Training Log Archive: tdgood

I was looking forward to a urban sprint. It wasn't as urbad as I thought it would be. Mostly a street run. I had one hesitation and one wrong turn early in the course. The rest was run as hard as you can. My calf was still sore but didn't bother me much. I just ran out of steam.

I was ready for this. I was surprised there weren't more people doing it.
My calf was still sore but didn't bother me during the race.

I started in the 2nd line of the mass start so there were people in my way and I couldn't just run out. I wasn't sure how many different legs there were so decided to just ran my own race. I ran so hard I was foaming at the mouth like a tired race horse.

I messed up #! and got to pulled to another control first. I was clean to 2, 3,4 but sloppy to 5. Followed the crowd to 6. trails to 7. I was not thrilled running through the field (which I did) and wonder if the trail around was faster. I was clean through the rest of the course but ran out of steam and had to walk the final hill up into the arena (and was passed there).

Sprint - Course 5b - Splits

It was short for a Long course. First time in a long time that I still had lots of energy at the end of a race. I orienteered fairly cleanly. I was somewhat lucky going to #5. I couldn't tell what trail I was in but suddenly at the control location everything matched up and I went right to the control.

Long - Course 7A - Splits

Interesting terrain. There were areas I could have done better but overall I was happy with my performance.

Middle - Course 7a - Splits

Event: NAOC2014 (North American Champs/Ottawa O-Fest)
 

Model event for naoc. I had trouble adjusting to 2.5m contours. I took it slow to get a feel for the map. I don't like the vet mapping of light green and white. Med green is good. Small marshes are non existent. Trails hard to see but for trail markers. When I tried to run at speed it was very hard to watch my footing and see details on the map.

route 175 + Severn + partial park loop

Dist pace
1.04 7:48
0.25 7:22
0.96 7:566
0.96 8:14
0.24 8:09
1.57 8:14