Training Log Archive: kweinmann

Pretty much the same as yesterday...

Partner contour only exercise with Addie. We took turns navigating to each control and talking aloud about what we were seeing. I still had trouble with all the little reentrants! Erin helped us find 3 and then told us to skip 4...the rest of the course was pretty easy and straightforward after that too.

Redemption from yesterday's complete failure! I messed up on 4 because I kind of zoned out and missed the junction on my map and in person somehow, but managed to go the wrong way. I realized pretty quickly and was able to correct easily, but then I started looking for the control on the spur too soon. I lost probably 2ish minutes on the leg. Then I had to stop for ~45s on the next leg to remove a spikey thing from the bottom of my shoe because I couldn't run on it...oh how I love Arizona terrain...

On the first loop I had to draw the course simplified and then run it with that map...it went pretty well except I didn't draw all of the reentrants on one control which kind of confused me. Then I did the second loop as a memory-O. This went really well, since I didn't have to look at my map at all between control points, although on one I was standing less than 10m from the pinflag and didn't see it and almost looked at my map.

Control pickup game again, I got 2 really easy controls...and I saw a reaallly giant cactus on my way. Took my time since we had a 30 minute time limit...unfortunately my team lost today

Partner compass training, the partner with a blank map led and the other partner with the full map was there in case something went very wrong. Switched every leg. My compass bearings were pretty accurate but I was overestimating distance so I kept looking for the control too early. I had to adjust my pace counting.

5 minute warm up and then about 20-25 minutes of agility exercises - ladders, small hurdles, and cutting between/around cones.

Did good on the first 3 controls and then completely messed up on 4. I finally found it by chance when I had decided to give up and go back but I didn't end up finishing the rest of my course...

Group relocation exercise. One person would lead the group close to the control and then give the rest of the group the map to relocate with and navigate to the control. We had a battle with cacti after the first point and were going pretty slow by the end...it was REALLY hot!

Control pick up game. I managed to get my assigned bonus control before Matej, and then found the 2 controls from my earlier course that I couldn't find going backwards. My team won the game too, yay! :)

Team score-O, I got all the points on the east side of the start. Really hot and dry made me feel really slow. I got back like 2 minutes late but Becky and I still won!