Training Log Archive: Sudden

Long at WP. Turkey Mtn was the area and I think this was the first time I ran here. Legs were a bit tired from yesterday but not too bad. Foot was so and so but I had pout on tape, wore my ankle support and had popped a few pills as well. It lasted just over three minutes...but very successful three minutes. I had the fastest split to number one, I just went straight and nailed it, but in the first serious downhill my foot pretty much immediately gave up and the long, slow part of the race started which lasted another 110 minutes or so. Did a couple of mistakes but not the 15 min that AP suggests. That was just me walking. I had a few decent controls in the somewhat flatter area and didn't lose too much time there; I ran even with most others. I should probably have stopped early on (or better, not started at all) but it is hard when you know great orienteering is ahead of you and you have driven so far.

Long - Yellow - Splits

Long - Blue - Splits

Event: West Point National Meet
 

Middle distance at WP. Beauty woods. Very little brush and not too rocky either although enough rocks for me on the hillsides to feel uncomfortable. Lost for example almost 1 min to last control that was a 'dead leg' just downhill. Legs felt fine and technically things went well until 7th control where in my eager to run hard didn't bother about direction and got a bit too high and loat 1.5 min perhaps. Made 30-60s or so on the second last as well, just didn't see it. Course was easy so any mistake waa totally unnecessary but this was a step up from last races I did, Ottawa in the fall, which were disastrous.

Sprint although 21 min is not very sprintish. I wasn't that tired from the morning and pushed as hard as I could. Had trouble on two controls and lost significant time but everything elae went well and I'll take that with me to next sprint. Legs got pretty beaten up from wires.

Middle - Yellow - Splits

Middle - Blue - Splits

Sprint - Yellow - Splits

Sprint - Blue - Splits

A planned extra day off. Doing a micro tapering for WP. Right foot not 100% either.

Terrain run at Iroqouia. Such nice woods there. Aggrevated my fot a bit more unfortunately. Ran the blue group's loop on the way back with Lia and that loop was much tougher than the ARX version.

Tabata Tuesday. More core today than usual.