Training Log Archive: El Chucko

JWOC Relay. Pretty decent race. I was tired after a week of racing so couldn't run fast but my ankle held up well after yesterday. Made about 7 minutes of mistakes/questionable route choices. Team Canada was disqualified after Fraser mispunched. 4th North American out of 9, behind Marty, Mike and Robbie A. Our team lost to USA A and got beaten by Japan, but beat USA B.

JWOC Middle Distance B Final. Finished 37/65, 3rd North American out of 9 behind Mike and Robbie A. I was satisfied with this race as I made no mistakes over 1 minute but I did make a few small ones totalling about 3 minutes 45 seconds. Much better than yesterday. About 1/3 of the way through I rolled my ankle pretty badly and spent about 30 seconds squirming on the ground. I got up to walk to the finish but was pleasantly surprised to be able to put weight on it so I finished the course at about 90 percent. I will be able to run tomorrow though Scott will not as he reaggrivated his ankle injury. Fraser will run 1st, Robbie 2nd and Me anchor.

JWOC Middle Qualification. Was not very sharp at all and was losing time at almost every control. Not too bad until 13, where I made a 3.5 minute mistake. Lost about 9 minutes total time due to mistakes. Finished 36/43 in my heat, well outside the A final. Not happy with this race, but could have been worse

Rest day. We rented bikes at the Western Plains Zoo and went on a rampage.

warmup for long distance

JWOC long distance race. Came 99/128, respectable but not superb. Started off with a dumb 4.5 minute mistake on control 2 and then forced myself to slow down and really focus on the map after that and I was fairly clean until the final 2km loop where I was just exhausted and made a couple 30s mistakes as well as a 1 min and a 3 min one. Made about 11.5 minutes of pure navigational mistakes, but I lost a lot of time due to not having much speed for the last half of the course and by really having to slow down, almost excessively, to read the map in parts. 5th North American finisher, behind Mike, Scott, Robbie and Marty. Did not have the legs for the fastest finish split, finishing 2 seconds behind in the sprint and a massive 6 seconds behind in the Long. Pehaps I can bring the heat in the Middle races?