Training Log Archive: oxensd

Day 2 of Troll Cup, weather changed to 40s and rain. Much better conditions for me! The red course was significantly more technical which made for a fun race. The 395m climb felt less brutal than yesterday's 368.

#1 started with a 94 meter climb including steps up the cliff, according to my GPS. Could have avoided about 10m climb by taking the E path from start which Wyatt advocated. Sloppy on the attack, saw a control and ran for it but not mine, realized what happened and found it quickly. Don't think I lost more than 1 minute on the attack, but I was probably slower than most up the cliff.

#2 was pretty fast as was #3. Angelica Riley caught up with me around 2 (started two minutes behind me) complaining she couldn't see because her glasses kept fogging. We were pretty evenly matched for the rest of the course.

#4 was great once up the hill on the indistinct path, attack worked well as the green area by the control was distinct.

#5 was fast along the path and #6 was a water control (not needed today, plenty of rain in the air!)

Slight wobble on #7 attack, drifted slightly right, 30s.

#8 plan was to stay high but drifted about 3 contours too low from the outset which set me up for the error to come...crossed the path and thought I was up by the cliffs 100m WNW, then just past the second stream made a second parallel error by thinking I was by the cliffs 130m almost due W, crossed the third stream 150m SE of where I thought we (Angelica was equally confused!) were, and not much made sense. Realized we must be too low SE of the control and went up and found it fairly quickly. 4 minutes (?)

#9 was fine, came a little high on the attack but no time lost. #10 was easy.

#11 I drifted too low, not paying attention to the contour lines and lost 15m vertical which my legs weren't happy about making up. Having gone that low I probably should have ignored the path and instead cross to the second large reentrant, but brain was too tired to switch plans.

#12 was very fast and fun downhill, pretty hard to miss due to the prominent reentrants.

#13 elected to stay on the path rounding the big hill to the N, pretty sure that was faster than rounding it to the S and having to run along a pretty steep slope.

#14 to finish, Angelica had been behind me to 13 however somehow got ahead of me to 14, but I managed to sprint past her to the finish. Great race!

Really enjoyed today, fairly clean run except for the drift on #8.

Map and GPS here:
http://www.oxenstierna.com/davidoxenstierna/orient...

RedY2 - Splits

Event: Troll Cup and Junior National Champs
 

First time ar Mt. Tom and signed up for red/M45. Had I known the punishing terrain and competition I might have gone green instead...

Two mistakes, maybe 6.5 minutes total. #2 went straight from the path but got confused by multiple reentrants and small streams, one or two not on the map, went too low and ended up at the last stream before the path, and doubled back. 3 mins.

#8 with brain too tired after major 130m climb from #7, veered left, didn't read the contours correctly, and made a nice parallel error resulting in rounding the swamp. 3.5 mins.

Probably lost a little on way to #4 by coming down too low for the path in the middle.

More or less spiked everything else. Route choice to #11 might on second glance be wrong, I went for the road but probably running along the swamp would have been faster.

This was a tough course physically, more than even the 370m climb indicates. Not sure why exactly, I didn't have legs today even though my treadmill times are materially better than last year. Walked on many of the uphills, and pretty slow on several of the downhills as well.

Map and GPS:
http://www.oxenstierna.com/davidoxenstierna/orient...

RedY1 Day 1 - Splits