Training Log Archive: cmorse

Event: 2014 US Relay Champs and Intercollegiate Champs
 

Misc stretches, jogging etc before race

After getting handed a substantial lead by Neils, I proceeded to misread vegetation and pulled up short on the first control and lost a minute making sense of things. Took off hard from there and managed to elude chasers for 3-4 controls then slowly reeled in, first by 3 pointers then 6 pointers. Then proceeded to overshoot the short leg on 7 for another minute or so. Then the big error leaving #12 I got pulled a bit left and into a field on the edge of the map - got confused since most of the field was not shown and I thought I was in larger field to south - except vegetation didn't match. Lost a number of minutes before figuring things out. Then lost a shoe in the final cluster of controls but neglected to retie it and lost again leaving #15, just picked it up and carried it the rest of the way into the chute. Disappointed given the substantial lead I was handed, but even a cleaner run probably wouldn't have helped as Hayden also had some troubles on the anchor leg. But a lot of fun nonetheless, there should be more US relays, but just not enough critical mass to make it happen at less than national level.