climb - i think this is where the smoking really kills me

C • time 2

Long 5 - Splits

Event: 2010 Golden Leaf Orienteering Fest
 

a horrible start to glof- map with route, crappy scanner
a tactical error 1-2: ran way too hard up the hill to 2 and never recovered
8: anne t. was right behind me, so leaving 7 I just ran up the stream - unfortunately it was the wrong stream - added a fair bit of climb as well as distance since I didn't recover from it very well.
9: headed off in the wrong direction ?!?

another bad race :(
map with route, crappy scanner again
1 -slow as I wasn't sure I was reading the map right
2 - very slow the last 50 meters as i was having problems making sense of the map - turned out to be a good idea
3 - went south to avoid some climb, but way over corrected and misread where i hit the trail - building to the north gave it away, but still managed to go past the control concealed behind a very small rock
4 - just a trudge uphill - misread control sheet and thought I was at wrong control - stopped and went back and of course it was the right one
5 - left the trail later than I intended to and just got myself very confused - relocated, but headed off in wrong direction - maybe I took a bearing on 2 not 5, missed 5 again, decided to relocate from down the hill - saw the swamp, then the trail, went back to 2, and carefully to 5 - 20 minutes! and now very tired
6 - decided to take a safe route and got there fine
7 - again misread where i hit the trail - distracted by many people around - when I realized I was in wrong area, headed south till I could see the trail and followed the countours into 7
8 - straight - hopped behing the control after puching to let Jeff T. go by
9,10 just straight
11 - took slightly shorter route through saddle as that would point me right at the gap in the cliffs - worked great
12 - ran smack into some undergrowth that I wasn't getting through, detoured around - almost missed path to parking lot

pretty cool to get home and see my splits already posted! THX Valerie.

C • Splits 1

Sprint 3 - Splits

Middle 5 - Splits

had to miss pilates because one of my servers crashed and didn't want to restart :-(

stretching - overall
strength - shoulder

Today's session was a lot like a very easy boxercise session. Ah well, it woke me up again, and took my mind off my poison ivy itchiness for an hour.