Training Log Archive: Danish Dynamite

Event: The Eliminator Adventure Run
 

In general the first race and a half went pretty poorly. There were a few good legs but for the most part I wasn't too focused on orienteering and very rushed and not in control when orienteering. I started to get into orienteering for 3 legs on the 2nd map in the box and then started running without a real plan, so I screwed up hitting a different large depression and lost over 10 minutes. From there on though it went well, I took a few seconds at each control to check my route but I was also no longer pushing the speed.

C • Rocky Ridge 3

Final x-league at some park I've never been to. Got them all and almost a minute over time so 490 points. Made a few mistakes out there but overall it went alright. The biggest mistake was about two minutes on this green hillside looking for the control. It all stemmed from being lazy and not bothering to check I was leaving from the right point from a park/grass clearing. So just a very stupid mistake, easy to correct. Only got to run hard the last few controls/dog bones, when it opened up and it was actually possible to read your map, run hard, and not trip/impale yourself on some branches in the darkness.

A very brief warm-up and at the end picking up controls.

Finnish Sprint map

Ran from my house through the trails, which were very muddy at times. Decided I'd where shorts today (probably still couldn't have waited on this), legs seized up in the beginning but I slowly picked up the pace through out the run until the last two kilometers where I was running a bit slower then a cross country race pace. GPS watch wouldn't load to garmin connect but probably around 100m of climb.

Slow jog on the roads to cool down, and don't feel like running hard on pavement if I don't have to.

looking at some Finnish maps

Event: UKR Gators O Cup #5 Starkey Hills North
 

Warm up and cool down

Great course and forest today. The first leg 6 legs went well, the first was fairly sloppy and I also lost some time on the 6th control where I cut over to what I thought was a trail but turned out to be some clear cut line, when I left the trail I just didn't pay enough attention to the final details of the leg. Then lost a minute crossing into the box since I forgot about the mandatory crossing points. The box went fairly well other then a few times where I just wasn't focused enough as I was running and also lost some intensity. Final 7 controls I picked the intensity up significantly as I had to chance a few others, so I was orienteering at a pace I wasn't reading all the details and a bit sloppy because of that. Especially in more complex terrain like this I need to look for big features I can use at the beginning of a leg and narrow in my focus as the leg goes on. Altogether fun race

After my cool down I just ran the last few legs again at a slower pace