Training Log Archive: pi

WCOC Sprint. A course with longer legs and more route choice. Found a good route to 2 through the residential. Missed the faster route on the road to 6 and lost some seconds on that. Also lost some seconds to 10 with the wrong route. No control mistakes. Easy orienteering, a runner's course, so I was happy to be 5th again. There is some speed in the old legs...

WCOC Sprint Course 5 - Splits

WCOC Long WRE. 5th place, about 11 min behind Will C. Super nice arena in a park downtown Whitehorse. Finish chute was the bridge across the Yukon River. Tough, tough course and a great test for a WRE. Gnarly woods, most white was semi-light-green, running was slow and I got pushed off my bearings all the time. Lots of climb. Was slow in the first quarter of the course, but started to find better flow halfway on the long leg to 6. After that was steady with decent flow and good map contact until I lost a few minutes at 17 where I could not understand the clearing around the control. Probably lost a total of 4 to 5 minutes, but still felt fairly happy. Good training for the COCs next weekend ;)

WCOC Long (WRE) Course 10 - Splits

Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships
 

WCOC Middle in Whitehorse. Started an hour early so I could do the race announcing. It was really cool to run a championship course completely alone in the woods. First half of the course was intricate navigation small hills and depressions, should be my cup of tea, but I lost focus around control 4 and 5, losing probably 1:30 or so. No big mistakes for the rest of the way, but not fit enough on the very physical last loop. 7th place, almost 4 min behind Patrick G. Robbie and Eric K were not far behind Patrick, and those three were well ahead. I had about 1:30 up to 4th. I have to race myself into shape if I'm going to have any chance of a medal at the COC races!

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WCOC Middle Course 10 - Splits

Fun little WET at the Olympic Village, two loops and some butterfly forking. Missed the mass start, so took the first loop as a warm-up and then tried to push race pace on the second loop. Went well in the beginning, but then some missing flags disrupted the flow.

No warm-up or cool-down today, not so good.