Training Log Archive: bishop22

Red course at DVOA Fox Chaser / Interscholastic Champs at Fair Hill. Very fast terrain, but I made enough mistakes to wind up with a mediocre performance. Lost over a minute on the first control, even though a trail led me to within 30m of the flag. Another mental mistake cost me over 3 minutes on C7 when I didn't see the obvious and easy to use attack point that was 50m from the flag.

Started to run well, and picked up the fastest splits on 10 & 13, but then hit a rough patch where I overran controls 15 and 18. Did rally for a pretty strong finish: top 10 splits on Red for the last 4 controls (finished 22 of 58). Enough mistakes to finish 2:21 behind Rob.

Chelsea had a great first solo run, finishing right in the middle of the pack in the high school JV competition (16 of 30). She actually beat me by 3 seconds on the final sprint (even though I ran quite hard) and beat Nate by 6 seconds. Nate and Zach had strong performances.

Truly pathetic performance. Made an error of over 2 minutes on C4 - didn't check compass and only did "rough map reading" (not a good combination). Saw Wyatt just ahead for the next few controls, but lost sight of him leaving C8. Crossed a small trail and hit a large trail, as planned, but it wasn't the correct large trail, and I ran off the map just before I realized I wasn't in the right spot. Took quite some time to get back on the map and relocate (back near C8, in fact) and so I lost over 8 minutes on the leg. At least I was not inclined to run too hard, with another race tomorrow.

Mostly w/up before the main race, but a little jogging before and after the sprint.

Red - Day1 - Splits