Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Heading home to do laundry and collapse into either sofa or bed.

Wine-O - ran from control one of the second loop to control 3 and put myself behind, then ran off in the wrong direction to 4 (finding 5 first) to put myself definitely out of contention for the top few spots. Lovely area with the nicest running of the weekend excluding the McMaster campus, as promised.

Strained torso muscle or whatever didn't affect me running that I noticed but I'm glad I didn't fall on it again.

Did a marathon session (a couple of hours?) of playing various forms of tag with my nieces with occasional sandbox and swingset breaks but I can't quite see logging it as training despite the physical stress involved. Thought my body had stood up to the weekend with little in the way of lasting consequences until my left knee gave me a twinge walking up some stairs late in the evening. Probably still nothing to worry about long term but another reason to give my body a rest now that the important fall races are over. Though going to APOC does complicate planning my training this winter.

C • Important Races 2

NAOC long - a much better race but nothing spectacular (I left a lot of room for improvement). A minute or so of confusion in the vicinity of a few controls was the worst of it. Embarassingly, I managed to strain a muscle attached to the ribs on the right hand side while changing in my car afterwards. Though perhaps I can give some credit to the tumble I took running to the go control.

NAOC Middle - boy, was I overwhelmed. Not that I shouldn't have done several minutes better despite the extremely technical terrain. Fun, though - they didn't overpromise about the terrain quality. Though it could have been a beast if unusual weather had kept the leaves from starting to fall until a bit later in the season.

Having failed to examine the Rocky Ridge Ranch diagram thoroughly enough to notice the 1.4km walk to the start (which a sign on site actually said was 1.8km - not sure what to believe), I ended up running all the way in my trail running shoes holding my O shoes in my right hand. In the end, I managed to make my start time with about a minute to spare after putting on my O shoes. Might be convenient to blame some of my troubles on this less than ideal pre-race but I don't think it was much of a factor.

Event: 2006 North American Championships (Golden Leaf Orienteering Fest)
 

NAOC sprint - a blast. A good race for me too - minor hesitations and possible non-ideal route choices only.

Commute in carrying the last of my stuff to bring to NAOCs.

Warmup/cooldown.

Silly walks and 6x100m strides - got to remind the body about running fast.

Work commute, both ways.