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Tuesday Apr 29, 2014 #
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Travel day to Uppsala.
After making such a suggestion to Hayden, I decided to review my relay race and see what I could understand about my errors.
- I was probably running too hard out of the start. I managed to make up some ground on ebone, but I burned myself out a bit in the early step.
- Control 4: I turned back too early when I didn't see the earth bank. I was looking for the trail junction, but didn't see it. A better plan would have been to leave the trail after either hitting the crossing trail or some distance (pace counting? intuition?) and running low, where I could have run at full speed with full confidence that I would see the flag. Uncertainty cost me at least 30 seconds.
- Control 8: Had I not run into Eddie, I probably would have run high, since I thought that was fastest. Particularly in a relay, I shouldn't be afraid of running with someone. There are no bonus points for out-foxing your opponent with a clever route choice, which almost always fails. Pick the fastest way, and throw the hammer down.
- I chose a bad route choice to 11, but I executed it ok. I faded physically and mentally over the second half of the race, and I need to train harder so that I have sufficient reservoirs of stamina and concentration to push to the end. The green was also demoralizing, especially in the control picky section at the end.
- Run faster.
After making such a suggestion to Hayden, I decided to review my relay race and see what I could understand about my errors.
- I was probably running too hard out of the start. I managed to make up some ground on ebone, but I burned myself out a bit in the early step.
- Control 4: I turned back too early when I didn't see the earth bank. I was looking for the trail junction, but didn't see it. A better plan would have been to leave the trail after either hitting the crossing trail or some distance (pace counting? intuition?) and running low, where I could have run at full speed with full confidence that I would see the flag. Uncertainty cost me at least 30 seconds.
- Control 8: Had I not run into Eddie, I probably would have run high, since I thought that was fastest. Particularly in a relay, I shouldn't be afraid of running with someone. There are no bonus points for out-foxing your opponent with a clever route choice, which almost always fails. Pick the fastest way, and throw the hammer down.
- I chose a bad route choice to 11, but I executed it ok. I faded physically and mentally over the second half of the race, and I need to train harder so that I have sufficient reservoirs of stamina and concentration to push to the end. The green was also demoralizing, especially in the control picky section at the end.
- Run faster.