Training Log Archive: D-MAN

PM Warm up run at Jackpine before the COC Sprint.

COC Sprint at Jackpine. The plan was go for the gold and I eneded up 2 seconds short so had to settle for the silver, still happy with that, muhaha...WOC. Open pasture land with tall grass made seeing the subtle contour details hard. Started out well, hesitant on the long leg to #2 because the vegetation boundaries were very vague and really didn't want to loose the race on this leg, lost about 20-30 seconds to #4 because I climbed too much and had to check a control code in the re-entrant before the one the control was in (would have killed myself if I ran by it and it was mine) just moving slowly because this was another leg the race could easily be lost on, hooked #9 and lost 5 seconds (almost ran by the control thinking I wasn't far enough). Went as hard as I possibly could have from #13 to the finish thinking it was going to be close and it was! Eric supposedly got me by 2 seconds. The start times got all messed up somehow so they started guessing on peoples split times to #1, really don't know how they can do that. Also no starting line, just start in a general area which also could have thrown things off. Simply put they totally screwed up the start at a WRE enent which shouldn't happen but it did and they were too scared to throw out the race because that wouldn't look too good for Canada who only has 3 WRE events a year. Too dam worried about the whistles and bibs and not enough attention to the things that really matter. Will any splits ever get posted??!!

C • COC Sprint results 5