Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

Right ankle sore, left knee bruised up, shins scraped and battered. Newcastle Island is the type of terrain that just relentlessly beats hell out of you physically and mentally - it seems like every third or fourth step you're tripping, stumbling, or landing awkwardly, and it's very difficult to stay on a bearing because the vegetation pushes you around so much - but it makes all other terrains seem easy by comparison.

C • Freedom! 8

Newcastle Pan-Island Bush Orienteering World Championships, Day 2. Started off quite well for the first two controls, but rolled my janky right ankle four times in the span of about 15 minutes between 1 and 4, each time feeling the pain increase. Considered bailing but decided I could continue cautiously if I protected the ankle - don't need some stupid injury right now. It stopped hurting around 9-10 but I can feel it afterward.

Newcastle Pan-Island Bush Orienteering World Championships, Day 1. I came in with vague memories of swimming around in salal on my first trip here at age ~12, so I wasn't expecting much and was pleasantly surprised by the terrain. There was salal, but also nice white woods (to various degrees) and interesting rock detail. I did plenty of dumb stuff, some of which I'll claim was the map's fault (1, 6) and some of which was my fault (9, 14, 17), but also won a decent amount of splits.

C • Blue Jays Weekend 5

Left work at four on the dot to hustle home in time for Game 4, only to realize when I arrived that it started at six, not five. Rooting for the Cavs mainly because I'm a LeBron guy but also because more Finals basketball = better.

Event: 2017 Boston Sprint Camp
 

Wind-aided.