Training Log Archive: bigE

To school, testing my arch again. Booked an appointment with sports clinic for monday. We'll see what they say.

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Tested my legs, all though I am still somewhat sick.

Think I'm getting sick...

Drinking and sleeping lots.

Actual course time was 2:16:09 but approx. 10 minutes of control 10 I spent picking a multitude of burs off of my body.

More analysis to follow...

Course 8 Long - Splits

Event: Québec Championships
 

Lac Beauchamp by Jeff. Great course, really well done! I had a good race too.

Another great course by Randy. Wasn't as fast as the middle but still an ok race.

Course 8 Middle - Splits

Course 3 Sprint - Splits

Trial run with my new Asics. Been having arch problems for the last two weeks. The new shoes seem to have resolved the problem. I expect I'll be back to usual volume by next week.

Good run to school.

A great race, 17 seconds off second and 1:39 behind Eddie. My biggest mistake was only one minute where I was off my bearing, reoriented and then missed the control. I was trying to find control# 12 and the feature was a shallow re-entrant in a particularly topographically complex area. I suspected I was in the right place but could not see the control until I noticed Francis taking the control behind me.

I have made similar mistakes before. I believe it is a combination of low contact level and not looking around carefully enough. When I am loosing contact, I start to read the map more and thus look around less. I look at my map first when reorienting but when inside the control circle, perhaps this is not the best method.

I made two mistakes on the course. The first at #3 where I must have run past the control, only to turn around in absolute certainty that I was at the right feature and spot it behind me. The second at #12. Does this happen as often to everyone else?

Sometimes I wonder if I look at my map too much in these instances. When the feature itself is harder to detect (#3 was between shallow hills, #12 was a shallow reentrant), it is possible to run by these features without being certain of what they actually are. In both cases I'm almost certain I ran within 5 meters of the control without seeing it. If I did not have my nose in the map as much, especially when approaching the center of the control circle in subtle terrain, I'd be more likely to spot the flag.

I am reminded of something Magnus once told us: Every time you look at your map, you should take away something new. This is perhaps something I could work on. Often I find myself looking at my map clarifying what I interpreted the last time but also taking in new details. Especially precision orienteering when intensive map reading is necessary.

C • nose in map 1

Ok race all though I felt unfocused for the first 3 controls. Serves me right for staying up Thursday night. I had maybe 5 minutes of mistakes however I was pleased with the speed that I re-oriented, bailing quickly and not wandering.

Event: UNO Boulder Dash