Training Log Archive: cmorse

Event: OCIN Flying Pig XX
 

Walked a local permanent course with Hayden to stretch the legs after 16 hours in car....

Didn't start watch until control 5. Have to develop a new start process that includes starting watch in call up line... Fun course, some bobbles, 3rd M50 I think.

First group of controls in an area of tricky diffuse vegetation with vague edge definition. Maintained control and hit everything cleanly, moving into first overall on green by the time I hit open ground after 5. Picked up the pace for a few, the headed into the 2nd group of controls but got a little cocky and chose direct routes rather than safer, but only nominally longer routes involving trails. And paid the price by missing a few in this section, not huge booms, but in sprint even a few seconds hurts. Then another series of longer open legs for the final campus cluster. Had to slow down frequently to read whether planted areas were mapped uncrossable or not, some were, some weren't. So some speed sacrificed for navigational accuracy to make sure a DSQ didn't snag me. But they weren't monitoring so that was wasted effort. Also kind of sucked that the finish was directly behind a planted area that WAS out of bounds but more than half the folks finishing from that direction stormed right through it while others such as myself slowed to read that detail and then ran around the garden, costing a few seconds on the finish sprint. Moving the finish 10M or so would have eliminated the temptation to run through the bed and allowed everyone a legal, full out finish sprint. Oh well...

8 fastest splits - woot!!

#8 [-1m12s] misread trails, cut in right after 1st instead of 2nd trail, hunted in wrong spot, then backed out and came at it from trail.

#9 [-12s] - exited the woods slightly R of straight line, crested ridge too far R and had to correct

#13 [-1m9s] pulled R by whiter woods, hit open field, hesitated, then went N to flag

#14 [-32s] vegetation rather vague, lots of linear depressions, still rattled from bobble on #13

#21 [-7s] didn't look closely enough at the map, couldn't see enclosure at first as it was in shade of building in otherwise bright open area. Stopped completely to look at map

C • finish 1

Flying_Pig_2016_Friday_Sprint_9 Green - Splits

Well... 4 zeros... Haven't posted more than a pair since before Thanksgiving. But 4 months of off season have been good. Weight is down under 170#, and I've run plenty of quality miles over the past 4 months. Hitting the road for Cincinnati with Hayden within the hour. I feel ready, but time will tell...

C • So .... 1

35F, overcast. Nothing special, just an easy jaunt keeping HR below level 3.

42F, overcast. Got to Stratton Brook with Hayden and realized I forgot my shoes. So ran both courses in holey, bald Hokas with peeling soles - not so good for sidehilling on steep slopes. Decent run, only major problem was on 16 where I hit the depression feature spot on, didn't see flag in the pine saplings and decided I needed to look for a smaller depression to the left. Didn't go too far before decided I must have been correct to begin with and turned back to grab it. Good enough for top spot on the day, though I could have been faster/stronger on hills.

Elected to go out and do a 2nd course (yellow) for sprint training, but it was a full woods run so not quite the same. For some reason, leaving #5 I went straight into the woods, not a bad plan of action, but my brain went into daydream mode. I have no idea what i was thinking about, but it wasn't orienteering. Found myself cruising along, passing some other folks, then looked to my left to see the rail trail & stream and asked myself what the hell I was doing down here, so far off my original plan. Easy correction back uphill to #6, but certainly the long way around. But still clear of the next best split by 1:48. Good for another 'win', but that really wasn't the point of running this course. Legs pleasantly thrashed afterwards. Started watch late, stopped late so track is whacked.

Red - Splits

Yellow - Splits