Training Log Archive: Thompass

A few mental mistakes like not seeing a bridge and picking bad routes. I should have spent more time during legs looking for the best route, not just planning a route that works. Will post map this afternoon.

Oh gross that is some low quality. That's 16 controls there.

And here's the rest. Total control count for May so far: 26

Red - Splits

3X(20 squats, 10 split squats per leg, 12 lunges per leg, 30 lateral leg raises per leg, 20 mountain climbers, left-right = 1)

My inside left ankle is feeling pretty rough when I run on it, during team trials it was outside left and inside right, so that's gone, but it's very annoying. I also felt it yesterday.

http://www.jrv.fi/reittiharveli/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi...;

Another Finnish map, I'm finding that the contours are very minimal and it's hard to make routes based off of location of hills and depressions. There's a few good reentrants and long spurs, but...

One particularly good leg was 5 to 6. I've figured out a rough route that goes halfway there, but once I get to the bend in the trail by 79, it gets a little vague from there. Compass to the reetrant, cross stream, go along hill to your left, cross another perpendicular stream that looks like it might be deep, compass to long spur and into control. While it sounds like I have a plan, I feel like it would be difficult to follow. A lot of the streams are a bit useless because there are lots of parallel ones, so unless you need a directional guide, no use for them.

Finished sophomore testing early twice, gave me some free time during class and I decided to look at a few maps, do a few courses and then watch a few of the GPS tracks to see what they did differently. Started with:

http://www.asti-ticino.ch/co/routeGadget/cgi-bin/r...;

Very interesting Swiss map, lots of significant climb but not the high altitude open areas that I've seen on examples of Swiss maps. When watching the GPS track of Sebastian Inderst on the HAL course, I found his route choices intriguing. He avoided a lot of climb by using options I hadn't thought of looking at, and by the end of the course I was trying to predict which routes he would take based on what he was doing at the beginning of the course, and I got closer to his route as the time went on.

http://rannikkorastit.fi/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi...;

I also found a cool Finnish map, I was looking at the A-Rata course. It's very flat with a rocky hill in the southwest portion of the map. I wish I was there to see how wide the streams are because that affected several of my route choices, like to 5 and 6. Mentally navigating the hilly area was a lot easier than trying to find prominent features in the flat part. This was particularly evident on leg 16, I'm not sure if one should head straight or go a little south of the line because there are more contours and you hit the trail intersection.

http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/20150705M20/?v=m3

I went back to JWOC 2015's sprint map because I remember hearing that the southern part of the map was riddled with traps. I tried going through the course as quickly as I could, then watching Thomas Curiger and Olli Ojanaho complete the course. The rate at which they think amazed me, they picked out great routes in minimal time. Leg 5, I was a little to focused on going straight and didn't see the obvious route of going left and around, which, upon reflection, is easily the fastest route. I didn't see the stairways on 13, 14, or 15, which would have saved a lot of time. I was curious to see both Curiger and Ojanaho going around to number 16 instead of past 13. My guess would be that they did that to avoid extra climb on a route that isn't much shorter than the route they decided to take.

http://rg.mtfsz.hu/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=map&...;

I suspect that JWOC 2018 might will be in Hungary, but that's just based on a map of embargoed areas. Either way, I haven't looked at maps of Hungary before and I wanted to see what it was like. I looked at the M21E course. I also looked at Bakó Aron's routes. I didn't realize to number 5 that it might be faster to head down the reentrant first then heading across the hill. I also found the area near the start in the southwest to be complex. There are a lot of branching reentrants, and I noticed Aron decided several times to contour in that area. The map also seems to be very green, and I wonder how much of an effect each shade of green has on your running.

C • How do you see their routes? 4

8x(110-130m) - not very exact but that's okay.

0'36.6 110m
0'41.5 130m
0'41.9 120m
0'43.5 130m
0'43.6 130m
0'44.2 130m
0'46.1 110m
0'45.4 120m

http://www.movescount.com/moves/move103050068

Got to training an hour late so got a quick intense warmup in and jumped in.