Training Log Archive: Tim C

Very disappointing..

Started conservative like planned, hit the first 3 solidly enough (even if not particularly fast), then caught 2min man and stopped reading the map, scrappy through 4 and 5 losing 20 secs on each, then dropped too low to #6 and had to climb far too much (45secs), going okay on the long leg to #7. But didn't know where I came down into the valley and thought I was too far right.. so went left for way too long before coming back. 2min lost..
Going perfectly to #8, read the big re-entrant, ran within 10m of the control and didn't see anything... hit the path and came back, punching it with Nitsy and his pack. Another 2min binned. Feck.. Running angry now and took the path option to 10, pulling away from the group who went straight (3rd fastest split here), then fairly easy 10th and 11th controls with lots of running which suited me nicely.

Caught Cillin at #11 and then preceded to completely feck #12.. missed it a bit to the left, tried to correct, couldn't find anything to relocate off (super flat+vague area and the "lake" wasn't at all visible through the green.. eventually gave up and ran out to the path near 13 and came back at it, 6 min later than I should've.. punched it with an Aussie and a Hungarian who then towed me into #13. Then tried to get away a bit to #14, but came off the path a little too low, so only punched just ahead of them. Then went right to #15 and didn't take the greatest line, maybe losing 10secs. Struggled to read where we were coming out the arena passage and was very hesitant into #16, losing another 20secs. Fine through to #17, but then took a crap line through the green to #18 and hesitant into the control, another 20secs.. Then a bit of a crawl up the hill to #19 and a sad attempt at a finish Sprint.. only 15th+3secs down :'(

Bleak that I made such big mistakes.. Really need to get better at knowing when I need to slow down and navigate carefully and when I can try run..

Fine making the 20-30sec mistakes, but really should not be making anything bigger.. getting far too distracted by other people and not running my own race.

Sub 40 would've been easy enough without the 3 big mistakes and sub 38 definitely possible just running relatively clean.. Maybe one day I'll actually manage to put together a complete race. :/

C • Keep at it Tim! 3

Jog around the middle model. Yesterday's forest ruined me.. need to get back into the fighting mentality.

To the start with Nusa. Both of us running a bit late, so not the most chilled warm up :p

I'm in love!! <3



Some absolutely stunning sand dune forest for the 2nd day of the Latvian 5 day. (Seeming none of us are running Sprint relay+there's a rest day tomorrow, we came through to this)

Entered for m21A and was planning on cutting out a few controls, but forest was so nice I had to do it all. Just keeping it at a comfortable pace and trying to orienteer half decently.

Took a little while getting used to the map and lost 90secs or so at #3 looking for a bigger feature (forgot form lines on 2.5m contour maps aren't that visible ;) )

Pretty clean from there through to #21, maybe just a couple of bad lines and 30ish secs mistakes. Drifted a bit far right going to #22 and had to relocate off the water point (1min lost here), then a little far right again on the vague leg to #26 and wasn't seeing the differences in veg+was trying to get out to relocate when I stumbled across #27 (100m away) which made things easier and kept it down to about 1min of mistakes. Fine from there through to the finish.

Type of terrain I could run in forever. Relay love this stuff! Nice amount of complex enough contour detail and then just super amazing open forest (and the sound of crashing waves to go with)

Event: WOC 2018 - Latvia
 

WOC Sprint quali, heat C. 18th; +1:15 on 1st (Jonas Leandersson); 4secs off qualification

Wasn't expecting much given my lack of focus on Sprint O, so was just going out there and seeing what happened.

Did however realise I could have a chance with a fairly weak heat and a pretty simple looking area.

Started okay, making sure I got #1 fine, then okay to #2, then hadn't read ahead and missed the route across the parking to #3 and only got across after the fence (maybe 4secs lost here), okay to #5, small hesitation doubting myself at the end with a well hidden control (2secs), then saw the nearby control at #7 and got pulled a bit (2secs), fine to #8, bad line out of 8 though (2secs), then another 3secs or so lost to #10 not seeing the wall soon enough. Fine to #11 (went right though, maybe left better?),
Fine on #12 and #13 (again not sure about route to #13- went east.), #14 fine, then fecked the route to #15.. Didn't see the middle bridge and went all the way around North (at least 10secs).. Fine on the last 2.

Happy enough that there weren't any big mistakes, but very bleak to miss out on the final by 4secs.. especially losing it right at the end with that route choice to #15 :(

To be fair though, 25-30secs lost isn't bad for me (though was fairly simple area), and had I been in another heat, I would've been a lot further down.

Nice to know I'm not that far off though. Maybe I should actually try focus on sprint a bit more in future.. Got 2 years to prepare for the next one anyway :p

C • Good stuff! 5

Sprint model+ a bit around the track before+ after

Ligatne with the crew.

Ran from #14 to the finish on the other long test race course.

Some of the same controls I'd visited last week which made things a bit simple at times, but still good enough training. Tried to go fairly hard again+ definitely starting to be able to move+navigate a bit faster in this terrain :)

Local open race.

Sometimes I truly can't understand what planners are thinking when they set courses.. They had some absolutely amazing white forest and decided to put 90% of the controls in crap green/swamp/brambles.. Also 2 controls either missing/in the wrong place. So after a few min of checking I just carried on..

Ranking close to the least enjoyable orienteering I've done.. Not exactly sure why they decided we should be running this today anyway.. Oh well.

Before+after both sessions

With the woc clinic group now.

Short course out on Ratnieki north.

First time I've had actual controls out, and given that+the short distance I tried to take it more at race pace. Went pretty well and really enjoyed trying to go fast in that terrain (obstacle course vibes), but definitely couldn't sustain that for anything longer than the middle distance.

Small mistakes on #6 (20ish secs) and #9 (20ish sec), otherwise just a couple of non ideal lines.

Ratnieki South. Same as the morning. Map didn't make much sense around #2 and lost maybe 20secs, otherwise just a bit hesitant and not perfect lines.