Training Log Archive: TomN

U.S. Nationals Middle course at St. Patrick's Park. A couple of small mistakes, first on #7, I tried to cut the corner on the trail going in, but ended up running up the escarpment to the trail on top. Lost 40 seconds there. On #10 in the small reentrant, I didn't want to go south of it and miss it, so I aimed off to the north . . . way too far. I hit the reentrant, but it was filled with fallen logs and branches on the way down to the control. Turned out the straight line had good visibility. Lost a minute there. But I made one good decision, running to the right around the lake to #5, and arrived there at the same time as Dave Hunter who started ahead of me and went left. It was drizzling during my run, and I got pretty wet but kept my glasses on and they stayed clear.

Soubpone had a great run and was 1:20 ahead of me, and Steve T. just a minute behind. The three of us divided up the top splits pretty evenly.

Friday_Middle_St_Patricks_CP_Oct_2018_5 Brown B - Splits

Wolfeboro O-Ringen. Conveniently on my way from Hanover, ME to Boston. A nice event organized by Peter Goodwin. 4 short races at 3 venues around Wolfeboro, including the Goodwin property.

My orienteering got progressively worse as the day went on. I started out paying close attention and thinking everything through, and by the end I was just pointing and running. That didn't work out well. Also, I know I have trouble transitioning between different kinds of terrain, and I made mistakes in the sprint on the school grounds when the course went into the woods. Need to be more alert to those problems, because they can surely be anticipated.

I came back from Maine with a variety of minor physical problems. A painful heel crack, a sore knee, a pulled muscle in the ribcage. The pulled muscle was from a slip and near fall on wet granite ledges near the top of Puzzle Mountain. I jerked up and caught my balance but felt the ping under the ribs. It's been sore for a week, and I can't sleep on that side. The heel crack is a weird thing that I'v had only once before, after another stay in Maine. What could be the cause of that? Anyway, I superglued the sides together in an effort to keep it from widening but It's still pretty sore.