Training Log Archive: AliC

Wow, what a change from yesterday. My achilles were a bit sore, but otherwise my body felt energetic, with yesterday's debacle not having taken physically as much out of me as it would had I been able to actually race hard.

So, I went in with the idea of just wanting to have a clean race. And was dedicated to the idea of doing better compass work than I had yesterday. And I wasn't allowed to think about running fast. It all pretty much worked. Although I missed about a minute each on 3 controls.

Fun to be in shape and have a good run. Happy to have snuck away with the championship, but it really did feel like sneaking given yesterday's run.

Red Classic Day 2 - Splits

I got really lost, twice. To #6 and to #7, about 10 minutes of mistake each. #6 I knew was scary going in, made a plan to go to a trail, never got to the trail, found myself on some distinct ride, attacked from a distinct boulder, found teh pair of boulders I thought the control should be on, no control. Went back, reattacked, still no control. Finally went further on, walking, confused and found the control on a further pair of boulders. Phil's track suggest may have been misplaced. But that was maybe 4 minutes of mistake at most, primarily I lost time just getting there.

Then I totally goofed on #7 too. It's not even that interesting, but I couldn't go the right direction leaving #6, making me just constantly have to figure out where I was on the map. Finally got into the huge reentrant that guided you to #7, but then left it and wandered around up the hill and then swung north of the control and just couldn't put things together for another long while. So perplexed.

Red Classic Day 1 - Splits