Paddling 40:00 [2]
slept:4.0
Drills & Technique - Things to think about today:
1) Keep upper hand approximately the same distance from your chest as you rotate your body. That should give you room to extend as you go into position 4.
2) Plant the paddle and drive - like a pole vaulter.
3) Sit up straight, chin up, less side-to-side motion.
4) I should really get more than 4 hours sleep before a 6 a.m. paddling class.
Paddling 50:00 [4]
Intervals. Coach fooled me by running the class past 7:30, so I pushed really hard during what I thought was the last interval. We did a minute of slow backward paddling, which I thought was the start of the cooldown. Mmmmm, cooldown... Then suddenly we were back doing another 10-minute interval. Eeek! As usual, my glutes are more sore than anything else.
Orienteering race 25:51 [4] ***
Eliminator Sprint race at Spring Valley. I met a lost Sherpa around Control #5 (my partner for an upcoming rogaine and a recent grad of her 1st nav course). I decided to seize the teachable moment, so we stayed together until #10 while I explained different map symbols, what route I was choosing and why, what we could expect to see ahead, etc. I am totally NOT ready to be an O coach since I still have so much to learn myself, but I can already see that helping her to develop her skills is definitely going to help me with mine.
Orienteering 45:00 [1] ***
Skills course with the Sherpa. We were supposed to be doing the "golf" exercise where if you look at the map 3 times between controls, that's a par. Any more is a bogey, etc. Objective of exercise is to get into the habit of visualizing the terrain from the map, even though in a race situation, you would usually look at the map more often. We didn't do that this time - we spent our time identifying map features in the terrain, discussing merits of different routes, taking bearings, etc.