Training Log Archive: levitin

Event: 2019 Orienteering USA Masters Nationals at the Older Dash
 

Older Dash Green day 1. Although this course was mostly downhill, there were a couple of drawbacks to making any fast progress. First was that some of the downhills were, as advertised, wicked steep. Second, there was at least 1 leg (4-5 on green, going to control #181) that was just a beast of a climb. I did not see any good way to execute this leg. I guess the fast people went wide, way left of the line, where the progress was not as steep as the more direct route, and less of a boulder minefield. I went through the light green boulder minefield. Slowly. And then missed the control from an attack point 50m away.

Green Saturday - Splits

Walking/jogging on the model map at Weeks Woods. Did some careful pace counting, and it looks like maybe my stride has shortened. I'm now getting about 10% more "counts" per 100m, where "count" is L-R if I'm jogging or L-R-L if I'm walking. Using the 10% inflated pace count, some of my control approaches were *much* closer than previously.

This might explain some kinds of errors I've made recently, but not all of them, and not the most egregious, outrageous errors.

Easy spin.

Cascades trails. No water visibly flowing, not even at the 100 foot cascade at the bottom. Activity was a mixture of hiking/jogging.

Event: NEOC: Boojum Rock
 

Part of a Green course at Boojum. Made a humongous error on 8->9, and then ran out of time and oomph to finish the course.