Training Log Archive: pi

COC Long. Mind blowing terrain in the Carcross Desert. Difficult first part of the course in the sand hills, then a section of more "traditional" forest terrain. Clean but slow up to control 14, then missed the obvious route choice to 15 along the trail, followed by running around in circles close to the control. Lost 3 min here. After that came one of the most exotic legs in my orienteering life, climbing up a massive wall of sand. 3 controls in the rocks and then back down the sand wall. Was basically clean for the rest of the way home. I did not fade in my running towards the end, but the pace was never super fast anywhere out there. Margins on my side again and was able to defend my gold from last year! Robbie was 47 seconds behind and Mike was 1 min behind.

COC Long Course 10 - Splits

COC Sprint. Amazing open forest with subtle hill and depression features. Small little hooks here and there, especially to the 1st and 4th control. Overall fairly smooth and good race, perhaps a bit conservative pace in favor of navigation. 7th place in M21E, but Graeme Rennie had a faster time than me in M20 and so did Brent L in M35. Great arena and it was intense to do the race announcing today!

COC Sprint (WRE) Course 5 - Splits

Hiked up King's Throne in Kluane. Very steep and the trail was lose gravel the whole way. This made the way down super tiring. So overall the hike was pretty tough. Was out there for 6 hours, logging 2.

HPP Fundraiser Relay. James paid $25 to run with me ;) 4 legs, each runner ran twice. Mass start was intense! Great little forked courses by Eric Kemp. Only mistake was to 12 on the first loop where I went too far left through the green and ending up at the wrong fork. Came in perhaps around 1 minute behind Will C? Second time out I was alone the whole way. Really fun!

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