Training Log Archive: AliC

Event: DVOA Fall Orienteering Festival
 

French Creek North Classic, DVOA meet Day #1

Yay, a good race! Almost everything went really smoothly, everything made sense aside from a parallel feature error I made to #19, but recovered from quickly. Nice to have a good race and be up there not far from the top of the Blue results.

2 - Bearing + pace count, to make sure I didn't stop too soon.
3 - A bit scary, but kept on my bearing + tried to not descend/ascent much. I wanted to place myself exactly in the ditch/zone of green that had to be crossed half way, but couldn't. Still, these rocky zones were obvious.
4 - Thought briefly about heading up to the train and using it, but decided that was just too much climb, time to battle through the stripes of green and rocky! Came out on the trail, tried to sense where I was by gauging distance to the top and where the slope really starting going down. Wasn't totally sure on that, but thought I should be about under the line, so kept on a bearing through pretty flat stuff. Then I stumbled on double boulders and a pit with a control in it, so I knew exactly where I was then headed in.
5 - Vauge zone (looking at splits, these were good controls for me - go compass skills!). Just stayed on my bearing, noted reentrant with boulder on the far side of the nose and headed on in.
6 - More vauge, Bearing, one slight reentrant on the way.
7 - Final vague, but there there was a line of rocks to catch at least. I came nicely straight to the control.
8 - Tumble down the hill with Alex and Sergei G. Not super fast, because it was so rocky. Alex disappeared right at some point, Sergei and I came out on the trail, I realized we were at the ditch junctions, so attacked from there (went through too much green though).
9 - Used he road, sick of rocky green.
10 - Stream, bearing, go.
11 - Route choice! Opted for the most trails possible, because I really wasn't running that well in the forest. So that meant the low trail option, staying on it all the way.
12 - Fine, bearing + contouring.
13 - Descending, hesitated for a second when I didn't see the control after 3rd ditch crossing (it was so visible out there!) but continuing on worked.
14 - Oops, mini-mistake. I came out on a vaguely N-S trail after battling through thorns and wanted it to be the upper trail, but it wasn't (should have considered gradient), so after a brief run the wrong way, corrected and was on my way.
15 - Stream to bigger stream, slight hesitation, but then saw the conrol.
16 - Trail, again wasn't crazy visible, but was catching a West Point guy who led me right to it.
17 - Up up up through the rocky. Oops, too far up, I'm by the big boulders, correction down and to it.
18 - More up up up!
19 - Trail and then cut the corner and was left of the first depression instead of between the two, so then following a bearing was off, but took me to a rootstock with a control, so I knew it was mapped and acted accordingly.
20 - Smidge of a leg.
21 - Barrelling through campground.

Very happy I did the stuff in the vague well and chose a good route choice.

French Creek - Day 1 Blue - Splits

Having looked at the old French Creek North map, and perused the discussion on Izzy B's log, I think tomorrow's focus will be good compass work, looks like it could really be the name of the game....

Morning workout at the gym! This was running around the track, then spinning bike, then erg, then just a jog to warm down...

And back to job applications due tomorrow... (Amherst, Williams, Stony Brook)

Hip hop hustle, back to the hustles we started with at the very beginning, I like them! More movement, less stuff I can't do, except the wiggly knees bit, but whatever, fudged it!

And then we played Zumba for 3 songs, which was great, but my am I behind on Maria-style Zumba. Hopefully next term I work that back into my schedule. I'd sub it in for this hip hop hustle nonsense in a minute!

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Core 15, not many abs...

Toledo Hill Workout

1 min - 11.0 incline - 7.4 mph
2 - 10.0 - 7.0
3 - 9.5 - 6.8
4 - 9.0 - 6.6
5 - 8.5 - 6.4/6.5
4 - 9.0 - 6.7
3 - 9.5 - 6.9
2 - 10.0 - 7.1
1 - 11.0 7.3

A good workout, although HR never crazy high. Guess I just have to focus more to work hard on the treadmill, because this felt hard!!

It snowed!!! So pretty! But I wanted to do some erging/cycling for my 2nd recovery-ish day, so to the gym. Did a mile warm up on the indoor track and then 1.5 miles at 3.5-5.5 incline on the treadmill.

Erging

And exercise biking. Some of this is because I figure probably I should train these muscles just a bit if I'm going to do the Chill...

And a final mile on the treadmill at incline and 0.5mi track run.

Noticed that the weather predicted impending doom for the afternoon, so scurried home and snuck in a recovery double pole rollerski. About 45 minutes double poling, 20 minutes with no poles. Felt much better on the double pole sections than the no poles, legs feel yesterday for sure!

Hammie exercises, 10s

Event: Salomon Raid the Hammer
 

Raid the Hammer with Team Giggles

Awesome times, lotsa running, but still needed to think, and I know we lost time on some bits - we never chanced using the blanked-out roads, and at least once that was definitely faster. Also didn't chance crossing the big stream, which saved a team we were with a good chunk of time. Although we missed Amy, Ari was a great teammate and totally had some navigation catches that helped us out!

We were around other teams at the beginning and still haunting with other teams that were Coed in the middle of the race. Not sure when we last pulled in front of them, maybe to #10? Then through the zone of orienteering (The Void) we were back and forth with team Pullin Foot led by a guy in orange (Chad).

Some bungee-ing with Alex, which I think worked well, glad they were in Ari's car!

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