Training Log Archive: pi

COC Sprint. Amazing open forest with subtle hill and depression features. Small little hooks here and there, especially to the 1st and 4th control. Overall fairly smooth and good race, perhaps a bit conservative pace in favor of navigation. 7th place in M21E, but Graeme Rennie had a faster time than me in M20 and so did Brent L in M35. Great arena and it was intense to do the race announcing today!

COC Sprint (WRE) Course 5 - Splits

Hiked up King's Throne in Kluane. Very steep and the trail was lose gravel the whole way. This made the way down super tiring. So overall the hike was pretty tough. Was out there for 6 hours, logging 2.

HPP Fundraiser Relay. James paid $25 to run with me ;) 4 legs, each runner ran twice. Mass start was intense! Great little forked courses by Eric Kemp. Only mistake was to 12 on the first loop where I went too far left through the green and ending up at the wrong fork. Came in perhaps around 1 minute behind Will C? Second time out I was alone the whole way. Really fun!

WCOC Sprint. A course with longer legs and more route choice. Found a good route to 2 through the residential. Missed the faster route on the road to 6 and lost some seconds on that. Also lost some seconds to 10 with the wrong route. No control mistakes. Easy orienteering, a runner's course, so I was happy to be 5th again. There is some speed in the old legs...

WCOC Sprint Course 5 - Splits

WCOC Long WRE. 5th place, about 11 min behind Will C. Super nice arena in a park downtown Whitehorse. Finish chute was the bridge across the Yukon River. Tough, tough course and a great test for a WRE. Gnarly woods, most white was semi-light-green, running was slow and I got pushed off my bearings all the time. Lots of climb. Was slow in the first quarter of the course, but started to find better flow halfway on the long leg to 6. After that was steady with decent flow and good map contact until I lost a few minutes at 17 where I could not understand the clearing around the control. Probably lost a total of 4 to 5 minutes, but still felt fairly happy. Good training for the COCs next weekend ;)

WCOC Long (WRE) Course 10 - Splits

Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships
 

WCOC Middle in Whitehorse. Started an hour early so I could do the race announcing. It was really cool to run a championship course completely alone in the woods. First half of the course was intricate navigation small hills and depressions, should be my cup of tea, but I lost focus around control 4 and 5, losing probably 1:30 or so. No big mistakes for the rest of the way, but not fit enough on the very physical last loop. 7th place, almost 4 min behind Patrick G. Robbie and Eric K were not far behind Patrick, and those three were well ahead. I had about 1:30 up to 4th. I have to race myself into shape if I'm going to have any chance of a medal at the COC races!

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WCOC Middle Course 10 - Splits