Training Log Archive: AndrewM

Left ITB was a little sore and inflamed last night but feeling fine today.

Ofest Chase. Super fun course and felt good physically throughout, would have been a really good race but then I made a 4min mistake.

1 - I think I picked the best route, started 6s behind Phil and was ahead of him by a few seconds at the control without having to go too all out.
2 - easy
3 - Phil got ahead due to running speed and knocked the SI brick off the stand to I stood around for a sec before seeing in on the ground
4 - good
5 - good
6 - Solid bearing in the first bit, pretty much on my own now
7 - good
8 - bearing was a little off when heading off the clearing and ran to a different control
9 - good, didn't read CD so thought it would be on the clearing or top of cliff.
10 - good, not sure if running around some of the forest would have been faster or if Robbie was just running faster.
11 - Messed up in the same area as yesterday, I knew which boulder I had hit but for some reason I could not see the boulder where the control was from there, ran to another further boulder and then turned around and saw it. (Lost 60s)
12 - Bearing was a little off. wanted to be on the other side of the dark green swamp. Also didn;t read in the circle so had to stop for a sec once I got there
13 - good but would have been faster on the trail
14 - bearing was straight, just not in the right direction. Should have done more reading along at this point. ended up misreading a bunch of features, hit 15 but didn't bother to check if it was on my course and kept running until I had hit some trails. First longer leg in the different terrain was probaly part of the problem. (Lost 4min)
15 - Easy run back, saw Isak on my way back to 14 so hauling ass to catch up
16 - Easy
17 - Good bearing, much improvement over 14
18 - Chill
19 - Big trail may have been faster, slow in the circle
20 - was standing above it on the cliff but didn't see it until I went down
21 - good
22 - Caught up with Isak, Adam was not to much further ahead
23 - cut off the trail to early and hit the wrong hill, trail was better
24 - Isak got a bit ahead of me but I realed him in on the trails and then passed at the end of the leg
25 - bit off but seemed everyone did the same.
26 - Sprint

Overall: Legs fely much better than yesterday. A amazing course with so many great RCs for such a small area.

Course 8 - Splits

Event: Ottawa O-Fest
 

Ofest Day 1 MIddle
Pretty good race with minimal mistakes, nice to break my steak of bad forest races lately. Definitely could have run faster in parts but my left foot was kinda sore and my stomach was feeling weird, plus legs weren't to fresh going into this.

1 - Started off slow. Arced a little far right but found 4 which was nice to have for the future.
2 - didn't really read much of the leg, just ran down the trail till saw it.
3 - thought I could just run up the trail and then dart off through the clearing but ended up getting spit out the wrong way on the trail and had to loop back around. (Lost 30s)
4 - Fast, saw it before so pretty easy
5 - Cut along the earth wall thought the green since there was kinda a trail, but still a bunch of deadfalls. Hopefully what was the faster choice.
6 - good job reading all the little hills
7 - a small hesitation but mostly good
8 - swamp looked kinda thicc so took the trail through that. Did a good job reading the subtle contours.
9 - short leg
10 - a little slow up the rocky hills but a good bearing
11 - A bunch of people on this leg so I didn't check my compass as much as I should have and was off a bit at a different control, but relocated quickly (Lost 20s)
12 - May have not picked the best route through the thick and rocks but otherwise good.
13 - good
14 - A whole lotta circles in this area so started to run to 16 before correcting. Didn't see the group of boulders ahead of the control on the map so pretty much stopped as was walking around looking for the control until I started to read the clearings and made my way to the control. (Lost 60s)
15 - almost got pulled off by a control very close to mine on a cliff but stayed strong and hit mine.
16 - Went to the wrong control first yet again but relocated and got to mine quickly once again. (Lost 20s)
17 - good, going under the cliff was probably faster
18 - Solid.
19 - started good but then I stopped checking my compass and was reading the wrong parts of the clearing up ahead. (Lost 60s)
20 - the area was set up kinda weird so I was a little concerned I was going the wrong was or had skipped a control when I was about to run through the Ostore stuff.

Overall: Most of my legs went well, lost a bit of time here and there due to running off to a control that was not on my course and 2 medium-sized mistakes. Assuming I didn't make too many more mistakes I feel like I coulda made up a minute or two with some improved fitness. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with 3rd and tomorrow is gonna be a interesting race.

C • Nice 2

Course 8 - Splits

Body feeling kinda crappy and tight but hopefully will feel fresh tm

To sanctuary and back plus nightO/flagging. Kinda slow while trying to make sure it was the right spot in the dark plus going threw thorns was slower in the dark to.

Checking out the side trails off monarch