Training Log Archive: Anna

planned rest.

All of my races were far from perfect, but HUGE confidence-boost from where I was before. I'd guess I had no errors over 5 minutes, and I corrected myself pretty well when I wasn't where I thought I was. One parallel error today was the closest I got to panicking. Overall, I also understood the rocks a lot better than I thought I would.

C • Great that you can jump in ... 1

kept the running to a minimum. actually less than a minimum:)

First F-21+ Long ever!!! The goal was to survive, which I did.

Alexei's advice to use my compass more helped a lot. During the middle I had trouble seeing things on the ground, and so when I didn't find something, I had a very vague idea of where I was. The compass narrowed things down a lot.

What I had the most trouble with was reading ahead. Not sure how much of a difference it made, but I was really super bad at that today. Peter pointed out that since I didn't have the fitness to run up the hills I should've been planning then. I agree. I think that if I'd been doing my armchair exercises I wouldn't have had this problem. (It was just hard to find the motivation to do them when I hadn't orienteered in so long.)

Speaking of trouble reading ahead, I didn't see the last 2 long legs until right before. Thinking I was almost done, I didn't eat my food at 13 like I'd planned, and I was super-tired and sluggish on the last part of the course. It was a struggle to keep moving and also concentrating.

Long Red - Splits

Event: West Point A-meet
 

First orienteering ever at West Point! I was super-worried it would go like my first time at Harriman, but it didn't:) I guess I've gotten more experienced since then.

Anyway, it was bad at the beginning. Afraid to read the rocks, and then couldn't read the stream/marsh, which was my "safe" plan. Alexei said there was nothing wrong with any of my first leg, but just felt bad because I didn't know what I was doing.

Also a very un-fun race because my shoes kept coming undone. (I'd thought that making lots of double knots would be good enough, but it wasn't.) Stopped to re-tie them on the hill to number 4, but they came undone again at 5. Figured it was better to run with them untied instead of re-tying them every control. This went okay until I ran through a marsh and had to stop to fish my shoe out of the mud. Did a pretty good job of not being distracted by them and not tripping over my shoelaces, but I couldn't really go down rocks very fast.

Overall, a lot of stopping to try to read things better. The bright side was that I never ran off without knowing where I was. So I think it was worth the time spent hesitating, because I used to have such a big problem with thoughtless running.

This was good practice for running with people, but 2 minutes lost on the first control was disappointing!!! I was going to the second paved spot and then looking for the control, but by the time I looked for the control I was already 50-100m too far! Yikes! If I'd been used to the scale I probably would've caught myself, but I definitely wasn't. The rest was better, except when I got out of contact with the map from focusing too much on catching Spike back. Also one slow route choice.

Middle Red - Splits

Sprint R/B - Splits

planned rest.

really tired and taking it easy to make sure my volume isn't too much. Ran to the transportation office to to get my metro pass.

Outing club replied back about the O' meet and sounded interested!!!!!!

C • WooHoo! 4

Disappointing workout, might log it later today.

4x200 w/ 200 rest, 5 min. rest, 3x600 w/ 300 rest

40
42
40
41

2:11
2:11
2:18

The first 600 was slow, the second one felt like death, and the third one I was struggling to finish. Uggh.

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