Training Log Archive: iansmithIn the 7 days ending Aug 25, 2008:
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Sunday Aug 24, 2008 #
Orienteering 3:31:54 [5] 7.6 km (27:53 / km) +305m 23:13 / km
shoes: 200803 NB MT800
More on this later: COC Long, course 9 (equivalent of W21E). Sigh.
Saturday Aug 23, 2008 #
Orienteering race 2:03:20 [4] 3.7 km (33:20 / km) +125m 28:31 / km
shoes: 200803 NB MT800
More on this later: Canadian Orienteering Championships Middle Distance, M21E. I was not a happy orienteer.
Friday Aug 22, 2008 #
Orienteering race 23:38 [4] 2.7 km (8:45 / km)
shoes: 200803 NB MT800
More on this later: the Canadian Orienteering Championships Sprint course, M21E.
Thursday Aug 21, 2008 #
Orienteering 15:01 [5] 2.2 km (6:50 / km)
shoes: 200803 NB MT800
This race was the Hopewell Rocks sprint, a fun sprint preceding the 2008 Canadian Orienteering Championships. This race was along the ocean floor of the Bay of Fundy at low tide - unique terrain. The area on which we were running - which was about a 200 meter wide strip - is about 20-40 feet underwater at high tide.
The course itself was navigationally straightforward - the course ran linearly down the beach, the linearly back up the beach - but identifying features was at times tricky. I made two :20 mistakes at controls fourteen and fifteen, and I ran around the chute from the Go control to the finish, but I was very pleased with my race. The control density on the course was very high, and I only checked an incorrect code once or twice.
To provide a sense of scale, Holger Hott finished the course in 9:53, and Patrick Goeres did in 10:25. They're very fast. Jon Torrance, someone I encounter more often, finished in 11:14; 33% of his score on a sprint is satisfactory. Overall, I finished 12/22.
The course itself was navigationally straightforward - the course ran linearly down the beach, the linearly back up the beach - but identifying features was at times tricky. I made two :20 mistakes at controls fourteen and fifteen, and I ran around the chute from the Go control to the finish, but I was very pleased with my race. The control density on the course was very high, and I only checked an incorrect code once or twice.
To provide a sense of scale, Holger Hott finished the course in 9:53, and Patrick Goeres did in 10:25. They're very fast. Jon Torrance, someone I encounter more often, finished in 11:14; 33% of his score on a sprint is satisfactory. Overall, I finished 12/22.