Training Log Archive: David_Waller

Event: OCIN - Camp Stonybrook
 

Control pickup, very slow because of a sore calf. Navigated without the compass, which was quite straightforward in this feature-rich environment.

Green course at Camp Stonybrook. I felt pretty good mentally, but pulled my calf badly between #9 and #10 and was seriously slowed down the rest of the way. Although the slower pace made me a more careful navigator, I'm pretty sure that I lost a few minutes because of the injury. The course had several nice route options (e.g., 5/6, 9/10, 11/12), and I was generally happy with most of mine, although I may feel differently if I see others' choices in routegadget. In retrospect, I would have done 9/10 differently. I crossed the river south of #10, then came up the reentrant to it. It probably would have been faster to stay north and use the trail bend as an attackpoint. I'll also be interested to see how much time mikeminium saved by doing 11/12 directly, instead of along the road to the north. All in all, a nice course and a great day to be out.

Green - Splits

Ab-focused

MUNA -- very weak, very sluggish

A fun quickie O-course set up by Mike for a class with Tom Kopp. It's a very nice map, and is great for introducing people to the sport in a relatively easy environment. Mike set up a Score-O, but also linked the 10 controlsl for a regular 2.2 km race. The race offered a few fun route choices, and I am pretty happy with the ones that I made (e.g., on 7/8 getting below the wall next to the library on the East side of the building, rather than going around it) I'm so familiar with the area (and it's so small), that I could pretty much look at the map once per leg. This one was definitely more about running than navigating. As always, I started faster than I could maintain, and gradually slowed throughout the run. If he had put in a few more legs on the course, Mike probably would have overtaken me.

So here is an idea. Most of us have parks for which our prior familiarity gives us an undue advantage. To give a fair and proper challenge to these people, it might be fun to turn their race into a memory-O. (I have never done a memory-O, and don't know how they are typically done.) One model might be to have a course map at every control. Runners could only check-in with the map at a control, and all interim navigation would have to be done from memory.

C • MEM-O 2

My standard MUNA run. It took a lot of effort to keep it under an hour.

C • standard? 4