Training Log Archive: DWildfogel

Classic Champs, Day 2. 10:25 start. Excellent weather again. As advertised, quite different terrain from yesterday. There were some monstrous errors, with good orienteers losing more than an hour on a single leg. 3 and 8 were the biggest problems; each was the first leg that entered a new kind of terrain. I made a 10 minute error on 3; did well on 8, but made a 2 min error on 9 (Charlie and I were together for most of the latter and were running fast at the end and not thinking carefully.) Otherwise, did quite well, finishing with the 5th fastest time on Brown despite the big error. That pulled me into 2nd US in M65 (which is as much as one can hope for when PG is in your age class).

Note: I had the fastest split on #4, but that's deceiving. While I was lost looking for 3, I spotted a depression and thought it looked like the one near 4; went and checked, and sure enough, there was #4. Raced back to #3 (seeing all sorts of people headed the other way, including George Walker, Don Davis, Charlie, Linda Kohn and Rich Parker), then ran really hard back to 4 without even having to look at my map, actually passing Rich and Linda well before the control.

Wish I could run in terrain like this much more often - that would really help develop my orienteering skills.

After the event, drove out to Rye Beach on the NH coast and went for a little walk on the very wide and flat beach. Quite lovely, and reminded me of my decade living on the Jersey shore.

Warm up, mostly jogging to the start. Legs felt surprisingly good. My lower right back had really tightened up after the car ride back to the hotel after yesterday's race, and moving was quite difficult overnight and this morning. But as I jogged, my back loosened up and didn't bother me much the rest of the day.

Day 2 - Brown X - Splits

Event: UNO Boulder Dash
 

US Classic Champs, Day 1 Brown. Sunny and cool, quite lovely. 11:33 start. Did 5 of the controls quite well (5, 7, 10, 11, 12; 10 and 12 were quite easy); 3 reasonably well but cautiously (1, 2, 9); one errors of about 2 minutes and one of about 30 seconds (6 and 4, respectively); and two errors of about 5 minutes (3 and 8). On both the big errors, I got to good attack points quite well, but then wasn't careful enough going to the bag; in each case I now see that there were things I saw in the terrain which were mapped and could've quickly straightened me out, but I didn't think of those things as mapped features and didn't check the map for them. Think I would do much better if I were in terrain like this again, but tomorrow's terrain (which is on today's map) is even more difficult than today's.

Peter ran the course in a splendid 30. The excellent Canadian orienteer Geraint Edmunds was second in 37. Rick Worner and Valerie Doverov had excellent runs for 3rd and 4th (41 and 44); my 50 was fifth. Phil Hawkes-Teeter's 59 was the only other time under an hour. Charlie was 10th in 63 and Chuck had a very tough day, finishing in 85 minutes.

C • Great comeback for the silver medal 2

10 minute warm up, in two parts. Started a cool down jog, but after a couple of minutes felt like I was better off just walking around for a bit and then stretching.

Day 1 - Brown X - Splits

The usual weekly accumulation of stretching.

Model Event at Bear Brook. I can navigate in this terrain if I take my time. Can I do it if I go a little faster?

Travel to New Hampshire. Get to the hotel around midnight.

Front of house. Warm (mid-70's, no wind). Just loosening up. Was hoping to feel better, but there's still a couple of days before the Classic Champs.

626, 529

Cool down

Upper body only, 2 sets of each exercise instead of 3, and about 90% of the reps. A little less weight on the lifting exercises.

Rest day, but did 15 minutes of stretching 3 different times.