Training Log Archive: pi

For the long distance I switched down to course 4. I just had to get out in this amazing and heavenly terrain! Took a very long route around the green to control 3, straight through turned out to be much faster. Then I had a big (~4 min) mistake to control 8. I slightly got off direction, even though I really tried to follow my compass, and then I got into the wrong flat area to the left of the control and made a parallell error. Recovered reasonably well, though, given the size of the mistake.

This must be one of the best places I have ever orienteered in!

Map and route on RouteGadget.

Middle distance race at Barebones. I felt a bit better after a long and solid sleep. During the warm-up it was clear that the terrain was absolutely fantastic and I felt excited and motivated to have a clean technical run. From the start, I felt like the map was great and I settled into my now well established "sickness speed". Flowed really well and stayed in touch with the map until 5. Then I struggled to find a good straight line to 6 and hesitated several times along the way. I didn't really miss the control, but lost a minute on the leg. Then to 8 everything was extremely vague and the supposedly 5 metre contours felt more like 1 metre contours. I came to a control in a very shallow depression. I looked at the map and just couldn't find anything that fit what I saw, but after some time I decided that the only thing it could be was a 5 metre depression with an extra formline in it. Took a bearing from this feature and soon hit my control! Only lost 15 seconds in the end. The rest of course went with no further problem. I ended up only 18 seconds behind the winner which was very surprising considering my slow running. There were just too many mistakes made by the rest of the field.

Map and route on RouteGadget.

Barebones sprint. Started out with a very difficult control in the middle of the green. Was too much to the right and lost 30 seconds here and then some more time through the green to the second control. After that, the terrain opened up and I didn't really have any more problems. Wish I was healthy, so that I could actually run hard...

Map and route on RouteGadget.

Event: Barebones 2006 & Team Trials
 

I didn't feel good at all this day as I'm just continuing to be sick.

I felt like I couldn't run at all during a short warm-up and so my mind wasn't ready when the race started. Right off the bat, I couldn't make much sense of the map and I had big troubles on the first control. After that the motivation was very low and I just jogged the rest of the way, but I continued to have problems in the very subtle terrain.

Map and route on RouteGadget.