First A-race ever! I ran the brown course and did fairly well for my first A-meet. I definitely made some bad mistakes, mainly on control 1 and the worst on control 3. It was great being able to run off-trail as i dont get much practice with that here in washington. Some things i need to improve on are slowing down and reading the map more carefully at the beginning and my compass bearings. I definetly got some great practice navigatin off contours and vegetation rather than trails like i usually have to. I really liked this and it actually went really well!
Did the 2 advanced practice courses at the interscholastics junior training. The first one was a compass practice course and I have to say that i need to work on my compass skills...there were a couple of points that i messed up on pretty bad. The second course was a memory-o which i really liked...my biggest mistake was when i tried to change my route by memory after i had already left the map. Eventually i had to just go back to the power lines and go with the original route i planned. Took both of the practice courses fairly easy because of races the next 2 days. I would definitely like to do more memory-o's for training and i need to work with my compass bearing accuracy.
Longest I've run in a long time. Took it pretty slow, very hilly route though...through downtown, up around walmart and OC then back down Finn Hill through downtown and up through potsmokers
Mile test in PE today, maximum time 10 minutes. Took it somewhat easy because we had a hard workout in track today: 6:55 + jogging a 5th lap for extra credit.
Running intervals 30:00 [5]
6X4 min intervals at tempo pace, 1 min rest in between. Ran around the middle school field/track, legs/lungs felt a little tired but kept a fairly steady pace throughout