Training Log Archive: Nadim

ROC: Webster Park, NY. After interesting presentations on GIS mapping and ski-O mapping in the OUSA convention, I got out to do some sprints. As I've been most of the week, the orienteering was being held too close to meal times. I skipped the mass start traininigs because of this but was still a little full. I started out running slower and hitting #1 okay but I mispunched at #2. I must have mistaken a mass start race control that was nearby and visible for the one nearby behind a tree. My split for #3 didn't register but I was sure that I went there. I hit the next few pretty well. I had a hesitation and slight change of direction going to #9, and looked too low at #10 before moving off and coming back. I ran toward #11 and was pretty sure my map was showing a control next to the playground, and then in to the finish. I downloaded and was told that I'd missed #2 and #3. At the time, I was pretty sure of going to these so my time got corrected. While resting, I saw Tom Svobodny finish just as I had so I never thought anything was wrong with my last two controls until I saw Peggy finishing her Sprint A. I'd turned-in my map by this time (so others could use it), but I was pretty sure my course was showing the Go control to be at the playground where I had punched. After doing my Sprint B, I realized that I had mispunched at #2 so I went and had my status changed to mispunch. I really would have liked to have kept the map I ran with to verify all of this but it's gone now. The maps we ran on were all a bit off--the printer being used had run out of yellow ink so all the green appeared as blue and some other colors were off.

Webster Park, NY. I was getting ready to go out on Sprint B but I hadn't seen Max in a while and I jogged around looking for him. Tom Svobodny was looking for his daughter and Nicole was not around either. We figured they'd gone off w/o permission but it turned out that Tom's daughter had asked him if she could go when he was finishing and he had misunderstood her. Max should have asked me but didn't. While all of this was being figured out, I jogged around searching for them and in the process, I looped under a road bridge to the shores of Lake Ontario.

ROC: Webster Park, NY. I ran Sprint B not long before they were to pickup controls. It was rather similar to Sprint A. The mass start controls were mostly already picked-up. I spiked all of the controls even the few controls that I hadn't been to, and some that I came to from different angles. It was a decent way to finish-up though I wasn't all that fast.

Webster TDS #4 Sprint B - Splits