Training Log Archive: AliC

Little post-flight run around Windsor Great Park (which contains the castle). Pretty sweet. Although legs were not too happy- I tried to do some ankle-plyometrics but my bum cramped. May not have hydrated enough on the plane!!!!

C • glad to know you are AOK in... 2

10 min abs + 1 min back, while listening to The Moth podcast- a story of an unlikely adventure to the all star game immediately after the baseball strike some number of decades ago...

Now flying to London, probably no training today, unless I decide to do some situps in either Salt Lake or JFK airports... but, just wanted to say, NAOCs was such a blast, I'm so glad I was convinced to go. Great terrain, great courses, and fun people everywhere!

This Bjorn Kjellstrom Cup competition is a neat aspect too, friendly, but gives you more team aspect than normal in orienteering. Thinking so many good luck thoughts for the US runners in the sprint today!!

Partly on the warmup map, partly just on trail, so logged as running. Becoming sunny, woo! Legs didn't feel too tired from yesterday.

C • Hey, really nice going this... 6

Another good one! Super psyched. 2nd place to Louise, just 38 seconds back. Sam just a minute or so behind- awesome to have such a close race between the 3 of us, lead definitely switched and each one of us won several legs!

Not very happy with the first 3, but got into a pretty good groove after those. For things I really had to consider a route choice, I did just take a chill pill, like Sandra suggested, made a plan, then ran. The two long legs went ok, but I lost about a minute to both Sam and Louise to 13- maybe this was just hesitation along the way? I don't see an obviously different better route...

I was really happy I dealt well with the 3 detailed controls in the cliffs right before the spectator- definitely required a change of pace in orienteering speed. Then was a bit off on my bearing to the spectator, which is always embarrassing, but whatever, then scared on the hill control right after. After that, basically running in!

Running back to the car to take off and try to make it back to Spokane before they charged me with an extra day's car rental- made it with 10 min to spare! Woo!

Event: North American Orienteering Championships
 

Good warm up on the warm-up map, unhappy about indistinctness of yellow in places, but hey, that's a good thing to notice before the start!

NAOC Middle

Woo! Got 3rd to Louise and Sandra!

Went steady through the more detailed controls at the beginning, staying in really good contact with the map. I think the ability to go faster through such detailed terrain will come with just more practice.

Then went pretty well through the easier controls on the second half, except for 12 where I overran after my attackpoint didn't materialize... at least I did stop not to long after when the hillside below me was totally featureless, then backtracked and found control.

All in all though, very happy! So much fun too! =)

Little warm down jog with Sandra after the race in the warm-up area.

Middle - Course 9W - Splits

NAOC Model

So Kseniya and I got in last night at what we thought was 10pm, but the time zone changed at some point from Spokane and was actually an hour later. We were running an hour late without knowing it all morning until we get to the model and they say last bus down at noon. Ok, so I have 1.5h, nope, they say, only 1/2 hour. Right.

So a quick foray into the model terrain, starting to get a feel for the mapping. Very nice to have this opportunity actually. Noted the vagueness of vegetation, what exactly light green meant. Those were probably the most important things.

NAOC Thomass event

Nice day, fun event. I got to skip 2 controls, but one of my two was a bad choice and I had to go up a bigger hill than necessary, oh well! Only really made 1 mistake, on the sprint that followed, ran way past #2. Then had a good battle with a fast older Norweigan woman for the rest of the way in. I didn't really want to push it, because I wanted fresh legs for tomorrow, but also hard not to be competitive... ended up beating her in just the final sprint. I wore just my running shoes which were not so ideal on the downhills.

Long sprint - Splits

Travel to NAOCs. Woke up at 3.35am after going to bed at midnight, not exactly ideal.... Also bummed to be not meeting up with Dan here in Minneapolis on my way as his flight from Phoenix was canceled last night. =( Oh well, flying is often wrought with changes-in-plan.

Last time doing ankle stuff at physio. Right ankle is way stronger, very happy to have put the time into it. Left ankle is still improving. The one muscle/tendon/ligament that is sore from having flipped it awhile ago, and then a few times since, is still sore, but definitely not as bad as it was...

To/from physio, this time straight to lunch- busy, busy!