Training Log Archive: AndrewM

Morningside. Lotta trails and dense forest.

1 - Good direction and visualization of the contours
2 - As good of a bearing as one can take in these woods
3 - Was going perfect but then got pulled away by peter and didn't check my compass to see I was going in the wrong direction and ended up getting a little lost
4-6 - Easy mostly on trails and then did well popping into the woods for the controls
7 - Mostly straightforward on the trails but then cut in at the wrong clearing and got bogged down in the veg
8 - There was supposed to be a trail where I left the main one but I didn't see it or it was very small so I got sucked off to other small trails leading to me having to trudge through a lot of deadfall uphill
9 - easy trail leg
10 - Very happy with this one but hesitated just before the circle because I couldn't see the hill hidden behind the trees right in front of me
11 - Ran roughly along various deer tracks to the trail and popped out exactly where I wanted to. Took me a second to see the flag once I was in the circle and I coulda taken a shortcut right before the circle
12 - left the trail at the wrong bend and immediately noticed my mistake and got back to the trail with a slight detour. Left the trail at the right spot but not great direction and had to run up the reentrant a little.
13 - good
14 - Good but was off a little in the circle due to another small unmapped depression
15 - Good although direction coulda been better
16 - Trail leg

Overall: Not used to Oing in such dense woods so that probably led to a couple of the mistakes plus my legs are still a little dead from last weekend.

BVPP

Focusing on reading/simplifying contours. A bit slow and sloppy at times due to a lack of flagging that this terrain kinda needs. Some good bearings and reading of the contours, but when I stopped doing so and just kinda ran things fell apart a little. Cut the course short since I was pretty thirsty and my right shin was starting to get kinda sore.

Skiing in may

Not feeling great

Nice to be back at Nosehill but glutes were not having it on the initial climb. Quite happy with how I did in the corridor and LineO sections. Otherwise, on the main part of the course, I was mostly doing well other than some small bobbles.

Recovering from the weekend so just 2 sets