Training Log Archive: Elvis

Rudens relay in Varnikai, second Ąžuolas team with Dzūkas and Giedrius, third leg. Started with Andrius Jasiūnas. Everything went fine until 4th CP - didn't want to loose Andrius, so just followed him barely looking to the map and we got caught on parallel features some 100m left of the CP. He quickly turned around while I was trying to understand where we are and I lost him. Luckily accidentally went right direction and hit required marsh. 4'40'' mistake. Later alone. 5th - 30'', 6th - OK. 200m from 6th while running to 7th met Andrius again and was suprised he was still looking for 4th CP. Somehow couldn't get into trails properly, so lost 45'' on route and 45'' in CP area - didn't understand contours properly, relocated from nearby CP when kysulis showed where that CP is on the map. 11th - once again used help of kysulis on direction to CP, some another 15'' wasted. 13th - from the road went to green too early, as didn't read map properly even standing on the road, so again found double CP, but there was no kysulis anymore, so luckily moved forward and found mine CP, 1'30'' wasted. Remaing CPs - OK. 8'25'' of mistakes, too much, luckily not so big disaster as during Kaunas Relay and secured 5th place for the team.

Adventures (just at 6th CP noticed that forgot to press start on the watch in the start area):

Kaunas taurė in Šventininkų miškas, middle. Started very decently - just 30'' mistake on 3rd CP up until 10th, were was distracted by unmarked cutting areas in CP area and spend here 2' as didn't notice the CP until some master men took it from opposite direction. Another flop to 14th - got caught on parallel features - after running from 13th entered the road, but before entering it didn't read map properly, so went right for the required trail (as didn't see the required trail few meters left), found a road, started running it and after some time didn't like that was running on the top of the hill and saw slope on the left. Predicted that was running road on the right to 15th, so quickly turned around... Some 3' mistake. Before taking CP saw Mindaugas S. and Svajunas P. running out of it, so hooked them for remaining controls. Somehow succeded not to loose them, but thought that will gonna die at the end (that was tough). 30'' mistake to the last CP - saw proper route, but they took right earlier that expected and I followed them.

6' of mistakes in total - if not that two big mistakes that could be a decent race. Ran 7.36km in total.

The route:

VP, wu.

3km test in VP straight. 1st km ran below 4min/km, later the pace dropped to some 4'15''/km, just couldn't run faster. That was tough.

Cd, 1 loop in VP and a little bit more.

O-Tuesday in Visoriai. 1'5'' of garbage mistakes and two flops - 45'' on 3rd (forgot to take the direction) and 1' to 11th (was running after Dzūkas and kysulis and ran to their CP accidentally), 2'50'' in total. Ran 4.89 km in total.