Run warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.7 mi (8:49 / mi)
shoes: VJ Falcons
Short warmup & running back from the "meow" map.
Orienteer race 56:50 [4] **** 6.0 km (9:28 / km)
shoes: VJ Falcons
Badger Meet at Cat's Agenda, Kettle Morraine North. Another beautiful day, though a bit warmer than yesterday. My first run on this new map and I really enjoyed it. Kevin set a fun course with some good route choices & technical controls. For the first time ever, I went under 10min/k on a "cat" map despite a couple of minutes of errors. Of course, the eur-o studs clobbered my time but not by too much. All systems go today.
Orienteer 1:05:00 [2] ***** 6.0 km (10:50 / km)
shoes: VJ Falcons
As long as I took the trip up there, I did some control picking on the Cat's Meow map after the race. This side is more difficult than the "agenda." The terrain all looks the same and there are few distinctive features from which to relocate so a parallel error is catastrophic. This made my training a challenge as I rarely had solid affirmation that I found the "control" feature that I was looking for. So, as I'd head off to the next control, there was often a nagging suspicion that I was starting from a different place and forcing the map to fit what I was seeing. I think I did fine because, when I encountered a reliable feature, it was always where I expected it. Ran up the hills and jogged when I was certain of my location. Hot and thirsty but glad I did this extra training.
Swim 1:10:00 [2]
Luckily, this was an easy & long distance swim practice. After warmup & kicking, we did ladder intervals to 500y interspersed with some recovery 100s. The intervals seemed long for everyone in our group but we didn't complain about the rest and instead swam faster. I sensed an impendng calf cramp but held it off until the last 500. I was wiped by then so I packed it in. Decent workout.
Note
Caravanned back from the cat with Charlie's car and had a great cookout at his house with Kathy, Jim & Maricel. This was a beautiful late afternoon to spend drinking one of my favorite ales and eating burgers in Charlie's newly built "peace garden."