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Training Log Archive: biggins

In the 11 days ending Jul 25, 2011:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m				load
orienteering	14	15:28:48	55.18	(16:50)	88.8	(10:28)	1474	220 /	242c	90%	2315.4
hiking	2	2:00:00	6.0		9.66		500				180.0
run	6	1:00:25	5.29	(11:26)	8.51	(7:06)	37				111.8
Total	16	18:29:13	66.47		106.97		2011	220 /	242c	90%	2607.2
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Monday Jul 25, 2011 #

10 AM

orienteering 53:55 **** 3.38 km (15:59 / km)
ahr:105 max:151 spiked:18/18c

HPP training day that Brent was cool enough to let me mooch onto. Three part course on War Eagle, of control picking then window-o then line-o. Detailed rocky terrain, thick pine trees in some places, more open in others.

2 PM

orienteering 1:05:23 **** 4.65 km (14:03 / km)
ahr:120 max:156 spiked:18/18c

Afternoon 'flow' training on the other side of the map. Thick and trashy woods, and some dodgy cliffs to play around. Got lost a lot, so there wasn't too much flow going on.

Sunday Jul 24, 2011 #

10 AM

run warm up/down 8:12 [1] 1.02 km (8:03 / km)

orienteering race 58:26 [3] **** 4.5 km (12:59 / km) +260m 10:04 / km
spiked:6/17c

COC Middle / WRE
Crazy contour terrain, very steep with lots of holes. I had a lot of trouble making sense of how things were mapped, usually with how the map used point depressions and knolls. Lots of mistakes, and also a few legs I actually did correctly but then didn't see the control in all the thick stuff. quickroute. Check out my awesome routes to 3 and 11.

1 PM

orienteering 25:18 [1] **** 2.23 km (11:19 / km)
spiked:8/9c

Reran the first half while they were doing awards. Much better this time, the morning practice race was quite helpful.

COC Middle (WRE) Course 10 - Splits

Saturday Jul 23, 2011 #

10 AM

run warm up/down 9:09 1.37 km (6:41 / km) +8m 6:30 / km
ahr:129 max:158

orienteering race 1:47:17 *** 14.56 km (7:22 / km)
ahr:153 max:168 spiked:31/31c

COC Long
Fun and technical sandy terrain, with thick trees mixed with open dunes mixed with normal forest. A huge slog leg up some open sand that seemed unnecessary, but was pretty fun to come back down. Caught up with Severin on the first couple controls and we were back and forth for the whole rest of the course. quickroute.

run warm up/down 11 [1] 0.01 km (13:06 / km)

COC Long Course 10 - Splits

Friday Jul 22, 2011 #

6 PM

run warm up/down 8:21 [1] 1.41 km (5:56 / km) +15m 5:38 / km

run warm up/down 9:41 [1] 1.38 km (7:00 / km) +14m 6:40 / km

orienteering race 16:45 [5] *** 3.0 km (5:35 / km) +53m 5:08 / km
spiked:15/17c

COC Sprint / WRE
Pleasantly fun, not really what I was expecting for the terrain. More open and flat and fast than last weekend and the training week, and enough contour/vegetation detail to make it interesting.

COC Sprint (WRE) Course 5 - Splits

Thursday Jul 21, 2011 #

10 AM

orienteering 1:22:04 *** 4.53 km (18:06 / km) +58m 17:01 / km
ahr:100 max:175 spiked:10/10c

Compass / aiming off training on Miles Canyon. Two guys from yesterday, plus a new guy from the lower group. We're not so good with bearings.

C • Yukon orienteering 12

1 PM

orienteering 1:07:04 *** 7.61 km (8:49 / km)
ahr:127 max:155 spiked:7/7c

Star relay to end the Junior Camp. I was paired up with Terrance, so I got to not only run my two legs but also shadow him on his two legs. Made a few mistakes on my two, and possibly did some controls out of order, but I'll never tell.

Wednesday Jul 20, 2011 #

11 AM

orienteering 1:07:17 **** 3.18 km (21:10 / km) +77m 18:53 / km
ahr:100 max:144 spiked:11/11c

Same two guys, and we went out to Long Lake and did a contour only course through some gnarly negative terrain. We got lost a few times, but in general did fine with a little prompting. Raining really hard today, but between the three of us we used enough deet that the mosquitoes were not a problem.

orienteering 30:00 [3] **** 1.5 km (20:00 / km)

Went right back out for a relocation exercise, in the same area but with full maps this time. I ran somewhere really fast while they weren't allowed to look at the map, then they had to relocate and find a control from the morning.

