Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Event: Billygoat Run
 

Good warmup, short cooldown

Good run, chasing well at times, enjoying the pack navigation that the open (visibility) woods often allowed. Leading or co-leading packs for much of the way, sometimes with good orienteers with me that weren't sure where we were... (Not that I was totally sure, but I generally had a plan...)

My best leg:
Out of 6, I was late in the pack, but tried hard to reel them in. I was first tracking Vadim, who got stuck in some vegetation, and then I kept slowly catching up to Kenny (who, leading the pack, had to follow the twists in the trail, while the followers could see where he was and shortcut through the better parts of the forest.) After passing the big lake, I aimed a little right after KW went left. Apparently I dragged the remainder of the pack with me. Lots of up/down (probably more than needed) on rough compass, I kept pushing to try to lose some of the followers. I drifted further right near the end than intended, but then I had a stone wall to guide me to the hill-mass, which gave me a confident attack. I hestitated for only a few seconds on the trail/ridgeline to invert contours back to accurate and dive into the control, and was indeed surprised to see Will there.

I did some armchair contour inversion exercises about a year ago where I intentionally imagined chunks of a map both ways - after a race where I had a contour inversion issue. As a result, I think, correctly re-inverting the contours mentally was much quicker this time than in the past.

27th Annual - Splits

Slightly up and down in fields (a little rough, but mowed to ~3 inches) at VF Mt. Joy.
290m+540m
1:10+2:15=3:25
1:18+?
1:14+2:16=3:30
1:18+2:07=3:25
1:11+2:11=3:22

Another easy day to rest my stuffy nose. Plan to do intervals tomorrow. Perhaps flattish grass, or compass-in-grass instead of hills, for variety.

Finally finished my analysis of the Pig... Most through I've done in some time. Main lessons:
(1) on 1:5000 maps, the cost of going around a 5m contour is much less even than on a 1:10 map...
(2) I've got to be more precise in my 'rough' compass, esp. when rushing on a Sprint event.

Ankle just in air, and it's fine later. L-foot actually hurt a bit early in today's run (in rough grass downhill), so I took the shoe off, and put it back on again, and it was mostly better. Odd. Maybe I should retire these shoes for a while...

Meant to be a 30 minute day, but didn't plan well.

At Willows in Radnor. Nice run, warm day. Still congested from Trials cold.

Same old home map, partial loop. Felt fine before, which is good given the 3 races in a row. R-knee a little sore after.

My L-foot is, thankfully, fine. I think I'll do ~90-120 minutes (still have a minor cold (mild sore throat & stuffy nose) - which I had during the Trials too) easy tomorrow, and save the intervals for Thursday.

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Just wrote up all my log entries for this year's Trials. I plan to draw routes, enter splits, and plan things to do better in my next run (the BillyGoat) tomorrow (although I should probably finish my taxes soon too...)