Training Log Archive: Kseniya

Red 2:
thankfully much better woods and visibility but still shitty orienteering on my part.
started out really well, no rushing, reading the map and concentrating thoroughly. plus i was confident, which is something i was working on before this event.
so i was going in to 8 fine, crossing the road where i should be crossing it, getting slightly distracted by Paul R. who asked me somehting but going into the woods a little further than i should have and basically coming back to the road and attacking the control fine (the map was sort of sketchy in this area though). after this everything just went downhill for me, my focus and concentration were gone. Tom caught up to me on 8 and since i could keep up wtih him physically i let him lead me for the rest of the course. I did try to not follow him blatantly and take diff. route choices but I was really out of from that point ( I was going to 13 thinking i was going to 8 from 9 ye.. :) so even my efforts of doing something on my own failed.
I don't know what caused this mental block but maybe it's the combination of a big mistake and distraction by fellow competitors ( in fact, i know i get distracted easily so will need to work on that )

Overall, I was expecting more from myself this weekend, preparing for it well both physically and psychologically. I was obviosly not ready enough.

on the positive note though, it was a fun weekend, Boris visiting US to kick some ass, and me, having my first beer legally :)
I now have more O' skills that i need to improve on, which is always nice. despite many many mistakes that i had, the controls that i did ok on had decent times among f21 so i'm satisfied with that esp. since the competition was so tough this weekend (also very nice).

Day 2 Red Y - Splits

Red 1 WRE (first world points for me, hopefully)

Pretty bad race overall. these woods were awful, green and deadfall everywhere. got caught in those thorny vines quite a few times acquiring nice bloody battle wounds.
about my orienteering;
started out positive but already making mistakes on 1, 2 b/c i'm not reading the map as closely as i should have. Meeting up with Sam on 2 who started 8-10? min before me. I know I prefer O-ing by myself but it was hard to resist running harder to stay with Sam. So more mistakes followed 6, major blow on 7 (going too low but thinking i was already in the right ditch). i probably gave up mentally after that and was tired of fighting through the green so not orienteering well for the rest of the course. bad route choice to 9 going straight (so stupid), past 10, confused on 13....
anyway, its been a while since i was soo glad to be finished with a course. I honestly did not enjoy these woods.

my ankle was hurting quite a bit after i finished (front left side); i don't remember twisting it majorly on the course, but maybe some minor twists plus bad footing accounted for this bruising and swelling, which only appeared after day 2 run.

Day 1 Red Y - Splits

Event: US Champs
 

great motivational run, even a few dozen puddles didn't bother me :)

nice session at school pool after taking a super easy phys chem exam.. joke. haha..
about 1800 total.

awesome run, haven't had one of these in a while, def stress relief.
60C, sunny, cleaveland park (cruising back by westvill ave on slight downhill), extra hills were included and stomach pains shut out by 30min.