Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: WCOC New Haven Training Weekend
 

Jog to start of Line-O at Osbornedale. Decided to do the Line-O first since it required getting to a remote start, allowing some warm-up. Sunny but temps in the 30's and breezy all day.

Line-O training exercise at Osborndale. Did OK keeping on (or near) the line. Tough to tell which boulders were mapped and which were not. Mostly done at walk-jog pace.

Control picking exercise at Osborndale. Off line on one of the early controls. (Still adjusting to scale too. Line-O was 1:5000, control pick was 1:10000.) Misread details (didn't see a spur in complex area) on another. Tried to move at race speed. Fun exercise.

Compass and pace exercise. Control circles and connecting lines only. No map detail. Distance estimation was mostly good. Azimuth fairly close. Managed to spot the flags on the first try on all except one leg. While doing this exercise I was thinking "So this is why Boy Scouts don't like orienteering."

Sprint race at Yale University (shorter version - 3.0 km). Really fun course with lots of potential "traps". No flags or punches, only a 2" x 3" piece of magenta tape at each location. Lost about 3 minutes total. Nice map made by Becks in her spare time.

Short Sprint - Splits

Even though DST is in effect, at 35F and breezy I decided to tolerate the treadmill. 4 miles at ~9:00 pace.

Watched it snow outside while I ran inside. Treadmill after erging.

Row. ~3.3k. ~4:30/1000m avg pace.

Travel day, Charlotte to Albany. Saturday: 85F, sunny. Sunday: 65F, overcast. Monday am: 55F, overcast. Monday pm: 35F, slushy snow. Bad trend.

Red at GNC. Another mediocre run. Temperatures about 60 and overcast so much better running weather than yesterday. Messed up the first control (again). It was also the first conrtol on Yellow ('nuf said, although I don't think I'd have used it on a Yellow course). Navigated well for the next several controls, although a few of them were substantially just the reverse of some of yesterday's legs and one actually used the same control location approached slightly differently. There were parts of the map which were unused, so there's no reason that there had to be so much overlap. Drifted off line on two of the later controls and lost some significant time, probably a total of about 12 minutes on the whole course. First in M45. Competition a bit thin.

Did a faceplant just before #5. No significant damage since I landed on soft stuff, but my Forerunner stopped and I didn't restart it until #7, about 18 minutes later. Estimate I covered ~10 km. Course was described as 7.7km straight line distance with 280m of climb (counted on the straight line?).

Whereas yesterday's course was fine, today's course really needed some serious input from a controller (or at least a consultant). Many of today's controls were set as Orange level controls for some reason, although they still offered route choices. A couple of controls were dog-leggy (Green Y had a blatant dogleg). Control descriptions really needed some work (worst case had a rootstock circled and the description was "clearing, stream, north edge" - there was some yellow and a stream at the east edge of the control circle). End rant.

Red - Day 2 - Splits