Training Log Archive: jjcote

Event: 2006 North American Championships (Golden Leaf Orienteering Fest)
 

NA Champs sprint, McMaster University, M20. The notable "Pajamas Run". Late start, only four more after me, and only half of them passed me (Ken Walker and Mike Smith, 1 and 3 min respectively), and I held off Jeremy and Alan. Basically a completely clean run, just three hesitations: a control where I stopped in the circle and had to let my bouncing brain figure out which bush to look behind for the control, one where I stopped in front of the right doorway and took a couple of seconds to realize I had to look inside the doorway, and one where I paused at the beginning of the leg not knowing what to do because I couldn't see the tiny staircase on the map and couldn't figure out how to get into the courtyard where the control was. Wheezing some, which probably slowed down my running speed, but I didn't really lose any appreciable time to navigation errors.

C • Excellent! 1

Jogging back and forth on the road (with some faster bits) with Alan Young to warm up before the sprint.

Sprint 4 - Splits

Carried up to the 150' once, then rode the ATV for five more trips up to the 250'. Nice day in the morning, though in the afternoon it started blowing out of the east, and everybody was just sitting around on launch hoping it would switch. All of my flights were very nicely executed, albeit brief due to the conditions.

Morningside 450 x 3. Didn't do much carrying, and did a bunch of sitting around, so I figured I should do three trips to at least get some exercise. Felt pretty good. On the last descent I came down the grass -- cowabunga!