Training Log Archive: Elina B

Ran around the top soccer fields down the hill and around the softball fields at a fair pace, then up the hill at a faster tempo. 4x each hill took around 1 min 30 seconds. Was supposed to do 5 but am feeling the bumps and bruises from this weekend. Rest of the week is "easy" getting ready to crush the competition at counties.

Sprint Green Y
MP.. again a bit of a bummer but my time wasn't too great anyway. Went from 12-16.. No idea why. The 3 controls I missed were very close together so that probably played a part in it. I guess I was also trying to make up time for #8 which took me 6 min,, what the heck it should have taken me 30 seconds.
I really have to slow down my thoughts, they are always moving a hundred miles per hour when ever I get a bit mixed up, in turn killing me even more. The scale messed with me a bit too, things came up so fast...
I also now have an impressive and quite painful bruise on my knee from a fist sized rock that hit me, from where it came, I have no idea. Something funny though is that I was thinking the whole time 'don't skip a control. You've done it before.. today you will not..' - another chance to improve

C • Positive thoughts and safe ways 7

Relay (Woman's US Junior team 1)
Not that great, again #2 decided to screw me over. (Apparently I wasn't the only one that had trouble with it, Meg and Anna did too) Spent 8 minutes looking for it, running up and down the side of a hill looking for the stinking thing. I now see what I did, was looking to the left of it. Again tried to catch back up, and made no other mistakes but it messed me up. A really fun race though :) quite intense but good.

I've pinpointed some things I need to work on...
1) choosing better route choices (#2 in the long course) - I seem to always want to take the safe way, convincing myself that it will be faster than going the much shorter and maybe trickier route. I think that I won't make a mistake if I go the easy way. This brings me to my next area of improvement
2) being more confident (#2 in the long and sprint)- I always think if I don't take the easy way I will become hopelessly lost and will have to walk back to the finish in shame.. :) being more confident in my faster and maybe trickier route choices will drop my times a bunch.
3) Reading the map while moving- I can't do it!! things just blur together so I have to walk or stop. With some practice I'll get it, that can save me time too.
4)***Important- Making sure I don't skip controls- I've honestly done this 4 times already and it's quite annoying. I need to really look at my map when controls are near each other or i'm moving faster like in a sprint. It really sucks (even if I don't run great) downloading and seeing a bunch of blanks and a MP on the top of my splits

Anyway I had a great time. I really loved the courses and the woods. Nice to see so many juniors too and have time to talk about what we did. Quite different racing against so many people that are mostly older and better than me :)

Green Y (F 20) Long
Not the best run, #2 really killed me, trying to be safe and taking a ridiculous route choice back though the start (apperiantly I wasn't the only one to do this) everything else I got pretty fast, a few controls I was looking around for a bit but no other mistakes. I wish I could have raced yesterday, middle is my favorite and I had to get into the swing of things while racing... Nervous for tomorrow, RELAY iiiippp

GreenY Long - Splits

Spirit day workout!!! whooo (see what I did there, showing spirit)
again, not feeling too great, and the weather sucked

Event: 2012 North American Orienteering Championships
 

Victory 4 Loop..
I felt like a sack of potatoes,, legs not feeling fresh. But I still got a 2 min + PB

Jog to start

20 controls
Went to Polebrook Mt. with Erin, Andrew Childs, Anna and Aleck. Nice controls and no mistakes. Didn't spend a lot of time searching either which is good. :) nice to get out one last time before NAOC... Thanks to Erin for bringing us along

Quite rushed..got to Bear Mt. at 3:10, raced at 4:00 on the nose

League Meet against N. Rockland, Clarkstown S. & N.
Yes! another successful day :)
First of all got under 20! And second of all got 6 th place overall out of 58 and was our 5th girl.. That means I get to keep my varsity spot in counties, sections and so on. Was nervous because it was our whole team together and there is lots of competition for spots on varsity. Only thing that's a bit bumming is that I wasn't 5th, a N. Rockland girl got in-between Anna and I (yes Anna is back on top)... I'm really relieved and happy though :) another good one
Ohh and top 14 get plaques! Yay league champs