Training Log Archive: Nadim

Chattahoochee Bend State Park, GA. Warm-up before the US Individual Middle Distance Championships.

US Individual Middle Orienteering Championships. Running late in the line-up, I had a chance to place in the M50+ category. However, I got off to a slow start and fumbled for a while. with 15-30 second errors. On #5, I came off the bare rock in the right area but turned downhill before going back up and finding hte control. That cost a minute and I still wasn't feeling confidence in my use of the map. I got lazy going to #6. My plan was to stay out of the rock by using the ridge above them. I was going to come off the top and follow rocks into the control. However, I ran on the side of the ridge to save distance. Thinking I could see the top, I came off the top too early. I hunted quickly in the wrong set of rocks after wondering why there was a reentrant after the last one in the first set. I was starting to get tired before I cut the loss by going back to the top, all the way, and getting into the right set. I found it from there without much trouble. AP tells me that I lost 7 minutes on this leg alone. After this, I was more cautious but the terrain was nicer too. I still made some smaller errors. I continue to need to work at route planning when in races--this much was clear after Saturday and today. It was a fun weekend of racing. There were good challenges all around from the M50+ crowd and we all had some bright spots.

Middle - Green X - Splits