Training Log Archive: the kempster

It was a long, very long, but awesome course to rap up my trip. The first 3 control went really smoothly, no mistakes at all!!! Then there's control 4. Well. I guess all I should say is that I ended up at control 9 instead. Not good. Control 5 and 6 were good, I took it carefully after my 26min flameout on the previous control. Control 7 was just a stupid mistake because of parallel features but the rest of my race went really well. It was kind of surprising because I was pretty tired because of all of that running around aimlessly, but I did really well. I caught up to Louise, well, actually, she had passed me and then I kind of, I don't know what you call it but by that time she was 20min ahead of me. I passed her and kept my lead for the last few controls. There were two kind of bingo controls that I was afraid that I'd mess up, but I did fine on them. And surprisingly enough, I still came in with a pretty good time.

This race didn't go so well. Right at the beginning, I was running and I wasn't really sure where I was going. Control was just a stupid mistake where I wasn't reading the map correctly and then control 5 I was trying to keep up to the elites and ran past it. After those controls though, my race picked up and the rest was pretty good. Finish split was really good!!!

I killed this course soooo bad!!! It was much better than the morning!!! Control 1 I took a really good route choice, through a corridor of white!!! I was a bit confused with the map because it looked like the trail was marked as a road, but I figured it out. All the rest of the controls went really well and I went at a pretty good pace the whole time.

Event: Barebones 2006 & Team Trials
 

Had the first sprint on Friday night and I didn't do too badly. Made a mistake on control 3 where I ended up at 4, but that wasn't too bad. And then control 9 I was on the wrong side of the green. It was so hot too!!! I was parched by control 2!!!

We went to the water park at the West Edmonton Mall and spent pratically the whole 4hrs on the slides. Which meant that we had to climb up a whole lot of stairs. Very tiring but good training!!!