Training Log Archive: pi

A really tough long distance race at Salmon la Sac. I had not had a clean race the entire week of racing at PNWOF, so I decided to do everything possible to be clean today. Ran conservatively and made many map stops to make sure I was on track. Executed this extremely well and ended up with no control mistakes at all. I probably did not always take the best route and walked all steep uphills. But I had energy at the end to think clearly and finish with no mistakes. Very happy with the race, but 10 minutes behind Oystein and Mike S beat me by 8 seconds...

Warm-up.

Long Blue - Splits

WRE Middle at Salmon La Sac. Very detailed and pretty steep terrain. I had a great time on the course. Really enjoyed it a lot. Lost some time at 8 as I was too low on the slope below it. Also ran too far on the trail to 9 and lost some time at 15 being too high on the slope. Very difficult and physical and no one had a clean race. I actually finished in 3rd, 5 minutes behind Oystein and 2 minutes behind Jonas Kjäll. Everyone else fast had too many mistakes.

Warm-up.

U.S. Middle Champs Blue - Splits

Sprint at Salmon La Sac. Great Scandinavian style terrain, with a bit more green than you would find back home. Really easy first few controls, but then a great section of control picking. Only dropped about 45 seconds on the way to 12, took the wrong trail and had to run back.

Warm-up.

Salmon Run Sprint 3 - Splits

Last leg of the fun relay on team GVOC2 (Oystein, Charlotte, Brian Poon and myself). I started well, but then got completely lost on the way to control 4, making one of the biggest parallel error on recent memory. Still came back first, because the others made large mistakes too.

Warm-up.

Goat in the desert. Started with pack running. Clem, Eric, Patrick, Oystein and myself. We all took off to 1, even though that was the best skip... The topo map section was really sketchy and I made a typical goat style mistake. The pack was slightly ahead of me and went right around a small hill. I went left and joined up with them on the other side. Only problem was that they punched control 6 behind the hill and I didn't realize until later. This meant that I used one of my skips for nothing and the others had both left. When we entered back onto the orienteering map, I let the pack go and I slowed down to a jog for the rest of the way home.

First sprint in Spokane. Fast forest with some good details. Pretty tricky and a bit weird with an old converted 1:10000 map. Made some mistakes, but so did everyone else. Really intense and fun race!

Second sprint. Short and super fast open forest. Was pretty clean on this one. About 40 seconds behind Patrick.

Warm-up.