Training Log Archive: norvan

Even though the weekend comprised of crappy weather and crappy orienteering on my part, realized that i have much to work on. The weekend was quite humbling. Coach Griz and Hammer offered some insight and there was good discussion on a number of items and areas to improve. Good weekend with the boys which made up for disappointing runs. Still a young pup in this sport. Will take another stab at more A meets in the future. On a high note i finally got O-shoes at the meet. They would have been valuable for the weekend, most likely test them out at the Hard Rock this weekend - Undecided if i'm going at this point.

C • Chin up! 7

Day 2 WP. Just a bad day. DNF or DFL by others. The weather was better, visibility was so much farther than yesterday. Should have capitalized and ran better but halfway through the course i somehow overshot control 8 and never ever recovered. 40mins trying to relocated. After finding it i punched and went home. Frustrated, tired and not mentally into it at that point. Would have been fun to finish the course, the other legs weren't bad. Just a major f*%$-up on my part. I still can't figure out how i missed the catching feature.

Warm-up with the Griz. Nice garbage fill run with a dose of deer carcus to boot!

Event: West Point
 

Started off on the wrong foot the first day. Missed the start time due to a number of reasons which lead to no focus from the start. Combination of Rain and Fog made things very interesting since visibility was almost nil in some areas. Pretty much bobbled around all morning with significant erros on the majority of controls. 4th in the Category.

Sprint. After finishing the Classic went right out and did the sprint. Bad idea since i was pretty tired already. Again lack of concentration and overshot the 2nd control. The middle and killer climb at the end finished me off, also should have attacked 14 better. Hammer looked like a mountain goat and just flew up that hill.

School-O control pickup with Strack-Attack.

Ancaster Creek Score-O. Skipped 3, probably would have gotten them if i attacked other controls cleaner. No real big problem but wasted some time trying to cross the creek and finding the ribbons (really need a different colour for me like yellow or blue) a couple times the ribbon was flying right in front of me.

Going to be a couple of really late nites before West Point to "try" to finish a paper for friday. Hopefully that won't totally kill me for the weekend. I like sleep.

C • West Point 1