Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

Jericho Beach Park

Totem Park farsta

Team Enger Management two-man relay. A pre-race high-stakes wager was entered into between the teams of Graeme/Kate, me/dad, and Tori/mom whereby the losing team would buy ice cream for the winners, while the middle team would be unaffected. I started out the final leg in second, and eventually was able to close the gap on Graeme to ~8-10s, only to run 30m right past a control in my excitement (even worse, as I retraced back to said control, I was passed by Jourdan - gah!). So we had to concede the win to Graeme and Kate, but at least were able to claim the neutral spot.

Jericho Elite Male - Splits

Totem Farsta Elite Male - Splits

Event: Vancouver Sprint Camp
 

Queen Elizabeth Park

Queen Elizabeth Elite Male - Splits

Knee is feeling a lot better! I've acquired and have been experimenting with an impressive arsenal of support devices, which seem to have helped. Or maybe just placeboed me - I'm cool with it either way.

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Not sure how but today I annihilated my previous evening PR by, like, five minutes - no doubt partially due to low traffic volume and hitting a lot of lights. Might not be able to run for crap right now but I seem to be in good cycling shape! Beautiful afternoon - too warm for gloves, face cover, or outer layers.

For lack of somewhere else to go, rode ye olde commute route from days of yore; don't have the numbers in front of me but I think I was near or better than both my old PRs, and probably shattered two or three of my mile PRs - mainly the climbing miles. Weird.

Now that the Winter Series is complete, let's revisit the prospective storylines laid out back in November, and compare with how things went:

Will it be a clean Kiwi sweep?
Short answer: No. Our erstwhile Kiwis only raced twice, as they were out of town for three events, and somehow got conned into course-setting two others. Had they qualified, a sweep would've been entirely plausible, as their combined four scores were 1, 2, 2, 5.

Will Heather make a triumphant return?
Yes...for a fleeting moment. Heather won the first three events handily, then unfortunately was re-injured and may be done orienteering for good. A sad day.

Will the King of the Winter Series reclaim his throne?
Short answer: No. Though the Bonesaw led the standings early, he was ultimately undone by a combination of a fourth-place finish and an unfortunate tendency toward not bothering to show up.

Will the Portlanders throw any wrenches into proceedings?
Short answer: No. Only one total appearance from them - an Abra McNair fourth place at the first event of the season.

So, clearly a season of dramatic and unforeseen developments. We see that most of the prepackaged narratives ended up being non-starters (as prepackaged narratives tend to be). However, that won't stop us from dishing out some fun-spirited, totally gratuitous and in no way official or meaningful awards:

Comeback of the Year Awards go to: Heather Fourie, Nikolay Nachev.

Comet of the Year Awards go to: Rebecca Jensen, Eric Jones.

Commemorative Jourdan Harvey One-Hit Wonder Awards (formerly known as the W[ho]TF Do They Think They Are Awards) go to: Dusty Caseria, Nina Potrebich.

Course Setter of the Year Awards go to: Jourdan Harvey, Celia Schofield.

HUOC (House Un-American Orienteers Committee) Awards go to: Peteris Ledins, Ing Uhlin.

Lifetime Achievement Award goes to: Heather Fourie.

Newcomer of the Year Awards go to: Evan Derickson, Linnea Nasman.

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