Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Barebones WRE Middle - very tricky map for me to read - lots of very small bumpy contour details in a thick and rocky forest, that had to be generalized, and I couldn't quite navigate that well in the tricky parts. Magnus Arvidsson did very well, beating me by 4 minutes despite having 4 mistakes totaling 3 minutes.vs my 2 mistakes totaling 2 minutes, according to WinSplits. He apparently moves fast, and navigates well in this semi-thick, semi-rocky technically hard terrain.

Apparently this was the most Norway-WOC relevant event of the whole NAOF, so it's perhaps good that I'm not WOC'ing this year... :)

Warmup on the model map, and cooldown running Course 1. Beautiful area for a Sprint (Whister Village).

A very careful run a the Whistler Village Sprint was navigationally successful with the largest error at 15 seconds, but I was a combination of too hestitantly careful in reading the map and too weak on my running, to place very well, despite the clean run. Beaten a full 4 minutes by Patrick who ran a very good race.

Event: Barebones 2010
 

Barebones, Day 1, a Long event. I was still feeling tired from 8 races in previous 12 days, it was pretty hot, and there were 6 days in a row of Barebones races, so I decided to take this day as a long slow run. Worked okay on the first half, but the forest was thick and rough, and I got tired of pushing through it at the map exchange, and just jogged back from there.

Rest/travel day between SAGE & Barebones. Mined about 50 fossils at McAbee - many leaves, and two fish found by AJ. Got to Riverside Campground, which turned out to be walk-in, with a lot of mosquito's. Ran after 9pm while Angelica was putting the kids to bed. Legs pretty dead.

Wasn't really into this race either mentally, or physically. Still gave it a reasonable effort, but the 1st control site was rather dicey so I'd already lost time by # 1.

Event: SAGE
 

A nice little Sprint around TRU in west Kamloops. Well set course with lots of detail, direction and terrain change esp. given the relatively small area and North American city planning. Looks even better than the JWOC F20 sprint, at least based on the simple run-around-squares GPS track in Cristina's log...

Was still feeling quite beat up physically from two weekends of 3-day-hard racing, so too this relatively easy, and just focused on being technically as perfect as possible. Was rather exhausted mentally by the end from trying to read every clue and enter/exit every control perfectly, avoiding walls and olive-green, but the mental focus paid off with a 3rd place finish out of about 25 in M21 - seems like a much better performance than in either the US or NAOC Sprint at this more technical-hard, running-moderate tradeoff level.

Definitely my best result of the summer technically, though intentionally wasn't racing hard, so not a great race yet... I will have to run one of the Barebones events at full race pace effort if possible

Warmup, and some cooldown with Oriana on her course - she was doing pretty well technically, after quite a bit of map study at the control, incl. some north reminders, she ran all the way to about half of the bags w/o so much as a second look at the map, and it was an unusual-for-her Sprint map of a college campus.

Easy loop around Revelstoke in late evening. R-hamstring sore in spots on/off during drive and feels like a bit of a lump in there, but holding up okay given the racing load. R-IT @ knee rather tweaked during today's run. Odd. Maybe the Sprint, or sleeping funny, or sitting too much in the car, or failing to do the appropriate stretches for a long time.. :)

I have to say that I really liked the NAOC event announcing & color commentary by Balter & Vlad, though I didn't really take the brunt of any of the particularly harsh comments...