Training Log Archive: Wyatt

The amount of concentration required to get through this forest cleanly was extremely high. Losing contact was immediately costly in terms of hesitation, and often greener routes as contact was recovered - you had to hit the whiter gaps to be fast... And for many, and myself once, losing contact completely often resulted in a very hard to recover from situation. Relocation was very challenging w/o very strictly listening to your compass, and reading ditches and many contours carefully.

About 12 minutes lost - really poor w.r.t. goal cleanliness, plus vs. Will H. & Mike Smith. But vs. the rest of the US competition I got a reprieve as we all did poorly. We, as a whole team, need to help each other get better at doing this terrain right the first time, something that many of us did much better on the 2nd day.

More later.

Decent warm up & down. Down thanks to Will who got both me and Eddie to do a bit of a cooldown loop with him.

Part of AJ's Day 1 White shadow. He did good, but walked by a control off the trail in the forest, then didn't quite come back enough during 20 minutes of more through searching near the trail. He was really, really sad to DNF. "I give up!" he said and sat down to cry in the middle of the trail. It took a lot of talking to him about how amazing it is he's even trying this course AND that he's trying do an effectively Yellow (M13-14) level course at age 6. That 13-14 year old course which he could do some of at least cheered him up, and by the end, he'd decided to get 6 and 9, and follow a yellow line back. Plus we could count how many meters high hills were by guessing, and by counting contours (which he hasn't learned yet.)

Day 1 Blue - Splits