Training Log Archive: Russell

Blue at China Camp. A course I found technically pretty challenging, although maybe I just wasn't focussed. Physically I felt pretty good, despite a lot of crawling through vegetation. I made a colossal mistake going from 7 to 8. I think what happened was I confused controls 6 and 8, so thought I had approached 7 from the direction of 8, ~180 degrees from where I had really approached. This led to me leaving 7 180 degrees from the right direction. It should have been obvious since I was going down instead of up and north instead of south. After I didn't find the trail I was looking for I was getting worried and when I ran into the registration area I knew something was horribly wrong. Even then it took me a couple of minutes to relocate. Probably I lost maybe 5 minutes, but I was lucky it wasn't much more.

On closer inspection it looks like my 180 degree error was maybe a better route anyway. If I had relocated immediately after hitting registration I think I would have had an ok time for this leg.

Menlo Park. First run on the road for a long time. No problems.

At the track.