Training Log Archive: Misha

Event: 2015 Billygoat Run
 

Following the master orienteers at this year's Billygoat was a great chance for me to gain that extra bit of confidence, both in physically moving fast through the woods and in my navigation. I didn't follow anyone during the Susquehanna Stumble last September, so I expected not to follow anyone today, either. However, things were different this time. Inspired by the spirit of the Billygoat, right out of the start I formed the goal of following the navigation of the runners ahead of me as well as I possibly could. Given this goal, and given the fact that the rest of the field were largely better at navigation than I, I quickly realized that it didn't make sense for me to skip any controls until the very end. I did have enough navigation skill to keep following runners who weren't skipping any controls. Then, when I saw that I could follow a trail from control 21 straight to 23 - and that I could manage on my own from 23 to the finish - I skipped 22 and went for it. In the end, this was the best result of my orienteering career so far. I could not have done it without the collaboration with some excellent orienteers, including DVOA's Wyatt Riley and Greg Balter, as well as my own CSU club-mates Boris Granovskiy and Kenny Walker, Jr.

C • Congrats! 17

Billygoat - Splits

Forking - BG - Left - Splits

Event: HVO - Tourne Park
 

Blue course set by Kseniya and Nadezhda at the HVO meet at Tourne Park. A really nice middle distance course. Made my biggest mistakes on controls 6 and 11: went right through the green on the former and too far to the right on the latter. Otherwise, had a decent run. In fact, wish I had done this well during the middle distance course at the Championship in Kentucky three weeks ago.

Beautiful weather, lots of people. A friendly and relaxed game. Finally got to play a bit with the ball I got last year around the time of the World Cup.

4 x 0.75 miles @ 10 mph and 1% incline. 0.25 miles before and after as warm up / cool down. 0.5 miles between the intervals as rest. Warm-up, cool-down and rest @ 5mph and 1% incline.

after the run

49 rpm. Every ten minutes switched between using the arms to move the machine and using them to hold the map of this year's Fox Chaser (day 2) while doing the map memory exercises.

Constant 10% incline. Not sure if this hill training is better or worse than running up and down stadium steps at Stony Brook last year.