Training Log Archive: Nadim

Umstead State Park, NC. My warm-up consisted of rushing from the parking area to the start. I knew I was to start in 9 minutes but didn't know where the start was nor how far it might be. I hadn't seem Spike all weekend but had to rush away getting to the trail chasing streamers. I made it with about 3 minutes to spare. At my 9:49am start time it was around 40F with a breeze but it felt fine in just a short sleeve O-top.

US Team Fundraiser/BOK at Umstead State Park, NC. I guess the good night sleep and rushing to the start was a good combination. I ran pretty well throughout this event. This surprised me. It was much longer than anything I've done in a while and since recovering from being sick last. I had a slight bobble at #1, a hesitation at #2, a slight error at #11 (to be explained later), and was caught not planning ahead to cross the creek before #13 like most of us. Other than these, I ran fairly clean. My route choices turned out not to always to be optimal but were good for my orienteering abilities. The run let me move-up into second place for the weekend in the M45+ class. I had the fastest M45+ time and perhaps the 5th fastest time on the course (that I know of). My error at #11 was partly due to equipment failure. Right at the start as I tried to stuff my control description into my arm holder, the holder broke. I was able to wedge the paper between the split holder anyway but the paper fell out somewhere between #10 and #11. When I reached #11 without error, I discovered the loss of control descriptions and read the code off the map. The problem was that I mentally was thinking that I was at #12 so I read the code for that and concluded that this control wasn't mine. I lost a minute for this. See the Split List.

Umstead State Park, NC. Peggy was supposed to pickup controls while I watched Max but since she had injured herself, we switched. I got 5 controls in the north part of the park, 3 of which were from the Blue course and 2 of which were probably from the Orange course. One of these was a water control. I was tired on this run. Carrying the bag for the controls, e-punches and control stands made me more wary of my navigation. Two of the Blue controls were a bit tricky. I hit their #2 control well but on a short leg to their #3 control I missed a little. I was hesitant on both of these to trust my direction. Had I just done that I would have hit them both better.

Day 2: Red M - Splits