Training Log Archive: EChild

Event: DVOA Fall Orienteering Festival
 

Up. Checked out the special symbols which was definitely a good decision, and quickly discovered that woods that looked bad were very bad. Avoid the nasty looking woods.

It was a fiarly good run, although I made one mistake where I thought I was to the left of the control but was actually to the right (probably lost 2-3 minutes), and another mistake where I decided to take a shortcut and skip part of a trail, but got sucked off to the left into some rocky green stuff and lost a lot of time trying to get back to the trail (1-2 minutes). Aside from that it was pretty clean, although I wasn't moving very fast. I only saw one person I thought was on my course (Zach Schroeder around my 17th control), but I never saw him again, so I didn't really feel the pressure. It did cause me to speed up a little, but I was close enough tot he end that it didn't make a significant difference. Overall, I'd say my greatest weakness today was speed.

Down

French Creek - Day 1 Blue - Splits

Erin said to shorten it a bit before DVOA, so I did.

Decided to run in a light long-sleeve shirt with gloves and a headband. Started out chilly, but eventually I could take off the headband and it felt like a pretty good temperature.

Started at a normal pace, perhaps even slightly slow, but finished going really fast.

Ran right after having breakfast, so it was quite slow.