Training Log Archive: DWildfogel

RMOF. Western States Champs Day 1. Eastern Pelican Bay. Start at 10:16. Warmer than yesterday.

Felt much better physically today. Cautious for the first six after yesterday. Started running a lot faster as I left six. One brain dead moment leaving 8, leading to a 1.5 minute error. Was really flying at the end.

Early in the race, got winded easily, but at the end, it didn't seem to be a problem.

First in M70, 4th overall on Brown.

[Orienteering race]

Warm up. Felt loose. But maybe a longer warm up would help with breathing in the rarified air.

Western States Day 1 Brown - Splits

RMOF Brown Middle 3.0 115 16c. Start 936. Sunny, breezy, pleasant. Physically felt much better than yesterday.

Crazy bimodal run with several excellent legs and several significant errors. In place I was too nonchalant.

Marked route to 1. Small but nontrivial error on 2. Small error on 3. Lost two minion 4, punching behind Glen (and Rich P), who started 4 mins behind me. Then caught fire, great legs on 5 and 8, led until the very end on 6 and 9, followed on 7 and 10. But then a 3 min error on 11, which was the same control as 4! Small time loses on 12 and 13. Excellent legs on 14, 15 and 16.

[Orienteering race]

Warm up, jogging to start.

Went back out to have a look at the control that gave me so much trouble. Going from 3 to 4 this time was ridiculously easy, with no pressure, of course. In my mind, there were so many rocks around when I was looking for it during the race that I just didn't know what to do. But doing it carefully now, the correct boulder seemed to be standing there all by itself.

Middle Brown - Splits

One Cowboy Relay. Did one loop of 5 controls, then did six controls (1,2,6,7,8,9) of the final loop. Felt awful.

Event: 2018 Rocky Mountain Orienteering Festival
 

Forest Meadows. On my own, walking around some of the rocky, technical parts. Legs not as spry as yesterday, shins hurting. Felt good identifying features. But can I do that well while running?

It was gorgeous and incredibly peaceful up there.

[Orienteering training]

Charlie and Rhonda arrived as I was checking us in to the President's House. Drove back up with Charlie, to Lights of Cheyenne, to see the mass Start for Day 1. Did a little too much walking on rough ground in sandals. Fun to see a bunch of friends. Helped Mikell a bit at the Finish, then got to relax a while and watch the gorgeous clouds.

Flew to Denver then drove to Laramie, stopping for a spell at Remarkable Flats. Mostly walked, jogged for a minute or so several times. Lovely up there. Legs felt quite good, especially considering that I orienteered two days ago.

[Orienteering practice]

Event: BAOC: Bayfront Park
 

Bayfront. 6th and final event of the Summer Series. Start at 10:30. Moderate temp with nice cool breeze at the start; warm by the end.

14th of 49; more than 6 mins ahead of anyone else over 60.

With my trip to Laramie on Tuesday and four straight days of NREs starting Fri, wanted a tune up today without getting too sore. Plan was to have about 20 mins of race-pace orienteering. So, after a short warm up, broke the race up into three parts:

I. "Warm up", S ->2: .3 km, 18m climb, 3:00
-only took a 5 min warm up with the intent of using the first couple of controls as an extended warm up
-walked most of the hill up to #1

II. "Race pace", 2 -> 17: 3.0 km, 36m, 20:26 [6.8 min/km]
-tried to run at the pace I'd use in Laramie. Felt really good at that speed, floating across the terrain, spotting all essential info sufficiently in advance

III. "Cool down", 17 -> F: 1.85 km, 36m, 16:13
-slowed to a jog, walked up hills and across rough patches
-still navigated very well
-probably would have been about 2 mins faster had I continued to run this last part at the same pace I'd been running prior to 17.

Time lost:
#2: 35 secs. Map, description and control placement were a little lacking. Description didn't distinguish between N and S boundary, but circle seemed to be centered on S. Had what seemed like a good view of that S boundary as I got near, no control, so went around to the N side, nothing there either, went back to S side and found the control flag tucked in a crevice of bushes.

#14. Lost 3 secs. Took a great route (avoiding going down to the path), but checked one "bay" early because I saw someone ahead go in there.

#16. Lost 8 secs. Coming out of 15, ost my place on the map and it took me a bit to find it again.

#25. Lost 30 secs. My only real error of the day. Non-chalanted it, thinking it was the GO control and would be easy. But got pulled off by another control (turned out to be the GO control on the Fog-O, and Graham was running to it) and didn't really know where I was at that point, so had to proceed slowly.

WinSplits

[Orienteering race]

5 min each for warm up and cool down.