Training Log Archive: mintore

Event: Georgia Navigator Cup and Extreme-O :: Sweetwater Creek State Park
 

Event: POCAR (Purdue Outing Club Adventure Race) 2014
 

went to checkout the first 3 controls on the practice map.

The frosty oak leaves were very slippery. Luckily, by the start time, a few extra degrees of warmth remedied the problem.

GNC Red 7.0, 200 m
Decent run. We went to the practice area for 3 controls first and so were a bit rushed at the start; I arrived just moments before missing callup so some better planning is needed on my part tomorrow.

It took about 3 controls to settle in. A bit ragged to C1; tentative toward the end of the 2nd leg; and then took a pretty direct approach to C3 which was a dubious choice through the spaced green bars (learned to avoid but not fear them). Chose not to run trail from 9-10 which was good running but probably wrong. A few of the hills felt too tiring; I need a plan for this too but implementing it tomorrow is out.

From map review, the green course was clearly harder.

attackpoint selection training with Erin and the juniors.

fun short training race with juniors that reused the earlier controls

(foreshadowing error; tried to outrun Aidan to the finish but I forgot about the go control so I needed to go back and get it)

Red Day 1 - Splits

1:50, 1:57

1 set

warmup

Event: OCIN TROL - Big Bone Lick State Park
 

BBL Red 5.9 km

A fun, well thoughtout course with a good balance between challenging navigation and some relatively open running. I had a good run if making only moderate errors was the goal but lots of time was left on the course and for a variety of reasons. I didn't have a good plan for some of the more difficult legs. On C2, I moved carefully towards the circle trying to use the stream which I know gives me problems. This made for slow going and I still overran it (but only to the edge of the circle). Addison's tact of going high here definitely simplified the route but was really dependent on how the green scaled; it does seem he chose right. I had the same type of problem hitting the correct erosion gully for C6 dealing with the continuum of ditches leading to my biggest error (2 min). I did seem to generally understand what was going wrong quickly when it did, and this is a good thing. I didn't think I was aiming off but I was paying attention to how I was drifting and this seemed to send me the correct way when I missed a control. I considered crossing the creek to 19 but then backed off and went to the bridge. Given that cold water of an unknown depth was never going to be a good plan, this was my one point of self-irritation. The vegetation and marsh mapping between C14-C16-C17 and near the 23-24 line need updating. I chose to stay near but S of the line and managed to faceplant in the half-frozen marsh on this leg almost within reach of the trail. AP say 7 min was errors; probably 5 in errors and 2 in slow plus some more slow it missed. All in all, fairly joyous.

BBL Orange 4.1 km, 2nd run

Wandered the wrong way for 5-10 s at the start. It appears this was the race. Also tested the trail-spillway route to the rootstock to compare to the campground road; the latter was definitely faster. Also missed #61 for a 2nd time, the map seemed to be pushing me W

OCIN_BBL_Jan_2014_Orange - Splits

OCIN_BBL_Jan_2014_Red - Splits