Training Log Archive: ebone

Ran briskly to the start, warming up for day 2 of the U.S. Individual Championships. My legs felt pretty good while warming up. I almost lost the flagging of the marked route to the start, and I had to pause or retrace a few steps in a couple of instances to stay on the route. I ran fairly hard and arrived at the start with about 1:20 to go before my start time--plenty of time. ;-)

U.S. Individual Champs day 2 and World Ranking Event. I had a good run, only losing about 3 minutes (maybe a bit more if you count a couple of arguably suboptimal route choices), mostly after I caught Leif Anderson approaching #15 and subsequently began orienteering as if I was running only an intermediate difficulty course. My right foot and ankle, which had been bothering me the night before and in the morning before the race, stopped hurting once I warmed up. Again, the terrain, courses, and map were great! I think this gets my vote as the best U.S. Individual Champs I've been to.

U.S. Champs results (from http://www.forestrunner.com/orca/uschamps2005/day2...):
1 Y Sergei Zhyk 79 DVOA 1:12:59 1 1:27:02 2 2:40:01
2 Y Mikell Platt 58 RMOC 1:14:48 3 1:26:59 1 2:41:47
3 Y Eric Bone 74 COC 1:18:56 6 1:29:19 3 2:48:15
4 N Magnus Johansson 73 GVOC 1:13:26 2 1:37:10 11 2:50:36
5 Y Leif Anderson 85 SAMM 1:15:30 4 1:35:44 10 2:51:14
6 N Taavi Tatsi 78 L-US 1:18:13 5 1:33:59 7 2:52:12
7 Y William Hawkins 77 CSU 1:19:41 7 1:34:02 8 2:53:43
8 Y Dan Stoll-Hadayia 73 BAOC 1:25:15 9 1:30:54 5 2:56:09
9 Y Brian May 71 MNOC 1:25:23 11 1:31:25 6 2:56:48
10 Y Sergey Velichko 62 CTOC 1:27:32 12 1:30:09 4 2:57:41
11 Y Eddie Bergeron 69 SVO 1:22:23 8 1:41:52 14 3:04:15
12 Y Gregory Balter 63 DVOA 1:29:13 14 1:38:05 12 3:07:18
13 Y Syd Reader 72 BAOC 1:27:45 13 1:49:12 16 3:16:57
14 N Mats Müller OLG Basel 1:42:23 22 1:35:04 9 3:17:27
15 N Gabriel Lombriser OLG Basel 1:25:16 10 1:55:00 17 3:20:16
16 Y Randy Hall 65 NONE 1:33:02 17 1:48:10 15 3:21:12
17 N Mikkel Conradi 77 CSU 1:32:13 16 1:56:39 18 3:28:52
18 Y Thomas Carr 66 NTOA 1:29:46 15 2:04:34 20 3:34:20
19 Y Erik Osborn 74 OME 1:34:03 18 2:04:48 21 3:38:51
20 Y Nikolay Nachev 77 COC 1:40:40 21 1:59:26 19 3:40:06
21 Y Jonathan Campbell 74 CSU 1:34:44 19 2:07:38 23 3:42:22
22 Y Mark Prior 75 BAOC 1:56:20 26 2:05:31 22 4:01:51
23 Y Tor Gudmundsen 63 EWOC 1:45:54 23 2:33:47 26 4:19:41
24 Y JJ Cote 61 RMOC 2:16:32 28 2:28:55 25 4:45:27
25 Y Patrick Shannon 79 HVO 2:37:09 32 2:12:52 24 4:50:01
26 N Russell Neilson 79 BAOC 2:31:46 30 2:35:22 27 5:07:08
27 N Rex Winterbottom 74 BAOC 2:21:32 29 2:47:16 28 5:08:48
28 Y Barbara Bryant 62 NEOC 2:48:46 33 2:53:59 29 5:42:45

N Brian Fleming 83 NONE mp dnf
N Maricel Olaru 78 CAOC mp 1:39:35 13
N Mike Cummer 72 NONE mp ot
Y Bill Cusworth 67 COC 1:37:42 20 dnf
N Peter Graham 80 BAOC 2:02:57 27 ot
N Dave Russell 60 CROC 2:33:33 31 ot
N Tim Derrick 66 LAOC 1:46:25 24 dns
N Thomas Nipen 84 GVOC 1:53:37 25 dns

Warm up for day 1 of the U.S. Individual Orienteering Championships. I felt pretty good.

Ran U.S. Champs, day 1. I had a good run going until about control 18, and I lost about 4 minutes from that point to the finish, mostly in the subtle, forested lava field terrain. Still, my run was decent.

Blue - Splits

Blue - Splits

Ran to the U.S. Champs model event start and back.

Ran the U.S. Champs model event. I felt fairly good and ran decently, but with maybe a couple minutes lost time.

Warmed up for PNWOF relay at Lava Butte.

Ran PNWOF relay on a team with Bill Cusworth and Dana Breseman. We won the Junior category, thanks to Bill and Dana. I almost gave up our 2nd position (overall, behind an Open category team) by making about a 4-minute mistake on control #9, making a parallel error and stopping substantially short. Eddie, Thorsten, and Jon then caught up to me, and Eddie and I had a duel to the finish that I narrowly won.

Junior camp orienteering training at Lava Butte.

Brief warm-up for PNWOF sprint at COCC campus. I felt fairly good.

Ran PNWOF sprint at Central Oregon Community College campus in Bend, OR. I had a few mistakes for around a minute of total lost time, but no disasters. The course was fun, although it was mostly in the forest.

Very brief warm-up for the PNWOF middle distance race at Arnold Ice Cave.

First part of middle distance race at Arnold Ice Cave. I dropped out after control 7 (I think it was #7) because I was having some heart arhythmias--skipped beats--and I didn't want to chance dropping dead on the course or something. Normally, I would have waited for skipped beats to subside, but for these factors:
1. the skipped beats persisted for several minutes.
2. I had just had an apparently viral illness with severe flu-like body aches.
3. I had been under a great deal of stress preparing for the BEAST race on Monday.
4. I hadn't been eating or sleeping well lately (largely because of being busy preparing for the BEAST race).

On the plus side, I was having a strong run when I quit, having caught Eddie Bergeron early. I had a couple of mistakes under my belt, but nothing big.

After dropping out and walking for about 5-8 minutes, the skipped beats went away (or should I say, the beats came back?). From the main road, I saw Leif stopping to read his map on the way in to one of the controls.

Junior camp training at Arnold Ice Cave. We did some control picking in the most detailed area of the map, retrieving a few markers on the way back. My group did great, for yellow and orange course runners.

Sprint 1 (Long) - Splits

Test running BEAST race #4 orienteering course (although a modified version). I made a few map corrections and control/description notes as I went.

Setting course markers for the BEAST race #4 bike course.

Set controls for the beginning of the BEAST race #4 orienteering course.

Biking back and forth between the start/finish and the underwater orienteering test checkpoint.