Training Log Archive: jfredrickson

Didn't really prepare mentally for this race as I wasn't taking it seriously at all, but I still wanted to run with the leaders since that sounded like fun. Mike Smith took it out at full speed and I had no chance to really read the map going into the first control trying to keep up with him. I hit a different control with a large pack and took a long time to figure out where I was and where my control was.

Then I tried to pick it up going to the second control and tripped and busted my compass and hand on a trail. Spent a minute recovering and after that decided to just run the rest of it as an easy training run because I was obviously completely out of it.

I thought that running without a compass would be a good exercise, but it's been so long since I have done it that I have completely lost my sense of direction without a compass. I made tons of stupid compass errors, ending up in very different areas and taking lots of time to figure it out because I was lining up the map wrong. It was a pretty interesting day...