Training Log Archive: Mihai

Warm up for the classic.Woke up this morning with headache and not feeling to hot and it showed in the race.

Rockhouse Mountain .Could not get anything to work today (physical & mental).Felt realy down,right from the start.just not in to it today.Of course did not make the TEAM either.

Blue - Splits

Warm up for the first day of US team trials.

First day at The US team trials.Not feeling 100%.

From finish to parking lot.

Blue - Splits

From finish to start.

Hammonds Rocks, rerun the SVO short Blue course,since I DNF'ed, at the meet,and the yesterday planed practice did'nt came out as planed.Splits today:1-3:26" ; 2-:51" ; 3-1:23" ; 4-1:02" ; 5-3:39" ; 6-1:09" ; 7-1:14" ; 8-1:38" ; 9-1:50" ; 10-4:10" ; 11-3:03" ; 12-1:10" ; 13-:33" ; 14-1:13" ; 15-5:09" ; 16-2:55" ; 17-1:54" ; 18-2:35" ; 19-:14" .Managed to miss # one again,then went carefull the rest of the course(that was the plan anyhow).Lost 2-3 mins. on the rest of the course as well.Good training sesion.

At Hammonds Rocks,short dist.type(middle lately).Orienteered to the features,no flags set out.I set a 5.2 km. course but after ~half way I'v got in an area where I could'nt match almost nothing from the map with the features in the terrain(mostly rock features) and some veg.I slowed down until I found myself just standing on the top of a big cliff,overlooking a substantial area and standing still,and could not discipher what the mapper wanted to reprezent.I walked for an hour trough the area(later on at home I noticed that I was al over a smal triangle shaped area mapped by Alexei Zuev),most of the area is overmapped(according to the IOF mapping rules and standards),but are some areas undermapped as well,( for example:a nice,verry vizible charcoal terrace,unmapped,tangent to a mapped cliff,some small cliffs,some boulders),a lot of inconsistencies in within the area as well with the rest of the map,mapped by Vladimir Zherdev,who looks like he knows his mapping stuff.Unlikely to be able to use this area to place controls there,even if it looks verry appealing(on paper looks verry similar with Rockhouse Mountain).I just wonder if Eddie and Brad are aware of this,since they were verry involved,with the mapping and the recent SVO A meet held there.Bytheway,this area is on both maps(hammonds roocks & kings gap).

Checked out (forced by circumstances) a smal triangular shaped area on the middle of the northern edge of Hammonds Rocks map,site of the recent SVO A meet.Lots of missmapped stuff ,mostly rock features(more than 50%)It looks like the area was field checked by Alexei Zuev.Verry inconsistent also.