Training Log Archive: Sid

Event: National Capital Orienteering Festival
 

National Capital Orienteering Festival 2008 Middle Distance. Started bad aiming for upstream of CP 1 and heading downstream, reversed but lost 10 minutes to navigation error. Overshoot 2 and used 3 to locate it. Walking to CP 4 on a bearing I walked right into a punjee stick, puncturing my left leg above the knee. Sore and thought I would have a charlie horse later just just a ragged wound in my leg. Hit CP 4 dead one luckily as it was a bingo control. Same for 5 but worked okay. Short traverse to 6 and ran trail to 7. Little bit off with correction costing a bit. Dead on CP 8 using trail and swamp to locate. Climbed hill to attack 9 but sloppy at the end cost time. Across field to 10 and took an unorthodox route to 11. Hammer asked on the way by if I know what I was doing as I ran across a tennis court and reversed up the finish chute. Later found DR used this same route. Hit 12 not 11 so lost time but finished fast.

Bad start and I did not gain confidence to run at speed until too late. Ninth in class. GB finished 3rd. Left leg was sore and leaking but not fatal.

NCOF 2008 Sprint Started a bit slow after the middle distance race. Navigated well up ski hill to 7 & 8. Slight hesitation at 9 cost time and slow to 10. Spiked 11 & 12 but a little off on 13. Major error at 14. Read description as building but that was 13 and went to the building instead of the cliff. 1.5 minute error. Finished fast but error meant 7th place. GB was 1 minute behind at 13 but 1.5 minutes ahead at 14 and ended up 1 minute ahead. Better race but slight errors are costly in sprints.

MTC Swim with Coach Melissa Warm up 1200m 400m mix, pull, breast pull, back pull & fly / free, 3 x 200m descending & 2 x 100m. Main Set 8 x 300m pull/pad for 3, pull 3 and swim 2. Cool down breast / free for 150 m.

Felt strong. Swam 300m on 5:50. Fast 200m on 3:45.

AAA training at Iroquois Park. Rain again. Pretty sloppy in the training section.

NA Sprint race. Had trouble judging distance on 1:10,000 map. Was trying to navigate by topography but heavy growth made that tough. Hit all the controls but was quite sloppy.

MTC Swim with Coach Melissa. Warm up 400m mix, 400m back/breast, 2 x200m swim . Main 600m pull/paddle, 600m pull, 600m swim on 12 pace, 12 x100m on 2:15, 5 free, 1 back

Feel pretty good. Did all the 600m less than 12:00, the swim on 11:50. 100m times range from 1:48 to 2:02 and down to 1:53 to finish. Back was slow at 2:15 to 2:20.

NIce fast game. Legs were feeling good and we ended up with a tie.

Event: Stars Spring WRE
 

Tired after the A/R but really enjoyed the format and the terrain. Very intricate topography made navigation tricky. Often had to do 360° turn near controls to catch a sight of the flag. Made a few mistakes but generally just did not have the legs.

Nice run around the extensive trials and woods. Again just too leg tired to finish quicker.