Training Log Archive: Spike

At Rockcrusher hanging some tapes for the March event.

The terrain seems rough. I think the courses will be short, but the times will be ok. I also think that an orienteer who looks carefully at some route choice options will be rewarded.

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Also running on the rails and in the terrain.

Mary set a nice short night sprint course on West Campus. I wanted something short with plenty of controls. I felt a bit tired and short and lots of controls would make it easy to concentrate.

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A bit of a warm up and the return trip home.

Night orienteering at Clinton. I ran with a strange map - KP vegetation, 2.5 meter contours from lidar that I made a long time ago. Some of the open areas were deep and rough grass.

I stopped for 1 minute on a hill top, turned off my headlamp, looked at the stars, and listened to the coyotes. That was nice.

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Another commuter bike orienteering course on the way home from work.

I stopped for a few minutes when I went by Mom and Ron's house to say hello.

I also made a mistake at 12. I was stressed by some crazy drivers and I think that made me mis-remember the route.

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Work commute.

Night orienteering on the Clinton Overlook map. I drew a course that kept me largely on trails (with just enough off trails to get covered in stick tights and a few thorn scratches).

Lots of controls.

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I did some sprint legs on the West Campus map. The course had 3 legs where I tested two options. Before I tested, I looked at the legs, picked the best route, and estimated the difference in time between the two routes. I got decisions right, but I was off in my estimates of the time difference (e.g. I expected a 10 second difference on a leg with a 17 second difference).

This is a sort of training I experimented with a bit years ago. The idea is to test routes, but not to find the best route but to develop a good estimate for the difference in time between two routes (or three if there are enough options). It is a fun way to train. With practice, I got much better and estimating time differences, which helps with making route choices.

My legs felt better than I expected (but some of that is because the entire session was so short).

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Warming up and jogging home.

I set a course with a lot of controls at Woodridge. The controls included all of the permanent course. Two of the permanent controls were missing. I replaced one with a control, but I didn't have a second control with me. So I replaced the other one with three bits of orange tape.

I went slowly and didn't really push at all. I walked when the hills got to me or when the vegetation was junky.

Nice day to be out.

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