Training Log Archive: Tyrannosaurus

Beautiful run in Whistler, with some great thimbleberry picking stops.

Mount Brunswick, just north of Vancouver. It's one of the coast mountains, so this hike was essentially a climb straight up. Not really a pleasant hike, to be honest. Too steep, and we were in the trees for so long. Once we got up to the top, the clouds were rolled in and there was no view. A bummer, but we did get to see some of the water and islands once we descended a little bit. We ran on the flats, which wasn't a great idea with my hiking boots unfortunately.

Up and down the middle fork snoqualmie river with my parents. A pretty chill ride, although I forgot how sore biking makes your butt if you haven't been riding. It was a little bit painful from yesterday's ride.

Fun ride with the whole family

Snow lake with a squad. We were going slow, but lots of fun, and I somehow hadn't done this before

Barefoot with the sis since mg bag didn't make it in. It's expected to be delivered by 1am tonight. You can bet that I won't be awake to find out if they're on time

Rreze's obliques x2

Travel day! Riga -> Oslo -> Keflavik -> Seattle
In Keflavik as this is written, chomping on some dinner? lunch? some sort of fuel, at any rate.

C • Oranges 1

This race was somewhat frustrating for me. It was essentially a running race, and I've been in Latvia for 2 weeks, training for an orienteering race. I almost feel like I would have been better off had I been simply doing the physical training rather than being on maps with much more technicality than this one. I guess I knew this race wasn't going to be too technical, but I expected more than what we got.
I'm also frustrated with myself for mentally relaxing -- when Giacomo handed over to me, more than 3.5 minutes had passed since the team before us went out. I knew there was no way I could make up that gap, so I let myself slip out of the racing mentality. Placing-wise, it didn't make a difference, but hello? it's the world championships, and I'm here to race. Not having the right mentality is a problem.
Orienteering-wise, things went pretty okay. My focuses were to have a plan for the entire next leg, and to know my exit. Did that. One mistake after 5, going on the wrong side of the wall, but I realized what I did pretty quickly. Estimating 10 seconds lost there. I might not have made the best route choices, but I'll analyze those later.
*later = now
1. Went right, left was faster. Never even considered it.
2. Went way right. Probably the same as the more S-ing right.
3. Right. Only option.
4. Right. Only option.
5. Went right. Left maybe faster? Would have seen my exit out of 5 at least, and not messed that up.
6. The straight snaking route. Went S around the building at the end, N might have been faster.
7. Straight.
8. Straight.
9. Straight.
10. Straight.
11. Went left, right was definitely shorter. Whoops. I'm not very good at judging obvious distances when I'm tired, apparently.
12. Straight.
13. Right. Only option.
14. Went left, again right was pretty clearly shorter.
15. Went left, probably best route.
16. Straight.
17. Took the right-ish, snaking route, back south out of 16. Best route.
18. Straight.
19. Went left, looks like right was better.
20. Straight.
Ha 9/20 legs had route choices. Swell. Although I didn't do too well at picking the best one.
Although I'm frustrated, I'm not dwelling on this. I have bigger and better things to think about (NAOC anyone?!), and it's been a good time here in Latvia. I travel to Seattle home tomorrow, chill for a couple days, and then it's pedal to the metal to Whitehorse.
Control Challenge: 573 total

C • Sprint relay 1

C • Driving? 7

Event: WOC 2018 - Latvia
 

Pre-spectating shakeout run. Not enough sleep last night, or the night before. A nap is on the agenda.

Model map. Also, new blog post!
Map soon
Control Challenge: 553 total