Training Log Archive: pi

Long race in pretty straight forward valley/ridge terrain with very open forest. Dropped 3 minutes at control 5, which was very vague and almost everyone that had that control had some sort of trouble. Otherwise no problems, except not being able to run faster. Second again after Oystein, about 8 minutes today.

Warm-up/cool-down.

Middle distance in an old gold mining area. Very detailed hillsides with strange knolls and re-entrants. Lost about a minute on the first control. Came up just next to it, but did not spot the flag below me in a sharp re-entrant. Ran up to trail and hit it again and saw it this time. Also a big 3 minute mistake at 4, missed just to the right after misreading a small re-entrant and then it was impossible to relocate. Came out in an open area past the control with some rock and had to go back. Then another 1 minute mistake at 11, where I failed to check compass and ended up to the left.

Second place, but a nasty 10 minutes behind Oystein. Not good. But comparing splits I kept up to him on at least 8 of the legs and beat him on 2. If I have a 10 second hesitation, then I'm 10 seconds behind. If I have a little hook, another 20 seconds are lost. It adds up. When I have clean legs I have the same speed, but he has 25 clean legs and I have 8.

Warm-up/cool-down.

Event: 2009 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival
 

Gold Rush Sprint at Boise University Campus. Tricky first two controls and then lots of decisions about which way to run around a building. Pretty easy stuff, but had two little bobbles that cost about 20 seconds in total. 12 seconds behind Oystein was an ok result.

Warm-up/cool-down.

Test run of blue middle distance course at Spooner Lake in Nevada, east side of Lake Tahoe. Nice pine forest with great rock features, but a bit too steep to make the terrain pleasant. Fun!

WET at Cates Park. Some interesting rout choice. Fast running.

Baden Powell and then Dream Weaver, a trail that crossed Mosquito Creek at the 650 m elevation point. The terrain got too steep and wild to call it running, so turned around. Fast and technical on the way back down home.