6 PM

orienteering 13:40 *** 2.5 km (5:28 / km) +4m 5:26 / km
ahr:154 max:164 spiked:14/15c

Sprint relay, lap 1, running with a junior. Got a wee bit lost coming into the arena field, but before that was all good.

orienteering 9:06 *** 1.7 km (5:21 / km) +4m 5:17 / km
ahr:153 max:164 spiked:12/12c

Lap 3. I rocked it.

Tuesday Jul 19, 2011 #

11 AM

orienteering 1:24:37 *** 6.3 km (13:25 / km) +136m 12:07 / km
ahr:112 max:146 spiked:17/17c

Day 1 of the junior training camp, which I somehow got suckered into coaching for. We went back out to the middle terrain from Saturday, and the kids ran the next harder course while we shadowed. I had two guys (Reid and Roan) in M16, so we ran the M20 course, which was a bunch harder but they still did fine. Lots of trails, and we ran together and stopped a lot to make sure we were in the right spot. Raining a lot, and cold and miserable, and lots of mosquitoes, but you know, it's Canada.

orienteering 55:25 *** 3.61 km (15:21 / km) +67m 14:02 / km
ahr:114 max:149 spiked:8/8c

For the afternoon we went up the road to a biathlon range, where there were lots of trails around some rolly terrain, and did the red/yellow/green light speed game. Still raining, but at least there were even more mosquitoes out by now.

Monday Jul 18, 2011 #

10 AM

run warm up/down 7:09 [3] 1.15 km (6:13 / km)

orienteering race 17:10 *** 3.19 km (5:23 / km) +50m 5:00 / km
ahr:149 max:168 spiked:12/12c

Western Canadian champs sprint. Mostly forest, lots of trails, and one long leg through a neighborhood. Had a really clean run, everything showed up where it was supposed to, and I was running as fast as I go the whole time.

4 PM

hiking 1:00:00 [2]

Afternoon hike up Grey Mt with all sorts of people. Little rainy, but not too cold. Good views down onto Whitehorse.

WCOC Sprint Course 5 - Splits

Sunday Jul 17, 2011 #

10 AM

run warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)

orienteering race 2:12:00 [3] *** 16.4 km (8:03 / km) +550m 6:54 / km
spiked:15/20c

Western Canadian Champs Long at Long Lake
A couple epic mistakes, and a few long trail legs (enough for +4.5k on the straight line distance). quickroute. I really did go to #3. The long leg to 6 was actually nicely executed, as were 7-9. 10 was a trail slog, 12 was a nicely planned hard leg that messed up lots of people, or at least those of us that haven't figured out what the semi-open bits are. 15 was, in general, a disaster. Not only did I get way too far south through the green at the beginning, but then I ran past it on the top of the hill, cut down to the trail above it, cut down and ran right past it in the right reentrant, and finally came all the way back to hit it. Plus I'd already seen the control on 9-10. No so optimal. But the whole thing was pretty fun, to the extent that I'm allowed to enjoy long courses and thick terrain.

WCOC Long (WRE) Course 10 - Splits

Saturday Jul 16, 2011 #

Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships

10 AM

run warm up/down 7:42 1.16 km (6:37 / km)
ahr:118 max:128

orienteering race 43:21 *** 5.96 km (7:16 / km) +215m 6:10 / km
ahr:149 max:170 spiked:18/20c

Western Canadian Champs middle. Not the bestest run ever, with a couple solid mistakes where stuff just didn't make sense. Woods were pretty nice though, except for the ground which is that springy moss stuff, which isn't so good for my poor busted knee.

quickroute, after much fiddling. something doesn't line up somewhere.

WCOC Middle Course 10 - Splits

Friday Jul 15, 2011 #

12 PM

hiking 1:00:00 [1] 6.0 mi (10:00 / mi) +500m 7:57 / mi

Hike up Sheep Creek, looking for bighorn sheep, or grizzly bears, or ideally grizzly bears eating bighorn sheep. Sadly we saw none of the above. It wasn't raining though, and we were only in the clouds for the top end of it.

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