Training Log Archive: emilyr

So the Canadian Orienteering Champs are now 8 and a bit weeks away... I should probably start to do some running if I want the long to be fun. Fortunately, school is hopefully a little less crazy now (and I'm over half way for participant recruitment--yay!).

I think a realistic goal is to try to run 3 times a week and do one strength session a week (+ some physio strength). I may try to use this as a rough guide: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/racing/rws-8-week-10...

So, to start it off on this sunny Monday, I ran an easy 4km along the Sea Wall. I was also blissfully unaware that I had accidentally emailed someone to thank them for their aggression instead of suggestion (thanks autocorrect!). Oh dear.

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Mostly glute and core stuff plus 2 minutes of calf stretching.

Event: Sage Stomp
 

Setting controls on the trails the morning of.

Picking up controls. Very thankful for lots of people pitching in. No one seemed to want to get the far away ones in the technical, thick parts of the woods though for some reason (hah), so I went to grab those.

Overall, I think the event went okay. There was just under 100 starts, with 5 courses. It was my first time course planning for any event besides the very low key weeknight trainings. There were two issues with my course design that I would have changed (like a poor go control choice for my elite course which caused some confusion and not getting to vet one control site which proved to be in a very poorly mapped area). However, considering all the other things that went wrong in the few days preceding the event and life for the past month and a half, I'm just glad it was done. It is a little disheartening when people mostly mention the few small things they didn't like immediately at the end, but I could only do what I could do (and putting in 25+ hours into this on top of an already stressful for other reasons week was already too much).

I think people mostly enjoyed the courses. They were perhaps just a little bit too long. A lot of people said they were tough, but this is one of the few maps in Vancouver that you can do something technical with, and I thought it would be a shame to waste it, especially after many of the club members just did a technical training camp in Whistler last weekend. A lot of people who don't normally sign up for elite did, which resulted in some very long finish times, but I can't really do much about that as the winning time was about 1 hour and 6 minutes, which was close to what I was aiming for.

I certainly have even more appreciation for all the effort that people put in to put on orienteering events. And I was very appreciative of all the other people that helped out and put in work to get this done because I certainly could not have done it on my own.

My longstanding calf/ankle injury seems to have been very aggravated by this weekend. Walking (and running) is a little painful with each step. I did bruise my arch by landing on a stick or rock, which I'm sure is not helping. Hopefully it'll die down before Sage Stomp this weekend.

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Setting controls with Ben. Having 44 controls was perhaps a little ambitious.

Checking control locations for my WJR. I ran out of time near the end as I didn't want to get locked in when they closed the gate at 9pm.