Training Log Archive: AliC

Event: North American Orienteering Championships
 

Good warm up on the warm-up map, unhappy about indistinctness of yellow in places, but hey, that's a good thing to notice before the start!

NAOC Middle

Woo! Got 3rd to Louise and Sandra!

Went steady through the more detailed controls at the beginning, staying in really good contact with the map. I think the ability to go faster through such detailed terrain will come with just more practice.

Then went pretty well through the easier controls on the second half, except for 12 where I overran after my attackpoint didn't materialize... at least I did stop not to long after when the hillside below me was totally featureless, then backtracked and found control.

All in all though, very happy! So much fun too! =)

Little warm down jog with Sandra after the race in the warm-up area.

Middle - Course 9W - Splits

NAOC Model

So Kseniya and I got in last night at what we thought was 10pm, but the time zone changed at some point from Spokane and was actually an hour later. We were running an hour late without knowing it all morning until we get to the model and they say last bus down at noon. Ok, so I have 1.5h, nope, they say, only 1/2 hour. Right.

So a quick foray into the model terrain, starting to get a feel for the mapping. Very nice to have this opportunity actually. Noted the vagueness of vegetation, what exactly light green meant. Those were probably the most important things.

NAOC Thomass event

Nice day, fun event. I got to skip 2 controls, but one of my two was a bad choice and I had to go up a bigger hill than necessary, oh well! Only really made 1 mistake, on the sprint that followed, ran way past #2. Then had a good battle with a fast older Norweigan woman for the rest of the way in. I didn't really want to push it, because I wanted fresh legs for tomorrow, but also hard not to be competitive... ended up beating her in just the final sprint. I wore just my running shoes which were not so ideal on the downhills.

Long sprint - Splits

Travel to NAOCs. Woke up at 3.35am after going to bed at midnight, not exactly ideal.... Also bummed to be not meeting up with Dan here in Minneapolis on my way as his flight from Phoenix was canceled last night. =( Oh well, flying is often wrought with changes-in-plan.

Last time doing ankle stuff at physio. Right ankle is way stronger, very happy to have put the time into it. Left ankle is still improving. The one muscle/tendon/ligament that is sore from having flipped it awhile ago, and then a few times since, is still sore, but definitely not as bad as it was...

To/from physio, this time straight to lunch- busy, busy!

An actual noon run for the so called noon-runners (only an occasional occurrence)! 7 miler with Sanjay, Rob, and Cody, pace was a bit fast at the end for Cody who is more of a short-distance guy, but good run!

Little pre-wedding run with one of my brother's mates from high school here down in Richmond- hot and humid already!!! Today's his and Katherine's big day- wooooooooo! =)