Training Log Archive: Danish Dynamite

Event: 2017 Boston Sprint Camp
 

X-league (score-o) with dog bones, twice I forgot to get the final segment of the dog bone and kept running to the next ones, so had to go back, get control, and rerun. Other then that I just tried to treat urban orienteering like a forest race and actually pick out key features I can use.

Ran from gruppetto to Mcmaster university

16 courses around the driving park between 200 - 500m. Suppose to be a relay but I just ran one and took a minute rest before the next. Just focused flowing through the control and picking my exits.

Leg excercises

Originally meant to do 6 of the loops from the field at mcmaster where you go down the trail and run around the perimeter of the field (had a 1.25 - 1.5 minutes rest) ...but was feeling pretty terrible so skipped the last one and did an interval on ravine road from the bridge to gate.

Made two major mistakes today, both were from running on trails. The trails on the map weren't obvious and paired with less focus on the trails I'd miss a few turns, and the high water didn't help relocating making marshes out of lower points. In general once I lost contact instead of stopping to quickly relocate I would push on and get lost. The first time I caught Robbie and made the mistake of letting him influence my route choice. Other then that went fairly well, as I was thumbing along, knew where I was and at times I knew what features I was looking for but a sloppiness to it and hesitated too much.

1st leg of relay

2nd leg of relay (well 3rd for the team)

Ran out after Robbie and Alex to do a 3rd leg even though my team had finished. Had the two shorter forkings earlier, but for a few controls didn't have a good plan leaving the control and just running very impulsively and sloppy

Hidden Meadows LA - Splits