Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

Event: US Individual Championships (M/L/S)
 

7:20/km

US Champs Middle. Same old story of missed opportunity.

Splits

What went wrong: three 90s+ errors - ran right past 7 and ended up at 9; bad route choice to 11; confused in the rocks around 20. Two 15s errors - one rock too high at 6, one rock too low at 18. Hit a bit of a wall and bled time compared to J on the hill-climby 16-17-18 legs.

What went right: Fitness not as poor as I was expecting relative to the field given lack of recent training. Five top splits and four second place splits. Had a couple stretches of great orienteering - 1-5 (was apparently leading the race at 5) and 12-15, where I was moving well and navigating cleanly, but within my ability. My problem in general is that 95% of the time I'm unable to string these good stretches together into a full race.

C • Stringing together a full race 2

Blue Middle - Splits

Here are a couple of my longtime O' goals:

Win the Cascade Winter Series
Win an individual US championship

Accomplished the first one last month; will take another wild swing or three at the second one this weekend.

C • Goals 3

8:10/km

Night-O @ Lincoln Park.

As a rule I'm relatively awful at night orienteering, but this was one of my best efforts - main reason probably being that J fortuitously left his headlamp in my car last weekend, and his headlamp is way better than mine. Lost maybe 45s on 3 when I couldn't parse the small trails and had to bail out, and about a minute on 13 when I ran right by the feature without seeing the control (flag was somewhat hidden) - should have recognized where I was at. 7.5/15 top splits.