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Saturday Mar 11, 2017 #
8 AM
Orienteering 1:30:16 ** 9.97 km (9:03 / km) +373m 7:38 / km
ahr:150 max:168 spiked:12/12c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280
Vizsla Cup, Brown course.
Pretty ashamed of this "performance". This was a bit of an odd one for me in terms of where it fit in the training programme and I think that threw my whole run.
I was going to go and mentally prepared for the Megasprint Rallye (first day of the O-Marathon) which would have been a lot more technical and shorter, and completely different terrain. However, that just turned out not to fit the timing for the day (reaching my flight) so had to abandon that. At the same time, I wasn't going to have a hard run the day before the CompassSport Cup. This was well placed in reach of Budapest, but the course profile looked quite different to what I used to. With a lot of climb in it, I decided to take the running very easy and wanted to be precise.
Wel it looks like that is not how my mind works. I seem to not be able to disconnect physical intensity from mental intensity because I was all over the place, and in hindsight, I noticed that this is probably connected with the mindset where I just didn't mind spending time out there. For example, a number of times I was making a mistake, I stopped and spent a lot of time trying to figure out exactly where I was instead of running to a sure catching feature to relocate.
Several mapping inconsistencies did not help but to be fair this was just adding salt to injury and really wasn't the main cause of the vast majority of the time loss.
The terrain was also something that just didn't suit me. Very physical under foot, rocky, steep in places and brashings, so I was taking a lot of care of my ankles and that all cost time when out in those areas (which was the majority of time).
Most of the mistakes were actually due to imprecise compass bearings and just aiming roughly towards the controls or attack points, and of course what can you expect in that case... this.
Pretty ashamed of this "performance". This was a bit of an odd one for me in terms of where it fit in the training programme and I think that threw my whole run.
I was going to go and mentally prepared for the Megasprint Rallye (first day of the O-Marathon) which would have been a lot more technical and shorter, and completely different terrain. However, that just turned out not to fit the timing for the day (reaching my flight) so had to abandon that. At the same time, I wasn't going to have a hard run the day before the CompassSport Cup. This was well placed in reach of Budapest, but the course profile looked quite different to what I used to. With a lot of climb in it, I decided to take the running very easy and wanted to be precise.
Wel it looks like that is not how my mind works. I seem to not be able to disconnect physical intensity from mental intensity because I was all over the place, and in hindsight, I noticed that this is probably connected with the mindset where I just didn't mind spending time out there. For example, a number of times I was making a mistake, I stopped and spent a lot of time trying to figure out exactly where I was instead of running to a sure catching feature to relocate.
Several mapping inconsistencies did not help but to be fair this was just adding salt to injury and really wasn't the main cause of the vast majority of the time loss.
The terrain was also something that just didn't suit me. Very physical under foot, rocky, steep in places and brashings, so I was taking a lot of care of my ankles and that all cost time when out in those areas (which was the majority of time).
Most of the mistakes were actually due to imprecise compass bearings and just aiming roughly towards the controls or attack points, and of course what can you expect in that case... this.