Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Upper legs were very sore/stiff from yeasterday, so took a long warmup to do the best I could to try to loosen them up. And, thankfully, it had good effect. Even though my legs were still sore during the race, otherwise it felt like I was running almost normally--which was a tremendous difference from yesterday.

Quite satisfied in all respects with today's run, especially when compared to yesterday. My legs didn't clamp/cramp down today, so that meant it was a whole lot more fun physically and I could actually run at something near race pace, whereas yesterday that was impossible. And my orienteering was very clean. I just had two little swings out in the forest when I ended up very near the ring and couldn't quite see the contour details I needed to go directly to the control. I might have lost a little time relative to other runners on the leg to the last rootstock control when I decided to slow up a good bit and go at the control very deliberately for last five or six hundred meters to the control, since it looked like the kind of control that could be easy to miss with a big associated penalty for recovery.

Overall, given the forest conditions and personal circumstances, it was probably about as good a race as I was capable of on the day.

Also overall, I thought QOC did a tremendous job with these championships and I will here single out Nadim for some special thanks and praise, as it's my understanding that he stepped in after the original Meet Director decided to quit, and that he did a tremendous amount of work personally to make the weekend come together so well. Simply a superlative effort, at least from one competitor's standpoint. It was a good weekend for US orienteering for all kinds of reasons.

C • Thanks! 1

Day 2 Blue - Splits

I knew from yesterday at the model that my legs were likely going to be a problem, and took a long warmup in hopes of trying to get my legs ready to go.

US Champs, Day 1, one big miss; not able to run at anything approaching race pace because of leg cramping. But at least I was able to get around and finish. Thought the course was an excellent and appropriate championship level challenge and the mapping was quite high quality of what is very tough-to-map area. High marks to the Quantico Team today!

Day 1 Blue - Splits

Event: US Champs
 

Model, US Champs

Hawn re-dux.