Training Log Archive: slauenstein

The way to the start was 4.4 km! It took forever to get there... I got there just in time for my start, but was a little surprised to only have 3 minutes to spare. This threw me off a little and had trouble concentrating before the start.

Hum... not such a great race... I was too rushed in the beginning, wanting to run fast and wasn't taking enough time to read the map. Lost 1 minute already to number 1 and 3, oops! Affter the road crossing I tried to slow down my erge to hurry and start over, but then I hestiated a lot going to 6, never really sure and not wanting to go down too far, loosing another 45 seconds. 7-10 were ok, but I took a stupid route to 11, not wanting to go too far out of the way around the hill, so I went straight. I really thought I was going to die while climbing the hill and my head got really really hot. It was 25ish degrees and really humid, felt aweful! I really had huge physical and mental problems climbing the hill and started to drift to the left, not wanting the climb. In the end, I ended up just as far away from the control as the "run-around" route, just on the other end of the hill. Stupid. Should have gone around on the trail. I was fading physically after the long hill and kept making mistakes. All in all, I just did a crappy job of reading the map. I never made any big mistakes, but I lost time on most controls, mostly in the control cirlce. I felt very uncertain and had no confidence. In the end I think I lost probably between 5-6 minutes in mistakes. Unacceptable. The sad part is, i also didn't have very much fun. I have trouble when I am "trying to be good" as it makes it hard to be relaxed and have fun. The latter usually creates the better results too. Ugg.

Running back to the competition center after the race. Knee sore.