Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Event: NZ Orienteering Champs
 

Easily 10 minutes with Mr Harris cruising up and down the brook (which makes for a lovely warm-up area) pre-race, and maybe about 5 minutes too long after, after-race

NZ Sprint champs, Nelson. Just too slow on the day to be competitive, definitely not in the same shape as for Waitangi! Technically ok though, apart from trying to use a non-existent route choice to 11 (bad), and missing some gaps which led to an unnecessarily long way in to 15 (minor). Through 1 and 2 thought I was getting off to a bad start, but afterwards can't see any better way of getting them, and at this point I was pretty well placed suggesting everyone else had also been pretty cautious at the start ...or they weren't! Also thought during the course there wasn't much in the way of route choice options but have spotted quite a few afterwards - in some cases probably better than ones I used but not so much that I should have spent a few more seconds thinking on the relevant legs. What I really liked was how the 'terrain' kept changing through the course - just when you were getting your head into each part of the map, you were into the next, different, part.

Middle Model, in which I first took long enough to get my brain out of 1:4000 and in to 1:10 000 to start feeling very sceptical about the mapping; then had everything suddenly start to make sense; then started feeling very confident about the mapping and my ability to make use of it; then came to the conclusion that tomorrow would be a full-on technical challenge, causing carnage for anyone who took it lightly