Training Log Archive: Danish Dynamite

A good finish to a good week of racing. Altogether it was a pretty clean race, I made a few mistakes, like on the 2nd last control where I was confused on which feature it was on and and kept running around the green vegetation when I should have cut in. Other than that I made a few small bobbles due to trying to push hard and race through the woods, rather then focus on orienteering when others had taken a slightly more direct route choice. I also found myself being pulled off my route choice occasionally by others. I had pretty good compass bearings which I have been trying to improve and also good flow in and out of the checkpoints due to planning ahead.

The race didn't start out too great, my legs were sore and on top of that I made a mistake on the first checkpoint mistaking the re-entrant to the right for the one the checkpoint was in. I had really good smooth routes to 3 and 4 but after that I began loose myself. All the other controls I kept messing up in some way or another, typically because I was trying to simplify a map that already was missing some of the details in the terrain and on top of that I never really adjusted to the scale some distances seeming bigger then others in real life on the map. I felt fairly good with control 11, all the way up the final attackpoint where I lost a whole bunch of minutes because the vegetation was off, and it look like there was another slight pit or re-entrant to the right. All together it was a pretty depressing first long, but I did have a few strengths; relocation, on compass bearings I was improving looking up and far immediately, and I also kept with the course no matter how badly I was doing until I thought I have reached the 3 hour limit.

Long C9 - Splits

I felt that today's race went great. My goals had been to run harder than usual, which I did (even though there's still room for improvement, partially since my legs were sore beforehand), and to use the control descriptions. Not doing this resulted in a small mistake early on where I went to the wrong side of the wall, but I ended up learning from this and checking control descriptions on some of the checkpoints on walls or fences later on in the race.

C • sprint 2

Sprint C5 - Splits