Training Log Archive: mintore

Green course, 5.65km

Technically, a more challenging course than I have run recently, due to good setting, rather intricate terrain in places, controls being set to be out of view until you were there, and the omnipresent push of honeysuckle. My legs could have used a bit of freshness (too much weekend warrioring and not enough paying during the week) but most of my loss was in errors. Some were sleepy; I lost 20 s on #12 going down from the knoll with a stand for another course rather than the obvious up. Others I couldn't quite figure out until I looked at my garmin track. On C7, I had intended to go close to C1 and swing across. When I cut in at the slight indentation in the lawn next to the road, I knew I was early but thought knowing would allow me to continue on. The honeysuckle punted me slightly left that had me biting into the small reentrants on the east end of the ridge and it took forever to move far enough west (at least 4 min error). The ruined fence, as Mike aptly pointed out, would have been a simple attackpoint. So, now I am tasked with writing "Choose APs better" a thousand times! Overall, most of the legs were ok and I was definitely happy to have given it a go.

OCIN_Mitchell_Feb_2014_5 Green - Splits

Event: ICO Yellowwood
 

Yellowwood long red set by Mike G. and Jerry Lyons.

Fun but really hard work with the climb. On several legs, particularly in the second half, I chose to go long rather than down & up because I just didn't want to go up hill. Basically, I need to get some exercise that helps with hills. My navigation was pretty solid however this was partially because technically the course was moderate; some red legs, some orange legs and Yellowwood feels like home. Overran two legs and a couple of smallish diversions totalling about 5-7 min of lost time. My garmin had little charge remaining so I left it off so I would at least have a watch. Probably my distance was about 10.5 k and climb 375 m with route choice.

The goat-like mass start was an interesting choice for the meet. A positive side effect was that all of the runners had a chance to see each other finish and then hang out at the picnic table with friends to talk about their runs. A very beautiful day to be an orienteer!

Clearing 8 controls; this drained what remained of my energy. Home to a pot of spaghetti to get rested for tomorrow.

With the help of dersu, OJoy, Aragorn, cii099me, and Frank, all of the controls were out and people on the road by 4:15.

Red - Splits

A warm dry day for a jog.

random hills; 9%/9.2 mph max

My knee is feeling better; it might correlate with using a roller 1-2x daily.

1 set