Training Log Archive: Danish Dynamite

Event: UKR Gators O Cup #5 Starkey Hills North
 

Warm up and cool down

Great course and forest today. The first leg 6 legs went well, the first was fairly sloppy and I also lost some time on the 6th control where I cut over to what I thought was a trail but turned out to be some clear cut line, when I left the trail I just didn't pay enough attention to the final details of the leg. Then lost a minute crossing into the box since I forgot about the mandatory crossing points. The box went fairly well other then a few times where I just wasn't focused enough as I was running and also lost some intensity. Final 7 controls I picked the intensity up significantly as I had to chance a few others, so I was orienteering at a pace I wasn't reading all the details and a bit sloppy because of that. Especially in more complex terrain like this I need to look for big features I can use at the beginning of a leg and narrow in my focus as the leg goes on. Altogether fun race

After my cool down I just ran the last few legs again at a slower pace

SMT this morning with Trav, Hadron, and almaggedon. Ran hard on the hills and some relatively flat sections picked up the pace too. Similar distance to what Hadron logs, sadly not my finest attempt at k2..

6 pump house loops and then running back up to the parking lot. Something I struggle with is pushing to my limit when I'm running in races, since I don't have a background in sports like a lot of others. For example I don't think I've ever gotten close to my limit in a sprint or even some cross country races. So I'd like to make this my goal to become far better at pushing myself in races for this summer. I'm thinking when track starts off I'll go for the 1500m because you are more or less sprinting it and I imagine it will be easier to get sucked into a more comfortable pace in the 3000m.

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Ended up deciding to go mountain biking today. The trails were muddy as you would expect, but turns out there was still a lot of thick sheets of ice covering the trails. Ended up bailing to the rail trail which had a minimal amount of ice until the trail center and then have of the time I was on ice. After learning that biking on ice does not end well, I stayed on the edge/ditch/forest of the trail. Anywhere it was possible to bike fast, I would go hard but that was limited. Also turns out I have to fix my bike as the chain would keep popping/slipping as soon as I encountered a muddy hill or anything that requires more force.

Biking with Noah afterwards