Training Log Archive: SarahD

With J and E on the lake. Out for a couple of hours. Weather not great but E enjoyed his first canoeing trip.

From the Lac de Lispach to La Bresse along the ridge taking in the PP at 1202 m. Nice run but in the forest most of the time so views were a bit limited.

Also a walk round the Lac de Lispach with E while J out running.

Travelled up to Gerardmer in the Vosges. Enjoyed a short splash in the lake after setting up camp.

WMOC long final. Bah - not my day. Started nervously but found the first few controls ok. Passed by a flying Anna Gornicka (2') after number 3. Didn't worry me too much but maybe made me fight a bit more than I should. Never really settled into the terrain. Small miss at 5 and a bigger one (1') at 9. Then not quite sure what happened going into 10 but can't have checked my direction and attacked off wrong path (2-3'). Then was fighting the forest too much and missed 1' at 12 too. Easily 5' wasted plus some poor routes.
Finished a disappointing 11th. 4th would have been easily achievable. Impressive time by Anna.

Snuck in a prominent peak on the way back with a short walk to the viewpoints above Laviron.

Some reflections on the WMOC week after a couple of glasses of vino:
+ve = technical orienteering in new territory for me; lucky with the race day weather; highly competitive fields
-ve = sprint qual download; long qual 1 bus queues; finish remote from assembly on all days except last; general lack of atmosphere; courses too short; planning unimaginative; extortionate Swiss prices ( just as well we're staying in France)

Touristing

Long qual 2 at Les Cernil. Wow - what an amazing area. Very uptight before the start knowing it was going to be really tricky. Took it really carefully and kept good map contact all the time. It worked and I had a virtually clean run to finish 2nd to Sabrina. Dead chuffed - just need to try and do the same on Friday now.
Feeling very tired after even though I seemed to be walking for a lot of it I was on edge throughout the race and it was physically tough.

C • Good luck 1

Didn't get such a good warm up spending a good while slowly working my way round the warm up area. Was feeling too uptight so focussed on relaxing instead. Warm down never really happened.

Long qual at Les Breuleux. Tricky. Took a while to settle and had a few hesitations early on. Then seemed to get into it well. Got a bit confused heading for 9 but caught myself and only missed ~30s. Can't have missed more than 2' in total but finished 4' down on Sabrina. Felt better running today (just sub 7' / km) and pretty pleased with the race.

Bit of an extra warm up to get away from E bugging me. Short warm down waiting for J to finish.

Model event at Le Prevoux. Forest well trenched by others and no difficulty in finding controls but terrain was quite vague and touchy feely. This is meant to be more like LQ2 and the final - going to be tricky. Chucking down with rain all day.